Virtual Card Set 2013 – The Hero We Deserve

Last week, we openly playtested on our Twtich TV page with a new level one personality that was always so close to having his own archetype. Tien has always been much maligned in the game. Piccolo stole his signature technique and made his own archetype out of it, while Krillin has the superior version of a classic Crane School attack. Sure, we got Tien’s Flight to help out the character, but then both Vegeta and Krillin got personality powers that do almost the exact same thing, but better by virtue of not being removed from the game after use. Previous attempts to help Tien personality stacks were made obsolete by an evolving power chart, making the personality languish once again. So we fixed that, here’s the new personality for Tien decks that want to do something that doesn’t require Master Roshi’s Scouting Drill.

7 Tien Lv. 1

 

There you have it. We envisioned that Tien would be good if he was reworked as a so-called “suicide deck” personality. This actually fits him well in the show, as many of his moves and attacks are drawn directly from his lifeforce (one of which you’ll be seeing soon). For this, we added the ability for him to pay for his named energy attacks with life cards instead of power stages. Not only does this give him options when he’s at zero, but it also makes a prolonged Tien’s Focused Beam a secondary win condition after Flight (it also combos well with Arqua’s Arena if you don’t want to go the suicide route).

The main problem that we identified with the Tien Named deck was that many of Tien’s named cards like Tien Stands Ready and Tien’s Ready pointlessly remove themselves from the game. That meant even lackluster cards that you’d run just because they are Tien named couldn’t even be used without damaging your end game. Tien takes a page from Krillin and Vegeta‘s Lv. 1s here, after giving them inspiration for their previously mentioned Level 3s.

That was originally all this card did, but after some review and playtesting we felt that adding a card draw was the little extra oomph that Tien needed. He was made to be an attacker, but didn’t have the monster stages of Majin Buu or access to the card draw of the Saiyan Style. This made him stand up to those decks a little bit better.

That’s all for today, but not it for Tien. Check back later this week for a new Tien attack straight out of Dragon Ball. Later, BroZ!

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