Vanquish Soul
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| "Vanquish Soul Panthera" and "Vanquish Soul Kaiser Varius" in the artwork of "Stake Your Soul!". | |||||||||||
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Vanquish Soul (
Etymology
The name of the theme is likely in reference to how a fighting game introduces their opponents to the player as especially seen through the "VS" abbreviation on the cards in Japanese meant to refer to the word "versus".
Design
The "Vanquish Soul" archetype shares many general aesthetics with those found in various popular fighting game franchises; such as Tekken and Blazblue. The archetype's monsters especially have designs that match the common character tropes rosters of this genre of games from monsters like "Vanquish Soul Razen" sharing common design elements with that of the standard Fighting Game Protagonist character to "Vanquish Soul Heavy Borger" being similar to the design of large grappler characters and the archetype's main boss monster, "Vanquish Soul Kaiser Varius", taking ideas from the final boss of a fighting game.
This influence can also be seen in the way the effects are formatted as revealing monsters from the hand to use various effects is, in a way, much like using a character assist.
Playing style
"Vanquish Soul" revolves around the shared ability to, as a Quick Effect, reveal monsters from the hand in order to activate a variety of effects depending on the revealed monster's Attribute. All "Vanquish Soul" monsters, by default, have one effect that can be activated by revealing a monster of the same Attribute as themselves with another, typically stronger, effect by revealing monsters in some combination of DARK, EARTH, or FIRE. As a result, each monster is able to fulfil a unique role to the Deck and able to make further advantage of using some of the best Hand trap cards in the game as well due to their attributes matching the main three used in "Vanquish Soul"; "Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring" for FIRE, "Ghost Belle & Haunted Mansion and "Maxx "C"" (in the OCG) for EARTH, and "D.D. Crow" for DARK.
"Razen" and "Dr. Madlove" make up the main searchers, able to add the monsters and backrow of the deck to hand as well as able to provide forms of removal with column-based monster destruction and non-targeting, non destruction removal. "Heavy Borger" and "Kaiser Varius" make up the main boss monsters, able to Special Summon themselves by returning a "Vanquish Soul" that isn't the same Type as them to the hand with effects to draw a card and deal 1500 burn damage in the case of "Borger" and the effects to become unaffected by opponents card effects as well as pop a card on the field in the case of "Kaiser', the latter needing to reveal 1 each DARK, EARTH, and FIRE to perform.
Among the cards as well is the related Link Monster, "Rock of Vanquisher", which makes the opponent only able to attack the strongest monster while you control a "Vanquish Soul" as well as two Quick Effects to Special Summon a "Vanquish Soul" monster from hand or add one to the hand from the GY, enabling easy and quick disruption abilities and swarming.
The theme is further supported through various Spell Cards and Trap Cards that offer extra consistency and bonus disruptions for the opponent to face.
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