VG Ridelines
Welcome to this Vanguard rideline infographic and pricing site! This site is a repository of infographics for various Vanguard decks to show their key cards, gameplan, and the rough cost to build it. All the information here is based on the EN version, including prices and card pools. These infographics are mostly for newer players who are trying to pick out a deck, but more experienced players can use this as a reference on a deck’s gameplan, and their strengths and weaknesses.
Rating Explanation
The infographics use a rating scale of 0 to 5 for pricing, and a scale of 0 to 4 for performance.
Price
The pricing ratings are split into core and generic cards, with the core cards specifically referring to the archetype the deck uses (and / or clan support for encounter cards), and generic cards being cards that are outside the archetype. The price of the triggers and sentinels are not included in these infographics, but players without them should budget ~$50.
These prices are based on TCGCSV and are updated around once per day around 5PM Eastern Time. The prices are based on the lowest price (excluding shipping). Keep in mind that TCGPlayer charges a ~15% fee as well as shipping, and you can often save money by asking around your LGS or local groups instead.
If you see a warning sign in the total cost section of a deck, it means that there is no pricing data for at least one card in the deck. This occurs when there are no listings for a card, usually because it is out of stock.
Disclaimer
Decklists are generally extremely subjective, so take these prices (and the decklists they’re based off of) with a grain of salt. It is generally possible to reduce a deck’s price by decreasing the money spent on generics by replacing them with more budget alternatives, or in archetype options. However, it will be much harder to decrease the price of a deck when the core cards are expensive.
Core vs. Generic
Core cards includes cards like Dragontree Wretches, Masque of Hydragrum, and Crimson Moon orders. If the rideline boss or any of its in-archetype cards generate tokens, those will be included in the price of the core cards section as well. Generics include things like cycle cards, Regalis Pieces, and other support cards that are not tied to a specifc boss unit. It is possible for a core card of one deck to be a generic card for another, such as Inlet Pulse Dragon. In general, if a card used across multiple decks is needed to enable your rideline’s ‘gimmick’, it will be considered a core card, and if it does not, then it will be considered a generic card.
Performance
For the performance section, I decided to not include an overall category to decks as meta rankings can change rather frequently. It is intended for these infographics to only be updated when the deck gets new (and meaningful) support.
- Offense generally refers to the ability of a deck to deal damage to your opponent and how fast can the deck remove cards from your opponent.
- Control generally refers to a deck’s ability to slow down the other deck’s gameplan and prevent them from achieving their ideal boardstate.
- Value generally refers to a deck’s ability to gain card advantage, improve the quality of their drive checks, or the amount of shield in hand.