History Characters / Shadowverse

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!Anime Characters (''Flame'')
[[folder:Seventh Flame]]
!! Seventh Flame
A Shadowverse Club at Shadoba College, Seventh Flame starts ''Flame'' with only one member, Itsuki Mitsutagawa, following a conflict with fellow club First Reaper which led to all the others quitting. Due to this, its initially in danger of being shut down, forcing Itsuki, along with new members Light and Subaru, to gather new recruits.
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!!!Trops Associated with Seventh Flame
* NonIndicativeName: With the ThemeNaming of the other clubs and the deck classes of their members, you'd think Seventh Flame would be the club focused on Dragoncraft. Instead all the members use various different decks. Oddly, this wasn't even the case prior to the club's decline, as sole remaining member Itsuki uses Forestcraft.
* OddlySmallOrganization: Starts the series with ''one'' member left, who is the President by default, and even then he can only get two new students to join despite all of his recruitment efforts. This is {{Deconstructed}} however, as it's this lack of membership that leaves the club in danger of being disbanded, and even once Light, Itsuki, and Subaru manage to get their numbers up to six, the club is still in danger of being shut down if they can't prove they're on the level of the other clubs.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Unlike the other clubs, the members of Seventh Flame use different classes for their decks.
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!! Light Tenryu
[[quoteright:1000:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/light_leader_1_3.png]]
[[caption-width-right:1000:I don't know, but... I think it's too soon to give up. My Shadowverse has no end!]]
The main character of this season is a complete newbie to the game but has been invited to the Battle College to discover his "fate". He is given a Digital Friend and a Dragoncraft deck with his invitation to get him started.
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As mentioned above, he uses a Dragoncraft deck focused on generating Drago Weapon amulets, which destroy themselves when Dragoncraft followers are played to "Arm" the follower, granting them one extra defense and new abilities. His Digital Friend is Knuckle Dragon Dragnir.
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* AchillesHeel: Necromancy. He frequently finds himself struggling against Shadowcraft Users like Haruma and Alice due to the fact he has very little ways to deal with their followers other than destroying them... [[MortonsFork which then gives them the Necromancy to make even ''stronger'' followers.]]
* ArmoredDragon: The theme of his deck, using Drago Weapon amulets that "Arm" his Dragoncraft followers, giving them new suits of armor along with new effects. Every time he does so the unit being equipped has a nifty little TransformationSequence too.
* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: To Hiro. While Light is also a novice who finds himself surprisingly skilled at the game, he's not skilled ''enough'' and ends up being frequently defeated by more experienced players, unlike Hiro's status as an InvincibleHero, to the point where he actually loses his ''first'' match of the series. His deck also notably focuses on giving his followers new abilities through Drago Weapons, as oppposed to Hiro's deck granting his followers new abilities when in Overflow. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking He also wears a red jacket as opposed to Hiro's blue.]]
* FemaleGaze: He has some shots here and there, with one of them being a close up to his butt wearing boxer briefs with "I love Shadowverse" printed on them.
* NaiveNewcomer: Has absolutely no experience with the game and needs to be taught basic game mechanics.
* IGaveMyWord: Light always keep his promises, which is what gets him to join Seventh Flame in the first place due to promising Itsuki that he would.
* RedIsHeroic: Both his jacket, part of his hair, and his Digital Friend are all red, and he's the main character.

!! Subaru Makabe
Light's first friend in Battle College, who helps to support him until he's settled in, and gets roped into assisting with Seventh Flame.
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He uses a carnival-themed Shadowcraft deck, featuring both cards with Last Words that revive themselves without their Last Words on death, and various abilities that both generate and empower Ghost tokens. His Digital Friend is Minighost Bakelus.
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* AchillesHeel: Non-destruction removal, specifically bounce effects that return cards to his hand. His deck relies on either tokens or cards with Last Words which revive themselves to trigger Fanfare a second time, and as such bouncing them back to his hand means a major tempo loss and a turn he'll have to spend replaying major pieces of his strategy.
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: In his case, his younger brother Kaguya. Subaru always struggled and failed under his family's expectations, whereas Kaguya exceeded them. It's what caused them to drift apart and made him lose his ambition.
* BackFromTheDead: His deck features many units with Last Words that revive themselves at the start of his turn. The caveat to this is that they also lack said Last Words when they revive, meaning they only get to come back once.
* BrilliantButLazy: Even though he goes to a school ''dedicated'' to treating the game as SeriousBusiness, he doesn't take Shadowverse very seriously. But when he does actually decide to play, he turns out to be very skilled.
* {{Dismotivation}}: By his own admission he doesn't have a lot of motivation and prefers to "take it easy". He has to be effectively dragged into joining Seventh Flame by Light, and even then he prefers to be a non-active member.
* FemaleGaze: Has a ShowerScene in episode 8, where he's seen from the back with steam censoring his rear nudity.
* SadClown: As cheerful as he usually is, Subaru actually has a lot of internal problems, mostly stemming from his family's expectations and an inferiority complex towards his more talented younger brother.
* ZergRush: His deck focuses around generating Ghosts, 1/1 tokens with Storm that banish themselves on death or turn end, and many of his cards end up generating several of them at once or buffing them on the field. His signature card, Masquerade Ghost, turns this around by summoning Giant Ghosts, 4/4s with Ward instead of Storm, whenever a normal Ghost leaves the field, turning each one into a MightyGlacier that protects him during his opponents turn ''and'' can do much more damage during his next one.

!! Itsuki Mitsutagawa
The sole remaining member of Seventh Flame until Light agrees to help save it from closure.
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He uses a Forestcraft deck with a focus on returning units, from both his field and his opponents', to their owners hand in order to set up combos and allow his ace, Cosmos Fang, which gains more attack when attacking for each card returned to hand that turn, to finish the match. His Digital Friend is Blossom Wolf Slade.
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* AchillesHeel: His deck struggles when faced with large boards of big followers. While he ''does'' have ways to get rid of them, they're situtational, such as Cosmos Fang's on-evolve effect, which only bounces followers under 3 defense, and expensive. This ends up causing his loss against Ryoga and his more tempo oriented deck.
* BadassAdorable: Itsuki likes flowers and cute things, and built his deck around that very concept. This does ''not'' mean he's weak by any stretch. For example, his first on-screen match against Raido ends when he bounces Raido's entire board back to his hand and then does ''15'' damage with one attack from Cosmos Fang.
* DudeLooksLikeALady: Many people, both in and out of universe, mistake him for a girl due to his appearance and deck.
* InTouchWithHisFeminineSide: He has a lot of more feminine traits and interests than traditional masculine ones, something that actually caused him to grow up a bit isolated. Appropriately, he becomes fast friends with [[{{Tomboy}} Ren]].
* TheLeader: Of Seventh Flame, though he got the position by default after all the previous members left.

!! Gentleman/[[spoiler:Shion Otosaka]]
The hidden leader of Sixth Magic, Gentleman only appears to others in the form of a rabbit-headed [[{{Hologram}} Virtual Avatar]]. Following his defeat by Light, he joins Seventh Flame as its fourth member.
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Gentleman uses a Runecraft deck that revolves around chess-themed "Magical" followers, focused on summoning hordes of Magical Pawns that eventually gain Storm after eight of them are destroyed over the course of the match. His Digital Friend is Mystical Queen Mayti.
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* AmbiguousGender: While Gentleman's ''avatar'' clearly presents as male, the offical website lists their gender as "???" and it's unknown what their real body looks like. [[spoiler:In Episode 20, it's revealed the Gentleman avatar's controller is a young girl, though the avatar itself is still identified as male]].
* AnimalMotifs: Rabbits. Their avatar has a rabbit head, one of the few things Shinobu knows about their real self is that they love rabbits, and [[spoiler: said real self wears a headband with rabbit ears and spends most of her time playing a rabbit-themed rhythm game.]] Strangely, this isn't reflected in their deck, which follows a ChessMotif instead.
* AmbiguousGenderIdentity: [[spoiler:Why Shion chose a male avatar is not made clear, nor is it specified if Gentleman is more of a character that Shion is roleplaying or an actual part of their identity. Given there isn't anything like an online game/MMORPG involved and Shion does present as Gentleman to other people in real life, the latter appears to be more strongly suggested. As a result, it may be most accurate to categorize Gentleman/Shion as both male AND female, or perhaps genderfluid, though the way the show approaches the situation leaves plenty of room for interpretation.]]
* {{GIRL}}: [[spoiler: {{Inverted}}. Gentleman is the male avatar of a girl named Shion]]
* {{Irony}}: He's Shinobu's advisor and is described as being an even better Runecraft player than her... except she wins against Light while he loses.
* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: No one has ever seen him outside of his Virtual Avatar, to the point where only said Avatar actually attends the college.
* PlayfulHacker: Part of his computer expertise makes him able to hack almost anything.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: On his last turn of his match with Light, he draws an expensive card which reduces its own cost over the course of the match, similar to Kai's Chrono Witch from the last season, that might've been able to make a reversal... only for it, in defiance of the MagicPokerEquation, to ''still'' be too high cost for him to play at the time.
* TheManBehindTheMan: He's the real leader of Sixth Magic, giving commands to Shinobu behind an ear piece because no one listened to his advice otherwise. Of course, this ends once he joins Seventh Flame, making Shinobu the leader for real.
* ZergRush: Several of his followers and spells create Magical Pawns, which eventually gain Storm when enough of them have been destroyed, letting them attack the enemy leader immediately.

!! Ren Kazamatsuri
An athletic girl who initially joined Fifth Sword at the Battle College, Ren ended up isolated due to the male members of the club underestimating her during training while the female members weren't as interested in it as she was. Following a meeting with Itsuki, she decides to join Seventh Flame instead.
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Ren uses a "Hero" Swordcraft deck, with various followers that gain benefits if a damaged follower is in play. Her Digital Friend is Spear Trooper Amyroth.
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* AttackAttackAttack: Her playstyle, as typical of most Swordcraft decks. Though, as she notes, hers is a little more control oriented due to having cards like Flame Soldier who can destroy her opponents Ward followers for her.
* BirdsOfAFeather: With Itsuki. He's a guy with more feminine interests, while she's a girl with more masculine interests. They end up bonding because of their shared isolation by most of their respective peers over this.
* {{Tomboy}}: She's a girl who's interests include athletics and superheroes, making her a bit of a {{Foil}} to Itsuki. Fittingly, they're fast friends.
* TurnsRed: PlayedWith. Her deck has cards that benefit from ''other'' cards being damaged.

!! Tsubasa Takanashi
The leader of Third Feather following the previous leader Seira's defeat by Haruma, which caused Seira to quit and Tsubasa to lose her seriousness for Shadowverse. After confronting Seventh Flame for attempting to gather new members, she ends up joining them following a loss to Light and encouragement by Seira.
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Tsubasa plays a Havencraft deck with several gemstone-themed followers, with their effects revolving around granting abilities to her followers at random, which her signature card Diamond Master can manipulate. Her Digital Friend is Gemstone Wingy.
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* BreakTheHaughty: Suffered this in her backstory, following Haruma humilating her club's leader. Come the present, she's of the opinion that being serious about Shadowverse only gets you hurt. Light and company help her out of the mindset.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She's dismissive of almost everyone, but deep down she's a nice person.
* LuckManipulationMechanic: Most of her cards grant abilities like Storm and Ward to a random follower. Her signature card, Diamond Master, makes it so that it's ''always'' the target of said effects, and if it already has the ability, grants it another random follower.
* StoneWall: Her deck plays a lot of Ward followers and effects that can grant Ward to the ones that don't. Some of her cards, like Diamond Master, also add in an immunity to effect destruction.
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[[folder:Shadowverse College]]
!! Shinobu Miki
President of the Sixth Magic club.
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She uses a Runecraft deck that revolves Earth Rites, using her signature card Crystal Witch to slowly wear down her opponent by damaging their leader every time she plays an Earth Sigil.
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* BigEater: She's often seen with a ''massive'' amount of food nearby, and is usually snacking whenever she's not playing Shadowverse.
* EyesOutOfSight: Her hairstyle conceals her eyes most of the time.
* PuppetKing: She's the President of Sixth Magic, but gets advised by Gentleman in the shadows. This changes once Gentleman joins Seventh Flame, leading her to become their leader outright.

!! Tatsumi Raido
President of the Fifth Sword club.
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He uses a Swordcraft deck focusing on blitzing his opponent down with cheap Storm followers.
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* AFatherToHisMen: He cares a lot for his club members, to the point where he challenges Itsuki to a battle when the latter tries to recruit Ren. That being said, this is slightly {{Deconstructed}} due to the fact Ren isn't ''happy'' at his club, though not because of him specifically.
* AttackAttackAttack: His playstyle basically boils down to spamming as many cheap Storm followers as possible to win games fast. His signature card Maximum General exploits how most of his low-cost followers have Storm by summoning a random 1-cost, 2-cost, and 3-cost follower from his deck.
* LaserGuidedKarma: He mocks Itsuki and his deck for being weak. Itsuki then proceeds to defeat him by buffing Cosmos Fang's attack to ''15'' and knocking out most of his health in one shot.
* LovableJock: His club frequently does physical training and, while he's strict and quick to jump to conclusions, he's ultimately more of a NiceGuy. He even apologizes and admits he was wrong about Itsuki after the latter defeats him.
* MightMakesRight: His belief is that Shadowverse is about Strength above all else, to the point where he mocks Itsuki for his WeakButSkilled playstyle and "cute" followers.

!! Fuwari Hahajima
President of the Fourth Wind club.
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She uses a Forestcraft deck, using various defensive and healing stratagies to keep her life total high in order to enable her signature card, Benediction Elf, to do massive damage.
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* FullHealthBonus: Her Benediction Elf normally does 2 damage to all enemy followers at the end of her turn. But, if she has at least 20 health, the normal maximum, the damage ''triples'' to 6 ''and'' hits the enemy leader as well.
* NiceGirl: She's known for being very kind and polite, and attempts to help Subaru through his issues during their match.
* StoneWall: Her deck's playstyle mostly revolves around using various healing effects and Ward followers to keep her health high... which allows her signature card to do ''massive'' damage at the end of each turn, wiping her opponents board and doing decent leader damage as well.
* TeamMom: To her club, to the point where her club members outright refer to her as such.

!! Haruma Hazeura
President of the First Reaper club, Haruma is responsible for the decline of several of the Battle College's other clubs due to his belief that only the strong should play Shadowverse, having humilated Third Feather's leader into resigning and causing most of the original Seventh Flame club to quit.
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He uses a Shadowcraft deck that focuses on destroying his own followers to use their Last Words, along with building up to big Necromancy effects.
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* BadBoss: His deck revolves around destroying his own followers, and judging by how he treats everyone else, it's unlike he treats his club members well either.
* DiscOneFinalBoss He's responsible for most of the problems plaguing the Battle College, including decimating two of the other clubs. However, he's defeated partway through the series and it's made clear that other characters like Mikado Shirogane are stronger than him.
* {{Jerkass}}: Unlike the other club leaders, he's an absolute terror to everyone else at the college. His motivation for almost destroying ''two'' of the other clubs effectively boils down to "People who aren't good at the game should just quit playing".
* OralFixation: Usually seen with a lolipop in his mouth.
* StopHavingFunGuys: InUniverse, his central belief is that no one should be playing Shadowverse to improve or even have fun. Either you're playing to win or you're not playing at all.

!! Ryoga Jasei
The former President of the Second Blood Club. Ryoga stopped attending the college despite still being a student, causing his club to become inactive.
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He uses a Bloodcraft deck themed around demons with various musical instruments, focusing on damaging himself enough to reach the Wrath state before using his Wrath-exclusive effects to make big plays every turn. His Digital Friend is Punk Devil Demonia.
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* CastFromHitPoints: He's a Bloodcraft player, though unlike Luca, he focuses on the Wrath state instead of Vengence, which triggers when he's dealt damage to himself during his own turn 7 times. Most of his cards either damage himself as part of their cost or have effects that trigger when he does.
* DullEyesOfUnhappiness: His eyes uniquely don't have the same shine most of the other characters have, showing his cold personality.
* {{Jerkass}}: He doesn't treat his own Digital Friend Demonia well at all, something that gets him into conflict with Itsuki. He also goes on to mock Itsuki throughout their battle, though he does admit the latter was at least slightly entertaining towards the end.
* MusicalAssassin: The theme of his cards, being musician demons that range genres from classical conductors to percussionists, all the way up to his signature card Howling Demon, a full blown demonic rockstar.
* PowerAtAPrice: His deck features cards that ''permanently'' give powerful effects that drain his life, such as Demon Conductor which allows him to draw extra cards if his hand has less than 4 cards at the start of the turn, at the cost of doing 1 damage to him at the start of every turn for the rest of the game. He makes up for it by containing healing stratagies in his deck that, thanks to how Wrath works compared to Vengence, allows him to keep himself alive once he hits Wrath.
* RefusalOfTheCall: Initially shows no interest in participating in the Shadowverse World Ranking.
* StealthPun: His deck features various demonic musicians and has a focus on making big plays every turn while getting a steady supply of cards for his hand to keep up said plays. In other words, he plays a '''literal''' Tempo Deck.
* VerbalTic: Often relates things to music terms when he talks, referring to his playstyle as his "rhythm" and people he doesn't like as "noise".

!!Mikado Shirogane
The board chairman of the Shadowverse College.
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Mikado plays a Neutral deck. He uses cards such as the spell Inverting Wings to turn his Angel followers into Fallen version of themselves which possesses upgraded or new effects or turn back into their original form with increased stats. His Digital Friend is Garuel, Seraphic Leo.
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* ArrogantKungFuGuy: Mikado is naturally talented at Shadowverse and he knows it. This has caused him to view himself as superior to all other Shadowverse players.
* BreakTheHaughty: His ego takes a hit when Light manages to defeat him during the last day of the Shadowverse World Ranking but it doesn't stick as he quickly goes back to his condescending self. [[spoiler:It does stick when Hiro hands him a second loss]]
* FallenAngel: Mikado's deck is almost entirely comprised of angelic followers and his playstyle involve transforming them into Fallen versions of them.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: The driving force behind Mikado's talent; he wanted to grow and become stronger in order to get the attention of those around him and make friends. Unfortunately, this backfired on him.
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[[folder:Seven Shadows]]
A group made up of seven idividuals said to be the strongest players in the world. Like the Genesis Corporation, they have an interest in the Ark and conduct their own separate investigation on it, although both groups remain willing to cooperate with one another if it's in their interests.

Their members are Wolfram Zerga, Kaguya Makabe, Luca Yonazuki, Hiro Ryugasaki, Wodin Kraft, Hina Sinclair and Andrea Rondo. For Hiro and Luca's entries, see above in the "Main Cast" folder.

!! Wolfram Zerga
The founder of the Shadowverse College.
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He uses a sun, moon, and star-themed Swordcraft deck. His strategy revolves using cards whose effects involve revealing cards in hand to activate the abilities of his ace cards, letting them be of use without the need to be played.
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* CharacterTic: He has a tendency to rattle off about fairness and impartiality.
* {{Herald}}: He is the one who gives Light the data stick containing his deck and Digital Friend and invites him to the Shadowverse College.
* StellarThemeNaming: His deck's three ace cards are named after the sun, the moon and the stars.

!! Andrea Rondo
A teacher at the Shadowverse College who is also a Grandmaster-ranked Shadowcraft player.
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Andrea's Shadowcraft deck focuses on using the Reanimate mechanic to bring back destroyed followers to the field.
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* DragonWithAnAgenda: [[spoiler:Andrea has her own plans separate from that of the Seven Shadows with only Hina knowing about it.]]
* {{Foil}}: To Tsubasa. Both witnessed someone close to them sucumb to despair while unable to help and developped a more cynical mindset as a result. The difference is that Tsubasa was able to go back to a more positive mindset after joining Seventh Flame while Andrea remained cynical as an adult.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Andrea's flashbacks show that she was much more cheerful when she was younger. [[spoiler:Seeing her mother fall into despair after being fired and having her research stolen is what changed her into the person she currently is.]]

!! Kaguya Makabe
Subaru's younger brother who is a prodigy at Shadowverse.
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He uses a Havencraft deck that revolves around followers that cannot be evolved normally and whose effects can only be used if the player has at least two evolution points remaining.
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* GenderBlenderName: His first name, Kaguya, is more commonly used as a girl's name.
* LoopholeAbuse: His deck mostly revolves around followers that can't evolve normally, but have powerful effects if he didn't use his evolution points... and also has Evil Shrine, a card that evolves them anyway to give him all the benefits and none of the drawbacks since his effects only rely on having ''evolution points'' to spare instead of forbidding him from evolving all together.
* YoungestChildWins: Of the two Makabe brothers, Kaguya is both the youngest one as well as the most successful one.

!! Warden Kraft
A Grandmaster-ranked player with an analytical mind.
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He uses a Runecraft deck that revolves around the spell card End of the World which can end the fight on its own by dealing 20 points of damage to the opponent at once but has a massive cost of 35 that prevent it from being played normally. He thus uses effects like that of his Tempest Sorcerer to change its cost to 0.
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* ThirteenIsUnlucky: Both of his deck's key cards each have effects that involve the number thirteen and spell bad news for his opponent.
** His spell End of the World can end the fight when played but has a cost of 35 which prevent it from being played, unless it's in the player's hand during their thirteenth or later turn at which point its cost will drop to 0.
** Tempest Sorcerer who, upon evolving, can give a card in hand the ability to change its cost to 0 if thirteen or more spells with different names were played during the match.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: He was able to deduce Gentleman's actual gender simply from their avatar's mannerisms and later deduce both of their deck's strategies.
* CrazyPrepared: His deck has multiple ways to counter opponents even if they know his main strategy of using End of the World. He has cards that can restore lots of life to counter aggro tactics, multiple ways to add End of the World to his hand or generate it to counter hand ripping or mill effects, and the vast majority of his spells are either removal or board clear since he relies on an InstantWinCondition anyways. But what truly puts him into this trope is that he ''also'' has a contingency for if someone manages to survive End of the World, which keep in mind is almost impossible, in the form of Odious Mage, a card that not only adds End of the World back into his hand so he can try again next turn, but also makes itself into a massive Ward and sets him right back to 20 life.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: His first name was originally translated as Wodin before the English spelling was confirmed to be Warden.

!! Hina Sinclair
A proud girl who likes villainous characters.
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She uses a self-styled "villainous" Forestcraft deck filled with insect followers. Her strategy revolves around the Fertile Forest amulet which creates an Insect Larva at the beginning of each of her turns. Its presence on the field allows her cards to gain additional effects.
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* BigCreepyCrawlies: Her deck of full of insect followers, reflecting her love for the Queen Insect character from the ShowWithinAShow Battle Fencer.
* {{Foil}}: To Ren. The former is nice to others and loves superheroes. Hina, on the other hand, is rude and prefers villainous characters, dismissing heroes as being for little kids.
* MaximumHPReduction: In her rematch with Ren, Hina uses cards such as her second ace card Hornet Raider, that have the ability to reduce the opposing leader's maximum defense with the aim of reducing it down to 0.

* DistressedDamsel: Gets kidnapped by shades at the end of the prologue. Arisa's first story arc is focused on rescuing her, and her quest will span several other arcs before finally concluding.

FemaleGaze: Has a ShowerScene in Episode 8, seen from the back with steam censoring his rear nudity.

* FemaleGaze: He has few shots here and there, with one of them focused on his butt wearing underwear with "I love Shadowverse" written on it.

* ShowerScene: Has one in Episode 8, seen from the back with steam censoring his nudity.

* FemaleGaze: He gets a few shots here and there, with one of them focused on his butt wearing underwear with "I love Shadowverse" written on it.

* GoodAllAlong: [[spoiler:At first he appears to be keeping the inn guests trapped in a LotusEaterMachine. After Taketsumi is defeated, he pops up again and explains the truth: that the inn was supposed to allow the guests to take a break from their painful lives so that they would eventually be able to return to them]].

* SkillGateCharacter: Like Forestcraft, Swordcraft is an incredibly easy to learn and straightforward deck to play. Unlike Forestcraft, it is possible to pull off [[https://shadowverse.gamepress.gg/deck-archetype/royal-banner-swordcraft a reasonable and competitively viable deck with only Bronze and Silver cards and followers]].

* ArcherArchetype: Arisa is one. In addition, many of her followers specialize in archery.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: His first name was originally translated as Wodin before the english spelling was confirmed to be Warden.

* JustForPun: One of the unlockable flairs from playing Swordcraft is titled "Maid to Kill".

* DeityOfHumanOrigin: [[spoiler:Her stolen power of the Goddess of Cycles gives her the ability to facilitate growth... and control time. She uses it to help her students realize their potential, and uses it to its fullest to knock Weiss senseless.]]

* WellDoneSonGuy: [[spoiler:Due to his father's long absence, he clings to the one time his father acknowledged his talents, and strove to get similar praise again.]]

* GreaterScopeVillain: Nerva was responsible for empowering [[spoiler:Maisha]] and Belphomet, [[spoiler:driving Viridia Magna to attempt to destroy her world,]] [[spoiler:and giving Taketsumi the ability to usurp the Great Spider,]] causing the conflicts in many story arcs without personally facing the heroes.
* TheHeavy: Nerva is more proactive with her meddling, as opposed to Nexus who adheres to her directives. She's had a hand in the conflicts that affected Isunia, Aiolon, Naterra, [[spoiler:and the Ametsuchi Inn.]]

* ForWantOfANail: She retells the Rivaylian legend where a single rock was cast into the emptiness of Rivayle, and from this single action came ripples that caused life to sprout. This rock is analagous to the bullet of fate, entrusted to Bunny as a "good luck charm", which would get passed across the protagonists of the Rivayle arc, though [[InSpiteOfANail its significance would have no effect on Rivayle's fate]]... until The Final Loop, when external forces cause the bullet to change hands a few more times until it finally fulfills its purpose.

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[[caption-width-right:1000:I don't know, but... I think it's too soon to give up. My Shadowverse has no end!]]

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* BreakTheHaughty: His ego takes a hit when Light manages to defeat him during the last day of the Shadowverse World Ranking but it doesn't stick as he quickly goes back to his condescending self. [[spoiler:Hiro handing him a second loss]]

* BreakTheHaughty: His ego takes a hit when Light manages to defeat him during the last day of the Shadowverse World Ranking but it doesn't stick as he quickly goes back to his condescending self. [[spoiler:Hiro handing him a second loss

She uses a self-styled "villainous" Forestcraft deck filled with insect followers. Her strategy revolves around the Fertile Forest which creates an Insect Larva at the beginning of each of her turns. Its presence on the field allows her cards to gain additional effects.

* StuckInTheirShadow: [[spoiler:Feels this way towards Verdilia, who's always gone the extra mile to look out for her. Castelle's reason for enrolling into Lainecrest is to grow strong enough to be recognized by her sister as an equal instead, and with a little prodding from Weiss, ends up becoming Nerva's Vessel.]]

A Lainecrest professor who masquerades as the "Angel of Death," killing unsuspecting students to harvest their mana for his own purposes while disguising their deaths as dropouts.