So with the unexpected upcoming GBT12 support, I’ve been thinking a lot about what support Battle Sisters need. And so I’ve come up with a wishlist of support that I believe would greatly benefit Battle Sisters and help push them up the ranks.

Disclaimer: Historically speaking Oracle Think Tank and Royal Paladin have been very similar clans, as they do what I would call “the same thing with different methods”. And this similarity was never more apparent than with the Battle Sisters who are, in every way but in name, the Paladin troop of the corporation. Though of course the BaS prefer guns over swords.

Salome and Fromage perfectly show the differences and similarities between Battle Sisters and Royal Paladins (though specifically Jewel Knights). However, as time went on it seems that most people have forgotten how similar these two clans used to be as they started growing apart. I say this mainly in the sense that Royal Paladin received support and moved forward, whereas Oracle Think Tank has remained stagnant for years now. The solution, in my mind at least, is to reunite these two by giving Battle Sisters more of “the same thing as Royal Paladin, but with different methods”.

A new forerunner

Waffle and Compote are both generally good. However, they are more similar to Gold Paladin than to Royals. As such, I’m proposing a change of pace so that Battle Sisters can be the Royal Paladin that they want to be, and not the Gold Paladin they are forced to be. In other words, GIVE BATTLE SISTERS THE ABILITY TO SEARCH THEIR DECK.

In the spirit of “the same as Royal Paladin, but different”, there are three different ways that I could see a new Millius-like forerunner going.

GB1 [CB1 & Put this unit into your soul] Search your deck for up to one “Battle Sister” card, add it to your hand, and shuffle your deck. [CB1 & and Put this unit into your soul] Search your deck for up to one “Battle Sister” grade 2 card, add it to your hand, and shuffle your deck. GB1 [CB1 & Put this unit into your soul] Search your deck for up to one grade 2 “Battle Sister” card, call it to RC, and shuffle your deck.

In any case, BaS should be allowed to search their deck instead of hoping to find the right card in the top three.

A Margal clone

Honestly, the fact that Oracle Think Tank doesn’t have a Margal clone yet is a tragedy. Almost every other clan has one. Even Royal Paladin has a Margal clone now. This is insane. #JusticeForBaS

A new stand trigger

Anything that can replace Assam would be great.

These two especially would work well in Battle Sisters. Here’s my rendition of them:

Sarugal: GB1 Oracle When this unit is placed on RC, until end of turn, this unit gets “Auto {RC} At the end of your turn, draw a card, return this unit to your deck, and shuffle your deck”.

Actually that just reminds me a better version of a card we already have… oh right.

But yeah, the point is that we need more cards that we can place on the field without having to worry about losing our hand count. This is important because WHEN YOU LOSE YOUR HAND COUNT IN OTT, YOU JUST PLAIN LOSE.

Bouquet Paros: GB1 [Put this unit on top of your deck] When an attack hits during the battle that this unit boosted a unit with “Battle Sister” in it’s card name, you may pay the cost, if you do search your deck for up to 1 card grade 1 card with “Battle Sister” in it’s card name and add it to your hand. If you added a card, you may call that card to the RC at rest. Shuffle your deck.

Heck, I’ll settle for clones of Encourage Angel or Sharon if I have to. Anything is better than the vanilla.

A Battle Sister stride fodder

In GBT11, Zodiac Time Beasts got their stride fodder.

And that’s really great for them. To be anywhere near relevant at all, Battle Sisters also need their own stride fodder. And I’m not talking about a Dudley Jetter or an Amaryllis Musketeer, Tatianna, or anything close to an Absorb Celestial, Bahariya. I’m advocating for a full blown Pulsar, Revolver Dracokid because honestly Battle Sisters have a hard enough time against control clans without needing to rely on placing their stride fodder on the field to be able to use it. On top of that, since we’ve only been given one proper Battle Sister to ride, we need a way to search it out. And especially since Battle Sisters cannot reliably tech non-Battle Sister units due to being entirely reliant on especial counterblasts, soul blasts, and discards, they deserve their own stride fodder.

A new perfect guard

Since GBT12 is likely going to provide only one perfect guard, I’m advocating for a best of both worlds perfect guard that has the Oracle ability and the Battle Sister name. Though if it can only be one or the other, the Oracle PG should take precedence, because they need to drop Amatsu-hikone more than Battle Sisters need to drop Chocolat. Also, please no Battle Sister quintet wall. I don’t think anyone legitimately like sub-clan quintet walls, and especially not in a clan like Oracle Think Tank that decks out so quickly. OTT doesn’t have a quintet wall yet, let’s keep it that way.

As for ideas on what this perfect guard could do, I’m going to turn to both Royal Paladin and Genesis to give some ideas on effects that would work well.

A way to perfect guard without wasting cards from the hand would be really useful in Oracle Think Tank due to our need to, you know, keep cards in hand.

A perfect guard that can be played on the field would also work well because we would be able to have a board on our turn, and a hand on our opponent’s turn.

This is more for BaS than Oracle. A counter charge PG would be a welcome edition to Battle Sisters, and hey, Blaster Blade just got Epona so, why not?

As an alternative to a free perfect guard, a perfect that refunds itself would also be nice. And it would be better than I gain no shield lol, Lozenge Magus Apex.

I get that Revelation is now Genesis’ thing, but OTT had checking the top card of the deck first, so a perfect that that can act like Sun of Eternity, Amaterasu would be great.

Or you know, they could just errata the Oracle PG to discard or bind instead of random bind. I’m not playing this game to counter blast 1 and randomly bind the Amatsu-hikone I was trying to add to my hand, but that’s what happens more often than not.

A Suleiman-like unit

Battle Sisters should be able to multi-attack. Gold Paladin can do it, Royal Paladin can do it, Genesis can do it, Angel Feather can do it… At this point Oracle Think Tank is just being left-out unfairly by being the only United Sanctuary clan that can’t multi-attack. And here I though Shadow Paladins were supposed to be the outcast (even they can multi-attack if you combo Macha with Nigh Sky Eagle). So yeah, Battle Sisters should be allowed to multi-attack too.

A way that you could “OTT it up” would that instead of calling the unit to the RC, you could add it to your hand and then have the option to call a unit to the field. Like this:

GB1 Oracle If you have a Vanguard with “Battle Sister” in its card name, this unit gets +3k and ” 1/turn [CB1] When this unit attacks a vanguard, if you have a vanguard with “Battle Sister” in its card name, you may pay the cost. If you do, search your deck for up to one card with “Battle Sister” in its card name and add it to your hand. If you added a card, you may choose one card with “Battle Sister” in its card name from your hand and call it to the RC. Shuffle your deck, and that unit gets +3k.”

A solid back-up grade 3

Right now, if you don’t ride Madeleine you basically lose. It doesn’t need to be a new grade 3 vanguard. We just need something new that we can ride without feeling like we’re going to die because of it.

A new stride

A finisher would be great. Ideally something that can multi-attack. I’ll insert here a card I already designed for Battle Sisters a while ago.

GB2 Act 1/turn [CB2-Battle Sister choose a face down card with the same name as this card and turn it face-up] Until the end of the turn, this unit gets “[Auto Oracle Place all of your rearguards on the bottom of the deck in any order] At the end of the battle that this unit attacked a Vanguard, you may pay the cost. If you do, reveal the same number of cards from the top of your deck as the number of rearguards placed at the bottom of the deck with this ability. Choose any number of “Battle Sister” cards revealed with this effect and add them to your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of the deck in any order. Then you may call up to the same number of “Battle Sister” cards from your hand as the number put on the bottom of your deck to the RC.

So yeah that’s it! What’s on your GBT12 wishlist?