Vanguard Zero Deck Rules

What are the rules when you compose a deck in Vanguard Zero? In this game, you get to have cards with specific grades, and you’ll be using them as part of your deck. Having familiarity with your deck composition will help you out when creating your own. Here, we’ll discuss the components of a deck and their roles.

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Card Amount and Grades

What are card grades? These are numbers signifying types of cards in a deck. There is a rule that you’ll have to follow when creating your cards, here are the number of cards that you need per type of grade card in a deck. In total, a deck must be composed of 40 cards.

Card Grade	Pieces
Grade 0	1
Grade 1	13
Grade 2	13
Grade 3	13

The Grade 0 card is your first Vanguard, while the remaining should have 13 pieces each. One of the changes in the mobile version of the game makes Grade 3 cards into Trigger units. You can customize grade 3 cards for their trigger effect when you are making your deck.

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Card Limits

Trigger Limit: In order to prevent a long game, there’s a limit to the amount of trigger effects that you can activate. Here are the trigger limits for the following effects.

Trigger Effect	Limit
Critical	9
Stand	9
Draw	9
Heal	4

* Grade 3 Cards that have similar names require the same Trigger icon (regardless of illustration and rarity)

* You can only have 4 cards that have the same name

* You can only have up to 4 Sentinel Cards.