Red Chainsaw Man/Power Deck List and Guide
Looking for the most iconic deck in the new UNION ARENA: Chainsaw Man set to try?
The Red Chainsaw Man deck is a powerful, heavy-hitting and aggressive deck. It’s got removal, free-play mechanics, multi-attack…and Power as backup.
Below, we’ll be looking into everything you need to know about the deck centered around Chainsaw Man (Denji) himself.
Red Chainsaw Man deck quick start guide
Use a combination of Pochita and In Exchange, Show Me Your Dreams to set up your Denji characters with cards underneath them.
Set up your board evenly between Power and Denji Raid targets. You’ll need them for later.
Use Power and four-cost Chainsaw Man to put pressure on your opponent while also enabling defensive plays.
Chainsaw Man takes time to set up, so having the option to control your opponent’s board while providing stickiness via Power’s protection is a solid way to stay ahead while you build up to your bigger plays.
Raid six-cost Chainsaw Man and start swinging for big hits.
Recycle Pochita onto your energy line to keep the machine humming.
All about Chainsaw Man
Chainsaw Man (048)
UE22BT: CHAINSAW MAN • superrare
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The easiest way to understand this deck is to first look at six-cost Chainsaw Man. While there’s a lot more going on here than powering up to one single big powerful attacker, six-cost Chainsaw Man is your heaviest hitter.
5000 base BP is solid for a six-cost for starters, yet Chainsaw Man also can switch to active after completing an attack, and gain Impact for the next attack. All you have to do is remove a facedown card underneath him to do this.
Most of the time you’ll get two attacks off with this effect, but it’s not just the multi-attack with Impact that unlocks a challenge for your opponent. It’s also the ability to recycle Pochita so that you can do it all over again.
Pochita sets up your strongest plays
It’s no mistake that Pochita is this deck’s Color Trigger. It’s vital to your deck strategy, meaning you absolutely will want to run four copies of this card.
All around, Pochita is a very strong character, one with a solid When Played, and an even more vital Activate:Main that you will use to set up plays via Denji down the road. Really, the only downside to this character is that you won’t be able to move it to the front line.
However, Red Chainsaw Man isn’t an aggro deck – it’s a deck that takes time to set up, so not being able to come out guns blazing with a 500 BP character won’t matter too much as long as you hit that multi-attack with Impact towards the later stages of the game.
In Exchange, Show Me Your Dreams
In Exchange, Show Me Your Dreams
UE22BT: CHAINSAW MAN • common
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While the Pochita play and combo is the best way to get cards underneath your two Chainsaw Man Raid characters, it’s not the only way. This handy event card is also strong for setting up your power plays. Use this Event to free-play a Denji and add this card underneath it – setting it up for the Raid – or simply put the card underneath a Denji on the field. Between Pochita and Dreams, you’ll usually have what you need to ensure your Chainsaw Man has cards underneath it.
Don’t forget about Power!
Up until now, we’ve largely been talking about Chainsaw Man. And that’s appropriate given this deck is really all about him.
Yet Power is a well-liked character and also an important tentpole for this deck’s major strategy. While you build up to your strongest Chainsaw Man play, you’ll use Power to keep your opponent busy, both offensively and defensively.
Power (061)
UE22BT: CHAINSAW MAN • superrare
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At face value, Raid Power is your typical force-block character. Boosting to a 5000 BP character with forced block is some crazy power-creep. You’ll only need Denji on the field to take out just about anything your opponent is fielding, and you’ll also be drawing a card when you win a battle.
But it’s not just the solid 5000 BP plus forced block plus draw that makes Power so good: it’s a tricky protective layer that makes her difficult to deal with on multiple fronts.
If she is sidelined while her BP is not below 500 (basically if she is sidelined other than by a BP reduction effect), you can sideline a 4000 BP character on your field instead. This is handy for a few reasons:
Offensively, if you use one of your other characters to attack and your opponent hits a Special, they won’t want to take out Power who can shift the sideline effect to a character who has already attacked.
Defensively, you can block with Power, and then sideline another character who might have already blocked that turn.
Of course the optimal character to pair this effect with is four-cost Chainsaw Man.
Chainsaw Man (047)
UE22BT: CHAINSAW MAN • rare
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As long as you have a card facedown under the four-cost Chainsaw Man, you’ll be able to play him set to Active onto your field when Power is Sidelined. It’s a pretty strong play that you can definitely use to mess with your opponent’s head.
Red Chainsaw Man matchups
Chainsaw Man is not as much of an instant S-tier deck as the Purple Reze is. It’s got some definite setup required to get it to work, and its free-play is situational.
Still, it has a shot at making the upper tiers, and should be at least high A-tier.
Of course, its ability to perform at high-level competition will depend in part on its matchups. Let’s dive into each of its matchups below.
Shadow Army
Shadow Army feels like it could potentially be a challenging one for you. While you can try and control the board via Power, you are taking just a little too long to set up your bigger Chainsaw Man.
Meanwhile, Shadow Army can beat down your life via low BP attackers before closing out the game.
The key tactic here will be how you manage Power. Use her to take removals whenever and don’t forget to play defensively with her alternate sideline ability.
Red Kenshin
I see the Red Kenshin matchup being pretty good for you. You aren’t so energy-starved that you’ll have trouble managing your energy line into the matchup. Meanwhile, you have plenty of removal to keep your opponent at bay, and can ramp up decently to combat this deck’s aggro play style.
Yellow Evangelion
Into this popular deck, you do have a few distinct advantages. Your Power defense is a genuine one earlier on, as is your Chainsaw Man’s ability to come back from the dead. This will make your opponent have to think twice about how to use their two-AP cost Asuka to take out your characters.
If they move too quickly, this could be a challenge as you don’t have a very strong early game until you start hitting your Power. But manage to get to the middle-to-late game and you have the distinct advantage.
Purple Reze
Purple Reze is a genuinely tough matchup for you. Reze easily gets around your Power’s defensive mechanism. That’s not the end of the world; it just means you can’t rely on that maneuver, making you have to go toe-to-toe with Reze’s arguably more consistent and lower energy-curve deck.
This could make Red Chainsaw Man/Power a less popular pick into the Rare Battle format where Reze will likely dominate.
Again, Red Chainsaw Man isn’t a deck that’s an easy top pick. With the right skill and matchups, it can likely do well at a regional-level tournament. Folks looking for a more straight forward deck, though, might prefer something like Purple Reze. Either way, it’s an awesome deck capable of taking on the current UNION ARENA meta.
