Royal Paladins - Known for summoning from the deckOracle think tank - Good at manipulating hand size and predicting your next cardShadow Paladin - Sacrifice Guardians to gain more power for attacking.
Kagero - Good at destroying Guardians/Rear GuardNabutama - Discard cards from the handTachikaze - Sacrifice others when summoned to gain advantage
Neo Nectar - Call more powerful versions of them selves or multiples of a weaker card to attack more than 3 times a turn
Great Nature - Have great power but sacrifice themselves at the end of a turnMegacolony - Stop your opponents cards from "Standing"
Bermuda Triangle - Bounce cards back to the hand to gain an advantageGranblue - summon themselves from the drop zone and gain power through milling.
Pale Moon - Have the ability to 'Soul Charge' a lot to then summon themselves from the soul for further attacks.Spike brothers - Have a play by play strategy like an american football team.Dark irregular - Simmilar to pale moon through soul charging, but 'soul blast' to perform very powerful effects.
Nova Grappler - strong beat down deck with abilities to let themselves 'stand' again to attack more.Dimensional Police - They increase their own power with effects to then gain extra abilities.
After reading this and what intrigues you check out http://cardfight.wikia.com/wiki/Cardfight!!_Vanguard_Wikifor more info on clans and their individual cards. Which I will be looking at every week on a wednessday. With local updates every saturday.But moving on. As you can see from the clan list, I stated a lot of terms associated with this game. Like "soul charging" and "Rear guard." In vanguard you have 5 'guardian zones' and a 'vanguard circle'
LIKE THIS.You then have your 'damage' on the left and your deck and drop zone on the right and the green area is the "Guard Circle".Your vanguard is your main "avatar" it represents you the player and is the main source of damage and also the target for your opponent to deal damage.Around it are the 'Guardian Circles' where you can place other 'units' to attack your opponents 'Vanguard' or defend your own.to start a game of vanguard both players take a 'grade 0' from your deck and place it in the vanguard circle (shown here as a blue circle) then draw 5 cards from your deck (a deck must be 50 cards and contain 16 triggers) you get a free 'mulligan' where you can take any number of cards from your hand, shuffle them into the deck and draw the same number.
Now when it comes to a turn by turn basis the turn is separated into 4 phases.
Stand/draw Phase
Standing refers to untapping your cards similar to magic the gathering before drawing.
Ride Phase
This is when you can 'Ride' a new unit over your current 'Vanguard' that is one 'Grade' or the same 'Grade' as your current vanguard.
Main Phase
During this phase you can 'call' more units to the rear guard circles, activate effects of current rear guards/vanguards, or retire them to call new rear guards.
Battle Phase
During this phase you can use your rear guard to attack either your opponents vanguard/rear guards. Combat takes place as thus.
Attack - You tap a unit and declare your target.
- during this time you can boost with a rear guard in the same column as your tapped rear guard.
Call guardians - during this step your opponent can call 'units' to the Guard (green) circle to defend their vanguard/rear guard. (NOTE YOU CANT CALL UNITS TO GUARD WHO ARE A HIGHER GRADE THAN YOUR VANGUARD)
Drive Check - If your vanguard attacked you perform a drive check, This is where the attacking player reveals the top card of his/her deck to see if a 'Trigger' is pulled. You may only have 16 of these in a deck and there are 4 kinds.
Critical - +5000 + 1 Damage
Stand - +5000 Stand a rested unit (my favourite trigger type)
Draw - +5000 draw a card
Heal Trigger - +5000 Heal a point of damage, if your damage is more than or equal to your opponents damage. (ALSO YOU CAN ONLY HAVE 4 OF THESE PER DECK)
After resolving the drive trigger effects your opponent then performs a damage check if his/her vanguard is the target of this successful attack to see if a trigger is revealed for them. If a critical trigger hits, then you're opponent checks cards equal to the Damage before placing them in the drop zone.
(personally I'm a fan of this mechanic more than the rest as it balances out the issue of taking more damage with the increased chance of revealing a trigger to help your self defend better if you're opponent gets lucky :P)
End Phase
Once all your cards are rested and no more effects can occur your turn ends.
To win at vanguard all you have to do is deal 6 damage to your opponent. Simple :D
Next post I will cover the card mechanics in more depth in this game and cover what makes a good card and what makes a bad/average card to deck staples of certain clans.
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