redshirtontherock

Okay, so while I'm waiting on my set 8 boxes to come in, I've been reading up on how the game works, and deck building tutorials and basics and such, and I'm hoping to eventually get a few local friends of mine in on building decks and just doing some casual games together. What I kind of want to try is build a deck that will either use Tharja (specifically Dark Knight from Series 8) as my main character. I know that I'll definitely need a bunch of support cards, but...past that I'm really not sure what card abilities work really well with her abilities, or what cards would help to make her viable as an MC. Specifically, I feel like I want to try and do something that will play off of or exploit the "Spiteful Flame" ability: "Select a card from your opponent's hand and reveal it. If the revealed card has a deployment cost of 3 or less, send that card to your opponent's Retreat Area." Offhand, can anyone think of cards that would synergize well with this or...ways of going about building a deck that might allow me to make use of this card? I figure like in general this means that I can more or less force out cards onto the field, reduce my opponent's hand, pick off weaker units with more powerful ones, but...I really don't know how to make that happen or how to go from there. Ideally, suggestions from Series 8 or cards from Series 8 would be great, but I'm definitely willing to invest or look into other series if there's something that would work well. Anyone have any thoughts or suggestions? Any help would be hugely appreciated!

Oh man, good question...I got Robin, Takumi, Marth, Ryoma, and Elise...then Seliph and another Elise on pulls. I can't honestly remember if any of those involved spending on orbs, though I'd say that probably about 33% of the orbs that I've used have come from buying, so...say 4-5 / 7 were acquired F2P, and 2-3 / 7 were paid? I also have a five star Tharja I promoted from four-star who is like the star of my team, and I'll be promoting Sharena as soon as the day rolls over and we get feathers for arena stuff. (So stoked. So. Stoked.)

I mostly collect for the art, and I've only got a few cards outside of what I've pre-ordered for the upcoming set, but right now (and admittedly strongly biased towards the character anyway) I have a soft spot for the art they're using for "Dark Knight" Tharja. I think it's some of the best (and least over-sexualized) art that's been released for her as a character and I really dig both the card and the mechanics of it. Hoping to build a deck around it, assuming I get enough pulls of it in the boxes I'm waiting on. Speaking of series 8...DAT CHROM THO. I can't get over the sheer level of detail that went into the art on the Risen Chrom card and I'm keeping my fingers crossed I pull this as well. And...another favorite (and one I recently ordered for a friend who's a big fan of hers) is the Bride Charlotte card. The mechanics and the flavor text are hilarious in themselves but...the ART. There is /so/ much going on here. The facial expression, the husband over the shoulder, swinging from what I presume was formerly a chandelier or something, just...I can't look at this card art and /not/ grin.

Admittedly I would love to see Libra from Awakening, Charlotte from Fates, and...hmm...from the older games, I would be thrilled to see Canas. I have a weakness for the "dark mage" archetype characters and Canas is just the nicest and most chill of them ever. And scholarly.