Curse Contract

Curse Contract (呪契約 ; ju-keiyaku) is a family introduced in BS61, possessed exclusively by the Contract card The PartnerMusha Oboro and its subsequent cards with Contract Advent. The family is a representation to the contract, which is a part of the World Destruction Contract, which Oboro made with an unrevealed character in the lore, and since all the Purple cards with Contract Advent are technically a variant of Oboro's power, they have the Curse Contract family as well. All cards in this family are also part of the bigger Blood Crystal family.
== Play Style ==
As currently all cards in this family are either a Contract card or a Purple card with Contract Advent, the deck highly revolves around the Advent mechanic. As part of the new series after the age of Rebirth cards, it also plays around high numbers of counters to differentiate themselves from the previous cards. Cards in this family are also always paired with the Blood Crystal family, often along with a tertiary family which is mostly irrelevant to the play style of the deck, so the play style may overlap with other Blood Crystal family cards. For Curse Contract, however, it seems to focus specifically on destruction effects based on the number of cores on cards, and even include self-destruction effects, resembling the image of how oni, a kind of youkai in Japanese folklore, would devour their own comrades for greater power.
The end goal of the deck is to build up enough counters and advent The BloodSlashOgreGeneral Oni-Oboro. As such, it is advised to always put The PartnerMusha Oboro in the starting hand, so that the player may have an unremovable Advent base for the Advent cards in the deck. Due to the Advent conditions of the Curse Contract family cards, they are limited to only capable of adventing onto Oboro or each other. Oboro can destroy a Spirit, the owner's or the opponent's, with one core or less on it, plus an additional effect which draws when a Spirit/Ultimate is destroyed by a "Blood Crystal" family effect. As such, early gameplay usually revolves around attacking with Oboro to destroy Spirits of the same field for draws and (When Destroyed) effects. The (When Destroyed) effects vary, but they usually provide more draws or counters.
The mid-game is the period to build up counters and draws, which means Oboro is required to be able to attack every turn. Unlike the Blood Contract family, the Curse Contract family cards mostly consist of destruction effects, which means they are more suitable to be used as removals more than gaining resources, so as long Oboro is on the field able to attack, it is not a must to advent the Curse Contract as soon as possible. Other mid-game controls also include The BloodPrincess Akaha and her Magic card Cutting Blood Strings, as well as The CurseGrudgeOgreGeneral Bagrago.
When the player reaches seven counters or more, they are ready to advent Oni-Oboro, which has an Over Count condition of seven counters or more. With Oni-Oboro's ability to constantly refresh as a double-symbol Spirit, along with Bagrago's effect to prevent Attack Step being ended, it is very easy to trample over the opposing field.
Unlike the Blood Contract family, the Curse Contract family is not closely tied to the Blood Crystal family (meaning the deck does not have to be purely Blood Crystal), players have options to tech in cards outside of the deck to smoothen the game process. The most prominent examples are The Purple World, Deathtament, Death Ataraxia, and EVANGELION Mark. 06 -Spear of Cassius-.
As most of the effects in this deck are (When Summoned) effects, a simple summon-effect lock can immediately shut down the deck. Many effects also only activate upon destruction but not depletion, meaning when facing another Purple deck which focuses on depletion, there is also a slight disadvantage in missing out the timings for the effect activations. Also, the deck also rarely has colorless or piercing effects, so it can also be a struggle when facing decks with Purple immunity.
== Trivia==
* Even though the family was first supported in a main set, the first Curse Contract card revealed as card news was a promo card that was released later than BS61.
==Also See==
*List of Curse Contract family cards
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