Deck Spotlight: CCCCCCC Rush (Seven Seas Rush)

Get it? Seven Cs? Seven Seas? I'm so funny. So good at jokes...

No one's laughing? Nobody? Ok then...

Seven Seas Rush is starting to get a good amount of popularity and for good reason. First of all, it's a Grade 1 Rush deck and gets all the benefits that Grade 1 decks have, but compared to Liberator or Seeker Rush is much more potent.

There are many reasons for this:

1. It has a much stronger offensive, with availability to Slash Shade and Prisoner Dragon, as well as being able to call Grade 2s that can hit 11k Vanguards solo.
2. It has much better field scalability. Nightcrow, Slash Shade, and Prisoner Dragon can replace your weaker units that you call for early rush.
3. It has plussing methods, which Seeker and Lib Rush both lack. Nightrunner, Raistutor, and Cody all call free units from drop which, as explained in Point 2, can be replaced with better units from drop. If you only have one card in hand and enough Counterblast you can still call a full field of units.
4. Most important of all(sorta), Seven Seas Rush has the option to ride to Grade 3 with Plegeton. This is huge. Most Rush decks have to forsake the idea of a G-Zone and all the benefits that riding gives you, but not Seven Seas Rush. You keep your skewed rushing ratios while keeping your ability to ride to Grade 3, as well as stride.

Now, onto the decklist!
                                                                                                        

Grade 0:

1x Rookie Pirate, Gina
4x Seven Seas Apprentice, Nightrunner

4x Cody the Ghostie

4x Performing Zombie

8x Critical Triggers

Grade 1:

4x Witch Doctor of the Seven Seas, Raistutor

4x Seven Seas Helmsman, Nightcrow

4x Greedy Mimic
4x Evil Shade

3x Skeleton Assault Soldier

Grade 2:

4x Seven Seas Pillager, Nightspinel

4x Seven Seas Master Swordsman, Slash Shade

Grade 3:

1-2x Seven Seas Sage, Plegeton

0-1x Seven Seas Dragon Undead, Prisoner Dragon

                                                                                                        

SKELETOR!

Just a quick rundown of the cards.

Nightrunner and Cody both get you free cards. Rookie Pirate, Gina's being used as the starter, which can filter out your hand of Grade 2s and Grade 3s you can't use. There's also Chappie the Ghostie as an option for selective milling.

12 Crits, of course. Performing Zombie is good for getting key units in the drop, just like Chappie. You can decide to run full Crit, if you want. Rough Seas Banshee, in particular, is a great Crit and lets you swap herself for another unit which can be used to rush.

 Greedy Mimic is a 9k beater Rush unit. Simple and solid unit.

 Assault Soldier goes to the bind zone when he gets retired, becoming a more worthwhile sack option for Slash Shade and Nightcrow and giving you some defense in a rush deck. PGs and Quintets are an option, I guess, if you want a different way of guarding.

Evil Shade boosts for 10k, allowing your 7k Vanguard to hit magic G3 numbers, and mills your deck, which is great in Granblue in general.

Raistutor and Nightcrow are self explanatory. Both are Seven Seas and your main ride targets. Tutor calls free cards and Crow for scalability. 

Nightspinel filters out G2s and G3s that you don't need to call her out. Also gets more power when more Seven Seas units are called for more offense.

Slash Shade. Do I need to say anything else? OFFENSE FOR DAYS!

Plegeton can ride himself from drop, allowing easy access to Grade 3. Very strong, and leads into his second skill that gives you a free plus.

Prisoner Dragon is a Slash Shade clone. No explanation required.

Your G-Zone can be anything you can afford. Blueheart, Rum, Obadiah, Nightmist, Atmos, Gouache, so on and so forth. Even Nightrose, if you'd like.

                                                                                                        

Effectiveness: 9.5/10

Price: $8-10

Competitive: Yes

Final Words: Seven Seas Rush is ridiculous. Strong scalability, strong rush, and options make it a very good deck. It's also not vulnerable to Sebreeze, leaving Twitterun as the only option for GB-decks to fight back. It strides the line of being meta, since it's Seven Seas, and anti-meta, for being a Rush deck. It's also really cheap to get, so if you want to pick it up I highly suggest you do.

On another note, what does Seven Seas Rush mean for the game? It's a great deck and just goes to show how innovative Cardfight players are getting, as well as how complex and interesting this game will become as time goes on. On the other hand, it's a rush deck that's somewhat, if not completely, degenerate and is quite difficult and upsetting to play against. Honestly, I'm not sure how this is going to go.

But who knows. More rush decks might mean more Season 3 decks making a combat to fight the rush!

Anyhow, see you in the next one!

-Robot