Power strategy

Red Power in Chainsaw Man is the raid face this page is about. TCG Contender files it as an aggro list, Standard tier 2. This site is hosting 49 public 50-card lists, including 16 recent top 8s. The tier list has Power in A.

How the raid face works

UE22BT/CSM-1-061 · cost 5 · 4000 BP · Red

The printed trigger on Power (UE22BT/CSM-1-061) is: [Raid] Add this card to your hand, or if you have the required energy, perform Raid with it. Raid printings in the current 50: Chainsaw Man (UE22BT/CSM-1-048), Power (UE22BT/CSM-1-061), and Chainsaw Man (UE22BT/CSM-1-047). In Union Arena, [Raid] lets you add the card to your hand or perform Raid if the energy is there. The expensive copy is the ceiling. The cheaper copies with the same name are the steps. Contender's snapshot calls out that dense low-to-mid cost character curve (Power 057/060/061, Chainsaw Man 047/048) allows the deck to commit multiple bodies to the front line by turn 2-3, generating early pressure most midrange decks in the format can't match. The same snapshot flags that the deck has thin top-end stabilization outside 2x Makima (070), so once its early aggression is answered by a defensive deck like Evangelion - Purple, it has few ways to regain initiative.

The current 50-card core

From 49 lists on this site

Four-ofs: Chainsaw Man (UE22BT/CSM-1-047), Chainsaw Man (UE22BT/CSM-1-048), Denji (UE22BT/CSM-1-049), Denji (UE22BT/CSM-1-050), Power (UE22BT/CSM-1-057), Power (UE22BT/CSM-1-060), Power (UE22BT/CSM-1-061), In Exchange, Show Me Your Dreams (UE22BT/CSM-1-076), Love Me Some Baddies (UE22BT/CSM-1-080), and Pochita (UE22BT/CSM-1-067). Three-ofs: Denji (UE22BT/CSM-1-051), Makima (UE22BT/CSM-1-070), and We Had A Deal, Did We Not? (UE22BT/CSM-1-079). That average is taken from the featured list on Chainsaw Man - Power, then checked against the 49 hosted files.

The curve

Energy line · hosted 50

Energy 0-2. Denji (UE22BT/CSM-1-049), Denji (UE22BT/CSM-1-050), Power (UE22BT/CSM-1-057), Power (UE22BT/CSM-1-059), In Exchange, Show Me Your Dreams (UE22BT/CSM-1-076), and Pochita (UE22BT/CSM-1-067) keep the early turns honest. Energy 3-4. Chainsaw Man (UE22BT/CSM-1-047), Power (UE22BT/CSM-1-060), Denji (UE22BT/CSM-1-051), Makima (UE22BT/CSM-1-070), Love Me Some Baddies (UE22BT/CSM-1-080), and We Had A Deal, Did We Not? (UE22BT/CSM-1-079) are the mid-curve bodies. Energy 5-6. Chainsaw Man (UE22BT/CSM-1-048) and Power (UE22BT/CSM-1-061). This is read off the hosted 50, not a hidden playbook. If your locals file plays a different 3-of, trust that file.

Mulligan

What the 50 implies

Keep a Raid Power, at least one 0-2 cost setup card, and one Chainsaw Man (047) if the cheap card missed. Ship a hand of only 7+ cost finishers. That is inferred from costs in the hosted list, not a coach sheet from a hidden room.

Tech and flex

First cards to argue about

Flex is whatever the latest event 50 on the hub is playing that the consensus is not.