UNION ARENA: Every Black Clover Deck, Ranked
May is heating up to be a big month for UNION ARENA, with the pretty anticipated Black Clover set coming out on May 30th at the exact same time as BLEACH Vol. 2. As a set, Black Clover brings several interesting mechanics into the game that we haven’t seen yet. But which deck is the strongest?
Below, I’ll be ranking each and every Black Clover deck from strong to strongest, starting with Green.
#6 Yuno/Asta Green deck
Although Green is typically know for high energy costs and power, sometimes strategies come around that focus the other way. Indeed, this deck centers primarily on three-cost and lower characters, making it very rushy. For a three-cost Raid, Asta is very solid, becoming a 4000 BP character with Impact. That has to be the best three-cost Raid character in the game. At the end of the day, however, this deck lacks the right amount of aggression to qualify as a top-tier aggro deck, also resulting in its being one of the weaker Black Clover decks.
#5 Black Bulls
If you’re looking for a super original deck with mechanics that have never been seen before in UNION ARENA, then Black Clover Purple Black Bulls is definitely not the deck for you. Essentially, we have yet another affinity-based deck similar to Metal Bat or The Thirteen Court Guard Squads, or even Hashira before it. This deck is even complete with the likes of Yami Sukehiro who is essentially the same thing as the other two-AP 4000 BP removal characters found in the other Affinity decks we’ve had in UNION ARENA.
All of that being said, this deck isn’t without its own fair share of quirks. The most startling to me is perhaps Asta’s Raid – a character capable of nullifying Nullify Impact (is that even fair?). Additionally, there are quite a few powerful draw cards in the deck, making Black Bulls one of the stronger draw engines we’ve seen in Purple to date.
#4 Purple Devil Triad deck
The Purple Zogratis deck feels like a purple deck through and through, focused on getting cards into the sideline, and then using those cards to unlock effects. And while this deck does offer plenty of removal options through strategic BP reduction (think Byakuya from BLEACH), the really unique play is the “win game” condition enabled via Tree of Qliphoth. Manage to thin your deck out completely while still having the required number of Dark Triad cards on field and you just straight-up win!
#3 Red Noelle/Mimosa Deck
While most will be excited about the Asta red deck because of its blatant power and early aggression, this red Black Clover deck featuring Noelle and Mimosa feels a bit scary. The deck it reminds me most of is the One Punch Man Psychic Sisters deck. However, this deck comes with more powerful characters, including the Raid Noelle capable of forcing a block along with 5000 and Impact – assuming you meet the required Event number threshold.
While Noelle brings the power, Mimosa brings the utility, letting you play your handy two-cost event cards for free if you want. This includes the unique Sea Dragon’s Lair – a card which can protect your characters from being chosen by opposing abilities.
#2 Green Vermillion deck
The Green Vermillion deck really packs a punch. A typical UNION ARENA green deck, you will be rewarded here for building up a solid energy line and playing powerful characters, rather than rushing early and often at your opponent. As far as green decks go, Green Black Clover is one of the strongest we’ve seen so far, with the seven-cost Mereoleona having Impact 1 and Damage 2 right off the bat. Five-cost Yami is a powerful character as well, letting you sideline a raided card. Meanwhile, you also have access to a host of other strong characters, many of whom boost in power when granted added BP from your primary characters.
Manage to hit your curve and get these combos off and Green Vermillion starts to look like a very, very scary deck indeed.
#1 Red Asta is the strongest Black Clover UNION ARENA deck
Red Asta looks really, really strong. By far its strongest cards are the two Asta characters – one of them with the unprecedented effect that shuts off base abilities on opposing characters. Meanwhile, five-cost Asta straight-up sidelines characters with 4000 BP or less. While it’s not a deck with insane high end power, it’s got enough of a punch to potentially be the strongest red deck to date, and will likely end up on on the exclusive list of best UNION ARENA decks after it’s arrival.
While the list above feels like the more standard Red Asta deck, I wouldn’t be surprised to see components of the Noelle/Mimosa deck sprinkled in here the way Hellish Blizzard lends some added strength to Yellow One Punch Man.
All-in-all, Black Clover is shaping up to be a solid set. Complete with unique mechanics and a few powerhouse cards, this should stack up well amongst the best UNION ARENA sets to date, even if it doesn’t necessarily have the absolute best range of decks of them all.
