Taishi Miwa

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==Summary==
Taishi Miwa is a main character from Cardfight!! Vanguard. While he does not have an Avatar Unit, he wields a deck from the Kagero clan that's similar to Toshiki Kai's, his closest friend. He usually spends much of his time watching his friends cardfight, but he proves to be a formidable Cardfighter when taking on Aichi Sendou himself and he's regarded as Kai's training partner. Prior to the beginning of the series, Miwa and Kai used to be close friends before Kai moved away. After he moved back, despite Kai's cold-hearted behavior, Miwa still considers Kai his closest friend and goes to great lengths to help him.
==Powers and Stats==
Tier: At least with Grade 0 Units, at least with Grade 1 & higher Units
Key: Beginning of Series
Name: Taishi Miwa
Origin: Cardfight!! Vanguard
Gender: Male
Age: 16
Classification: Cardfighter
Powers and Abilities:
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Imagination Manipulation, which also gives Miwa Soul Projection, Summoning, Possession, Fusionism, Mind Control and Transformation (Using the power of imagination, all cardfighters can project their souls onto the surface of Planet Cray during a cardfight; A cardfighters soul is able to not only summon the Units of Planet Cray and have them fight on their behalf as "Rear-Guard" allies, but they can also possess them to become and fight as the Units themselves, becoming "the Vanguard" and both can be done passively via Superior Calls and Superior Rides; All cardfighter's can also summon the Units on Planet Cray for defensive purposes, such as guarding against an opponents attacks), Self-Sustenance (Type 2 with the cardfighter's soul), Can act without a soul residing in his body and Resistance to Existence Erasure (Whenever a cardfighter loses a cardfight, their Vanguard gets completely destroyed entirely to the point where only the cardfighter's soul remains, but the cardfighter's soul remains perfectly unharmed)
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All previous Powers and Abilities, plus Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Existence Erasure with every hit (All Units are able to completely erase and leave no traces left of each other during cardfight's with any attack they unleash, retiring them from battle; Miwa's Vortex Dragon can retire Units using fire blasts; Miwa's Berserk Dragon retires Rear-Guards into the drop zone when the Vanguard is a Kagero Unit; Miwa's Flame Seed Salamander retire's Grade 0 Units if he boosts a successful attack; Miwa's Heatnail Salamander retire's Grade 1 Units if he boosts a successful attack), Non-Physical Interaction (All Units are able to interact, come in contact with and attack souls), Weapon Mastery (Dragonic Overlord, Dragon Knight Nahalem and many of Miwa's Units have mastery over swords, spears, lances, etc.), Statistics Amplification through various means (All of Miwa's Grade 0 and Grade 1 Units have the ability to give their strength to allies to increase their power; Units with Trigger effects can give an additional boost in power to Units of Miwa's choice during battle, particularly Critical Trigger Units; Miwa's Iron Tail Dragon can increase it's power when called into battle; Miwa's Vortex Dragon increase's its power whenever a Unit is moved into it's soul; Miwa's Chain Attack Sutherland increase it's power whenever an opponent's Rear-Guard is retired from battle; Miwa's Garnet Dragon Flash ncreases an ally Rear-Guard's power when making a successful attack), Damage Boost (Critical Trigger Units increase the amount of damage Units can cause to opponents), Statistics Reduction (When summoning Units to defend against attacks, the power of the opponents Units is lowered in comparison to the power of the defending Units), Healing (Heal Trigger Unit's have the additional effect of healing damage to a cardfighters Vanguard), Stamina Inducement (Stand Trigger Unit's have the additional effect of re-standing Units who previously attacked to attack again; Miwa's Dragonic Overlord has the ability to stand back up whenever it defeats an opponent Unit), Aura, True Flight, Self-Sustenance (Type 1; All Units are capable of battling deep underwater in Planet Cray's oceans without issues), Fire Manipulation (Many of Miwa's Units can manipulate and unleash fire-based attacks, like Dragonic Overlord and Vortex Dragon), Summoning (Miwa has Units that can summon other Units to the Rear-Guard and passively via Superior Calls), Attack Negation (Mwa's Wyvern Guard Barri, a Perfect Guard Unit, can negate attacks), Energy Manipulation through multiple means, Smoke Manipulation (Miwa's Dragon Knight, Nahalem can attack using smoke), Electricity Manipulation through various means (Miwa's Dragon Knight Nahalem can unleash purple electrical blasts; Miwa's Beserk Dragon can unleash electrical blasts), Soul Manipulation through various means (Miwa's Vortex Dragon can move other Units into "The Soul" when they're used as Vanguards, this would count as Soul Absorption; Miwa's Vortex Dragon can destroy Units within "The Soul" and send them to the drop zone via Soul Blasts, this would count as Soul Destruction), Regeneration (Mid-Godly; All Units are able to completely revive themselves after being completely destroyed during cardfights for later use, can be done immediately as well; When a cardfighter loses a cardfight, their Vanguard Unit and the Units within their soul are completely erased with nothing left but the cardfighter's soul and return later) and Resistance to Existence Erasure (Any Unit that is used as a Vanguard can safely withstand hits from other Units without being destroyed)
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Attack Potency: At least Building level with Grade 0 Units, at least Large-Star level with Grade 1 & higher Units (Is regarded to be strong enough to be Toshiki Kai's training partner, making his Kagero deck comparable to Kai's; Fought against Aichi Sendou and his Royal Paladin deck, making his Units comparable to Aichi's; Miwa's Grade 2s Units are superior to his Grade 1 Units; Miwa's Grade 3 Units are superior to his Grade 2 Units and holds in his possession Dragonic Overlord, his strongest Unit)
Speed: At least Peak Human reactions with Massively Hypersonic attack speed (Some Unit's can manipulate lightning) and Massively FTL+ travel with Units (The souls of Cardfighters are far inferior to the Units of Planet Cray, superior to the speed of Ren's Units)
Lifting Strength: Superhuman with Grade 0 Units, Pre-Stellar with Grade 1 & higher Units
Striking Strength: At least Building level with Grade 0 Units, at least Large Star level with Grade 1 & higher Units
Durability: At least Building level with Grade 0 Units, at least Large-Star level with Grade 1 & higher Units (Units can withstand attacks from each other)
Stamina: Extremely high, Likely limitless (All cardfighters are able to act and battle for extended periods without their souls being present in their bodies; All cardfighters are able to project their souls onto Planet Cray to battle using Units and cardfight from earth simultaneously for extended periods of time without tiring) | Extremely high
Range: Standard melee range, planetary+ with his soul (All cardfighters are able to summon Units from across Planet Cray to use them for battle) | Standard melee range, several dozens of meters with Grade 0 Units through attacks, Stellar with Grade 1 & higher Units through attacks
Standard Equipment: Vanguard card deck, Vanguard Units
Optional Equipment: None
Intelligence: At least Gifted. Miwa is a very skilled tactician and strategist, being able to easily develop strategies and successfully pull off strong combinations and battle formations to make use of his Units skills and abilities to their fullest extent. Battling on Planet Cray reinforces his already great intelligence by being able to possess Units, enter combat as the Units, and lead other Units into battle against other Cardfighters. While Miwa for most of the series prefers to stand aside and watch his friends cardfight, he is regarded as very knowledgeable from early on by analyzing and deducing the strategies of opponents his friends cardfight against. In addition to that, his cardfighting experience is demonstrated when taking on Aichi for himself and when revealing to be the training partner that helped Toshiki Kai become the dominate cardfighter he is known to be in the series. The Units Miwa uses are also very skilled tacticians and strategists by participating in numerous battles with Miwa.
Weaknesses: Cardfighters have to ride Units in chronological order, they cannot skip a grade when riding, like going from a Grade 0 Unit to a Grade 2 Unit. Cardfighters in most situations cannot summon Rear-Guard Units that exceed the grade of their Vanguard for offensive and defensive purposes. Cardfighter's must sacrifice Units when using them for defensive purposes | None notable
Notable Attacks/Techniques:
*Imagination Manipulation: All Cardfighters use the power of imagination for various different purposes and to different extents in the game of Cardfight!! Vanguard
*Soul Projection: In the game of Cardfight!! Vanguard, all Cardfighters are able to use the power of imagination to project their spirits onto the surface of a planet that is very similar to Earth in the Vanguard universe, Planet Cray.
*Summoning, Possession, Transformation, Mind Control & Fusionism: In the game of Cardfight!! Vanguard, all Cardfighters are able to not only summon, but possess one of the Units living on Planet Cray for their spirits to reside in after projecting them onto Cray's surface. Upon summoning and possessing the Unit, the Cardfighters soul takes the Unit's form and are able to use them to battle other Cardfighters during a cardfight. This is otherwise known as a "Ride", where Cardfighters use Units to become "Vanguards". Cardfighters are also able to summon the creatures of Planet Cray to fight on their behalf as allies. This is otherwise known as a "Call", where Cardfighters summon Units as "Rear-Guards". In most situations, Cardfighters can only summon Units who's grades are equal to or lower than the grade of their Vanguard's. For example, if a Cardfighter uses a Grade 1 Vanguard, they can only summon Grade 1 or Grade 0 Units for support. They cannot summon Grade 2 or Grade 3 Rear-Guard Units.
**Guarding: To go along with being able to summon Units, all Cardfighters in the Cardfight!! Vanguard game are able to also summon Units for defensive purposes. They can sacrifice Units to protect the Vanguard or other Rear-Guard Units from being harmed or destroyed by opponents by using power given in shield values which is combined with the Vanguard's own power. This can also be done using Perfect Guard Units that can negate the opponents attacks. Guarding is able to be accomplished by either summoning the Units or using Units already in battle with you that have the "Intercept" skill. While Grade 3 Units cannot be used as defensive Units in the game itself, this would fall under as nothing but card-game mechanics.
***Power Draining: Whenever Cardfighter's summon Units for defensive purposes, they can also weaken the power of the opponents Units that are attacking in efforts to weaken their attacks. The defensive power of the Unit that's being used as a guard is directly subtracted from the Unit that is attacking. For example, if a Cardfighter uses a Unit that has 10,000 power for a shield value, and the opponent is attacking with 15,000 power, the total amount of power the opponents Unit will have left is 5,000 power, weakening them. However, only Units with shield values (Grade 0s, 1s, 2s, and some 4s) are able to weaken the power of opponent Units. So Grade 3 Units and Perfect Guard Units would not be able to drain the power of opponents when used for guarding purposes.
*Soul Manipulation: In the game of Cardfight!! Vanguard, there is a mechanic that all Cardfighters make use of with their Units known as "The Soul". "The Soul" is when and where Units are placed underneath a Cardfighters Vanguard that is currently in use, making it a "soul-stack" and when the number of Units in the soul reaches a certain point, they can be sacrificed for the price of activating different abilities. There are two methods on how to add Units into the soul. One method would be for Units to be ones that have been previously rided on. For example: if a Grade 3 is rided ontop of a Grade 2, who is rided on top of a Grade 1, who is rided ontop of a Grade 0 starting Vanguard, the lower Grade Units will be within the Grade 3 Vanguards soul. The second method would be to use a skiill called "Soul Charge" where Units get added into the Vanguards soul. In the game of Cardfight!! Vanguard, "The Soul" is also considered the soul of any Unit that is being used as a Vanguard for a cardfighter, and when Units enter or are placed within "The Soul", they become souls themselves. Using "The Soul", Units are able to use soul manipulation to multiple degrees. They can use it to send themselves into and out of the soul, soul absorption to "Soul Charge" other Units as Vanguards, or soul destruction to destroy Units within the Vanguards soul through a skill called a "Soul Blast".
*Boosting: This is a skill exclusively for Grade 0 and Grade 1 Units in the Cardfight!! Vanguard game. When in the rear-guard as support Units, Grade 0s and 1s can give their power to other Units to boost their power further.
*Triggers: In the game of Cardfight!! Vanguard, there are Grade 0 Units who have unique abilities called Triggers. Whenever a Vanguard attacks or takes damage from attacks, Cardfighters reveal cards from their decks during battles in an attempt to get a Trigger. There are 4 kinds of Triggers in Vanguard and each Trigger has a different effect, along with a power boost to be given to the Unit of choice. There are Draw Triggers, Critical Triggers, Heal Triggers and Stand Triggers. The only trigger that can be discarded as nothing but game mechanics would be the Draw Trigger Effect. Heal Triggers would be Healing Hax, Stand Triggers could be treated as a kind of Stamina Inducement to allow Units to attack more in succession, and Critical triggers would be given Damage Boost. Also, whenever a Cardfighter reveals a Trigger during a Drive or Damage check, it's the equivalent to the cardfighter summoning the Trigger Units to give them the Trigger Effect on Planet Cray. 
*Existence Erasure & Resistance: In the game of Cardfight!! Vanguard, all Units from Planet Cray have the ability to completely erase Units with every kind of attack they unleash in battle. When Units are destroyed, they get sent to the Drop Zone, which is the direct equivalant to Units being completely destroyed when they battle between each other on Planet Cray. The cardfighters themselves don't have existence erasure, but their souls have resistance for being able to remain unaffected by their Vanguards being erased at the end of a cardfight. 
Notable Units: The following is a list of all Units and decks that Miwa has used throughout the course of the series.
==Beginning of Series Composite Deck==
=Grade 0 Units=
===Kagero===
*Lizard Runner, Undeux
*Embodiement of Spear, Tahr (x2; Critical Trigger Unit)
*Dragon Dancer, Monica (x2; Draw Trigger Unit)
*Flame Seed Salamander (Stand Trigger Unit)
*Dragon Munk Genjo (x2; Heal Trigger Unit)
=Grade 1 Units=
===Kagero===
*Embodiment of Armor, Bahr (x2)
*Heatnail Salamander 
*Iron Tail Dragon (x2)
*Wyvern Guard, Barri (x2)
=Grade 2 Units=
===Kagero===
*Berserk Dragon (x2)
*Dragon Knight, Nahalem 
*Chain-attack Sutherland
=Grade 3 Units=
===Kagero===
*Dragonic Overlord 
*Garnet Dragon, Flash
*Vortex Dragon
==Gallery==
Young Miwa and Kai.png|Young Miwa and Kai
Older Miwa and Kai.png|Older Miwa and Kai
Miwa cardfighting Aichi Sendou.png|Miwa cardfighting Aichi Sendou
==Respect Threads==
Cardfight!! Vanguard Season 1 Feats Blog
==Notable Matchups==
Victories: 
Losses:
Inconclusive:
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Category:Non-Physical Interaction Users
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Category:Statistics Amplification Users
Category:Statistics Reduction Users
Category:Aura Users
Category:Flight Users
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Category:Smoke Users
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