Legend of Mana Card Duel

Legend of Mana Card Duel - Deckbuilding - Blue Sample Deck

聖剣伝説レジェンドオブマナカードデュエル青色サンプルデッキ
An example decklist and rule reference for Legend of Mana Card Duel.

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Blue Deck
Deck Strategy
Mana Curve
STR Information
DEF Information
Monster and Land Interactions
Card Text Reference

Blue Deck

Since only one decklist was provided from official documents, I took it upon myself to create a comparable secondary deck to play against it. This deck follows a similar structure to the other deck and attempts to keep a similar rarity profile. Since the first deck uses Fire and Wind cards this deck uses Water and Earth as opposing types. The other deck uses Light, but this deck uses Gold instead since Dark Lands are of higher rarity. One Rare Land was included, but counted as the equivalent of two Uncommons for balancing purposes. While the Mailbox and some of the Items and Characters from the Red deck may have fit well into this deck, I did not include them in an effort to keep the two decks as unique as possbile. I named this the Blue deck since it uses Water element cards, and Red vs. Blue is a classic archetype. Like the Red deck, I also gave it a 90s style deck box with the name “Floodwater” emphasizing its playstyle and focus on Water and Earth element cards.

Artifact/Land x18

Card #	Card Name	Card Name (Japanese)	Quantity
006	Jade Egg / Mekiv Caverns	ヒスイの卵 / メキブの洞窟	x2
007	Torch of Coral / Madora Beach	サンゴの燭台 / マドラ海岸	x2
008	Rusty Anchor / Polpota Harbor	さびたイカリ / 港町ポルポタ	x2
010	Skull Lantern / Norn Peaks	骨のカンテラ / ノルン山脈	x2
011	Bottled Spirit / Ulkan Mines	瓶詰の精霊 / ウルカン鉱山	x2
012	Ancient Tablet / Mindas Ruins	数秘術の石板 / ミンダス遺跡	x1
013	Medallion / Jungle	獣王のメダル / ジャングル	x2
024	Colorblocks / Domina	積み木の町 / ドミナの町	x3
025	Jumi’s Staff / Bejeweled City	玉石の王杓 / 煌めきの都市	x1
026	Golden Seed / Orchard	黄金の種 / 果樹園	x1

Monster x16

Card #	Card Name	Card Name (Japanese)	Quantity
037	Malboro	モルボルボール	x2
038	Goblin	ゴブリン	x2
039	Molebear	モールベア	x2
049	Lizardon	ぱっくんトカゲ	x2
050	Sahagin	サハギン	x4
051	Tonpole	ぱっくんオタマ	x2
063	Polter Box	オーガボックス	x2

Support x10

Card #	Card Name	Card Name (Japanese)	Quantity
076	Stubborn Craftsman Watts	頑固職人ワッツ	x2
079	Master Excavator Dudbear	穴掘り名人アナグマ族	x2
088	Flameshe’s Singing	フラメシュの歌声	x2
089	The Manager’s Dandyism	マスターのダンディズム	x2
100	Teapo’s Afternoon Tea	ティーポのアフタヌーンティー	x2

Item x6

Card #	Card Name	Card Name (Japanese)	Element	Quantity
132	Laurent Knife	ミスリルダガー	–	x2
141	Wendel Flail	シルバーヌンチャク	–	x2
142	Obsidian Bow	オブシダンボウ	–	x2

Character x8

Card #	Card Name	Card Name (Japanese)	Synchro	Quantity
109	Heroine	主人公（女）	–	x1
110	Niccolo	ニキータ		x1
112	Daena	ダナエ		x1
114	Sierra	シエラ	–	x1
123	Rabite	ラビ		x1
128	Skippie	ヘイソン		x1
129	Hamson	ハッソン		x1
130	Machine Golem Mark 1	魔兵1号	–	x1

Deck Strategy

The Blue deck plays best defensively, focusing on playing Lands efficiently and defending them with tanky Monsters. Rather than taking out all of the opponent’s Characters, this deck is more likely to win by biding its time and completing the 3×3 Land Make grid or obtaining 12 Total Mana.

Use Monsters Effectively

The Monsters in this deck are relatively low powered and a number cannot directly attack Parties, meaning you are likely to play them more defensively. Every Monster in the deck costs 1 or less to Open, meaning you can play a multitude of Monsters with little worry about Opening costs. This allows you to protect your Lands from invasion.

Offense/Trap: Goblins cannot directly attack Parties, but can be used to catch your opponent off guard on your Lands or when moving. Their Special Skill, Call Friends, allows you to dramatically increase their stats as long as you have Monsters in your hand to discard. Keeping a full hand can bluff both the availability of Monsters to buff Goblins as well as your ability to cast Cancel Support cards. This unfortunately plays against one of the deck’s strengths (playing many cheap Monsters at once), but having at least one Monster in hand is enough to buff its stats to a decent level.

Offense/Trap

Defense: Most Monsters in the deck play defense. Malboros effectively have an additional 2 DEF for each Character they face in battle, on top of their already nice 3 DEF. Molebears have 0 STR and gain 1 DEF on your own Lands, meaning they can make very effective defenders on your Earth Lands. Sahagin have middling stats, which are not really enough to go on the offense, but not really enough to make effective defenders. However, MoleBears and Sahagins cost nothing to open, making them very safe Monsters to play at any time to keep your Lands safe from invasion. Finally, Polter Boxes offer a lot of defense, and some card draw to you and your opponent when trashed. Both Malboros and Polter Boxes cannot attack Parties, but you likely would not want to use them for that anyway.

The Jungle adds 1 DEF to Monsters on it, turning Malboros and Molebears into impressive defensive walls.

Defense

Flex: With their Special Skill, Metamorphosis, Tonpoles offer different stats depending on where they are stationed. No matter what Land they are stationed on (besides Luon Highway) they will have 3 STR, which is quite good for just 1 Mana. On Water Lands they boast a nice 4 DEF, making that the preferred place to station them, but do not be afraid of placing them on non-Water Lands to surprise your opponent with their 3 STR. Just keep in mind, while moving or attacking a Party they will have their default stats.

Flex

Technical: Lizardons are difficult to use due to their incredibly low stats, but their Glutton Special Skill is incredibly powerful. When a Lizardon trashes an opposing Character you gain 1 Available Mana, offering great synergy with how the deck already functions. Getting a Lizardon to safely defeat a Character is difficult though, so you will likely need to rely on element bonuses from Water Lands to boost its STR and attack when your opponent’s Party is tapped. Lizardon becomes an easy target once Opened, so consider keeping Watts handy to protect it.

Technical

Play It Again

Play Lands Again: The Rusty Anchor offers a lot of power for only 4 Mana, but it may not be immediately apparent. The Rule Book states that Basic Mana is lost when a Land is trashed, but nothing about when a Land is returned to hand. Therefore, you can pick up a Land and place it again for additional Mana generation, putting you one step closer to victory. You can also use it on your opponent’s Lands, but remember they can just play it again and gain more Mana. This does lead to an interesting situation in which you can invade an oppoent’s Land, gain the Basic Mana, and return the Land to their hand (sacrificing your Monster). Is this a good play? I don’t know.

Dudbear allows you to pick up a Land and place it back down. While this does not generate new Mana, it does give you some benefits that help you increase your Mana count. The Dudbear lets you take advantage of positive Influence Values on Lands again, or cover up negative Influence Values without any detriment. It could also allow you to pivot where the center of your 3×3 Land Make grid is, opening up more options. You can also use it to reposition invaded Lands, keeping your opponent from blocking your Land placement.

Play Lands Again

Play Characters Again: Prolong your life by keeping your Character deck stacked. The Torch of Coral costs a lot, but late game will be the time you likely need to bring Characters back anyway. Hamson makes an especially good target for this Artifact, as his high STR, low DEF, and inability to use Items turns him into a one-shot wrecking ball.

Play Characters Again

Play Anything Again: Get back anything you need (besides Characters) using Teapo. Some of the best targets include the Rusty Anchor, Watts, and Flameshe. Extra plays of the Rusty Anchor let you accelerate your Mana generation, Watts is invaluable in protecting your Monsters and Characters, and Flameshe lets you keep your opponent’s plans locked down.

Play Anything Again

Building Tempo

Card Draw: This deck plays its cards out very quickly, so card draw is very important. Five cards in the deck facilitate card draw, but two of them also benefit your opponent so technically may not build any tempo. Both Colorblocks and the Golden Seed are very cheap for Artifacts. Colorblocks draws you one card and the Golden Seed draws two at the expense of allowing your opponent to do the same. Polter Boxes give one draw to both players when trashed and cannot attack Parties, limiting their use for gaining tempo. The Manager is an expensive but effective card, allowing you to draw until you have 7 cards in hand. Finally, Niccolo’s Business Unusual means you can draw cards as long as he can safely attack.

Card Draw

Character Combo: If you have Niccolo and a Rabite together in a Party, you can attack a safe target with Niccolo to draw a card using Business Unusual then untap him with the Rabite’s Baby-Doll Eyes to do it over again. With 4 DEF Niccolo can safely target a number of Monsters, and nothing in the rules says he can’t just attack the same one twice! It’s no Pot of Greed, but drawing two cards is always good.

Character Combo

Mana Curve

This section lists the Mana costs of Artifacts, Monsters, Support cards, and Items in the deck. It also lists the activation costs for Special Techniques of Items.

Artifacts, Monsters, Support, and Item Costs

The Mana curve for this deck is bimodal, with late-game Artifact costs centered around 5 Mana on average and the remaining cards exhibiting heavy positive skew centered around 1 Mana. With the relatively low costs in the deck, you will likely carry several Available Mana into your opponent’s turn.

Cost	Cards
X
0
1
2
3
4
5
6

Special Technique Costs

The cost of using Items in battle averages to around 1.6 Mana, and each Weapon offers a 1 Cost Special Technique. Keeping around 2 Available Mana may be beneficial to dissuade Party attacks.

Cost	Special Techniques
1
2
3

STR Information

This section lists the base STR of Monsters and Characters in the deck. It also lists the available STR boosts and associated costs of Special Techniques.

STR Curve

The STR of Monsters in this deck averages to around 2 STR. The STR of Goblins increases by 2 for each Monster card discarded from your hand while in battle. On non-Water Lands, Tonpoles gain 1 STR. The average STR of a Party of Characters will be around 3 STR. Additional STR bonuses are available to Niccolo, the Rabite, and Hamson through Synchro effects. Sierra gains 1 STR when attacking alone. Finally, the Golem gains 1 STR for each equipped Item card in battles that require tapping.

STR	Monsters	Characters
0
1
2	†
3
4
5
6
† Tonpole STR is equal to 3 on non-Water Lands.

Special Technique STR Buffs

On average, you can expect to gain about 2 STR through Special Technique usage, ignoring the Bow’s Trickshot. Keep in mind that the Rabite, Skippie, and Hamson cannot equip the Items in the deck, and the Golem cannot activate Special Techniques.

Cost	STR +2	STR +3	STR +4
1	†		‡
2		§
3
† Only against Monsters on your opponent’s Lands. ‡ Only if the card discarded off the top of your main deck was an Artifact. § Only against Monsters on your own Lands.

DEF Information

This section lists the base DEF of Monsters and Characters in the deck. It also lists the available DEF boosts and associated costs of Special Techniques.

DEF Curve

The DEF of Monsters in this deck averages to around 2.5 DEF. The DEF of Goblins increases by 2 for each Monster card discarded from your hand while in battle. Molebears gain 1 DEF on your Lands. On non-Water Lands, Tonpoles lose 1 DEF. The average DEF of a Party of Characters will be around 3 DEF. Additional DEF bonuses are available to the Rabite and Skippie through Synchro effects. Daena also boosts the DEF of Characters participating in battle with her. Sierra gains 1 DEF when attacking alone. Finally, the Golem gains 1 DEF for each equipped Item card in battles that require tapping.

DEF	Monsters	Characters
1
2
3	†
4
† Tonpole DEF is equal to 2 on non-Water Lands.

Special Technique DEF Buffs

On average, you can expect to gain about 1.33 DEF through Special Technique usage. However, the Bow offers no DEF bonuses. Keep in mind that the Rabite, Skippie, and Hamson cannot equip the Items in the deck, and the Golem cannot activate Special Techniques.

Cost	DEF +1	DEF +2
1
2
3

Monster and Land Interactions

This section notes the STR and DEF of Monsters on each Land in the deck.

Default
1/3	1/3	1/3	1/3	2/4	2/4	2/4	2/5	1/3	1/3	1/3
2/2	2/2	2/2	2/2	3/3	3/3	3/3	3/4	2/2	2/2	2/2
0/3	0/4	0/4	0/4	1/5	1/5	1/5	1/6	0/4	0/4	0/4
2/1	3/2	3/2	3/2	2/1	2/1	2/1	2/2	2/1	2/1	2/1
2/2	3/3	3/3	3/3	2/2	2/2	2/2	2/3	2/2	2/2	2/2
2/3	3/4	3/4	3/4	3/2	3/2	3/2	3/3	3/2	3/2	3/2
1/4	1/4	1/4	1/4	1/4	1/4	1/4	1/5	2/5	2/5	1/4

Card Text Reference

Card #		Rules	Interactions
006		Artifact: Look at your opponent’s hand. Trash any artifacts found there.
007		Artifact: Select 1 Character in your discard pile and return it to your Character deck. Shuffle the deck afterwards.
008		Land:During battle, Fire element Monsters on this Land lose [STR-2]. Artifact: Select 1 Land and return it to its owner’s hand. However, you cannot select a Land with a Monster on it.
010		Artifact: Trash 1 of your opponent’s face down Monsters.
011		Land:During battle, Wind element Monsters on this Land lose [STR-2]. Artifact: Select 1 Support card from your main deck, show it to your opponent and add it to your hand. Shuffle the deck afterwards.
012		Artifact: Turn either your own or your opponent’s main deck face up.
013		Land: During battle, any Monster on this Land gains [DEF+1] in addition to any element bonus. Artifact: Until the end of next turn, Monsters cannot attack a Party (including your own).
024		Artifact: Draw 1 card from your main deck.
025		Land:During battle, Wood element Monsters on this Land lose [STR-2]. Artifact: At the end of this turn return your Spent Mana to your Available Mana.
026		Land:When determining element condition of a card, the element of this Land becomes any of [Light, Dark, Wood, Gold]. Artifact: Draw 2 cards from the main deck, this effect also applies to your opponent.
037		Stinky Breath: Your opponent’s Characters participating in battle lose STR-2. !: Cannot attack Party
038		Call Friends: In battle, you may trash any Monster cards in your hand. For each card trashed this way gain [STR+2 DEF+2] (until end of battle). !: Cannot attack Party
039		Hidden Bear: On your Lands, gain [DEF+1].
049		Glutton: When Lizardon trashes a Character in battle, its owner increases their Available Mana by 1.
050
051		Metamorphosis: In battle on non-Water element Lands become [STR 3 DEF 2].
063		Treasure Chest: When Polter Box is trashed, both players draw 1 card from their main deck. !: Cannot attack Party
076		In Battle: A Character or Monster participating in battle gains [DEF+3].
079		Main Phase: Select one of either player’s Lands and place it again along with any Monster on it. However, no Mana is generated.
088		Cancel: Trash target Support or Artifact card, if you paid the targeted card’s cost (X).
089		Main Phase: Draw from your main deck until you have 7 cards in hand.
100		Main Phase: Select a card from your discard pile and return it to your hand.
132		1 – Admonition: STR+1 2 – Sonic Wave: Against Monsters on your own Land gain STR+3 3 – Crescent Moon: STR+2 DEF+1
141		1 – Dragon Teeth: STR+1 2 – Drunken Monkey: STR+1 DEF+1 3 – Twilight: STR+2 DEF+2
142		1 – Forward Artillery: STR+1 1 – Needle Shower: Against Monsters on opponent’s Lands gain STR+2 1 – Trickshot: Trash 1 card from the top of your main deck, if it was an Artifact card gain STR+4
109		Character Replenishment – Fateful Encounter: Select 1 Character from your Character deck and exchange it for one untapped Character on your field. Add the exchanged Character to the deck and shuffle it.
110		End of Battle – Business Unusual: After participating and not being trashed in a battle that requires tapping, draw 1 card from your main deck. Synchro: STR+1 when the Hero or Heroine are in play Equips: Cannot equip Magic Instruments.
112		In Battle – Shield of Kindness: Characters participating in battle at the same time as Daena gain [DEF+1]. Synchro: STR+1 when the Hero or Heroine are in play
114		In Battle – Lone Warrior: When attacking alone, gain [STR+1 DEF+1].
123		Main Phase- Baby-Doll Eyes: Untap 1 of your Characters. Synchro: STR+1 DEF+1 when the Hero or Heroine are in play Equips: Cannot use Items.
128		Main Phase- Scouting: Open one of your opponent’s Face Down Monsters. Synchro: DEF+1 when Hamson is in play Equips: Cannot use Items.
129		Synchro: STR+1 when Skippie is in play Equips: Cannot use Items.
130		In Battle – Body Enhancement: The effects of [Special Techniques and Magical Instruments] cannot be used. When participating in a battle that requires tapping, gain [STR+1 DEF+1] for each equipped Item card. Equips: Can equip any number of Items.