Chouchou Support + PRISM! CHOUCHOU HYPE TRAIN

Sorry I was late again with the reveals; School Internet is atrocious right now. But that won’t stop me from reviewing the mermaids. Prepare yourselves… this is gonna be a long post.

Starting off, let’s head into the cards that were revealed on the stream.

 

Name: Chouchou, Ayana

Normal Grade 2 stats

Flavor text: “It is for the smile of every fan”

Effect: “AUTO (RC) GENERATION BREAK 1 [Counter Blast 1 & Put this unit to the bottom of the deck] When your other rearguard with “Chouchou” in its card name is put into your deck, you may pay the cost. If you do, draw a card, choose up to one card with “Chouchou” in its card name from your hand, call it to (RC), and it gets +3000 power until end of turn.”

This card is definitely the Spica of Chouchou. The most noteworthy thing is that we now know that Chouchou revolves around spinning your rearguards to the deck to gain benefits like this card. So basically, think of this as continuing Gear Chronicles first way of playing except it does it to yourself. With Chouchou being an Archetype, this level of restriction is almost similar to that of Musketeers since it seems like you’ll have to make a full Chouchou deck if you want to make the deck super consistent. Let’s finally talk more about the skill, this card is basically Spica with an additional draw to make up for the fact that two cards are being sent back to the deck and you’ve lost two Rearguards. On top of that, you also get to call so it makes up for losing a rearguard and it gets +3000 power which can kick-start some combos that Chouchou can do. This card comes from the Trial Deck which is really good. This card shows off what Chouchou can do and that helps a lot since we’ve been in the dark for a while now. Anyway, let’s get into the next Trial Deck card that was revealed.

Name: Chouchou, Clenesu

Normal Grade 1 Stats

Flavor Text: “Let’s get along well and work harder~!”

Effect: “AUTO: When this unit is placed on (RC) from hand, look at seven card from the top of your deck, search for up to one card with “Tirua” in its card name from among them, reveal it, put it into your hand and shuffle your deck. If you put a card into your hand, choose one more or cards with the sum of their grades being 3 or greater from your hand, and discard them.”

“AUTO (RC): [Soul Blast 1 & Put this unit on the bottom of your deck] At the end of your turn, if you have a vanguard with “Tirua” in its card name, you may pay the cost. If you do, Counter Charge 1.”

Did Tirua literally just get an Abyssal Owl IN A TRIAL DECK?! Makes sense since this would have been the stride fodder for Tirua, but since she doesn’t need one, an Abyssal Owl clone was probably the best option. The fact that she sends herself to the bottom of the deck helps set up for Tirua’s free stride ability and potentially other units as well. Overall it is just an Abyssal Owl which is funny that Luard didn’t get one in a trial deck. Let’s head into the Clan Booster stuff now!

Name: Chouchou, Tino

Grade 1 Sentinel Normal Stats

Flavor Text: "The bodyguards in the shape of hearts will repel troublemkaers as a union."

Effect: CONT Sentinel

“AUTO: [Choose a card from your hand with “Chouchou” in its card name, and discard it] When this unit is placed on (GC), you may pay the cost. If you do, choose one of your units that is being attacked, and it cannot be hit until end of that battle.”

“AUTO: (Drop Zone): [Counter Blast 1 & Choose one other “Chouchou, Tino” from your drop zone, and put it on the bottom of your deck] When your rearguard is put into your deck during your turn, you may pay the cost. If you do, return this card to your hand.”

I’m starting to think that “Chouchou” is like a mini Tsukuyomi deck in disguise with all the “put this card to the bottom of your deck” costs and mini stacks but I doubt the game with Chouchou will go that far for that to actually happen, besides some cards shuffle the deck so :]. This card basically can chain with almost any card that has been revealed thus far and the timing makes this card super good! I don’t want it to be Esras priced since this is ALMOST like Arka since the discard is specific. Nothing much to be said really, cards like Esras are good and this is no exception. I don’t know about the Counter Blast since most of the cards I’ve seen thus far CB at least 1 and if it wasn’t for Clenesu, Chouchou would need more CC. Time for the next card!

Name: Chouchou, Melvies

Grade 3 10k Stats

Flavor text: The “wish to take as a bride” idol who is popular across the street.

Effect: “AUTO (VG/RG): [Counter Blast 1 & Choose one of your other rearguards with “Chouchou” in its card name, and put it on the bottom of your deck] When this unit attacks a vanguard, you may pay the cost. If you do, choose up to one Grade 1 and one Grade 2 card with “Chouchou” in their card names from your hand, and call them to separate (RC). If you have “Chouchou, Selvies” and “Chouchou, Malvies” on (RC), draw a card.”

Well, for a 10k base that could potentially be the best backup we get. We cannot rule this card out since, really for a C she is not bad. She relies on the other two to get her full benefit but once again, they aren’t that bad of cards so even if we have to use them, we really shouldn’t complain. We still have space for other units that could make them really good. The problem I see right now is that we won’t have enough RC space for all three girls and other important girls as well. So if we want to focus on the trio, they all have to be 4 of’s unless something else happens. This is one of our first battle phase callers and it rewinds a unit so it can set off Ayana’s effect which is actually nice. This girl works on VG although your VG should be Tirua anyway~. Chouchou is currently the most unique deck I’ve seen in Bermuda so I hope it becomes the deck Bermuda needs right now. I am definitely gonna play Chouchou, no question about it. Let’s get into the other two girls.

Name: Chouchou, Selvies

Grade 2 8k Stats

Flavor Text: “Tips of not wasting, is by keeping everything tidy and in order at always”

Effect: “AUTO (RC): [Soul Blast 1] When your other unit is placed on (RC) during your battle phase, you may pay the cost. If you do, choose up to two of your other units with “Chouchou” in its card name and they get +2000 power until end of turn. If you have “Chouchou, Melvies” and “Chouchou, Malvies” on (VC) or (RG), this unit gets +4000 power until end of turn.”

Take note of the fact this isn’t 1/Turn. However, in saying that, we have Clenesu who Soul Blasts as well so using this effect more than once is gonna be pretty hard unless we get a Soul Charger. It seems like this card relies on Melvies to get things done (if we don’t get another battle phase caller or anything of the sort (*looks at Ayana who could probably kick this skill off as well*)) which further supports my idea to run the trio at four. With all the girls out, this girl can be a 12k attacker and makes Melvies a 12k attacker and one other unit a 9k booster which is pretty nice. So far, the deck for Chouchou may be weird as there might be too many units you want to give priority too but I’m only saying that because we don’t have much else revealed and we still have other Chouchou cards that haven’t been revealed yet. It’s a matter of how you want to play Chouchou I suppose and it’s totally cool because this type of deck is still nice no matter how you look at it. The deck seems to be more combo heavy than most of the Bermuda decks right now, let’s hope Bushiroad doesn’t mess it up, but at this point they have to screw it up astronomically! NEXT!

Name: Chouchou, Malvies

Grade 1 6K stats

Flavor Text: "Servings for three? Roger, sis. Leave it to me!"

Effect: “AUTO: [Choose a card from your hand, and discard it] When this unit is placed on (RC) during your battle phase, you may pay the cost. If you do, draw a card, and this unit gets +4000 power until end of turn. If you have "Chouchou, Melvies" and "Chouchou, Selvies" on (VC) or (RC), Counter Charge 1/Soul Charge 1."

It's basically just as I said before, Chouchou seems to be more of a combo making deck. This girl can allow you to draw a card, become a 10k and also replenishes Selvies and Melvies cost! While you do need them both to be on the field, if you plan to use this style of Chouchou, that shouldn't be a problem at all. You can also replenish the costs of other units as well at the same time and setting up for other skills, obviously. Chouchou also seems to love drawing cards while never making you go -1 and it is always a 0 so giving you flat advantage is non-existent right now (*cough* Tirua tho *cough*) unless there is something i have missed, ah yeah, Melvies straight up gives you a potential free card if you decide not to call anything. So there is that. Now all we need is the strides to be battle phase callers and we should be set, I don't know what Chouchou would need right now since this is almost too different from previous Bermuda builds since this girls don't copy and paste playstyles and changes it up a bit, like this is new in Bermuda. It's nice what Chouchou is giving us, not sure if this will be competitive but good lord, this is gonna be great for new Bermuda players or people just looking to have fun while playing Bermuda. PRISM SUPPORT TIME!

Name: Sweet-PRISM, Nelun

Grade 0 with an effect stats

Flavor Text: "How about an adult bitter taste sometime?"

Effect: "AUTO GENERATION BREAK 1: [Soul Blast 1] When this unit is returned to your hand from (RC) during your battle phase, you may pay the cost. If you do, choose one of your rearguards with "PRISM" in its card name, and until end of turn, it gets "[AUTO](RC): At the end of the battle that this unit attacked or boosted, you may return this unit to your hand".

At first, I kinda dismissed this card since it had Generation Break slapped on it but after giving it some thought, finally Tisca can come out of the deck for a draw trigger that helps me with my units I want to bounce back to hand that I simply couldn't do with my current PRISM build. It helps for those units that you couldn't bounce back to hand or whatever for any reason. We have a way to deal with the unnecessary soul charging with Leyte (Princess) and can put it to good use. It's GB1 which is fine since that's generally when the mass bouncing starts. If PRISM can get a card that calls a card back when bounced, that would be nice in a way. This is a pretty good card, definitely gonna use it. Also, this is an R, are we getting Chouchou triggers? I hope so. NEXT!

Name: Sweet-PRISM, Thitis

Standard Starter Stats

Flavor Text: "It is time to begin a sweet and delicious song~♪"

Effect: "AUTO: Forerunner

AUTO : (RC) GENERATION BREAK 1: When this unit boosts a Grade 3 or greater unit with "PRISM" in its card name, choose one of your other rearguards with "PRISM" in its card name, and you may return it to your hand."

This girl basically offers a free bounce to anything you really want to it further supports the potential out of reach bounces that you want which is what most "PRISM" cards seem to be doing now. While Coro still might be a better starter, this girl also has just about as much reasons to exist as Coro does. It's GB so there is that. Not much to really say about this girl since most of you can probably see how she is useful~! NEXT!

Name: Sweet-PRISM, Lupina

Normal Grade 1 Stats

Flavor Text: "Sweet-PR♥ISM" is popular among children and no one else can stand along with them."

Effect: "AUTO GENERATION BREAK 1: [Counter Blast 1] When this unit is returned to your main from (RC) during your battle phase, you may pay the cost. If you do, choose one of your rearguards with "PRISM" in its card name, and return it to your hand. If you returned a unit, draw a card."

So either PRISMS want you to play draw triggers or PRISM is now gonna be known for decking out. This is basically Princess Celtic except a different timing so it'll be pretty good option for decks who don't use Stride Fodder, LB enabler, Emeral or anything. It draws and also has a simple cost of a CB. This card could be potentially be used to combo with Princess Celtic so you get 2 draws and 2 returns for 2 CB. Lot's of 2's. I would definitely use this unit! 

SOOO THAT'S FINALLY ALL! I have written this post for 2 days now almost! So it's time to take a break. I'll see you all with the Raindear support next post!

BYEE!

BermudaMaster~