
Even outside of setup, Emile can still be repeatedly called and spammed to filter the deck of non-trigger units. Considering the deck works off chain calling for Upright Lion numbers and on-hits to call out toolboxable attackers, not having multiple options at your disposal is a pain. Without Emile, building decent soul is a diffuclt task, and outside of ride targets, it's hard to land anything good in the soul. Soul setup is especially important here because it's the deck's only reliable form of soulcharging aside from Mystique Luquier. Her skill provides simple and effective deck filtering and soul setup simultaneously. It's probably about time to talk about the actual list, so I'm going to start with Grade 0s. In addition, it's really not hard to find the deck complete, as I've been seeing plenty of people selling for cheap through Facebook. Regardless, the deck is cheap, waifu, and can definitely appeal to nostalgic players, being basically the only relevant Pale Moon build until stride era. Silver Thorns won't get any support outside of the Harri Promo stride in the near future, and for the most part is going to just be a casual deck. Cernay is the only good Grade 1 we got, and even the new starter is questionable.

The set gave us another on-hit Grade 2, and a weaker Upright Lion. The newer Silver Thorn Beast Tamer, Luquier, was a solid step in the right direction, but the Venus Luquier stride is extremely lackluster.

Rummy Labyrinth didn't exactly do a good job with creeping out a majority of the deck either, and players still have to deal with the annoyingly priced far out-of-print Commons and Rares of old. In addition, Mystique Luquier, who also has an annoying pricetag, was effectively the deck's only stride option. Until Rummy Labyrinth, all of the Luquier Grade 3 units were RRR. Silver Thorns have had the reputation for being an insanely expensive waifu deck for the longest time. Instead, all I did was learn that my video editing skills are about as effective as the ice cream machine at McDonalds, so after about an hour of suffering followed by a period of regret, I decided to give up and just write a post. I was actually planning on doing this as a YouTube video.
