Heyo! I'm back with some more speculative stuff now that Zero has been moving G along and that means I get to start speculating on what I think will appear in sets again! Originally I was going to do Narukami again but in addition to the clan being Event exclusive the cards for Vanquisher Part 2 don't appear until Season 2 of G and there is much more that I need to cover first such as Neo Nectar's second batch of support and possibly Genesis. With that said let's get into it;
This time around I'll be tackling the subject differently since now that I have an idea of how NN plays in Zero I can make better guesses as to how good/bad some effects will be in addition to possible buffs. I'm also going to be going over cards in the opposite order of before (G4>3>2>1) and also making a summary and some important notes on how the clan was handled/faired with their recent set of support.
Summary
In the case of Neo Nectar the clan ultimately fell flat as while the Ahsha deck can sometimes hit big numbers it doesn't matter in Zero format when your attacks either hit or get PG'd, your big multi attack turns lack numbers so defensives fuck you over pretty hard. The deck is also trying to play in a format where Dragonic Blademaster is one of the top decks and Dragonic Vanquisher is the top F2Pish deck (meaning there will be alot of it on ladder) and Ahsha just dies to those two. It's not entirely bad though as while the deck is not well fit for ladder play it's fantastic in tournament play as an Anti-Meta deck that can shut down decks that rely on multiple pokes to win like Aqua Force and Bermuda Triangle.
Important Notes
-Ahsha's on Stride skill got buffed so that you can call a card from hand prior to cloning.
-Primavera is CB2 and doesn't discard.
-Jingle Flower Dragon's board buff is active on the opponent's turn.
Now let's move onto what cards I expect to see in the probable 5th G set for Zero.
Fighter's Collection 2015
This card was part of some convoluted infinite power gain loop that allowed you to swing face with unguardable numbers while praying to sack Stand Triggers to get more attacks. Needless to say that kind of strategy is impractical against double Intercepts and a PG. Not to mention NN needs to run draws to see its pieces. Stands just don't cut it.
Cecilia is a fine one of throw in for the Musketeer deck if you run her as a draw I guess? She's technically a +1 that allows you to filter dud cards you called off your Musketeers for better units as a +1 but this card would make you want to run 4 Cecilia and she's just not very good anymore. Vera and Elvira are just better VGs to sit on and IDK about running a 1 of Stride for a 1 of G3.
Soul Strike Against the Supreme
Dream-Spinning is...not what this Clan needed to get over its hurdles. She's free and can be used as a first or 2nd Stride but her skills are lacking for Zero format as is. The front row buff is laughable in the face of double intercept + PG and the on call would have been nice if it wasn't GB2 locked as by that point you may as well go into Jingle Flower or Primavera. I can only hope that Dream-Spinning's front row buff sticks going into the opponent's turn like Jingle Flower's did as otherwise this will be a very underwhelming GR to pull. Thankfully you'll never need more than 2 since Glorious Ahsha flips anything and only cares about how many of these are face up in the G-Zone for her board buff. Hell you can probably even get away with 1 just to flip with the 1 Glorious you'll ever want.
We already got Maiden of Rambling Rose as a RRR in Set 2 (it's not a great backup to Ahsha) so I'll skip it and go straight to the Glimmer Breath clone. Salianna is pretty okay as she can help set up your board by fetching a missing booster or cloning a G2 you kept in the back so she may wind up being a one of. Her main issue is that Thuria replaces her completely in the next wave.
Again big numbers go brrr as your main strategy isn't a good enough. Otherwise DP would be half as shit as they are.
Fighter's Collection 2015 (Winter)
This is kind of a stretch but when I looked at G-BT04 NN only had 10 cards put in the set and 4 of them were already put into Set 2 for Zero! How are we supposed to make a Try-3 come back set with only 6-7 NN cards! Enter filler cards from other sets. Maiden of got expanded here into a full on archetype that would get bits of support with later sets. Yggdrasil (this bad one, not the good Genesis unit) buffs your front row and gives you the ability to potentially multi-attack if your units hit. Except you know intercepts and whatnot. You do get to extend your attacks by 1 but then you have to rely on RNG to hit a card from the top 5 that pairs up with what's on board. And that the opponent doesn't hit a defensive. Primavera does this job with less steps.
Transcension of Gale and Blossom
Man. If only it wasn't in a bad deck. Securing your G3 ride and Persona Blasts for Trailing Rose is actually pretty good.
Yeah I can see this eating up a RR slot. It requires another card in hand for striding but you make back the neg by getting a booster and a draw. This is unironically a solid card.
Noisette's also unironically good. She yeets herself out of dodge and replaces herself with on hit draw and isn't locked behind GB.
