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Quick stats:

• Colors: 20 red / 18 yellow / 12 blue
• Level 0 = 14 characters
• Level 1 = 12 characters
• Level 2 = 8 characters
• Level 3 = 8 characters
• Cards with triggers (excluding CX cards) = 16

Level 0

4x Umi Katou
[A] CIP this gains +1500 power for the turn.
[A] At the start of your opponent’s draw phase, reveal the top card of your deck, if it’s level 1 or higher, you may return this to your hand.

4x “Shiroha’s Oral Tradition” Shiroha
[A] CIP look at the top card of your deck and put it either back on top or in the WR.
[S] BRAINSTORM [(1) Rest this] Flip over the top 4 cards of your deck and put them in the WR. For each CX card revealed this way, salvage up to 1 character.

4x “Thinking of Little Sister” Ai
[A] [(1) Discard a card to WR, send this to memory] When this becomes reversed in battle, you may pay the cost. If so, choose up to 1 ‘”Time with Onee-chan” Ao’ in your WR and put it rested in the slot this was in.
[S] [(1) Send this standing to memory] Salvage up to 1 ‘“Summer Pockets” Ao’ from your WR.

2x “Large Suitcase” Kamome
[A] [(1) Discard a card to WR] CIP you may pay the cost. If so, search your deck for up to 1 :Summer Pockets: character, reveal it, put it in your hand, and shuffle your deck.

Level 1

4x “Hinge Ceremony” Shiroha
[A] CIP, draw a card, and discard a card from your hand to the WR.
[A] CX COMBO [Put this in the WR] When “A Beam of Light” is placed in your CX zone, you may pay the cost. If so, choose up to 1 ‘“What I Can Do” Shiroha’ in your hand and put it in the slot this was in.

2x “Dish That Came to Mind” Nanami
[A] When you use the BACKUP of this, if you have a :Summer Pockets: character, your character in battle gains an extra +1000 Power and ::Fried Rice:: for the turn.
[S] [Counter] BACKUP 1000, Level 1 [Discard this card to WR] 

3x “Time with Onee-chan” Ao
[C] If you have 2 or more other :Summer Pockets: characters, this gains +2000 power.
[A] ENCORE [Discard a character to WR.]

3x “Mysterious Scene” Ao
[C] RECOLLECTION If ‘”Thinking of Little Sister” Ai’ is in your memory, this gains “[A] [Discard a card to WR] CIP you may pay the cost. If so, look at up to 4 cards from top of your deck, search for up to 1 :Summer Pockets: character, reveal it, put it in your hand, and put the rest in the WR.” 

Level 2

4x “What I Can Do” Shiroha
[C] For each of your other :Summer Pockets: characters, this gains +500 power.
[A] CX COMBO On reverse, if “A Beam of Light” is in your CX zone, put up to 1 card from the top of your deck to stock, and salvage up to 1 character.
[A] When this becomes reversed in battle, if you have 1 or fewer other :Summer Pockets: characters, put this in your clock.

1x Shiroha Naruse
[A] CX COMBO [Bounce another character from your stage to hand] When “I’ve Started to Love You” is placed in your CX zone, if this is in the front row, you may pay the cost. If so, choose up to 1 :Time: character in your hand whose level is equal to or lower than yours, put it in any slot on stage, and this gains +3000 power for the turn.
[A] Stock anti-change bomb.

1x “Beast Talk During Test of Courage” Shiroha
[A] [(2) Sac one of your characters] Anti-change to stock when you use the BACKUP.
[S] [Counter] BACKUP 2500, Level 2 [(1) Discard this card to the WR]

2x “Time Remaining” Ao
[C] Global +500 to other :Summer Pockets: characters.
[A] CX COMBO [(1)] When “End of a Long Dream” is placed in your CX zone, you may pay the cost. If so, stand 1 of your other :Twins: characters.
[S] BRAINSTORM [(1) Rest this] Flip over the top 4 cards of your deck and put them in the WR. For each CX card revealed this way, salvage up to 1 character.

Level 3

3x “Summer Pockets” Ao
[A] CIP heal.
[A] CX COMBO RECOLLECTION [(2) Choose a ‘”Thinking of Little Sister” Ai’ in your memory and put it face-up under this as marker] Up to once per turn, at the end of this card’s attack, if “End of a Long Dream” is in the CX zone, you may pay the cost. If so, choose 1 of your “Ai Sorakado”, put a marker from under this face-up under that character, stand it, and this does not stand during your next stand phase. 

2x “Future Seen Sometime” Umi
[C] Early play if there are 2 or fewer CX cards in your WR.
[A] CIP if you have 2 or more other :Time: characters, you may choose a character in your clock and send it to memory.

2x Ai Sorakado
[C] If this has a marker under it, it gains +2500 power.
[C] Global +1500 to other :Summer Pockets: characters.
[C] During her battles, your opponent cannot play events or backups.
[A] On attack, if you have 2 or more other :Summer Pockets: characters, give one of your characters +1 soul for the turn.

1x “It’s Because of Summer” Ao
[A] CIP draw up to 2 cards, and discard a card to the WR.
[A] [Discard 2 cards to WR] On attack, you may pay the cost. If so, put the bottom 4 cards of your opponent’s deck to the WR, and deal X damage to your opponent. X = # of CX cards among them.

Climaxes

4x A Beam of Light
Wind.

4x End of a Long Dream
Standby.

Notes

• All characters are :Summer Pockets:
  
• All Ao and Ai cards are :Twins:
• All Shiroha, Umi and Nanami cards are :Time:

Player Q&A

How long have you been playing the deck?
I built the deck about 4-5 weeks prior to the EU WGP finals and was tweaking and testing different things such as the Twin Drive Shiroa over the 1/1 Ao and whatnot but ultimately decided to go with this build as it performed the most consistently.

What’s your favorite card in the deck and why?
I’d say that the 3/2 Ai is my favorite card due to how versatile she is. Not being able to play backups or events against her while she has the ability to give bonus soul to any of your characters and also offers a great power boost if played via standby at level 2.

How does the deck work?
At level 0 the deck is kept simple and small to reduce the whiff-potential for the 0/0 Umi. It also has the possibility to bring out the 1/1 Ao at level 0 due to the 0/0 Ai.

At level 1 you preferably want to bring out as many CX Combo 1/0 into 2/1 Shiroas as possible. the combo itself is a net +/- 0 in hand excluding the climax as well as an additional (blind) stock which lets you brainstorm a lot. Due to her high “base” power, Shiroa can wall off almost every single deck which especially hurts ability types such as Minami, Shimakaze and the likes that need to reverse to plus.
Even the 1/1 Ao does a great job at that simply being a 7.5k body with hand-encore.

At level 2 you have your early plays that heal into memory to further setup your restand combo, or depending on the game flow, you can simply keep sitting on your Shiroas and get your level 3 game ready via draws/brainstorms.
Due to anti-level reversers and backups, you can also get rid of your opponent’s early plays if you don’t happen to have your own or couldn’t standby out the 3/2 Ai yet.

At level 3 the main plan is to double restand if possible. The 3/2 Ao from the Trial Deck is an option if the situation requires it.

What kind of decks are a bad/good match-up for this deck?
I haven’t done enough play testing against most sets yet to pinpoint the good and bad matchups. However, generally the matchups against on-reverse level 1 combos are good for the deck as you can completely deny them in most cases.
Decks that have a lot of compression can be a problem due to no stock swap and no consistent burns in this deck.

Is there anything you still plan to change in the build?
I’d like to get a 2nd of the Trial Deck Ao into the deck but due to how tight the deck space is, I’m not 100% sure if that will happen or not.

 

Mad props to Sven Leise for winning not only the Finals with this deck, but also the LCQ the day before! And huge thanks for collaborating with me on this post 😛