Quick stats:
- Colors: 25 red / 18 green / 4 blue / 3 yellow
- Level 0 = 15 characters
- Level 1 = 11 characters
- Level 2 = 7 characters
- Level 3 = 9 characters
- Cards with triggers (excluding CX cards) = 13
Level 0
3x “Invincible Hero” Kokoro Tsurumaki
【CONT】 If this card is in the middle position of your center stage, this card gets +1 soul.
【AUTO】 [(1) Put a card from your hand into your waiting room] When this card is placed on the stage from your hand, you may pay the cost. If you do, search your deck for up to one 《Music》 character, reveal it to your opponent, put it into your hand, and shuffle your deck.
1x A New Start, Saya
【AUTO】 When this card is placed on the stage from your hand, put the top two cards of your deck into your waiting room. If there is a climax among those cards, choose one of your characters, and that character gets +1500 power until end of turn.
【AUTO】 [(1) Put a card from your hand into your waiting room] When this card is placed on the stage from your hand, you may pay the cost. If you do, choose a 《Music》 character in your waiting room, return it to your hand, choose one of your other 《Music》 characters, and that character gets +1000 power until end of turn.
3x “The Sister I Adore” Rimi Ushigome
【AUTO】 At the beginning of your climax phase, choose one of your characters, and that character gets +500 power until end of turn.
【ACT】 Brainstorm [(1) 【REST】 this card] Flip over four cards from the top of your deck, and put them into your waiting room. For each climax revealed among those cards, choose up to one character in your waiting room, and return it to your hand.
3x “Secret Pose☆” Aya Maruyama
【AUTO】 At the beginning of your opponent’s attack phase, you may put the top card of your deck into your waiting room. If that card is a 《Music》 character, you may move this card to an open position of your center stage.
2x “Reliable Companion” Arisa Ichigaya
【CONT】 This card gets 《Bonsai》 while in your hand.
【AUTO】 When your other 《Music》 character or this card is placed on the stage from your hand, you may look at the top card of your deck. (Return the card you saw to its original place)
【ACT】 [【REST】 this card] Choose one of your characters, and that character gets +1000 power until end of turn.
2x “… H-Hello…?” Rinko Shirokane
【CONT】 If you have 2 or more other 《Music》 characters, this card gets +1000 power.
【AUTO】 At the beginning of your opponent’s draw phase, reveal the top card of your deck. If that card is level 1 or higher, you may return this card to your hand. (Climax are regarded as level 0. Return the revealed card to its original place)
1x “Chibi Character” Ran Mitake
【AUTO】 [(1) Put a card from your hand into your waiting room] When this card is placed on the stage from your hand, you may pay the cost. If you do, look at up to three cards from the top of your deck, choose up to one card from among them, put it into your hand, and put the rest into your waiting room.
Level 1
2x “Sparkling Starry Sky” Kasumi Toyama
【AUTO】When this card is placed on the stage from your hand, reveal the top card of your deck. If that card is a 《Music》 character, choose 1 of your characters, and that character gets +2000 power until end of turn. (Return the revealed card to its original place)
【AUTO】When this card becomes【REVERSE】, if this card’s battle opponent is level 1 or lower, you may【REVERSE】that character.
2x “Our Sunset” Tomoe Udagawa
【AUTO】 When your other ““Don’t Stop, Keep Going” Ran Mitake” is placed on the stage from your hand, that character gets +1500 power until end of turn, and put this card into your stock.
【AUTO】 Bond/”“Don’t Stop, Keep Going” Ran Mitake” [Put 1 card from your hand into your waiting room] (When this card is played and placed on the stage, you may pay the cost. If you do, choose 1 ““Don’t Stop, Keep Going” Ran Mitake” in your waiting room, and return it to your hand)
【AUTO】【CLOCK】 Alarm If this card is the top card of your clock, and you have 4 or more 《Music》 characters, at the beginning of your climax phase, draw up to 2 cards, choose 2 cards in your hand, and put them into your waiting room.
4x “Star-Shaped Tambourine” Kasumi Toyama
【AUTO】 【CXCOMBO】 At the beginning of your encore step, if “Let’s Sing♪” is in your climax area, this card is on your center stage, and you have another 《Music》 character, perform the following effects 1 time each in any order.
“If your opponent does not have any characters on his or her center stage, or all characters on your opponent’s center stage are 【REVERSE】, Trigger FEVER.” “Put up to 1 card from the top of your deck into your waiting room, and reveal the top card of your deck. If that card is a level 1 or higher character, put it into your hand.” (Otherwise, return it to its original place)
【REPLAY】 Trigger FEVER You may choose 1 《Music》 character in your waiting room, and return it to your hand.
1x “Matching Scrunchies” Saya Yamabuki
【AUTO】 [(1)] When this card is placed on the stage from your hand, you may pay the cost. If you do, choose a cost 0 or lower 《Music》 character in your waiting room, put it on any position of your stage, and at the end of your turn, put that character into your memory.
【AUTO】 【CXCOMBO】 [Put this card into your waiting room] When a card named “Gentle Elder Sis” is placed on your climax area, you may pay the cost. If you do, choose up to one card named “In the Sunlight Forest, Saya” in your hand, and put it on the stage position that this card was on.
2x “Time for Chocolate Cornets” Rimi Ushigome
【CONT】 All of your other 《Music》 characters get +500 power.
【AUTO】 【CXCOMBO】 [(1)] When a card named “Chocolate Cornet Love” is placed on your climax area, you may pay the cost. If you do, choose a 《Music》 character in your waiting room, and return it to your hand.
【AUTO】 At the beginning of your opponent’s attack phase, you may choose one of your 《Music》 characters, and move it to an open position of your center stage with a character facing that card.
Level 2
4x “Present For You♪” Himari Uehara
【AUTO】 When this card becomes 【REVERSE】, if the level of this card’s battle opponent is higher than your opponent’s level, you may put the top card of your opponent’s clock into your opponent’s waiting room. If you do, put that character into his or her clock.
【AUTO】 【CLOCK】 Alarm If this card is the top card of your clock, and the number of 《Music》 characters you have is four or more, at the beginning of your climax phase, you may put the top card of your deck into your stock.
3x Buns For Luck
Put all cards in your opponent’s stock into your opponent’s waiting room, and your opponent puts the same number of cards from the top of your opponent’s deck into his or her stock.
Level 3
1x Happy Christmas♪ Saya
【CONT】 If the number of 《Music》 characters you have is four or more, this card gets -1 level while in your hand.
【CONT】 If the number of other 《Music》 characters you have is two or more, this card gets +1000 power.
【AUTO】 When this card is placed on the stage from your hand, you may put the top card of your clock into your waiting room.
4x “Accepting Feelings” Moca Aoba
【AUTO】 【CXCOMBO】 When this card attacks, if a card named “That Is How I Roll!” is in your climax area, look at up to two cards from the top of your opponent’s deck, choose up to two cards from among them, put them into your opponent’s waiting room, put the rest on the top of his or her deck in any order, look at up to two cards from the top of your deck, choose up to two cards from among them, put them into your waiting room, and put the rest on the top of your deck in any order.
【AUTO】 During the turn that this card is placed on the stage from your hand, at the beginning of the encore step, you may put the top card of your clock into your waiting room.
3x “Don’t Stop, Keep Going” Ran Mitake
【CONT】 If your waiting room has 2 or less climax, this card gets -1 level while in your hand.
【AUTO】 When this card is placed on the stage from your hand, if you have 2 or more other 《Music》 characters, you may choose 1 character in your clock, and put it into your memory.
【AUTO】 Encore [Put 1 《Afterglow》 character from your hand into your waiting room] (When this card is put into your waiting room from the stage, you may pay the cost. If you do, return this card to its previous stage position as 【REST】)
1x “Poppin’Party” Kasumi Toyama
【CONT】 During your turn, if the number of other 《Music》 characters you have is four or more, this card gets +5000 power and the following ability. “【CONT】 During this card’s battle, your opponent cannot play event cards and “Backup” from hand.”
【AUTO】 When this card is placed on the stage from your hand, reveal the top card of your deck. If that card is a 《Music》 character, you may deal one damage to your opponent. (This damage may be canceled. The revealed card is returned to its original place)
Climaxes
4x Let’s Sing𝅘𝅥𝅮
Gate.
4x That Is How I Roll!
Bar.
Player Q&A
How long have you been playing the deck?
I would say about 1 month before finals in Rome.
What made you choose Bang Dream over other titles to play at the finals?
At first, I was not sure what to play for Rome: I had 4 decks I considered playing (BD, SMP, TLR, RG). In the end, I chose BD cause I thought there is no matchup you don’t wanna play and also the utility that BD provides is great (to be real, Nando recommended that I should play it ^^).
What’s your favorite card in the deck and why?
That’s a really difficult question cause there are so many cards in the deck I consider good, but if I have to choose only one, I would go with the level 1 Tomoe. That card is so super stacked with good abilities: you have the Bond to your early play heal, it makes your early play a 1 stock heal & the alarm lets you hand-fix , so yeah overall I really like this card.
What are this deck’s ideal board states throughout the game?
At level 0, you try to have 1 Aya runner and 1 Rinko coinflip on board so you can easily plus with letting your runner live and bouncing the coinflip back to your hand, the synergy of those cards is really great. It also provides you with attackers for the next turn and you can easily dodge your opponent’s reverse combos at level 1. The stock you generate from attacking is normally used on searching for your level 1 combo and brainstorming.
For level 1, I decided to go with the fever Kasumi combo. I think this card is super good and you can easily get your plus to set up following turns. The pluses you get from the combo are insane, you can really easily refill your hand with cards you need and it also lets you top check for climaxes so you have a cancel on top. Also, the utility at level 1 is insane: you have the backrow Rimi that lets you dodge reverses in specific matchups & the synergy from the level 1 Rimi and level 1 Saya is also really nice, for example against SMP or AOT.
At level 2, my main focus for the deck was to heal as much as possible with your early plays + the bonds for them while you try to push as much damage as possible. And in case you need to answer early plays from your opponent, you just play a Himari and clock-bomb them.
Level 3 is quite simple: stock swap into Moca or just Moca to end the game while at the same time healing back to 3/0.
Does the deck have any notable good or bad matchups?
I think the deck as a whole has no really bad matchups, I would say most matchups are 50/50. I would say against decks built on stock compression, the finisher in this deck is a death sentence, for example I had 2 games where my opponent had 11-13 clean stock and had 3 climaxes in the waiting room. So yes, stock swap + Moca is simply a good combo.
After playing and coming 2nd in the finals, are you planning any changes to the deck or are you happy with how it performs right now?
On the whole, I am quite satisfied with the deck as it is, but yes: after a new Bang Dream set comes out soon, you have to look again and test a lot whether you change something or not.
At the end, I wanna add a little shout-out for Gemma. I wish her much success at Worlds in Japan in January and I hope that she will bring the title to Europe after she defeated me twice in Rome, once in the first round and then once in the final.
Congrats to Alex for getting 2nd place 🙂 Thanks for letting me share the list!
