It is often tempting to simply dump all the high rarity cards or “powerful” cards into your deck, hoping that it all works together. Weiss does contain a number of strong generic profiles that will, for the most part, work in any deck, but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t ways to improve upon these decks beyond sticking only to these cards. Decks in Weiss can be highly tailored to suit the their specific needs and also your general preferences.
For example, Welf above is a very unique finisher that requires a couple conditions to maximize his potential. His first ability deals damage if the traits listed on his card or his specific event are revealed from the top of your deck when he is played from hand to stage. As such, we already know, if we were to try and ensure that this effect will succeed most of the time, our deck should limit itself to those specified traits and his event, outside of climaxes, limiting the total number of “bricks” in the deck.
Secondly, his other ability requires the following:
- A single stock payment
- A discard of a character with the traits listed in his costs
- Having his specified event in hand
- His opponent reversed
The event mentioned also include that his level also matches the event’s conditions, meaning that the player must be at level three with red in the level zone, but that’s a given considering you’ll need these conditions to begin with to play Welf.
Those are conditions that we must meet if we are going to succeed at getting all the value we can out of Welf.
Out of those conditions, the hardest condition to meet will likely be to get the event in hand. If we look over the combos in set, there are none outside of this Makoto that can potentially grab the card outside of naturally drawing it as of this writing. Furthermore, the book trigger greatly aids in the potential of grabbing the event by being an additional draw during the trigger step of any card. As such, Mikoto would be a great inclusion for working in tandem with Welf.
Synergies may be even smaller in scope. For instance, the pairing above work very well together. Fiel’s minus one level demerit may be cumbersome due to opponent’s cards freely siding her, but the Kurami on the right gives her a very nice upside by turning Fiel into a pretty solid 7500 powered beater while also fulfilling the name trait requirement on her secondary ability to allow her to stand during your stand phase.
Other small thoughts would be like looking at the above finisher requirements. Illya to the left requires a full discard of two cards when she attacks as her combo requirements. Building around her would suggest that the player be a bit more conservative heading into level three. If we were to choose an early play healer, the best healer to suit the deck would likely be a standard healer instead of healing to stock through discard. By making a slight change like this, we would be saving a hand for Illya’s combo at level three while still being able to heal down.
Building decks comes with a number of synergies that all link together relatively cohesively. Perfect synergy may not be ever fully attainable, but through a combination of deck building and choices in games, the player should be able to consistently get off the main goal of the deck a majority of the time. Of course, not every set is equal, and some sets have more tools than others. However, we should always be keeping the core goal of our deck in mind while adding small little powerful interactions along the way that work well in sync. Lastly, Bushiroad does love to occasionally throw new small tools and other cards to support older ideas, so do keep that in mind when new product is released. Do your best!