Decked out with brand new gear and abilities is the Demon King of the Deathly Gallows: ‘Diabolos, “Viamence” Bruce’! When your battle phase begins, this new Bruce gains “Final Rush” until your opponent’s next turn ends as long as all of your units have the “Diabolos” name! If your opponent’s vanguard is grade 3 or greater, enter the “Final Burst” state to truly attain peak performance! Bruce also Stands and empowers all of your “Diabolos” rear-guards in a column when it attacks while “Final Burst” is active.

Supporting this awakened Bruce are cards like ‘Diabolos Knuckler, Jamil’, ‘Diabolos Striker, Greg’ and ‘Diabolos Girls, Trish’. Jamil gains Power and Shield when Final Burst is active; when called to the field, it also Soul-Charges and calls a Diabolos ally from soul to the field! Greg provides essential Counter-Charge to the deck, while Trish gains extra Power and Shield for extra help on the offensive and defensive line!

With ‘Final Rush’ made accessible from turn 3 onwards, you can consider cards like ‘Diabolos Madonna, Meagan’ and ‘Diabolos Boys, Eden’ as ideal rear-guard attackers! Meagan gains Power everytime it attacks; with Bruce’s restand, Meagan has the potential to hit ridiculous Power thresholds! Eden gains less Power, but gains a Critical when Stand by Bruce and retires an enemy rear-guard when its attack hits!

Onto boosters, ‘Diabolos Madonna, Mabel’ and ‘Diabolos Girls, Stefanie’ are more than ideal for the deck! Mabel’s ability to give your vanguard Triple Drive is extremely valuable, while Stefanie’s potential to raise your vanguard’s Power even during your opponent’s turn has its merits.

The vanguard of the deck is the mysterious ‘Almajestar, Astroea=Unica’. When a trigger unit is Soul-Blast for the cost of Astroea’s ability, this vanguard can strengthen a unit. This ability can activate multiple times upon resolution of Astroea’s second ability: when it attacks a vanguard, you can Soul-Blast 3 to bind all Critical triggers Soul-Blast for this cost and perform additional effects for each Critical trigger in your bind zone! If you have one or more, you retire an enemy rear-guard; if you have two or more, Astroea gains a Critical; if you have three or more, it also gets an extra drive!

‘Almajestar, Turan=Dyna’ and ‘Almajestar, Schwart=Sparda’ help the deck to attain its goal of three Criticals in the bind zone. When Schwart is rode upon by Turan, you Soul-Charge 3, with the potential to draw a card if a Critical was Soul-Charge. As a rear-guard, Schwart binds a trigger unit in soul to get additional Power! On the other hand, when Dyna is rode upon by Astroea, it calls itself and Schwart from soul to the field, giving you access to their secondary rear-guard abilities. Dyna also sends two trigger units in drop to soul and gains Power!

A strong supporting cast to this deck would include cards like ‘Kitz Peak Griffin’, ‘Rollnick Cerberus’, ‘Alram Capricornus’ and ‘Steam Battler, Gungnram’. When placed, Kitz Peak puts two trigger units in drop into soul; it also gets extra Power and Shield as long as you have a Critical trigger in your bind zone! Rollnick effectively serves as another copy of Turan, moving two trigger units in drop to soul and gaining Power for one Counter-Blast. When boosting, Alram can either put a trigger unit from hand or drop into soul, and cycles a card if you put from hand! Lastly, Gungnram Soul-Charges when placed, and draws a card for Soul-Blast 3. With the amount of soul accumulated throughout the game, Gungnram will be important in generating card advantage.

Destruction rains down as the imposing ‘Blue Deathster, “Skyrender” Avantgarda” imposes itself over the skies! If your soul has ‘Blue Deathster, Sora Period’, you can put a Strategy order from your order zone into your soul to draw a card and give this vanguard extra Power and an additional effect: After it attacked, if its attack hit a vanguard or you persona rode this turn, you can Stand this unit with drive -1!

‘Blue Deathster, “Dark Verdict” Findamis’ and ‘Blue Deathster, “Heavenly Death Ray” Stelvane’ share similar purposes: when they are rode upon by their higher grade counterpart while you have Sora Period in soul, you reveal a grade 1 or grade 2 Strategy card respectively from your deck and add it to hand. If you didn’t reveal, you can call them to the field instead. Filter out your essential Strategy early so that your offensive game plan will be made complete!

Now, let’s dive into the Strategy cards that ensure Avantgarda can hit fast and hard! These Set orders activate their effects when they are put from the order zone into soul, occurring when Avantgarda’s ability is used. Strategy cards help to strengthen your vanguard attack while providing an additional effect; ‘Disruption Strategy: Killshroud’ can remove an enemy rear-guard, ‘Bomber Strategy: Dusting’ prevents your opponent from intercepting and playing blitz orders, and ‘Shock Strategy: Death Winds’ confers Power to all front row units whenever your vanguard attacks!

The defensive disruption of the Dusting Strategy is quite valued; that’s why it could be useful to include ‘Blue Deathster, Sachsen Austuhl’ in your deck! Call this rear-guard and Soul-Blast the grade 2 Strategy before adding it back to hand.

When using Griphogila, you have to use the unique First Vanguard Griphosid; it enables you to run Griphosid, three Calamity cards and an OverTrigger in your ride deck! When your ride phase begins, you can put a Calamity card in your ride deck to soul. When all three Calamities are attained, you can return them to your ride deck face up to ride a Griphogilia from hand or deck! You also generate two Dragontree markers that can be placed on your rear-guard circles! (These markers give +5000 Power to the unit on that circle, provided you have a Dragontree or a Masques vanguard.) While this means that you’ll be stuck on grade 0 for three turns before riding Griphogila, Griphosid also gains Power for each unique Calamity card in soul to weather attacks from enemies.

Once you ride into ‘Dragontree of Ecliptic Decimation, Griphogila’, it’s all but a ticking time bomb till your opponent faces ultimate destruction. This grade 10 vanguard gains +5000 Power for each Dragontree marker you possess, and gains an extra Critical if you have three or more! When Griphogila attacks, you can remove a Calamity card from your ride deck. If you remove all three Calamities, you can reveal an OverTrigger in your ride deck, activate all of its trigger effects and additional effects, and Stand all rear-guards with a Dragontree marker on their rear-guard circles! Should you be able to survive up to this point (turn 6), your opponent will surely be unable to deal with the terrifying wave of attacks empowered by your OverTrigger and Dragontree markers!

In Premium, players have considered using Griphogila together with the Astral Poets of Genesis. By utilizing Valkerion’s ability to gain drives from a selected card from the top five cards of your deck, you can potentially give it 10 drives right off the bat. With ‘Origin Deity of Heavenly Light, Uranus’ that can restand Valkerion again, you’ll be able to achieve a total of 15 drives just from Valkerion!

As Griphogila enters Cray’s stratosphere, it sends its Hydragrum minions to infiltrate the nations! These heralds coax Cray’s inhabitants into accepting the power of the Dragontree; who knows what their plan is for the world?

All of these cards share a common ability: when placed, they generate a Dragontree marker! With Griphogila as your vanguard, accumulate Dragontree markers on your field to form up a formidable offense!

Next, let’s look at each of their individual abilities that aid their nation. When an enemy rear-guard is retired during your main phase, Draco Batical calls a grade 1 or less card from the top five cards of your deck to the field; use this in retire-heavy decks like Eugene and Bavsargra for easy board building! Demon Sheridder calls a grade 1 or less card from soul to the same column; reuse the abilities of your allies moved to soul.

When your set order played from hand is placed into the order zone, Lloyd Akzeriyuth calls a card with grade equal to or less than your vanguard’s from the top five cards of your deck – for Eva, this can be used to call Obscudeid copies from your deck to activate on-place abilities! While in the back row, Solda Saakah draws a card when your other unit in the same column is placed! Lastly, Bist Aiyatvas can fetch a normal order in your drop back to hand; decks that rely on orders (especially Zorga) will value this!