Rei Ayanami strategy

Red Rei Ayanami in Evangelion is the raid face this page is about. TCG Contender files it as a tempo list, Standard tier 1. This site is hosting 195 public 50-card lists, including 13 recent top 8s. The tier list has Rei Ayanami in S.

How the raid face works

UE15ST/EVA-1-102 · cost 3 · 3000 BP · Red

The printed trigger on Rei Ayanami (UE15ST/EVA-1-102) is: [Active] Choose one character on your field and switch it to active. It gains 3000 BP until the end of the turn. Raid printings in the current 50: Evangelion Test Type-01 Pseudo DMS Phase (UE15BT/EVA-1-079) and Evangelion Proto Type-00 (UE15BT/EVA-1-080). 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 highest consistency score among Tier 1 decks via four Rei printings. The same snapshot flags that lowest power ceiling (58) among the Tier 1 trio, relying on incremental raid growth rather than burst.

The current 50-card core

From 195 lists on this site

Four-ofs: Rei Ayanami (UE15BT/EVA-1-069), Shinji Ikari (UE15BT/EVA-1-074), Shinji Ikari (UE15BT/EVA-1-075), Evangelion Test Type-01 Pseudo DMS Phase (UE15BT/EVA-1-079), Evangelion Proto Type-00 (UE15BT/EVA-1-080), Misato Katsuragi (UE15BT/EVA-1-084), Smiling Would Be a Start (UE15BT/EVA-1-100), Rei Ayanami (UE15ST/EVA-1-102), and Rei Ayanami (UEPR/EVA-1-070). Three-ofs: Rei Ayanami (UE15BT/EVA-1-071) and Evangelion Proto Type-00 (UE15ST/EVA-1-105). Common two-ofs: Misato Katsuragi (UE15BT/EVA-1-085), Operations Room (Operation Yashima) (UE15BT/EVA-1-093), Ayanami! Give Me Your Hand... Come Here!! (UE15BT/EVA-1-094), and 2nd Experimental High Power Self-Propelled 460mm Positron Cannon (UE15BT/EVA-1-095). That average is taken from the featured list on Evangelion - Rei Ayanami, then checked against the 195 hosted files.

The curve

Energy line · hosted 50

Energy 0-2. Rei Ayanami (UE15BT/EVA-1-071) and Rei Ayanami (UEPR/EVA-1-070) keep the early turns honest. Energy 3-4. Shinji Ikari (UE15BT/EVA-1-075), Misato Katsuragi (UE15BT/EVA-1-085), and Rei Ayanami (UE15ST/EVA-1-102) are the mid-curve bodies. Energy 5-6. Evangelion Proto Type-00 (UE15BT/EVA-1-080). Energy 7+. Evangelion Test Type-01 Pseudo DMS Phase (UE15BT/EVA-1-079) wait on the line. Do not keep a hand of only these. 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 Rei Ayanami, at least one 0-2 cost setup card, and one Shinji Ikari (075) 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

Misato Katsuragi (UE15BT/EVA-1-085), Operations Room (Operation Yashima) (UE15BT/EVA-1-093), Ayanami! Give Me Your Hand... Come Here!! (UE15BT/EVA-1-094), and 2nd Experimental High Power Self-Propelled 460mm Positron Cannon (UE15BT/EVA-1-095) are the first slots to shave if your room is all one matchup. Evangelion still has to respect Asuka UE15BT/EVA-1-051 and Spear of Gaius UE15BT/EVA-1-063 at one copy each.