Gale Mirage

Gale Mirage (ゲールミラージ Gēru Mirāji) is a fan-made clan from the Zoo nation. It revolves around bounce effects and trickery, delaying and deceiving the opponent while assaulting them with high-powered units.

Background
Every so often, in the alternate Cray of Cray i, mysterious disappearances occur throughout the globe; people, especially children and infants, would simply vanish into thin air when others aren't looking. The most notable of these incidents occurred several centuries ago, when a sizable village of winged dragons in the Dragon Empire simply vanished.

In truth, the disappearances were caused by a civilization of faeries from a dream world, a pocket dimension of Cray influenced by the thoughts and beliefs of its denizens. The faeries, curious about mortal beings, kidnapped people and trapped them in their world, desiring to observe their behavior to sate their curiosity. Trapped in a harsh, chaotic, and alien land and subject to the whims of the magically powerful faerie nobles, the mortals struggled to survive, and in their efforts to do so, they became almost as strange and twisted as the faeries themselves.

However, some of the mortals, primarily humans and winged dragons, still retained their sanity, as they held on to their desire to take revenge on the faeries for taking them away from their lives on Cray. These mortals came to inhabit an area particularly rich in iron, which was anathema to the faeries, and began to build a civilization, taking advantage of the iron to build machines and weapons. They then went to war with the faerie courts, and the conflict went on and off for hundreds of years. While the faeries had great control over the realm's reality, they were weak to the iron used by the mortals, so the two sides were locked in a stalemate. The two sides continually adapted to each other, so as the mortals became more faerie-like in thought, the faeries became more human-like in thought. The faeries slowly began to become less vulnerable to iron.

Centuries later, after steadily decreasing aggression from both sides, the Suppressors invaded the dream world and forced the two factions to work together. The Suppressors baited the newly formed and tenuous alliance into the real world, into a heavily populated area of Neo Nectar's territory, thus revealing their existence to the world. Now, the alliance, christened "Gale Mirage," must now contend with the now unfamiliar Cray, as alien to them as they are to Cray.

Playstyle
Gale Mirage is a tempo-based clan. They disrupt the opponent's strategies with seemingly insignificant actions that actually have massive consequences, such as bouncing, exchanging the positions of rear-guards, and putting rear-guards on the top of your opponent's deck. They make heavy use of illusions and feints to trick opponents into burning their resources to combat harmless plays. This disruption and use of tricks prevents the opponent from getting an early lead as Gale Mirage assaults the opponent. Playing against Gale Mirage requires figuring out which of their plays are real and which are bluffs; simply trying to take all of their plays head-on will almost certainly lead to you running out of cards.

Races

 * Chimera
 * Dryad
 * Elf
 * Forest Dragon
 * Giant
 * Gnome
 * Goblin
 * High Beast
 * Human
 * Sylph
 * Winged Dragon

Sub-clans and archetypes

 * Alwallier