Learning and Improving 7: Field Prescence

Hey Cardfighters!

Field refers to all your rearguards and your vanguard. So field presence means how many rearguard circles you have occupied and can be a good quantifier of how is in the lead. (More so than who has more damage than who)

Basics:
The basics of field presence is that the more field you occupy the better situation you are in. This is because you are able to make more attacks which can convert into more damage and more damage means you win the game. Even if you have less damage and the same amount of cards in hand as your opponent if the opponent has more field presence it is likely that they are going to beat you because you need to use more cards to guard every turn and they can slowly recover.

Base Strategy:
      There are two basic strategies for keeping field presence. And one key rule being: ALWAYS have a vanguard booster.

1. Keep one of your columns full.
2. Keep your front row full. 

These two strategies have different goals. For strategy 1 you will have a full column along with your vanguard column. This lets you have two strong attacks and a good place to pass triggers especially critical triggers too. This strategy emphasizes getting your opponent to higher damage. For Strategy 2 you want to keep your front row full to maximize the number of attacks that you can make each turn. The focus of this strategy is to wear down your opponent by making them guard more attacks every turn whether they are a towards a vanguard or rearguard.

Once you have reached a late game state you should convert to having a full field if possible to maximize damage and number of attacks each turn. 

More Advanced Ideas: 
Once you are good with when to use each strategy and which one works best for your deck then you can start to think about the following.

• Does your opponent's clan have retiring effects? If so you might not want to be too aggressive or they will retire your units and nullify your advantage
• If you have really good front row unit like Silent Tom or Binoculus Tiger then you may not want to leave it open to being attacked early in the game.

Of course this isn't everything that can come up when setting up your field. Maybe you have units that work well in the same column or you need to/are unable to make good numbers to attack your opponent's vanguard.

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