#Altmile

[incorrectcfvg]

[dragon8blade]

Notes From Planet Cray - September 2023

[cardfight-casual]

V-Premium Aerial Divine Knight, Altmile

Taking a short break from overDress this week, here's one of my V-Premium decks. Altmile was the first deck I actually used to play back in G-era, so I was hyped when I found out he was coming to V. I've been playing this version of the deck for a while now, so I'm pretty happy with it.

Deck Log Code: MFJQ

Grade 3 -x4 Aerial Divine Knight, Altmile -x1 Blue Sky Knight, Altmile Grade 2 -x1 Explode Jewel Knight, Laile -x3 Knight of Chivalry, Rabol -x2 Diaconnect Dragon -x3 Counteroffensive Knight, Suleiman -x2 Starlight Violinist -x1 Hopesong Angel -x4 Absolute Blade Knight, Livarot -x1 Knight of Determination, Lamorak Grade 1 -x3 Charging Knight, Morvidus -x4 Flourishing Knight, Edith -x4 Laurel Knight, Sicilus Grade 0 -x1 Shining Knight, Millius (Starting Vanguard) -x4 Bringer of Good Luck, Epona (Critical Trigger) -x4 Future Knight, Llew (Critical Trigger) -x4 Flash Shield, Iseult (Draw Trigger/Sentinel) -x4 Yggdrasil Maiden, Elaine (Heal Trigger) 1 Quick Shield, 5 Imaginary Gift Force II Markers Now I know what you're thinking... Am I sure there are enough grade 2s? No, there's never enough grade 2s. Jokes aside, this deck plays seventeen grade 2s and you'll probably see most, if not all of them. Altmile has always been very grade 2 centric, and Veemium is even more so. Your preferred grade 1 ride target is Sicilus. Morvidus is an okay choice if you have to since riding on top of her lets you draw a card, but you definitely don't want to have to ride Edith. You might have noticed this deck only runs five grade 3 units. That's because you always want to ride Aerial Divine Knight, Blue Sky Knight is only here as a last resort and for the Altmile name. Thankfully, Sicilus helps by letting you check the top five of your deck for a grade 3 when placed on vanguard or rearguard. Edith also helps search out a grade 3 when she's placed on rearguard. For a soulblast, she checks the top seven for an Altmile and calls it to the same column she's in. Then after she boosts, the Altmile she was boosting goes to soul to help enable ADK's skill. If you don't want the called Altmile to go to soul, but instead to hand, that's where Suleiman comes in. Suleiman isn't the only viable grade 2 ride option, but it is the one you want to see. When ridden, he allows you to check the top seven once again and call an Altmile that you find. From there you use Suleiman's other skill to soulblast one and return the Altmile to your hand for later use. ADK is the intended boss unit for the deck. As long as all your damage is face-down, Aerial Divine Knight gives all your grade 2 units 10k power and 5k shield, and if there's another Altmile in your soul, your grade 2s also gain a critical. His other skill helps to fill your board by calling one from both deck and drop, meaning you can recycle some of your more useful grade 2s. Because of ADK's continuous skill, ideally all your rearguards will be grade 2 units. To give the deck some boosters, Starlight Violinist comes in handy. Violinist gives boost and the ability to intercept from the back row to all your grade 2 units when all your damage is face-down. If you're on ADK like you should be, you should have minimum 40k columns, with as many as three crit per unit depending on how many markers you have placed. The remaining grade 2 units are to help you get your damage face-down or to get more cards in soul. Laile gives you a soulcharge and puts two units from drop back into deck. Diaconnect soulcharges when placed in a column with another unit. Rabol, Hopesong, and Livarot all counterblast to search units. Finally Lamorak lets you counterblast as many times as you are able and he gains 10k power for each one. In an ideal situation, your first grade 3 turn should be three attacks that are all at least two damage if they hit. Your vanguard should be a 33k swing, and your rearguards at least 40k if not bigger. Unlike my other lists so far, I don't really have any suggestions for changes you could make. There's a promo that allows for countercharge if you need it, but in all my testing, I never even got to use it. You're able to throw in so many one-ofs because of search skills that if there's a particular grade 2 you want to try out, you can probably make the space for it.

Remember, these deck lists are for fun and not necessarily optimized. If you have another card that you think would make a better fit, then go for it and test it out.

If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to send me a message!

[knightofspades]

Happy Birthday Shion!!!!

he's my favorite character, there's no way i wouldn't have drawn bday art for him 🫶

[carnelianwings]

Hey. Hey you. What deck do you main in zero

Hi there!

I play pretty much everything in Zero (and I will play to the meta if I need to climb for rank rewards), but right now my main deck is (predictably) Blaster Blade Exceed. It was already fast on its way to becoming my favorite deck when I saw it debut in G Next when I watched (read: marathoned) all of 2011 CFV + G back in 2021, and it holds a special place as one of the first preconstructed decks I ever bought and upgraded irl. Sure it's also Aichi's deck in G, but it's also got all the mechanics I love - recycling from drop, lots of deck thin, and the ability to search out and Superior Call whatever I need from deck. I don't play it as much these days - I only have the one friend who also plays Premium but nothing gives me more joy than sacking crits (read: Flogals) one turn and throwing them down onto the field the next turn to restand Blaster Blade a stupid number of times while throwing every trigger effect onto him between Alfred's and his (because lulz Alfred skill) drive checks. (My friend has declared the Alfred Stride to be their "One Fear" whenever we play Premium because they always know what's coming lolololololol) Sure I can't quite do the same in Zero since drive checks don't go to hand, but I have a funny way of drawing into at least 1 Flogal every fight (or check Blaster Blade Exceed - I run him as a Stand in Zero because I either deck myself out or badly overflow my hand otherwise) so I still end up tossing out 4-5 attacks lol.

And in case you're wondering just how much I love this deck:

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[laziarteest]

Oh neat lol

If you look far enough down in image search, my Altmile fan art from years ago shows up

[lacunasbalustrade]

also my brother has built a katana world Buddyfight deck with only one X season card and everything except two spells (triple D) from hundred or first season sets.

He managed to get it to five attacks a turn

FIVE ATTACKS

so uhhh he has this size 3 with penetrate, three critical, and 6000? 7000? Power, and if that's not enough due to size reduction he has two size 1s on the field and an item that can attack with a monster in the center. When the size 3 attacks he can call a size 1 from drop.

ultimate aggression skull warrior style

And this is WITHOUT adding Yamigitsune

low-key proud

kinda reminds me of royal paladin altmile in vanguard

[theabbeyweho]

Tonight!! You don’t want to miss this. "SERVING UP SPIRIT" WITH OUR VERY OWN CELEBRITY PSYCHIC MEDIUM ERICA ALTMILLER @erica___altmiller TUESDAY FEBRUARY 28 AT 7:00PM @thechapelweho COME JOIN US FOR AN EVENING FULL OF LOVE & LIGHT WHERE ERICA WILL CONDUCT READINGS IN A GROUP/GALLERY STYLE SETTING TO PROVIDE BEAUTIFUL MESSAGES FROM OUR LOVED ONES THAT HAVE CROSSED OVER TO THE HEAVENS ABOVE. (at The Chapel At The Abbey) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpODHAjSdaT/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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https://www.youtube.com/live/kbQLG_prhec?feature=share

Let's see if the thumbnail works this time!

Will be streaming Vanguard Zero again within 30 minutes! Will post the link in the notes

[thebladeblaster]

So Aichi and Shion had their rematch😂

Shion: Let’s see how well you do this time

Aichi: I’ll give you my best Kiba-kun!

Dude seriously declared ‘final turn’ while I had 5 shields in hand and two intercepts🤣. Priceless. This is exactly why you should invest in Blaster Blade.

Kiba: Final turn!

Aichi: *suddenly has Kai and Ren PTSD* Oh no…

He attacked so many times oof. To be exact he attacked me 7 times in one turn.

Aichi: Your so amazing Kiba-kun! To think you could launch 7 attacks in a clan that isn’t Nova Grappler

Shion: Heh. I’m impressed you withstood that barrage. The question is can you seize this opportunity?

Aichi: I will!

So then like a chad I decided to declare final turn

Shion: Alright do your worst. Let’s see if your bluffing or not. I’m not surprised you superior called Blaster Blade. You really do like that card don’t you?

Aichi: I do. It’s really special to me. I got it from Kai-kun.

Shion: (Ohhh….that’s how this all started) In that way I guess we’re alike. Kai helped me back in the Under 20 by training me.

Aichi: You were trained by Kai-kun?! I had no idea! No wonder your so good!

My stride Altmile against his Altmile

Aichi: This is the end! Go, Altmile!

Perfectly G like finale.

Shion: You did it. Looks like that last win was more than a fluke.

Aichi: That was a great match Kiba-kun.

Shion: Hehe. You don’t have to always be so formal, Aichi. Remember I’m from the future where your technically my senior. You can just call me Shion.

Aichi: I never get used to this weird place…Your telling me that the me in your time is older than you?

Shion: That’s right. The you I know is 21. It was knowing of him that made me approach you. As a fellow Royal Paladin user you interested me.

Aichi: *looks very flustered* Am I cool at 21?

Shion: I’d say so. Though, don’t sell yourself short. The current you is cool too.

Aichi: *blushing mess* Thank you, Kiba-…Shion

Honestly from now on every time I cardfight a Shion I’m going to record it because the matches are always amusing.

[rinkunokoisuru]

The bare-midriff-boy is here, it’s Altmile. The second trial deck for Altmile was the first deck for Cardfight!! Vanguard that I actually played with, and I’m super excited for the support coming out next month. I actually spent way more time on this than I intended to. It was just supposed to be a really quick doodle, and then things got out of hand.

[carnelianwings]

Went to BCS Sacramento, did well on Day 1 (by my standards), and shockingly well on Day 2.

Tucking the rest behind the cut, I’m going to assume my opponents (especially from Day 2) aren’t here (because whoooooo boy I was seeing salt on Twitter due to how I got the wins - totally legal by the rules, it was just 95% luck 😅)

Day 1 was Standard, which is the usual format I play the most of these days (since we usually have enough for shop tournament), so with 435 people I just hoped for “going positive” and calling it a day. Which I did, with a 4-3 result on Lianorn. Highlights included hitting the full combo with the insane double Rosarium Fairy + Luster Impact + Magnolia Order, set up via Vivace Persona > Gun Cycler RC skill > Broccolly on place > draw into second Fairy. Also completely broke a Luticia player on Round 7 when they did Luticia Persona restand … when I had an absolutely massive hand to defend it all.

Day 2 though …

First opponent was clearly me just getting paired well over my head against a previous BCS Champion and Worlds player, so literally “Oh shit I just got paired into this absolute tryhard, one of the best players in the game, and all I can do is pray I built this Narukami deck well enough and to the luck gods I will see what I need to win.” I knew this because you can set banners for your BushiNavi profile, and this guy had the Worlds 2023 participant banner so basically I had a “… oh fuck I just got Round 1 paired into someone who’s the equivalent of a Top 100 player in Vanguard Zero”-moment.

But the funny thing about that situation is I’ve had that happen to me in Vanguard Zero before not once, but more like a dozen times, especially when I was grinding for a rank reward alt art I really liked (Starcall Trumpeter, Thing Saver, Percival, Altmile, and Blaster Blade Exceed seasons all come to mind) so I was like “Wait. I’ve done this before. And I’ve won before when it happened, by staying calm, remembering my plays, and having a bit of luck on my side. I can do this.”

So I did that. And oh boy did the luck come through - I take first, find my G3s for the Zorras History Collection Stride, boom, third check, Dragveda comes through. Push to 4, force out some PGs, double triple drive gives me the cards I need to survive the clap back, opponent leaves a G2 with Resist on the board (hoping to stop V-Chou-Oh restand). Reride Sweep Command, take my 3rd Accel II circle, throw down Meteor Flare to kill the Resist, retire it, Stride Exterminate for 6 attacks at +20k to front row for game.

Round 2 I lose to Granblue - that was a brickfest on my part, went 2nd, had to G Assist Turn 1 for a G1, couldn’t find a single Vanquisher for the Stunverse-Zorras double Stride play, ran out of Soul because I couldn’t find a reride, couldn’t do Exterminate or even just Stunverse. Which I freely accepted - it’s a risk I was taking by running only 8 G1 units in that deck, 1 of which is a 1-of Honoly.

Round 3, I somehow get paired into another more experienced player - I knew this, because this guy shows up, all business, zero small talk, no playmat, just sits down and sets up, 100% methodically. All he says before we start is “Yeah this deck has some ratio issues”, and all I say is “Yeah, mine does too” followed by a “good luck” right before we start the match (I consider it common courtesy just from my old chess club days). Turns out it’s Dimension Police, probably Dailiner, and I’m like sweating. Deck does 2 and only 2 things: make huge-ass Vanguard columns, and Sentinel crush. I’m Narukami. I can get the big hand, but I’m not necessarily built for dealing with that kind of offensive output. But I’m spared - opponent mega-bricks on Turn 1, rides the 6k Commander Laurel for G1, fails G-Assist on G2, gets wrecked by my Zorras Stride on Turn 3, he finds a G2 and Rides up but by that point it’s too late. Second Stride Exterminate, opponent defends with the -2 crit off a heal guard … except I drive check crit (goes to Esperaridea, I almost always throw it on him), blank, and … Dragveda. At which point it was game over because I throw power to Esperaridea, restand Exterminate, attack again for another triple drive. (Actually funny that round because my opponent was like “Wait Esperaridea restand is 1/Turn?” and I confirm it is, but on the inside I’m like “… it’s heavily used in Standard in Shiranui and basically in every P-Narukami deck but you didn’t know that while being this tryhard about this game?”)

Round 4 I get demolished by Bermuda Highlander … which I kind of expected to happen because while I get a lot of practice into it, I have a hard time building enough hand fast enough to deal with all the multi-attacks but at least I did kind of make my opponent work for it.

Round 5 I get matched against this mega salty (disrespectful) guy who just kept complaining about how he was stuck down here (X-2 bracket at this point) while his friends were at the tables higher up than him, wouldn’t stop complaining about it, and was like “I didn’t bring a Standard deck with me for side events so I can’t drop”. Then has the gall to say, after I defensive 6th damage OT (Dragveda bless you thank you for saving my ass) he was all “unless I see defensive OT I’m dead this turn, so I may as well flip the top card over and see” as I’m getting ready to discard for Exterminate Stride and I tell him he can if he wants to but we can’t continue after if he does. He flips heal, followed by OT, flips them both back over and says “let’s play it out” and I refuse (was about to call a judge on this guy too).

This is why I refuse to give up until 6th damage hits damage zone, because had he flipped heal-OT I would’ve lost on the following turn (I just didn’t have the hand for it). I’ve also pulled heal-OT (or vice versa) at locals twice before (hilariously against the same player both times - he still remembers it 😂) so I know while it’s unlikely it’s possible, especially with a deck that can compress (like Granblue).

Round 6, I got the default win after my opponent no showed (I got confirmation my opponent dropped after pairings went up, so I can only assume my opponent was friends with someone else I’d played earlier that day and knew they were getting paired into a very lucky Narukami player and didn’t want to play it out).

Round 7 was actually the most back and forth match I had all day, Chaos-Messiah, actually went “… oh shit” internally after I won dice roll and chose first. Opponent survived double Exterminate, went into Integral Messiah to force me to shuffle hand back into deck (hilariously enough I think that ended up helping me in the long run), but passed turn on a board. I’d managed to get a Stride crit back into hand off the draw 5 (along with 2 heal guards and Dragveda), so I Stunversed him to recover some hand. Survived the next turn (Dragveda saved my ass again as a 50k shield), went into V Max despite having only 1 CB for game despite having GB8 already at the start of the turn - I didn’t want to go into GB8 because that would’ve meant Binding both of my Esperarideas on the board (and they’d been putting in work forcing my opponent to guard and giving me 5 attacks/turn). I had to scramble all of my knowledge from playing against our Chaos Breaker main at locals (a match up I’m 0-2 against, because I kept decking out against it) to keep up with my opponent, and in the end he decked himself out when I managed to land a hit when he had just 2 cards left in deck. Most stressful game all day, and my opponent making me shuffle back my encyclopedia of a hand with Integral Messiah actually made it so I’d have more cards than him in deck.

Then I learned X-2 had a shot at Top 16 and I was like “Uhhhh what????” but I ended up bubbling out on tie breakers and didn’t make it - not that it mattered because, uhhhh holy shit??????? 5-2 at my first solo tournament??? When the last time I played this deck I had a personal 2-5 for BSF Ontario TriReg??? At the format that has the highest burden of knowledge for card interactions and pool?????? And all I had to go off of was just … whatever I remembered from the anime, from playing Vanguard Zero (which changed some card effects) and whatever I got to see at my very small locals???

Also my favorite “spice tech from Standard” Meteor Flare keeps coming up - the +10k for no opponent rear guards comes up absurdly often (most people just try to clear board to avoid letting me bind their stuff) and the Continuous ability deny actually came up today. I’d originally put it in when Bushi changed how Resist worked, so I teched in 2 copies just so I could shut off Resist because it’s typically a Continuous ability the rear guard grants itself.

All in all, a rather fun experience, made a new friend, said we’d meet up again at Pasadena. Said friend was like “Damn you’ve inspired me to play Premium now” when he learned this was my first solo tournament after doing BSF Ontario with 2 others from my locals. Also actually felt validated in that deck choice and that “Yeah, I really can do this as a player making the jump from Vanguard Zero to physical TCG and the skills I learned from Zero are still relevant and valuable.”

Also as for winning off OT not once, but twice? It’s a card in the game that you can only run one of, if you see it great, if you don’t, well, that’s the way the cookie crumbles. I do find it kind of amusing both times it was against a Star/Brandt Gate deck, because I know if it had been the other way around they would’ve been like “Welp sucks to be you” because Eldobreath is just as good as Dragveda for how easily it can just win you the game right then and there, and is largely considered to be one of the two best OTs in the game (the other being, of course, Dragveda). Card games in general, whether it’s a TCG like Vanguard or a regular card game like poker or blackjack, have always had an element of chance involved, and part of that has always been risk assessment. If I have the means to guard a Vanguard drive check and I choose not to, I (personally) accept that if the consequence is my opponent sees their “I Win” button, and I lose because they flipped it, then the fault lies not with my opponent, but myself. And that, in my opinion, is a skill, and I think it’s a skill lot of people don’t realize is a part of the game.