Have fun together with the rambunctious Shojodoji! This grade 3 vanguard binds two Stealth cards in your soul to bind two cards on your opponent’s rear-guard circles; your opponent gets those cards back at the end of your turn. When it attacks, Shojodoji puts two rear-guards to soul to call a Stealth card from your bind zone to the field and enhance it! Overwhelm your weakened opponent with a multitude of attacks from the shadows!

When placed, “World-shaper Stealth Rogue, Shojodoji” and “Sakura Romance Stealth Rogue, Shojodoji” help to filter out Stealth cards from your deck into your soul! In particular, grade 2 Shojodoji calls the remaining card to the field, while grade 1 Shojodoji binds the remaining card instead. Also, both cards can call themselves from the bind zone to the field by Soul-Blasting 1, allowing you to easily build a board for aggression!

Shojodoji draws upon the strength of units like “Stealth Dragon, Unpreceden” and “Stealth Dragon, Jakumetsu Arcs”! Unpreceden provides on-place draw and continuous Power gain, while Jakumetsu Arcs offers on-place Power and the potential to send a card in your opponent’s bind zone to the bottom of their deck!

There’s also cards like “Stealth Fiend, Koumaaun” and “Vulkaan Golem”! When placed from hand, Koumaan can return an opponent’s card in their bind zone to their deck, or call a card in your bind zone to the field! As for Vulkaan Golem, it recycles a normal unit with the same name as one of your units from drop to your deck for extra Power; key pieces like Unpreceden are the best targets!

“Silver Thorn Dragon Tamer, Luquier” is the iconic vanguard of this deck. By paying Counter-Blast 1 and putting a card from your hand to soul, you can call three cards with different grades from your soul to the field and empower them! At the end of your turn, you can send two allies to soul to draw a card as well! Luquier’s ability to fill up a board with ease and set up an offense should definitely not be underestimated, especially with dangerous allies like Rising Dragon and Lillian running rampant!

Next, “Silver Thorn Marionette, Irina” and “Silver Thorn Marionette, Lillian” are key ride line units that help to prepare your soul for the upcoming performance! These two cards activate their abilities when rode upon by a card with only <<Pale Moon>> for its clan; Irina puts a card from the top seven cards of your deck into soul, while Lillian Soul-Charges 1 and puts a card in soul to hand! If you have a “Luquier” vanguard, Irina also Soul-Charges 1 when placed as a rear-guard, and Lillian gains extra Power and Shield when placed on a rear-guard circle/ put on the guardian circle!

The dragon duo of the Silver Thorn troupe continues to be a menace! “Silver Thorn, Rising Dragon” is a powerful attacker that also cycles a card when placed, setting up your soul for big plays! On the other hand, “Silver Thorn, Breathing Dragon” can buff your front row rear-guards continuously when it is placed from soul on a back row rear-guard circle. Both of these cards are huge buffs to the Silver Thorn deck in Premium as well! (Rising Dragon is an upgrade over its V-Premium counterpart as it hits greater numbers with more utility, while Breathing Dragon can be reused multiple times in a turn, enabling your allies to hit massive numbers!)

“Hurry and Join, Silver Thorn Servants” is a crucial Normal Order for the offense of the deck! You choose one of your rear-guards, and when your vanguard attacks, you can move that rear-guard to soul to call another card from soul to the field! This enables multi-attack for the deck so you can beat down your opponent with threatening attackers! Also, this Normal Order can be played from the soul, so you don’t have to worry about this card being accidentally Soul-Charged! Last but not least, “Circulate Acrobat, Urseltje” provides much-needed Counter-Charge for the deck!

Since the last update on the Kheios deck, there have been some upgrades to the deck outside of this booster set. One Who Governs Chaos” is a crucial normal order that allows you to quickly amass a large number of unique cards in your soul; it also calls a card from soul to the field and empowers your Mikani ally! It compresses your deck, builds towards Kheios’ full ability and sets up a strong offensive!

“Ultrasound Sirie” and “Friend of the Netherworld, Ling” are cards available in D Trial Deck 02! When placed from hand, Ultrasound Sirie selectively puts a card from the top three cards of your deck to soul, and draws a card if your soul has four or more cards with different grades. On the other hand, Ling puts a card from the top two cards of your deck into soul; its effect is weaker than the former, but it can be activated from hand or from soul!

Lastly, “Inhale Pit” is a helpful ally introduced in D Booster Set 07. It Soul-Blasts 1 card with grade 1 or greater to put two grade 0 cards in your drop into soul, helping to meet Kheios’ ability requirement!

“Monster Creator, Arkhite” is the mysterious scientist behind all the recent explosion of monster attacks. This vanguard can buff a recently placed Monster by returning a duplicate of that Monster in your order zone to the bottom of your deck! On attack, Arkhite sends a Monster rear-guard into your order zone, and calls a Monster from the top seven cards of your deck to the field! Set up a laboratory chock full of Monsters, before unleashing their powers to decimate your opponent!

“Sleeping Protector, Arkhite” and “Monster Soul-searching, Arkhite” help to search your deck for the crucial Research set orders for the deck to function. It’s worth noting that their effects are effectively carbon copies of Eva’s grade 0 – grade 2 rides, so you can consider running those instead to bluff your opponent!

“Torrential Energy Research” is the main Research Set Order that Arkhite uses to prepare these abominations! When it enters the order zone, you can reveal two Monster cards from the top five cards of your deck, put one of them into your hand and the other into the drop! After filtering out these cards, you can Rest this card in your order zone to put a Monster in drop into your order zone, setting up for Arkhite’s ability to buff your Monsters!

Now, let’s take a look at the Monsters whose powers we will harness! These cards (namely “Reception Monster, Wavyloss”, “Volcano Monster, Goukaterra” and “Windstorm Monster, Cyclogaade”) have useful on-place abilities: Wavyloss Soul-Blasts 2 to draw a card, Goukaterra provides retiring tools, and Cyclogaade puts a Monster in your drop into the order zone. Their secondary ability comes into play based on the number of Research cards in your order zone: Wavyloss and Goukaterra gain additional Power for an offensive push, while Cyclogaade gains extra Shield to supplant your defenses!