The Ever-changing Mermaid

Now this is an interesting card as not only is it a guaranteed plus one, but it has the benefits that you are not losing out if its a non normal unit card, such as a trigger or order, especially seeing as adding orders into decks has been more popular lately due to the addition of "One Night Witch, Strega" in Lyrical 4 Trick or Trick. This is one of the slower ridelines however, as it needs to be rode upon to get the effect, but it’s why in turn it allows a grade 2 to be part of the selection, due to us then being on grade 2. Talking of riding upon Tilphaine , let’s discuss the Grade 2 of Khrysrain's rideline, Confident Aqua, Musette.

So what the Wilista rideline provides is an actual compression of the deck when "Proof of Hard Work, Wilista" is rode upon, as will allow you to search your deck for a Gem card. It does cost you a card from hand to do this search, but It does go into soul however, allowing to be counted a resource generation. Due to it costing a card though, this doesnt actually generate an advantage, more of a +/- 0. "Expanding World, Wilista" however, does create an advantage, as it’s a straight up draw 1 just for activating the Gem Card you searched off of "Proof of Hard Work, Wilista", and for no cost on top of that.

So Krysrain's first skill as a whole tells us a lot about the deck as a whole already. The deck rewards you for assembling multiple different named units to gain as many of the skills as possible. People would instantly assume that you need to build it highlander style, like "Relation Weaver, Petralka", but honestly you can still run the deck as you usually would with 3-4 copies of all your cards and just choose specific units to call down to make the name range be reached. The first effect as a whole provides pressure whilst generating advantage at the same time, for such a minimal cost is really good for the deck. We are used to a single Counter Blast enabling a single draw from cards such as “Hoppin’ Stellar, Melty”, but this giving us an Energy Charge 3 on top shows that resource development is increasing, which is good for the game as a whole. It also leads us to feel that this deck focuses more on the strength of the Rear-guards that support rather than the Vanguard's pure power.

 So the first part of the effect is really good as it allows you to filter your deck of non triggers, whilst also getting to create a board without using extra cards from your hand. Cost may seem a little bit on the heavy side, but when we have Krysrain generating us 3 Energy every turn, and cards like Ingrid for Counter Charge, it can be well monitered in this deck. Second skill however, allows you to apply pressure on the Rearguard columns, as her being a 28k column with a basic 8k booster forces a fair few cards out of the opponent’s hand, due to hitting the magic number. Add on triggers and Persona Ride and you could be forcing out a lot more, which is good for Rear-guard pressure. But Annes is not the only good support that Krysrain directly got in the set, so let us move on to the next card in "Cynical Composer, Raum".

So Precia is part of the new wave of Cycle cards that were introduced for all nations in DZ01, and honestly she does so much for the deck. Her first skill alone lets us dig deeper for our specific combo pieces that we want, and with the rate that we actually generate energy in this deck, it's not really a hinderance to pay some for her skill in the early turns. The second skill doesn't come up as much in this deck however, as we are normally saving our Divine Skill for a Persona ride turn, meaning that we are already self bouncing our full board making this effect obsolete, but having this card as a solid potential call target off the Divine Skill, to then have her use the second skill on herself to bounce back to hand and gain 5k Power can be useful in certain situations.

So if you remember, we have mentioned "Capprico of Circulating Star, Ingrid" a few times already throughout this post, and rather than talk about her again, I am going to pull up an additional grade 3 that works in the deck instead, which is "Moon-nestling Fantasia, Adelheid". Now Adelheid is really good for the deck, as she allows us to return our Perfect Guards and Triggers back to hand when they have finished boosting. This works even better when said Perfect Guard was called from the top 5 cards by Annes, as it means we technically searched our deck for a Perfect Guard, which increases the already strong defense this deck has due to the draw power. adding on top of that that she can also be shield in hand when your opponent hits a trigger, helps the longevity of this deck. But what is the point of adding all these grade 3 cards if we cant search them outside of Annes?

The first card in our package here is "Clear Shimmer, Aura" who is really good for the deck due to her ability to search orders. She does have the bonus of not being restricted to what kind of order she can grab, so is also able to grab Blitz orders, such as "Elementaria Sanctitude" for the Luard matchup. She is on hit reliant, but placing her behind the Vanguard in the early game gives a high chance that she will get to go off before you reach grade 3. Some good orders that she can search that help Krysrain are "Super Aesthetic Shot!" to give all of your Rear-guards a power boost, "Everlasting Sapphire" for if you want to give an extra buff to your Vanguard, or if you want to combine both packages, you can even search "Forbidoll Surrogate".

Grade 2s have for the most part been covered, so let us look at the only one we haven't talked about yet - "What Color is Your Wish, Valsheblan". Valsheblan does a lot for the deck as lets us dig even deeper in the early game to look for our combo pieces, whilst still allowing our attacks to scale even higher in the later Persona Ride turns, but on the Divine Skill turn, the interaction will be the same as Persona Ride, so wont add additional power to that attack. Running both Valsheblan and Precia allows us to run less copies of other cards, but more different options as we have such a higher chance to draw into them.

The other grade 1 that plays really nicely into the attack patterns that Krysrain prefers is "Beware of Overeating! Eileen!". This is down to the fact that we like to swing in the pattern of Rear-guard --> Vanguard --> Rear-guard, so having Eileen boost the first Rear-guard swing allows us to check our top card for either triggers or key pieces we want in our hand, such as Persona Rides or Perfect Guards.