The big bad wolf of Vanguard for now and probably for a long time to come. Don't expect to avoid this deck in a major tournament and I'll bet atleast someone in your locals is running him or some version of this deck.
This list is from vanguard.us.blogspot and I imagine it is representative of most builds.
Starter:
Red Pulse Dracokid
Grade 0:
4 Heal
5 Draw
7 Crit
Grade 1:
4x Seal Dragon Rhinocross
4x Nouvelleroman Dragon
3x Calamity Tower Wyvern
2x Seal Dragon Kersey
Grade 2:
3x Dominate Drive Dragon
4x Nouvellecritic Dragon
4x Berserk Dragon
Grade 3:
1x Cruel Dragon
4x Dauntless Drive Dragon
Grade 4:
4x Transcendence Dragon, Dragonic Nouvelle Vague
Lets first look at Advantage Sources:
Calamity Tower Wyvern
For Soul Blast 2 we get to draw a card. This helps the deck go through the deck faster to find the grade 4 as well as not being grade stuck less often.
Nouvelle Vague
The 13k defense is relevant especially in clans like kagero which can destroy boosters.
I would have placed Seal dragon kersey and nouvelleroman into this category previously but I have since decided that while card changing generally increases your card quality and advantage in a slight sense its not enough to count it anymore.
next is Distruption
Nouvellecritic Dragon
Counter Blast 1 and reveal Vague to retire anything, thats amazing the low counter blast cost lets you save for Vague's limit break or use it for even more Critics.
Berserk Dragon
Standard CB2 for a minus to your opponent.
Nouvelle Vague
The Limit Break. Some decks just can't come back from this. completely destroys the opponents field usually going to be a minus 5. ouch.
Cruel Dragon
The ability to retire a booster every time it hits is awesome especially for a low CB cost
and finally Pressure:
Dauntless Drive Dragon
Maybe one of the best pressure break rides allowing you to attack twice and stack triggers on rearguards or your vangaurd. Is only made better by Vague's non limit break abilities.
Nouvelle Vague
Both his non limit break abilities provide huge pressure. You opponent can't guard with 0s means that he's forced to block with 5k shields or perfect guards. and having to account for triggers means that th 5ks will go reallly fast. The second ability is also pressuring in that you can't get damaged checked triggers so you can't bank on that heal or draw trigger to give you enough shield to last you through the turn you're just dead.
So let's tally up the points (Including Triggers)
Advantage - 12
Distruption - 13
Pressure - 15
This is why we see this as such a dominant deck because its very well balanced and its main focus is the vanguard which can't really be messed with unless your using the megacolony breakride which I don't believe is out for english yet. Normally I would give a strategy to try and help you beat Nouvelle but there are not really any weakpoints within the Triangle of Power (which I will update because I realized I had it flowing in the wrong order)
Weakness
Rather than a weakness in one of the three elements Nouvelle's weakness is a slower earlygame. The main opposition you will face to slow you down are the novellecritics and the berserk dragons. Notably the weakest point in the Trifecta is advantage which you should be able to beat with distruption. If you play the early game and distrupt the Vague player's flow then you should have a much easier time. The game I played I managed to retire his vanguard booster over and over so eventually he was attacking unboosted which was much less scary and manageable though I still wound up losing.
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