Cardfight!! Vanguard Zero - Let's talk Genesis Witches in Legion

Welp the first Legion set is due to hit the Japanese Servers in a few hours at the time of this post being written and I'll give Zero credit they handled things pretty well.  Alot of my wishes ended up coming true (with the exception of triggers still being able to be shuffled into the deck for Seek Mate) with the first set consisting of RP/NK/GE/NG with extras, Promo Legions being included (Tester Fox), Legacy Legions from Stride Format being included (Guru) and they even went a little extra by making it so that you only have to worry about pulling Legion Leaders in the gatcha since you'll pull their Legion Mates with them in the same roll!  Hell you also can get a free Thing Saver Dragon by doing events with your Friends, Blaster Blade Seeker is the first Rank Reward (and TSD may be the next one) and rolling the new gatcha will get you medals you can exchange for things like RRR Tickets.  What fun!

Like I said alot of the things I predicted/wanted came to pass but one of the things I was wrong on was that I thought that they would include all of the cards Genesis got from Waltz of the Goddess in one set which happened to be cards for the Regalia and Witch Subclans (well Regalia was a subclan already but Witches were just a smattering of cards until the EB dropped).  Mind you my reasoning was before they announced that Great Nature and Angel Feather would be in the set which means that finding room for both Subclans was just too much to ask for at this point.  This means that somewhere down the line Genesis will be back for another gatcha banner and it wouldn't surprise me if they were included in either Blazing Perdition or whatever banner that Shadow Paladin's own Witch subclan appears in.  Some people have even suggested that the two Witch Clans be allowed to be played together in a hybrid Genesis/Shadow Paladin deck!  That last part I think is a bit much to ask for (and unlike the Duke package there is very little synergy I can see aside from the names) but all of this does let me write another speculative article about a future archetype that'll eventually come to Zero.  Let's do this!

What to work with

What's interesting about the Witch deck is that there's a couple cards that are already out that you've probably got some copies of or will be able to get a hold of when the Minerva's Feathers event goes live in Global right away as some of the cards seeing play in Genesis happen to be witches.  Calaway, Valencia, Grappa, Melissa, Chamomile and Cider are all Witches and I honestly see almost all of them getting played in some capacity since the Witch deck lacks Regalia's ability to Soul Charge from the Drop Zone.  This also means that if you haven't picked any of these cards up you'll need to get on that.  Prioritize Chamomile since you can get copies of her from the Event while the others you can craft.

Yeah no.  There's already a Witch starter that after it boosts a G3 and hits lets you SC until you hit 2 non Triggers.

Now that they're importing cards from G I'm hoping we see this and some of the other guys I'll be talking about.  Shiroma's been a fantastic card for a long time.  It replaces itself, selectively fuels your Soul and feeds your drop zone for Legion.  To be honest this might be a little too good in the current format.

It's a less good Shiroma since it negs and costs CB which means it just may be imported.

Not worth playing over the other FVs.

Witches have their own PG and my bet is it'll act like the original ones before LB (so it'll trigger when you'd go from 3 to 5 in one blow) since Genesis doesn't have any PGs of that type. It's also searchable.

10k attackers are always useful but space may be tight between Valencia, Melissa, Cider and Framboise.

This got released in Fighter's Collection 2015 and it's somehow worse than Melissa.  1 of at best.

SCs, scales and doesn't care about Legion status?  Not bad.

You can never go wrong with 12k attackers.  Moreso since Chicory can force PGs before you call over it with Chamomile.

This is pretty much a 5th but weaker copy of Chaomille.

Uhh yeah this seems ok.  Works on V/R (which means it should trigger on Legion) and buffs 2 other cards which allows your 9ks to swing at the VG unboosted then be replaced by Chamomile/Melissa.

Mint Soul Blasts in Battle Phase which means Chamomile/Melissa abuse.  They also get the 5k from her skill since it's a CONT which means your 22k lines become 27 which lets you hit over a defensive.  Also gotta point out that her other skill lets you build up Soul for that first skill.

Fennel's a Morgenrot on Steroids that can't be CB denied, can trigger Melissa/Chamomile and can search PGs, Legions or Ciders.  She also builds soul.

The last Witch card (that isn't a Stride) is Anis who is also pretty solid if imported into Legion Format.  She doesn't enable multi attack but she does give you much needed Countercharge and she can call back any one card you Soul Blast for her second skill which includes Cider to put your board into the Soul if it gets blown up or any of your Soul Chargers.

And that's it.  As you can see there's juuuuust enough cards to fill out a clan slot in a gatcha banner and if they include Anis and Star you have a third Legion to work with!  If they don't then I guess you just run Minerva as your Heal instead of a 9th draw since she can still be useful as an alternative finisher.  Hope you enjoyed the read.  Until next time.