Board Thread:LOC General Discussion/@comment-5616072-20130806121457

There seems to be some confusion about the purpose and the utility of the support deck in HC. I am admittedly somewhat confused about it.

The wiki article located here states the following:

"The Support Deck acts as a secondary defensive deck for players, subbing in battles in place of the Defense Line of the Main Deck depending on the element of opposing players. The deck consists of three Defense Lines, one of each element type, with each holding up to five cards. Each elemental line will sub in place of the Main Deck's Defense Line in order to defend against players of the opposite element. For example, when facing against an attacking water player, the forest line from the Support Deck will automatically sub into battle in order to defend.

Cards do not have to be of the same element as a particular line in order to be used in it. However, cards matching the element of their line will receive a boost to defense.

It is important to note that cards in the Support Line cannot participate in battle when attacking."

The common assumptions that I've noticed among quite a few players is that the Forest line in the support deck would be to defend against forest and should contain cards that "Drop Forest ATK" etc, but the Wiki suggests that actual Forest cards are best used in this line and receive a bonus.

Another common assumption seems to be that the support deck does indeed act in some way like a backline. I would suppose that the name of the deck encourages this assumption. I would also suppose that the addition of the support deck's defensive points to the "DEF Potential" stat on the main deck page also encourages this assumption.

'''My understanding of the support deck is that if your Main Deck Defensive line is strong enough so that you would not want to REPLACE it with whatever is in your support deck versus specific elements... that there's really no point in putting anything in the support deck at all. Is this correct????''' 