Sneaker Bunko – My Russian Girl Can’t Be This Cute (B/Y) [03/20/2025]

This is a special piece. While browsing over the recently released Sneaker Bunko set, an idea came to mind between myself and my editor. Together, we essentially crafted the same RoshiDere (Alya Sometimes Hides her Feelings in Russian) deck with some mixed ratios. After some bit of talk, I came to the conclusion that the deck profile would be a good insight into how to create a general deck-building structure for the modern game.

After paying her hefty costs, Alya plays a mini-game with your opponent where you shuffle your waiting room into your deck. Then, you choose a card from your deck and place it underneath herself as a marker (hidden). Afterwards, your opponent declares a number between zero and three, trying to guess the level of the card you placed underneath as a marker. Once they do, you reveal the marker and send it to waiting room, and depending on the result, two things may happen. If they are correct, the tsundere loses, and no extra damage is done. However, if they do guess wrong, the tsundere wins, and you slap them with two damage worth of sharp blows twice.

Whether you choose the ice queen or the brother-loving angel is your choice. Each comes with its own pros and cons. Alya has more power than Yuki during your opponent’s turn. Her selection with her combo allows you to either scan through the top four cards of your deck and add a character or search your deck for a level two or higher character, letting you grab your finisher or other pieces directly. Yuki, on the other hand, requires you to run yellow for level one to play her. She acts as a partial filter as part of her climax combo cost, letting you discard any unwanted cards or extra climaxes. She doesn’t go through the deck as much as Alya since she only checks three cards, but she does allow you to salvage any character from your waiting room compared to Alya’s limitation of a level two or higher character from your deck. Furthermore, Alya combos with an arc climax to help salvage climaxes on trigger while Yuki gives you access to a choice trigger to give you modular stock or hand from waiting room.

While both cards are nice supports to have, it is important to remember the costs of performing your Alya finisher into consideration. Masha can indeed spawn Alya early, but your Alya doesn’t gain any protection until Masha attacks. Furthermore, without playing Alya’s climax, Masachika is essentially a costed 1/1 vanilla that does nothing on stage.

Masha in casual wear is a Helmet profile to recycle your combos and other useful cards. Masha enjoying the beach is an Aqua profile potentially securing hand in the early game. Ayano is an on-reverse Rize profile to filter through your deck when she’s reversed.

Alya in her swimsuit provides a climax swapping ability while also milling three cards from the top of your deck when she’s played if you choose to. Alya in her winter wear lets you clock a character from hand to clock to add a card from the top three cards of your deck. Alya playing with her sock is a search brainstormer that gives you a beginning of encore step trigger to draw and discard a card if you have a climax in your climax zone.

Yuki in her swimsuit offers you some strong raw power while also giving you an on-play discard and draw. Masha is a large beater on field that can get enormous should you cancel damage during her battle step. Lastly, Ayano, while not necessarily a power card is a way to potentially kill two birds with one stone. She’s a stock Adachi profile that can also kill another card if you mill a climax during the turn she’s played from hand.

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Yuki is great. Yuki is love. Yuki is everything you could ever want in a little sister. She is perfection incarnate. Anyways, Yuki is a standard Musashi profile that can refund some stock if you play her onto a nearly full stage.

We’ve introduced every card possible to build around Alya’s series. Hopefully in the future, she’ll get even more support or even her own set. For now, this is what we have to work with. I hope this deck profile has helped you both in building Alya and also understanding the mechanics behind how to design a deck.