K-ON! Part 1 Starter deck list + full translation!

Ok, this is my translation of the cards of the k-on starter deck! There’s a lot of cards with no abilities, so I’ll just write “vanilla X/X” to keep it simple. Here’s the deck list!

Characters
1 01-006 Hirasawa Yui red 0/1 vanilla 10/10 (uniform)
1 01-031 Akiyama Mio blue 0/1 vanilla 10/10 (uniform)
1 01-055 Tainaka Ritsu yellow 0/1 vanilla 10/10 (uniform)
1 01-078 Kotobuki Tsumugi green 0/1 vanilla 10/10 (uniform, princess)
1 01-068 Yamanaka Sawako yellow 0/1 “When this character comes into play, if you have a character with “uniform” in play, draw one card” (teacher, glasses)
1 01-008 Manabe Nodoka red 0/1 “tap (main/jibun): give one of your “music+uniform” characters +10/+0 until the end of the turn” (uniform/glasses)
1 01-070 Hirasawa Ui yellow 0/1 “tap (main/jibun): “give one of your “Hirasawa Yui”s +10/+0 until the end of the turn” (apron)
1 01-005 Hirasawa Yui red 1/2 vanilla 10/20 (uniform)
1 01-030 Akiyama Mio blue 1/2 vanilla 10/20 (uniform)
1 01-054 Tainaka Ritsu yellow 1/2 vanilla 20/10 (uniform)
1 01-079 Kotobuki Tsumugi green 1/2 vanilla 10/20 (uniform, princess)
1 01-007 Nakano Azusa red 1/2 vanilla 20/10 (uniform)
1 01-027 Akiyama Mio blue 2/2 vanilla 20/20 (music, uniform)
1 01-077 Kotobuki Tsumigi green 2/2 vanilla 20/20 (music, uniform, princess)
1 01-029 Nakano Azusa blue 2/2 vanilla 20/20 (music, uniform)
1 01-092 Yamanaka Sawako green 2/2 vanilla 20/20 (teacher, glasses)
1 01-033 Manabe Nodoka blue 2/2 vanilla 20/20 (uniform, glasses)
1 01-052 Tainaka Ritsu yellow 2/2 vanilla 20/20 (music, uniform)
1 01-002 Hirasawa Yui red 2/2 vanilla 20/20 (music, uniform)
1 01-009 Hirasawa Ui red 2/2 vanilla 20/20 (uniform)
2 01-060 Akiyama Mio yellow 2/2 20/10 “When this character comes into play, you may take a “Nekomimi” card in your trash pile and attach it to this character” (uniform, nekomimi)
2 01-061 Tainaka Ritsu yellow 2/2 20/10 “tap (main/jibun): give one of your “Nekomimi” characters Active until the end of the turn” (uniform, nekomimi)
2 01-059 Hirasawa Yui yellow 2/2 20/20 “If you play a “Nakano Azusa” this turn, you may search your deck for a “Nekomimi” card, reveal it, and then put it in your hand” (uniform, nekomimi)
2 01-063 Nakano Azusa yellow 2/2 20/20 “”Nekomimi” support cards in your hand have a cost of -1” (uniform, nekomimi)
2 01-004 Hirasawa Yui red 2/2 20/20 “If you attach a “Gii-ta” to this character, then draw a card” (uniform)
1 01-097 Tainaka Ritsu green 2/2 20/20 “When this character comes into play, give one of the opponent’s characters -10/-10 until the end of the turn” (none)
1 01-091 Kotobuki Tsumugi green 2/2 10/20 “When this character comes into play, give two of your characters +10/+10 until the end of the turn” (princess)
1 01-075 Nakano Azusa yellow 2/2 20/20 “When this character comes into play, take one of the cards in your point pile, put it into your hand, and then take one card from your hand and put it face down in your point pile” (none)
1 01-046 Akiyama Mio blue 3/2 vanilla 30/30 (none)
1 01-066 Kotobuki Tsumigi yellow 3/2 vanilla 30/30 (cosplay, bunny, princess)
1 01-098 Nakano Azusa green 3/2 vanilla 30/30 (none)
1 01-074 Tainaka Ritsu yellow 3/2 vanilla 30/30 (none)
1 01-093 Hirasawa Yui green 3/2 vanilla 30/30 (none)
1 01-001 Hirasawa Yui red 4/1 vanilla 40/40 (music, uniform)
1 01-025 Akiyama Mio blue 4/1 vanilla 40/40 (music, uniform)
1 01-051 Tainaka Ritsu yellow 4/1 vanilla 40/40 (music, uniform)
1 01-076 Kotobuki Tsumigi green 4/1 vanilla 40/40 (music, uniform, princess)
1 01-028 Nakano Azusa blue 4/1 vanilla 40/40 (music, uniform)

Event cards:
1 01-137 “Resort kibun (resort feeling)” blue 5/1 BREAK! main/jibun: draw 3 cards
1 01-148 “Genkotsu (fist)” yellow 5/1 BREAK! Main/jibun: tap one of the opponent’s characters
1 01-132 “Sawachan no sennou (Sawachan’s brainwashing)” 3/1 blue Requirement: Yamanaka Sawako. Main/Jibun: Return one of the opponent’s characters to their hand. Afterwards, they can put one character from their hand into play tapped.
1 01-166 “Kaze (cold)” green 0/1 approach/opponent: give one of your opponent’s characters -0/-10 until the end of the turn.
1 01-114 “Sakura kou keion bu (Sakura High K-ON club)” red 5/1 requirement : (one of each of the 5 k-on girls) main/jibun: hit the opponent for a point
2 01-068 “buin boushuuchuu (In search of club members)” green 1/2 main/jibun: search your deck for any “Music/uniform” character, reveal it, and put it in your hand. Then, shuffle your deck.
1 01-102 “gakki (musical instrument)” red 1/1 main/jibun: Search your deck for a support card, reveal it, and put it in your hand. Then, shuffle your deck.
1 01-167 Yatsuatari (outburst of anger) 1/1 green main/jibun: trash one support card in play.
2 01-121 “Rotenburo (open air bath) 0/1 blue main/jibun: both players draw 2 cards.
2 01-116 “Gekkouchuu (Dismissal time) 0/1 red approach/opponent: Give one your blocking characters +10/+10 until the end of the turn”
2 01-175 “Gii-ta” 0/2 red support: This can only be attached to a “Hirasawa Yui”. The attached character gets +10/+0.
2 01-176 “Nekomimi” 1/1 yellow support: If the character this is attached to is a “Nekomimi” character, then that character gets +10/+10, otherwise that character is now “Nekomimi” type.

So for the most part, many cards are very basic. The event cards will most likely take some getting used to, but it’s not too bad. For a starting deck, it’s very very easy, so I would 100% suggest to start at this starter if you want to learn the game! Enjoy! Read More......

Let's get started! Making a deck!/deck-building tips!

The next small article here will be about building a deck!

Each deck consists of exactly 60 cards, no more, no less. As stated before, no more than 4 of any card in a deck. This refers to card number, not card name. There are at least 40 different "Hirasawa Yui" cards, but you can only have 4 of each particular one. Therefore, making a deck revolving around a single character is more than do-able.

According to the rulebook, they say that a deck should consist of roughly:
40-44 characters
12-16 events
0-4 support cards

While that's what the rulebook suggests, and while it's not necessarilly terrible, the most important thing to consider is how you want your deck to work. Some decks thrive on having a lot of creatures. Others thrive on having a lot of events. However, you can only find out what the right amount of character/event/support cards in your deck is by playing that deck and testing it out against other players! Balance is the most important thing!

"Where should I start?"
-Starter decks! They're called "Starter" decks for a reason! They're usually somewhat basic, but have a decent amount of useful cards. Obviously, they're not going to win any tournaments, but by picking up a couple of starters, you can play against a friend and have fun with that! Then you can slowly start to build up and add other cards once you understand the game better, and even make a new deck on your own! There's starter decks for the following sets:
K-ON! (part 1)
Hidamari Sketch
K-ON! (part 2)
Bakemonogatari
K-ON! (part 3)
Ookami san
Ika Musume

So there's quite a variety in what decks you can get, and all the starters contain cards that you can't get outside of the starter deck! If you want my recommendation on a deck, I recommend getting a deck from whatever series you happen to like the best. Also, I would suggest getting a different deck from your friend, just because it's more interesting than just playing the exact same starter deck as your friend.

If you want to make things a little more interesting, you can also buy a few booster packs to go with it. That way, you can have a basic deck, and then once you understand a bit better, you can check out the other cards and expand your decks!

What should I look for when making a deck?
There are a few things you should look for.

For the casual player -
- Pick a character/series you like, and make a deck using those cards. If your favorite K-ON! character is Mio, then making a Mio heavy deck with many mio events might be suited to you. If you really like Katanagatari, then making a deck with many katanagatari characters/cards. It's more fun to play when you're using cards of a character/series that you really like.
-- The reason why it's good to have a theme like that is because if cards are from the same series, then they can be used to play out the other cards very easily. If you're mixing and matching too much, you'll find yourself in a situation where you have a hard time playing out many cards.

-Find a theme - Some popular themes among decks are decks that have the same character type (maid, or megane, for example), or decks that have many characters with "active" Some decks are mostly blue/red/yellow/green, so even finding the color you want to use is fine, too.

- Find a specific card (or a few specific cards) you like, and think of a way to make that card, or those cards the center of your deck. Even if it's not the center of your deck, making a deck that incorporates that will be a lot of fun for you, because you're playing the style of deck that you want to!


For the more competitive player, it's more of a challenge and generally involves using a lot of the tournament heavy cards. I'm personally a tournament heavy player, but I can give good help about any type of deck, and how well it will do in theory.

In addition, if anyone has any requests for translations, or any cards that they want me to give my opinion on, then please post in the comments, and I'll be more than happy to make a new focusing on that! I don't think too many people are reading this now, so even if the request is rather big (like translating a whole set), if you request it, then it'll have a better chance of getting done!

Until then, take care!
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