After its anime release, Konosuba stormed the game of Weiss like a storm. With the arrival of its second set, Konosuba had access to one of the newest hand and stock advantage combos out there at the time. Furthermore, the original powerhouse in the first set finally had support that put the deck over the edge.
Some cards here may use their reprinted version’s card code in the description. These cards are identical to their original printing in functionality and word text.
Yunyun shown above was a boost in terms of power levels compared to other advantage combos at the time. Being a consistent 6000 beater was already impressive enough, with other combos standing at your usual 5500 or 5000 without support. Furthermore, with her combo, it was possible to attain both hand and stock, whereas the usual combo only provided one or the other.
The endgame came from the first set with the Megumin above basically being an all-in attacker. The power of this card lay in the fact that it was completely non-interactive since it never entered trigger phase. Its condition would send basically any card in front of it to clock, which meant that three copies of this card with opponents in front would result in guaranteed death at 3/4. Since the card effectively skipped battle phase, the player would have no resource gain during the turn this card’s finishing ability went off. But realistically speaking, when this card was played, it usually meant the turn player expected this to be their last turn.
In addition to the powerful Megumin finisher, the set had access to the above Aqua and the stock flush counter to the right. I highly recommending reading the Fumio/stock flush post that I will link here. This combo added more ways to screw with your opponent’s compression. Keep in mind the stock flush counter’s wording states that the stock returns at the end of current turn, meaning it can be used proactively to remove all their stock to potentially deny backup usage or to destroy their stock and eliminate any resource for costed finishers.
KS/W55-082R “魂の救済”アクア (center)
KS/W75-038SR “待ち伏せ”ゆんゆん (right)
On top of it all, the deck was quite resilient with a plethora of ways to gain extra stock or to refresh itself to try and avoid damage. The Yunyun to the right in particular was a great addition to aid in deck consistency while helping churn extra stock from the level 1 combo into hand.
With sufficient filters and other additional cards, the deck could reliably push its end-game. There were also a variety of options open to the set for it to alter and change based on the situational matches it would face. Even if explosion was a constant joke in the original series, seeing the actual effect come alive in game was devastating.