My Stubborn Soul Card Follower-Chapter 467 - 391: Deck Sorting

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Hmm, this means only excluding the opponent’s cards.

Alice already has four nine-star forms, among them Treasure Hunter and Destroyer of the Earth are clearly transitional forms.

If Shen Sui wants to maximize benefits, he should add some nine-star follower cards to his deck.

But truth be told, Shen Sui’s deck already has enough followers, and there’s really not much room for new follower cards if he wants to continue optimizing.

Shen Sui sat on the bed, spreading out the life cards from his deck one by one.

Four Soul Cards (3 pieces): Alice, Qishala, Freymia, Martina.

Puppet Follower Cards (6 pieces): Cursed Puppet, Sacrificial Puppet, Substitute Puppet, Armed Puppet, Lucky Puppet, Holy Artifact Puppet.

Fish King Follower Cards (2 pieces): Mutated Fish King, Fish King.

Spiritual Follower Cards (6 pieces).

Elemental Follower Cards (7 pieces): Six Elemental Empresses, one Lava Fairy.

And the stand-alone Golden Ship, Anna. 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖

Currently, there are already twenty-six mainstream follower cards in Shen Sui’s deck, not including the ones he occasionally swaps based on different opponents.

Aina, Oshana, and Hali, these three old teammates of Alice, have rarely been included in Shen Sui’s main deck since the spiritual and elemental enhancements.

Puppets like Purification Puppet and Holy Spring Fish King have directly gone into storage management.

Even Fairy Rose, the card that brought An Hai to duel him, was temporarily removed from the deck once Shen Sui set up the spiritual axis.

It’s not that she’s not strong, but rather that there’s no space in Shen Sui’s deck.

There’s no more room!

Really, no more room!

He can’t possibly have his entire deck filled with follower cards.

During pre-game deck building, Shen Sui has already started making trade-offs. Spiritual Follower Cards (except for Radiant Lion) and Elemental Follower Cards (except for Lava Fairy) rarely appear together in Shen Sui’s deck.

The remaining fourteen Spell Cards are even more stretched.

Spell Cards for Form Transformation always need to be added, right?

Event Cards and Environment Cards used to counter special life cards are not often used, but shouldn’t there always be room for them?

Cards like Sitting on the Ground and Raising the Price and Toll, used to limit the opponent’s actions, should also always be included, right?

Then there are the cards for initiating searches like Shining Debut and those for searching like Puppet Creation...

Later on, Shen Sui didn’t even have room for Spell Cards like Airforce, Show Weakness, and Thunder Strike, which used to be frequently used. These cards haven’t been in his deck in many recent duels.

The tournament rules limit the deck to forty cards max, which is really not enough for Shen Sui.

But with the rules in place, he can only compromise, as following the rules is also part of the fun of dueling.

Otherwise, where did all those tricks in the physical card duels of his previous life in the world of Yu-Gi-Oh come from?

Shen Sui does have some solutions, though, with the forms of Soul Cards offering a good approach.

For example, the effect of Destroyer of the Earth·Alice can replace Thunder Strike.

He can save the limited deck capacity by using Form Transformation Spell Cards to have Soul Card forms replace some of the in-turn Spell Cards that he often uses.

Over lunch, Shen Sui discussed this matter with Xinyuan Tanchun.

However, Xinyuan Tanchun didn’t say a word throughout, always looking disdainful while Shen Sui talked.

"You’re showing off." At the end of lunch, Xinyuan Tanchun asserted, "You’re definitely showing off, or you’re just mocking me!"

A normal Life Card Master wouldn’t have such concerns, as they have so few life cards that can be used. How could they possibly have such a dilemma?!

This guy is clearly using this way to show off his deep card library to me.

This dilemma is just posing in Xinyuan Tanchun’s eyes.

"Darn it! Don’t show off anymore." Clutching his chest, Xinyuan Tanchun exclaimed, "If you say a few more words, I’ll lie at your room door tonight and die! Darn it! Why is this world so unfair!"

"I’ll let Isabella get you more cards."

"Ahem, where were we?" Xinyuan Tanchun took a sip of his drink and sat back down in front of Shen Sui.

Shen Sui rolled his eyes and said, "Didn’t you say I was showing off?"

"Ah haha, how could it be showing off?" Xinyuan Tanchun confidently replied, "It’s normal for beginners to have such worries, the difference is others face the club’s card library, and you face your own card library."

In fact, Xinyuan Tanchun thinks that Shen Sui’s card library is already comparable to that of a second or third-tier club.

Thinking of this, Xinyuan Tanchun suddenly had a thought: why not rent cards from Shen Sui, since his Soul Card World is World No. 1, which matches better with himself.

"There are actually many ways to solve this." Xinyuan Tanchun told Shen Sui, "You probably have some ideas in mind too, don’t you?"

Xinyuan Tanchun wasn’t wrong. Shen Sui had previously considered this issue.

And he is actually working towards this. He had specifically let Alice take Lingyi back to the Spiritual World to acquire a new alternate art card of Lingyi for this very purpose.

The plan is to separate the main axis and split the current miscellaneous deck into corresponding different decks, such as Puppet Card Set, Spiritual Ability Card Set, Elemental Card Set, and Fish King Card Set.

This way, Shen Sui would have many more options, and he wouldn’t have to worry about the deck capacity reaching its limit anymore.