More new battle sister stuff. No images today since it was a stream the image quality wasn’t too great, I’ll do wiki links instead.

Excite Battle Sister Stollen: [ACT](VC)[1/Turn]:[Counter Blast (1) & Choose a face down card from your G zone with the same card name as this unit, and turn it face up] You may Soul Charge (1). Then, look at the same number of cards from the top of your deck as the number of your rear-guards with “Battle Sister” in their card names, and put each of the cards you looked at on the top or bottom of your deck in any order.

[CONT](VC) Generation Break 3:All of your rear-guards with “Battle Sister” in their card names get [Power]+3000.

So her first skill is a copy of Vanargandr except you can bust it out first stride, and maybe stack slightly more on a full field. The part where you can bust this out first stride is the important part. First strides in OTT are eeeehhh? Battle Sisters had Mirior which could add more on hit pressure first stride, but since they want to be aggressive early it’s harder to leverage on hits GB1 when your opponent could easily be at 3 or 4 damage. It was okay but I don’t think its particularly impactful. Another option added in this set was Ichikishima to just draw cards and build up for later turns. Again this is okay but not particularly impactful either. Gelato is in a similar place to Ichikishima, okay for resource gain not too impactful otherwise. And then there’s a bunch of on hits that nobody really cares about anymore.

Stollen is definitely the more aggressive option compared to your other strides. Instead of drawing cards you’re stacking the deck. This helps you to manipulate your trigger checks and try to find things that you might want for later. It’s a very potent skill to have, especially since Florentine pumps up your columns to pretty strong numbers. Trigger manipulation, high power, and an aggressive early game can combine into the ability to steal games quickly. Of course because of Battle Sister’s overall weaker card draw you will need to be careful about when you want to use this. Despite having a high pull rate, you still have no guarantees on triggers so against more powerful decks you will want to do a risk assessment and see when going into Stollen will be worthwhile and when you might want to draw cards instead.

Her GB3 skill is better than Kamususanoo’s. With Florentine you get a passive 6k to everything which is 12k to columns. This is solid power, and if you g-guard into your first stride you can really go for the beatdown with lots of crits route.

Stollen is a very strong card to have and I’m quite happy with it.

Battle Sister Sable: [AUTO]:[Soul Blast (1)-card with “Battle Sister” in its card name] When this unit is placed on (RC), if the number of your other units with “Battle Sister” in its card name is three or more, you may pay the cost. If you do, draw a card.

Card Draw! Without Hitting! Yay! This card is perfectly fine, its passive card draw that helps to refund the cost of calling it. Its a very basic skill I will admit, and I do kinda wish it did a little more, maybe just gain power or something simple like that. The three Battle Sister requirement is easy enough since units counts your VG. You just have to have 2 other rear guards and you’re good. Early game this is really easy since you probably have a forerunner, and late game you wanna be calling more cards anyways so this is perfectly fine. A solid card though unremarkable overall. If Battle Sisters don’t get any more passive draws then this card will go into the deck, if they do get other passive draws this point get the boot because its so vanilla.

Battle Sister Kipferl: [ACT](RC) Generation Break 1:[Put this unit into your soul] Choose one of your vanguards with “Battle Sister” in its card name, and until end of turn, it gets “[CONT](VC):All of your rear-guards with “Battle Sister” in their card names get [Power]+3000.”.

This card is just pure power stacking. Because Stollen wants to be very aggressive first stride, this card helps to push your columns very high to take advantage of Stollen’s stacking. Alongside Florentine Kipferl will push columns up 12k, and this is if you didn’t g-guard into first stride. With your typical 9k G2 boosted by a 7k G1, you have a 28k column before counting triggers or rear guard skills. With Stollen stacking for you you can easily push 33k with a critical probably. Then if you account for cards like Macaron you can push 36k, which is high enough to push through some G-guards. Since flip g-guards are GB1 your opponent might not even be able to break out their biggest shields to deal with this. This card definitely helps to advance aggressive Stollen plays. If you g-guard you can also use her with Ichikishima to have +12k columns on a guard restrict turn. Its a very strong starter especially now that Battle Sisters are pushing the heavy aggro game off Stollen.

Overall these new Battle Sister reveals are quite strong. The ability to go high aggro first stride really helps to deal with slower decks. Its quite possible to just steal games first stride, or at least put yourself in a good position for 2nd stride. The best part about all these reveals is NONE OF THEM ARE FUCKING ORACLE LOCKED. Seriously that was a terrible idea, Oracle is shitty keyword and Battle Sisters don’t have the draw power to maintain it well. I’ve been very happy with these new reveals. I’m glad Bushi decided to give OTT some love here.

Thanks for reading, comments & criticism welcome ect ect. Hope y’all enjoyed.