Roaring Azure (爆蒼; bakusou) is a family in the Battle Spirits trading card game.
It premiered in BS36. Roaring Azure spirits are primarily Blue, generally themed as animals with some sort of armor or 'revamped' traits. Their BSGP team, Terra Stampede, is famous for crashing on courses, which might be the reason for their exaggerated, dire and/or edgy designs.
The family was introduced as The BoarTwelveGodKing Calamity-Boar's family, and owned a deck/share of Blue in God-King era. However, despite being able to do both deck destruction and beat down, the deck was not particular strong at both aspects, resulting in a low power level and low popularity. Unlike The RabbitTwelveGodKing Mistral-Bit and The TigerTwelveGodKing Revol-Tiger, the second Blue God-King, The DogTwelveGodKing Greedog, goes back to Fusion Beast and has no synergy with Roaring Azure, making the deck/family receiving less support than it should have when compared to other major families of the era, despite being a new family like Death Dragon.
Towards the end of Advent era, the era after God-King, the family was again shortly featured as the family of members of the Roaring Azure Pirate Gang, together with The PirateShipGodKing Calamity-Boar-Ship, the remake of The BoarTwelveGodKing Calamity-Boar. Despite so, it didn't suceed in making much an impact.
While there would be a card or two from the family occasionally, the family was hidden from spotlight for a substantial period until Contract Saga: True, almost 8 years after the debut of the family, when the family was finally featured as a major family in main set again, leading by The RagingGaleContractor Huracan, the supposed supreme deity of the Vulrica faction, a group of Grandwalkers based on Mayan/Aztec mythology. It features a unique play style of forcing both players to heavy exhaust own Spirits/Ultimates to attack, and gain various advantages when own cards or opposing cards got heavily exhausted. While it started out far from the top tier, it received solid support throughout the year unlike God-King era's time, and became a solid deck that appeared in the finals of Championship.
On the collaboration side, this family is part of Kamen Rider Drive’s deck, as the series has a prominent vehicle theme. It gives the family Red cards. The deck focuses around the keyword, Ultra Clash, and could trigger various effects when own Sprits are blocked, which effectively aligns with the image of The BoarTwelveGodKing Calamity-Boar.
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