1st Place Blue Tanjiro/Nezuko Deck – UNION ARENA
Sometimes the best deck builds come to you serendipitously. So it was when I put together my first Demon Slayer Blue deck – the mighty Tanjiro/Nezuko deck with Kanroji – from the limited singles being sold at a local card shop just minutes before the tournament took place. The result? An undefeated streak that only goes to show how strong Blue Demon Slayer from Vol. 2 can be.
My first place Blue Tanjiro/Nezuko deck from the three-round tournament.
Demon Slayer Blue Tanjiro/Nezuko deck list
So I have to start this guide by saying playing Blue Demon Slayer was totally spontaneous. I had brought my Gyutaro/Daki deck to the tournament just in case I could pick up the singles I needed to play the Vol. 2 build. However, I ended up leaving a few key cards at home. With that deck off the table, I looks at what other singles the shop was selling. Lucky for me they had almost enough to build the Tanjiro/Kanroji deck.
This deck had piqued my interest during the research phase for various Demon Slayer deck guides, and the data suggested that the Kanroji/Tanjiro specific build was a bit stronger than the Tanjiro/Nezuko. But the card shop didn’t have a complete playset of the Kanroji Raid. What they did have was complete playsets of the Tanjiro/Nezuko Raids. So I had to rethink my strategy to build more around the siblings.
I was not disappointed, however, and actually now prefer the more Nezuko-focused Blue Demon Slayer build over the Kanroji one.
Sometimes scarcity and limitations create the most compelling synergies during deck building, and this is the perfect example of that magic coming together.
Nezuko is a pretty complete concistency/draw package
Runing the full Nezuko package just feels good. She really fills out this deck on the lower cost end – letting you filter with her zero-cost, draw with her one cost (with the added advantage of being able to put a card on top of your deck if you don’t really want to get rid of any), while her Raid is great for recyclable card draw — you can add her and her Raid source to hand when combined with Raid Tanjiro.
When I was originally building the Kanroji/Tanjiro build, it felt hard to get all of her consistency pieces in, having to run instead the arguably less effective one-cost Kanroji. With this build, however, you get to take advantage of the full Nezuko Raid package.
As proven by my rounds in the tournament, this unlocks a lot of draw and consistency at every point of the game.
Four-cost Mitsuri Kanroji is your strongest attacker
While Nezuko acts as your draw engine, and Tanjiro as your removal/Impact solution, it’s the four-cost Kanroji who acts as your strongest attacker, and it’s not really even close. Sure, Raid Kanroji has a handy bouncing effect “When Played,” but it’s the 4000 BP Kanroji who easily boosts to Damage 2 that really makes this deck sing offensively.
In my final round of the tournament, I found myself prioritizing Kanroji’s Sword Site card over Tanjiro’s just because of how strong that Damage 2 is.
Joseph Writer Anderson (right) with his complete set of nine Dorothy NIKKE Winner cards. Jeremy Eggers pictured (left).
While I’ve already completed my 9/9 full page of Dorothy Winner cards, winning this store tournament at least let me add another zero-cost Mina Winner Promo to my collection. I’m always eager for more battles and more chances to test different and unique decks, and running Blue Tanjiro/Nezuko for the first time in a very competitive environment with some of the strongest players around was a great opportunity.
For more info on the cards included in this deck, check out my guide to the Blue Demon Slayer deck.
