Hi everyone how is your GBT12 Experience?

With the addition of new cards in GBT12, There is one card in particular that is very interesting.

Maiden of Breed Rain. At the end phase, if your V is "Maiden" by returning a normal unit to to the deck and retire itself, reveal the top 5 cards of your deck, calling ALL Maiden of Breed Rain. If you did not call anything, shuffle your deck and draw one.

Meaning at the end phase, you either sac 1 to get 1-2 units, or draw a card. Only advantage

Another way of looking at it is If All Maiden of Breed Rain are on your field/drop zone/soul/hand, you will always draw one card.



If you have four on your field at the end phase, you can retire all of them to draw 4 cards, giving you a lot more draw power.

Also, with the addition of this girl, all G1 (except Null) in the Maiden deck have "Draw Cards" on it, giving the deck a lot of draw power. You can usually cycle many cards and end up with as many as 13 to 15 cards in hand by the end of first stride.

Because you can draw a lot of cards, you can access GB8 Incredibly early.

Deckbuild

Deck List:



G3: 5

4 Maiden of Rambling Rose

1 Maiden of Trailing Rose

G2: 12

4 Maiden of Damask Rose

4 Maiden of Gladiolus

4 Plumeria Flower Maiden, Sharl

G1: 16

4 Maiden of Passion Flower

4 Maiden of Rambler

4 Maiden of Breed Rain

4 Maiden of Flower Pot



G0: 17

FV Maiden of Noisette

4 Flower Garden Maiden, Mylis (Crit)

4 Maiden of Daybreak (Stand)

4 Maiden of Morning Glory (Stand)

4 Cherry & Blossom (Heal)

G Zone: 16

2 Flower Princess of Sincerity Lindrose Premier (GB8)

4 Midsummer Flower Princess Lieta

2 Dream Spinning Rananculus Ahsha

2 Flower Princess of Balmy Breeze Ilmatar

1 Govenor Lily Maiden Of Fertility

1 Sacred Tree Dragon Rain Breath Dragon

1 Flower Princess of Autumn Sceneery Verna

1 Dark Element Dizmel

2 Flower Princess of Cherry, Kosterina

Card Choices:



Discard this as part of stride cost: Get 2 cards on Field. Crazy advantage girl.

I often discard this to stride even if I have a G3 in hand. Sometimes I discard a G3 AND this to stride, just to get a draw.

This is the main reason we use 'Maiden' Vanguard. As long as your V is "Maiden", it doesnt care what you stride into, allowing you to stride into the other NeoNectar G4s.

Maiden of Breed Rain has been mostly explained Above. Generate 4 at on your field to have them all become 1 draw at the end of your turn.

Note you return cards to the bottom of the deck before you reveal five, and before the shuffle. Hence, if you return Breed Rain to the bottom, you will not be hitting that Breed Rain with the reveal 5.



If you have 4 breed Rain on the field:

1st: Return something else, 1 draw confirmed.

2nd: Return something else, 1 draw confirmed.

3rd: Return Breed Rain, 1 draw confirmed.

4th: Return Breed rain, 1 draw NOT confirmed, but if you get it on field you can copy it with Rambling Rose/Gladiolus. Also this pattern allows you to have two Breed Rain in the deck for the next turn or even to draw into to have to copy next turn.

Maiden Of Flower Pot

If you call Flower Pot and another unit at the same time, it allows Flower pot that was just called to use its ability, to enter the soul, counter charge and draw 1 card.

Use this ability alongside G4 Lieta in your first stride to call 2-3 of them at once, send them all into soul and draw that many cards.

Common Play: Have one flower pot on field, maybe a Breed Rain on field.

Ride Rambling Rose, SB2 to copy a Breed Rain (2 on field).

Because you soul blasted 2, you have normal units to send back with flower pot to draw. Flower Pot moves to soul, draw 1.

Stride Lieta. CB1 to copy names of V and all Soul, and superior call 2 maiden of Flower Pot. Both can trigger and send to soul, drawing 2 more cards and giving all your CB back. You still have 2 Breed Rain on the field to be used/copied with Gladiolus this turn.

Maiden of Gladiolus:



Half decent. Basically theres not many good G2 maidens.

Maiden of Damask Rose:



Other than this one. Is a powerful on hit ability to be used from early game onwards. A good ride target for g2. Between her and Rambler(Most strides are 2 card discard), allows the deck to play as low as 5 G3.

Maiden of Trailing Rose:

Legion Mate.

Maiden of Rambling Rose:

The deck requires at least one normal unit in the drop zone to function. Hence any soul blasting in early game that isnt controlled by the opponent is valuable. The only other option for soul blast is Maiden of Cherry Bloom, which is both controlled by the opponent as well as restricts G1 card choice.

Being able to get an extra G1 is nice as well.

While synergy with Lieta may be questionable, you soul blast 2 to superior call, meaning you can leave either your G1 ride or G2 ride in the soul to superior call two if needed if you used your FV early.

Also, Flower Pot will head to the soul herself so even if you didnt use your FV, Lieta can still get Flower Pot or just two G3 11k attackers.

And when your hand is all G0 and you couldnt GB8 despite drawing 13 cards a turn I suppose legion exists.

Plumeria Flower Maiden, Sharl and Flower Garden Maiden Mylis.

Perhaps the less understandable card choices, as they do not have the "Maiden Of" name that FV and Damask Rose require.

When executing the GB8 turn, its very important to have a unit that either has boost, or can gain boost to combo with Lindrose Premier. Hence the targets either become Greenshot Elf, Sharl, or any G1.

While Lindrose Premier is pretty strong with Breed Rain (end turn draw 4.), its extremely important to have options other than one target.

Lindrose Premier copying Sharl will create V at 56k, Sharl without boost at 71k, and Sharl with boost of Sharl at 82k.

Sharl gives better synergy in the first stride turn, allowing power pump in a deck that doesnt do very well with power.

Her first ability with "Rananculus" V restriction may shut down the ability, but the deck can stride INTO Dream Spinning Rananculus Ahsha.

The striding into Ahsha turn is important if you have Flower Garden Maiden Mylis in hand or on board. It can turn into draws which access your heal triggers for GB8 acceleration.

You can either copy Mylis with Ahsha to get more draws, or copy a Sharl for more attack.

Another good thing to do is have Mylis in front row attack (4k + 5k and maybe +2k from Ahsha effects), V attack taking in several mylis to draw, Sharl attack and get more units onto field.

Or even use Sharl to find more Mylis before V attacks, drawing more cards to find those Heal triggers.

While it doesnt have "Maiden Of" name, there are only 12 cards without maiden name in the deck, and once you ride to g3, the important cards that need Maiden V are all live.

Lily Maiden:

Nice art. Replace with something else pretty if that suits your taste. Is a terrible card dont stride it. Only useful as a "maiden" stride that activates Maiden of Profuse. Note how Maiden of Profuse is not in the deck.

Game Plan:



Early game control board, get some draws off Damask Rose, FV Noisette, set up G1s either a Flower Pot or Breed Rain to copy with Rambling Rose.



Get First Stride: Ride, call from deck, stride Lieta and do some Flower Pot/Gladiolus/Breed Rain/Rambler action to draw a bunch of cards.

On defense blow 2 Kosterina, 1 more G Guard.

GB8.

Cant Get First Stride: Dont die, G Guard into GB2. Stride Lieta for Flower Pot/Gladiolus/Breed Rain/Rambler action to draw a bunch of cards or Stride Ahsha for Flower Pot/Breed Rain/Sharl/Rambler/Mylis action to draw a bunch of cards.

Pass turn, dont die, blow 2 Kosterina.

GB8.



VS Ichikishima:

Get First Stride: They G Guard into Ichikishima GB3. You lose.

They First Stride: Blow all G Guards on first stride. Accelerate as much GB as you can (ideally 5 or 7).

Return stride either GB8 or GB5 Lieta for Flower Pot/Breed Rain/Gladiolus/Rambler action to draw a bunch of cards.