Tenebria Best Build Guide

Last updated: 01/August/2026

Introduction

Best guide and build for Tenebria from Chaos Zero Nightmare (CZN). Tenebria is a 5✦ character from the Psionic class and Passion attribute.

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Update tracker

Last review update

Season 0

Last build update

Season 0

Last profile update*

18/June/2026

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Kit

Review

Epiphanies

Gear

Deck & Teams

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Cards

Starting Cards:

Sound Check

Attack

100% Damage.

Fan Service

Skill

Heal 100%.

Music, Start!

Upgrade

[Unique][Opener]

Exhaust all Basic Attack Cards.
Create and give each ally 2 of their own Rhythm in Draw Pile.
Apply Haste to Rhythm cards of this unit.

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Epiphany Cards:

Spotlight

Attack

140% Damage.
Move 1 Rhythm Card to hand.
Decrease Cost of that card by 2 until activated.

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Call & Response

Attack

[Haste]

200% damage.
If in hand, also treat as a Rhythm card.
Attunement: Draw 1 Rhythm card.

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Encore

Attack

120% Damage.
If the last card activated was a Rhythm card, activate that card.

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Photo Time

Skill

[Unique][Retain]

1 Performance Buzz.
If a Rhythm card was activated or moved to hand, increase Performance Buzz of this card by 1 until activated (max 9 times).

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Generated Cards:

Rhythm

Attack

60% Damage.
+30% Damage Amount for each Rhythm activated in hand.

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Rhythm: Crescendo

Attack

180% Damage.
+40% Damage Amount for each Rhythm in Graveyard; for 1 turn, decrease Cost of the next Rhythm card activated by 1.

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Rhythm: Staccato

Attack

80% Damage.
+50% Damage Amount for each Rhythm; if the last card activated was a Rhythm card, increase Cost by 1.

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Rhythm: Fortissimo

Attack

[Linked][Retain]

90% Damage.
+55% Damage Amount for each Linked Rhythm before activation; when 3 or more cards are Linked, add 1 Hit.

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Rhythm: Fermata

Skill

[Haste]

Select 1 of 4 Rhythm cards, change all Rhythm cards into the selected card for 1 turn, and draw 2 of them.

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Rhythm: Arpeggio

Attack

15% Damage for each Rhythm.
Draw 1 of the lowest-Cost Rhythm cards and decrease Cost by 1 until activated.

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Rhythm: Arpeggio

Attack

20% Damage for each Rhythm.
Draw 2 of the lowest-Cost Rhythm cards and decrease Cost by 1 until activated.

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Rhythm: Arpeggio

Attack

40% Damage for each Rhythm.
Activate 1 of the highest-Cost Rhythm cards in hand.

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Rhythm: Arpeggio

Attack

[Haste]

50% Damage for each Rhythm.
Activate 1 Rhythm card(s) with the highest Cost from among Draw Pile or Discard Pile.

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Rhythm: Arpeggio

Attack

[Haste]

80% Damage for each Rhythm.
Decrease Cost of this card by 1 for each Rhythm card in Graveyard.

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Rhythm: Arpeggio

Attack

[Haste]

90% Damage for each Rhythm.
Decrease Cost of this card by 1 for each Rhythm card activated this turn.

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Photo Card

Skill

[Exhaust][Retain]

2 Ego Points.

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Ego Skill:

Everyone's Idol

Ego Skill

For the next 7 Rhythm Cards activated, increase Damage Amount of Rhythm Cards by 7%.
If activated 7 times, add 1 Hit to the next 7 Rhythm Cards activated.

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Epiphany Variants:

Epiphany cards are special evolutions for the cards you can obtain while playing the roguelike mode. Only some cards in the character's deck can get Epiphany effects. Since there's quite a lot of them, we don't display them by default - press the button below to show them.

Music, Start! I

Upgrade

[Unique][Opener]

Exhaust all Basic Attack Cards.
Create and give each ally 2 of their own Rhythm: Crescendo in Draw Pile.
Apply Haste to Rhythm cards of this unit.

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Music, Start! II

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[Unique][Opener]

Exhaust all Basic Attack Cards.
Create and give each ally 2 of their own Rhythm: Staccato in Draw Pile.
Apply Haste to Rhythm cards of this unit.

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Music, Start! III

Upgrade

[Unique][Opener]

Exhaust all Basic Attack Cards.
Create and give each ally 2 of their own Rhythm: Fortissimo in Draw Pile.
Apply Haste to Rhythm cards of this unit.

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Music, Start! IV

Upgrade

[Unique][Opener]

Exhaust all Basic Attack Cards.
Create and give each ally 2 of their own Rhythm: Fermata in Draw Pile.

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Music, Start! V

Upgrade

[Unique][Opener]

Exhaust all Basic Attack Cards.
Create 1 of each Rhythm: Arpeggio in Draw Pile.

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Spotlight I

Attack

210% Damage.
Move 2 Rhythm card(s) to hand.
Decrease Cost of 1 of those cards by 2 until activated.

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Spotlight II

Upgrade

When 3 Rhythm cards are activated in a turn, create 1 Spotlight with Exhaust and decrease Cost of those cards by 1 (1 time per turn).

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Spotlight III

Attack

350% Damage.
Select and move up to 2 Rhythm cards to hand, then activate those cards

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Spotlight IV

Skill

Select up to 3 Rhythm cards from among Draw Pile or Graveyard and move those cards to the top of Draw Pile.
Draw 1 of those cards.

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Spotlight V

Attack

140% Damage.
Draw 2 of those cards.
Discard all non-Rhythm cards.

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Call & Response I

Attack

[Haste]

250% Damage.
If in hand, treat as a Rhythm card.
Attunement: Draw 2 Rhythm card(s).

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Call & Response II

Attack

[Haste]

240% Damage × 2.
If in Draw Pile or in hand, activate this card when a Rhythm card is activated.

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Call & Response III

Skill

Draw 2 Rhythm card(s).
If in Draw Pile, activate this card when a Rhythm card is activated.

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Call & Response IV

Attack

[Haste]

120% Damage.
When a Rhythm card is activated, add 1 Hit to this card (max 5).

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Call & Response V

Attack

[Retain][Haste]

700% Damage.
If in hand, treat as a Rhythm card. When a Rhythm card is activated, decrease Cost of this card by 1 until this card is activated.

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Encore I

Attack

120% Damage.
If the last card activated was a Rhythm card, activate that card 2 times

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Encore II

Upgrade

[Unique]

For every 2 Rhythm cards activated, 100% Damage to the enemy with the lowest HP (15 times per turn).

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Encore III

Skill

For the next 3 Rhythm card(s) activated, decrease Cost by 1 and add 1 Hit.

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Encore IV

Skill

[Unique]

Activate all Rhythm cards in Graveyard.

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Encore V

Skill

Draw 1.
If that card was a Rhythm card, increase Damage Amount by 100% until activated for 1 turn and repeat 1 more time (max 2 times).

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Potential

Epiphany Bonus

Potential 1

When entering Chaos, obtain 1 random Rare Card with an activated Epiphany.

Basic Card Upgrade

Potential 2

Increase Damage, Shield, and Healing Amounts of Basic Cards by 2/20%.

Common Card Upgrade

Potential 3

Increase Damage, Shield, and Healing Amounts of Common Cards by 2/20%.

3-1

Basic Card Proficiency

Potential 3-1

Add the following effect to Sound Check: Incinerate: Heal 50%.

Unique Card Upgrade

Potential 4

Increase Damage, Shield, and Healing Amounts of Unique Cards by 2/20%.

Critical Chance Proficiency

Potential 5

+2/10% Critical Chance.

5-1

Basic Card Proficiency

Potential 5-1

At the start of battle, increase Damage Amount of Tenebria's Rhythm cards by 10%, and if Tenebria's Attack is 500 or higher, increase Damage Amount of other Combatants' Rhythm cards by 10% as well.

5-2

Divine Epiphany Adaptation

Potential 5-2

Increases the chance for a Divine Epiphany to appear by 25%.

Critical Damage Proficiency

Potential 6

+2.4/12% Critical Damage.

Unique Stat Upgrade

Potential 7

If Tenebria's Attack is 600 or higher, +5% Passion Attribute Damage Amount, and for every 20 Attack exceeding 600, add an additional +2% (additional +10% max).

Manifest Ego (dupes)

Sleeping Memory

Manifest Ego 1

Increase Damage Amount of Performance Buzz for the Photo Time card from 100% to 150%.

Awakening Memory

Manifest Ego 2

At the start of battle, create 1 Photo Card card.

When an Ego Skill is used, inflict 200% Damage to random enemies for each of its original Cost.

Photo Card: 2 Ego Points.

Vivid Memory

Manifest Ego 3

Increase the Damage Amount increase effect that Everyone's Idol gives to Rhythm cards from 7% to 11%.

Inner Memory

Manifest Ego 4

Each time a Rhythm card is moved to hand or activated, gain Everyone’s Cheer.

Everyone’s Cheer: Increase Tenebria’s Damage Amount by 1% (max 20 stacks).

When stacked to max, increase Damage Amount of Rhythm cards by 10%.

Complete Memory

Manifest Ego 5

Increase the level of [Basic Card Upgrade], [Unique Card Upgrade], and [Common Card Upgrade] in Potentials by 3.

Liberated Memory

Manifest Ego 6

When a Photo Card is activated, decrease Cost of Tenebria's next Ego Skill used by 3.

When a Rhythm Card is activated, inflict 1 All Eyes On You on the target.

All Eyes On You: Increase Damage Amount received from Rhythm Cards by 40%. If a Rhythm card was not used manually, this monster becomes the target of those Rhythm cards.

When applied to a different target, remove All Eyes On You.

Stats (level 60)

356

DEF

169

ATK

443

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Introduction

Performance Profile

ST Damage [4/5]

AoE Damage [1/5]

AP Efficiency [2/5]

Utility [2/5]

Tenebria is a 5-Star Passion Psionic combatant who might be a familiar face to some, coming from the Epic 7 universe. Tenebria is an Idol who rocks their enemies to the rhythm of the beat, leaving them awestruck.

Tenebria has access to 6 different types of “Rhythm” cards, each with a slightly different effect. A variant of Tenebria’s “Rhythm” cards is obtained at the start of battle by converting all Basic Attack cards in the deck through the “Music, Start!” card. Each one will adjust the way you play the deck and which combatants you pair her with.

Many of Tenebria’s “Rhythm” cards have a higher cost attached to them; you would be looking to pair her with other combatants who can help alleviate the high AP pressure of Tenebria in either the form of cost reduction, additional AP, or cards that can bypass costs by activating them without playing them directly for her to play as many of her cards per turn as possible. Tenebria herself can help with this thanks to her “Spotlight” card offering recycling and in-built cost reduction. Tenebria also can re-use cards already played that turn thanks to her “Encore” card, replaying the last activated card if it’s a “Rhythm” card.

When deciding on what combatants you want to pair with Tenebria, supporting characters that can offer AP generation will help fuel the high AP costs associated with her “Rhythm” cards. Characters who can offer multiplicative buffs will also have decent mileage, as the damage scaling on her “Rhythm” cards increases the Base Ratio. As her “Rhythm” cards are also Basic cards, any combatant who synergizes well with Basic cards can also be considered, such as Rei or Narja. Tenebria is also heavily reliant on a consistent draw engine that can allow her to cycle through each of her own cards to ensure she can re-use and re-cycle as many of her cards as possible to maximize her damage output.

Tenebria unfortunately has weaknesses when it comes to Save Data content; creating 6 Basic Cards can heavily clog the deck and brick opening hands, reducing overall consistency. Tenebria also lacks any form of AoE in her kit, which may potentially cause issues in content where AoE is required. Tenebria also requires more support than other DPS characters, restricting her potential to be paired with other combatants who fulfill a sub-DPS role. Because of this, Tenebria is positioned to be your primary or sole Carry on your team due to many of her cards' beneficial effects only applying to “Rhythm” cards. Tenebria’s kit doesn’t provide any sub-DPS qualities, as the majority of their draw or recycling capacities are, again, limited to “Rhythm” cards.

Tenebria still functions quite well in Chaos or Sortie, due to removing lower-impact Basic Attack cards from supporting characters and replacing them with “Rhythm” cards - Tenebria has very consistent early-stage damage output, allowing you to progress quite comfortably while building up your deck.

When putting this all together, Tenebria plays very much as a combo-style character. You’ll want to be cycling through your deck as much as possible - with cards like “Call & Response”. Play “Rhythm” cards, adding them back to your hand with “Spotlight” or re-using them via her “Encore” card, and finishing off the performance with her “Photo Time” Mythic card to deal follow-up damage.

Pros & Cons

Pros

Strong synergy with Basic Attack buffs.
Saves ally supports 20-40 Faint Memory.
Can do a lot of damage quickly.

Cons

Lack of AoE damage.
Very AP-heavy.
Creating 6 Basic cards will reduce consistency.
Doesn’t pair well with sub-DPS style characters.

Ratings

The ratings below are based on the Season Save Data, Chaos Manifestation, and Great Rift modes. Each of the modes values different mechanics, so some characters may shine in one of them, while being underwhelming in the other.

Chaos Mode

T0.5

Season Save Data

Great Rift

Key Mechanics

Tenebria’s core mechanic revolves around her various “Rhythm” cards that can be generated from her “Music, Start!” card. Each Epiphany for “Music, Start!” will create a different “Rhythm” card that has a different effect, allowing Tenebria to have a slightly different play pattern, but generally are still posed to be your primary source of Damage. Rhythm cards by default always grant 1 stack of {Performance Burnout} whenever used.

Note: As Tenebria creates these “Rhythm” cards for their Allies, the cards created will have the element (Passion, Instinct, Order etc.) of the Combatants on your team. If Tenebria is on a Team with an Instinct and Order Combatant, 2 of each “Rhythm” card created will be Instinct, Order and Passion attributed.

Note: When Tenebria converts a Controller’s or Vanguard’s basic card, the new “Rhythm” card created will deal Defense-Based Damage instead.

Rhythm - It is the initial card offered from “Music, Start!”, a 2-Cost Basic Attack card that deals 60% damage to a single enemy, increasing its damage by +30% for each Rhythm card owned. In addition, when it’s played, it will activate 1 “Rhythm” in hand.
Rhythm: Crescendo - It is also a 2-Cost Basic-Attack card that deals 180% Damage to a single enemy, increasing its damage by +40% for each Rhythm card in the Graveyard. After being played, it will decrease the cost of the next “Rhythm” card played by 1 AP.
Rhythm: Staccato - A 1-Cost Basic-Attack Card that deals 80% damage to a single enemy, increasing by +50% for each Rhythm card owned. However, if the last card activated was a “Rhythm” card, the cost of this card will increase by 1 AP.
Rhythm: Fortissimo - A 2-Cost Basic-Attack Card that has the [Linked] and [Retain] tags. It deals 90% damage to a single enemy again, increasing its damage by +55% for each Linked Rhythm card before it’s played. If it’s played when 3 or more cards are [Linked], it adds 1 additional hit.
- Note: If you activate multiple “Rhythm: Fortissimo” via a card that can activate multiple cards, the last two “Rhythm: Fortissimo” activated will not receive the additional hit multiplier. (Unless there are more than 3 linked cards when played)
Rhythm: Fermata - This is the odd card out, as it turns into a Basic Skill card instead. It has the [Haste] tag and costs 1 AP to use. When played, you select 1 of 4 Rhythm cards (Rhythm, Rhythm: Crescendo / Staccato / Fortissimo) to have all Rhythm cards changed into for 1 turn and then will draw 2 of them.
Rhythm: Arpeggio - When Tenebria creates Rhythm: Arpeggio, she will create 6 different variants of the card, with varying costs and effects - unlike her other Rhythm cards, which create 2 copies of the card for each combatant, all 6 “Rhythm: Arpeggio” will belong to Tenebria.
- 0-Cost - Rhythm: Arpeggio - Deals 15% Damage to a single enemy for each Rhythm card owned, draws 1 of the lowest-cost Rhythm cards and decreases the cost of that card by 1 until played.
- 1-Cost - Rhythm: Arpeggio - Deals 20% Damage to a single enemy for each Rhythm card owned, draws 2 of the lowest-cost Rhythm cards and decreases the cost of those cards by 1 until they’re played.
- 2-Cost - Rhythm: Arpeggio - Deals 40% Damage to a single enemy again for each Rhythm card owned. When played, will activate 1 of the Highest-Cost Rhythm cards in your hand.
- 3-Cost - Rhythm: Arpeggio - The 3-cost Rhythm: Arpeggio has the [Haste] tag, dealing 50% damage to a single target for each Rhythm card owned, and will activate the highest-cost Rhythm card from either your Draw Pile or your Discard Pile.
  - Note - Discard pile does NOT include the Used card pile.
- 4-Cost - Rhythm: Arpeggio - The 4-Cost Rhythm: Arpeggio also has the [Haste] tag and deals 80% Damage to a single target again for each Rhythm card owned. The cost of this card decreases by 1 for each Rhythm card in the Graveyard (includes the Used and Discard piles).
- 5-Cost - Rhythm: Arpeggio - The 5-Cost Rhythm: Arpeggio also has the [Haste] tag, dealing 90% Damage to an enemy for each Rhythm card owned. The cost of this card decreases by 1 for each Rhythm card activated this turn.

[Opener] - This is a new tag introduced by Tenebria that plays the card at the start of battle, as long as you have the AP to play it.
Performance Burnout - A debuff applied to Tenebria each time a “Rhythm” card is played. Once Tenebria reaches 30 stacks of Performance Burnout, she is unable to use any further “Rhythm” cards. At the end of the turn, all stacks of Performance Burnout are removed.
Performance Buzz - A buff granted to Tenebria via her Mythic card “Photo Time”. This can stack up to 10 times and deals 100% damage to random enemies for each stack of Performance Buzz.

Potential

CRIT RATE% = CRIT DMG% >= Unique Card DMG% > Common Card DMG% = Basic Card DMG%

3-1: Adds an [Incinerate] effect to Tenebria’s Basic-Attack Cards, providing a 50% heal. This ultimately does absolutely nothing outside of providing a small heal at the start of combat. Can be skipped.
5-1: Tenebria’s 5-1 Potential grants a 10% multiplicative damage buff to Tenebria’s Rhythm cards, additionally - if her attack is 500 or higher, will provide a 10% multiplicative damage buff to her allies Rhythm cards too. A substantial damage boost, as Tenebria’s damage scaling is Base ratio, making this quite a potent potential to unlock.
7: Tenebria’s 7 Potential grants Tenebria +5% Passion Attribute damage, and for every 20 Attack exceeding 600, will grant an additional +2% up to a maximum of 15% Passion Attribute Damage at 700 Attack. Definitely worth picking up.

Dupes Review

Base

Base performance of the character.

100.00%

Ego 1

Tenebria’s first Ego to be unlocked increases the damage dealt by her “Performance Buzz” at the end of the turn to 150%. A fairly minor upgrade that doesn’t provide any extra utility, just some extra damage output. As the majority of Tenebria’s damage comes from her Rhythm cards themselves, this doesn’t do much for her. Note: In our calculations, we aren’t using Photo Time in order to boost deck consistency. Because of this, the listed gain for this Ego Point is 0%; however, if you are using it, it will be a very small increase.

100.97%

Ego 2

Tenebria’s next Ego creates a “Photo Card” card at the start of battle. “Photo Card” is a 0-Cost Skill Card that has the [Exhaust] and [Retain] tags and grants 2 Ego Points when used. Additionally, whenever an Ego Skill is used by any combatant, Tenebria will deal 200% damage to random enemies for each Ego Point that the Ego Skill required to be used. (Eg, Tenebria’s “Everyone’s Idol” costs 7 EP to use; Tenebria will deal 200% Damage to random enemies 7 times.) The main benefit of this Ego is the EP it gains, as the total damage contribution the hits deal aren’t too impactful in optimized Tenebra decks.

104.20%

Ego 3

Tenebria’s third Ego increases the damage buff granted from her Ego Skill “Everyone’s Idol” from 7% per Rhythm card used to 11% per Rhythm card used. A solid overall increase to her potential damage output, as this will now provide a permanent 77% multiplicative damage buff to Rhythm cards played

108.55%

Ego 4

Tenebria’s fourth Ego grants the buff “Everyone’s Cheer” whenever a Rhythm card is activated or moved to the hand. For each stack held, up to a maximum of 20 - increases Tenebria’s damage by 1%. When 20 Stacks of “Everyone’s Cheer” are obtained, it increases the damage dealt by “Rhythm” cards by 10%. Enhances Tenebria’s damage output slightly but nothing ultimately game-changing or worth investing for.

113.75%

Ego 5

The fifth Ego is the standard Potential node increase, increasing the Basic/Common/Unique card potential nodes limit by 3. Very standard, provides some increase to Tenebria’s damage output

157.04%

Ego 6

Tenebria’s final Ego to be unlocked grants an additional effect when “Photo Card” is played. When “Photo Card” is played, it decreases the cost of Tenebria’s next Ego Skill by 3 EP. When a Rhythm card is activated, Tenebria inflicts the {All Eyes on You} debuff to the target. {All Eyes on You} increases the damage taken by “Rhythm” cards on that target by 40% FINAL Damage (Same mult type as Vulnerable & Spore). If a Rhythm card is activated outside of manual use, an enemy that is inflicted with {All Eyes on You} will become the target of that card. Only 1 enemy can hold the {All Eyes on You} debuff at any given time.

Cards & Ego Skill

Everyone's Idol

Ego Skill

For the next 7 Rhythm Cards activated, increase Damage Amount of Rhythm Cards by 7%.
If activated 7 times, add 1 Hit to the next 7 Rhythm Cards activated.

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Everyone's Idol

Tenebria’s Ego Skill “Everyone’s Idol” costs 7 Ego Points to use. Upon use, the next 7 Rhythm Cards activated will grant a stacking buff called “Everyone’s Idol” that grants a permanent 7% damage buff to Rhythm cards. This is a pretty solid Ego Skill that you want to activate as early as possible in the fight to ensure you’re able to maximize Tenebria’s damage output.

Sound Check

Attack

100% Damage.

Sound Check

Tenebria’s starting Basic-Attack card costs 1-AP to deal 100% damage to a single target. Very standard - Can be left in the deck thanks to her “Music, Start!” card exhausting all Basic-Attack cards from anywhere - as it activates at the start of battle, which can allow for some extra Faint Memory space when building her and her allies' decks.

Fan Service

Skill

Heal 100%.

Fan Service

Fan Service is Tenebria’s starting Basic-Skill card that costs 1 AP to heal for 100%. Again, extremely standard and should be removed as soon as possible. As “Music, Start!” only removes Basic-Attack cards, it should be a priority for removal.

Music, Start!

Upgrade

[Unique][Opener]

Exhaust all Basic Attack Cards.
Create and give each ally 2 of their own Rhythm in Draw Pile.
Apply Haste to Rhythm cards of this unit.

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Music, Start!

Music, Start! Is Tenebria’s core card that enables her playstyle. It has the [Unique] tag and introduces the [Opener] tag, which plays the card directly from the deck at the start of battle, as long as you have the AP to use it. As this card is a 0-Cost, it will always be able to play itself. When played, it exhausts ALL Basic-Attack cards from the deck and creates a “Rhythm” card depending on what Epiphany it has. A crucial card for Tenebria to succeed. Note - As this card exhausts ALL Basic-Attack cards from the deck, this can be used to alleviate the Faint Memory cap for other Combatants when paired with Tenebria.

Spotlight

Attack

140% Damage.
Move 1 Rhythm Card to hand.
Decrease Cost of that card by 2 until activated.

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Spotlight

Spotlight is a 1-Cost Attack Card that deals 140% Damage to a single enemy. When played, it will also move 1 Rhythm card to your hand, reducing the cost of that card by 2 until it’s used. A decent card for Tenebria that can help re-use her Rhythm cards as it moves cards from anywhere, including the used card pile.

Call & Response

Attack

[Haste]

200% damage.
If in hand, also treat as a Rhythm card.
Attunement: Draw 1 Rhythm card.

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Call & Response

Call & Response is a 1-Cost Attack Card that has the [Haste] tag and deals 200% damage to a single target. It also has an [Attunement] effect that draws 1 Rhythm card when triggered. It has the additional effect of being treated as a “Rhythm” card when in Tenebria's hand. A decent card for Tenebria that helps with some in-house cycling that improves further with its Epiphanies offered.

Encore

Attack

120% Damage.
If the last card activated was a Rhythm card, activate that card.

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Encore

Encore is a 1-Cost Attack card that deals 120% damage to a single target; additionally, if the last card played was a “Rhythm” card, it activates that card again. A great card for Tenebria that really shines with the various Epiphanies offered. Note - This will NOT re-activate any of Tenebria’s cards that are treated as “Rhythm” cards whilst in hand.

Photo Time

Skill

[Unique][Retain]

1 Performance Buzz.
If a Rhythm card was activated or moved to hand, increase Performance Buzz of this card by 1 until activated (max 9 times).

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Photo Time

Photo Time is Tenebria’s Mythic card - A 1-Cost Skill Card that has the [Unique] and [Retain] tags. When played, it grants 1 stack of “Performance Buzz”. Whenever Tenebria activates or moves a Rhythm card or to hand, the stacks granted from “Photo Time” increase by 1 until it is played, up to a maximum of 9 times for a total of 10 Performance Buzz stacks when played. Provides some extra damage at the end of the turn but overall isn’t an incredibly crucial part of her kit.

Best Epiphanies

Note
We have given a star rating for each Epiphany, showing how strong and useful it is - with 1 being the lowest rating and 5 the highest.

Card 1

Neutral Epiphany

★★

Music, Start! I

Upgrade

[Unique][Opener]

Exhaust all Basic Attack Cards.
Create and give each ally 2 of their own Rhythm: Crescendo in Draw Pile.
Apply Haste to Rhythm cards of this unit.

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★★★

Music, Start! II

Upgrade

[Unique][Opener]

Exhaust all Basic Attack Cards.
Create and give each ally 2 of their own Rhythm: Staccato in Draw Pile.
Apply Haste to Rhythm cards of this unit.

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★

Music, Start! III

Upgrade

[Unique][Opener]

Exhaust all Basic Attack Cards.
Create and give each ally 2 of their own Rhythm: Fortissimo in Draw Pile.
Apply Haste to Rhythm cards of this unit.

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★

Music, Start! IV

Upgrade

[Unique][Opener]

Exhaust all Basic Attack Cards.
Create and give each ally 2 of their own Rhythm: Fermata in Draw Pile.

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★★★★

Music, Start! V

Upgrade

[Unique][Opener]

Exhaust all Basic Attack Cards.
Create 1 of each Rhythm: Arpeggio in Draw Pile.

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★★★★★

Epiphanies:

Neutral [★★] - Target Neutral Epiphany: Morale. This option is recommended more than some other epiphanies simply because the base Rhythm card tends to be a stronger and more consistent build than they are and not because of the neutrals themselves. Still, Morale is the recommended choice as most other neutrals do nothing to increase damage.
Music, Start! I
[★★★] - Makes Rhythm: Crescendo. Rhythm: Crescendo can reduce its cost after activating subsequent ones, allowing the player to eventually play them for 0-cost. The issue with Rhythm: Crescendo is that this ‘eventually’ comes rather late and its damage potential is worse than the high-cost Arpeggio's.
Music, Start! II
[★] - Makes Rhythm: Staccato. Rhythm: Staccato increases its cost when a Rhythm card was played before it, but does relatively high damage. This lacks ways to draw and/or reduce its cost, making it a harder option to play around than its competitor Epiphanies.
Music, Start! III
[★] - Makes Rhythm: Fortissimo. Rhythm: Fortissimo has [Link] and gains 1-hit when at least 3 [Link] cards are in hand. To get full value out of this Epiphany, the player will likely need an absurd amount of draw and AP on top of its damage per hit being lower than alternatives.
Music, Start! IV
[★★★★] - Makes Rhythm: Fermata. Rhythm: Fermata allows the player to select one of the non-Arpeggio Rhythm options to convert all Rhythm cards into, and draw 2 of them every turn. This lessens a lot of the draw concerns that Rhythm cards can have and makes it much easier to build Tenebria than most alternative options besides Music, Start V.
Music, Start! V
[★★★★★] - Makes Rhythm: Arpeggio. Rhythm: Arpeggio gives 5 different Rhythm cards with varying costs and effects; the important thing to keep in mind is that the 4-cost one is the highest damage, and will decrease in cost as Rhythm cards are played, and the 0 and 1-cost ones have QoL elements that enable you to draw, activate, or play your other Rhythm cards much easier.

Divine Epiphanies:

Which Divine Epiphany to go for will depend on what your team needs and which Epiphany you chose, but here are the main ones to look out for if you have spare Save Data: Morale/Resolve, Start-of-Turn Draw 2.

Card 2

Neutral Epiphany

★

Spotlight I

Attack

210% Damage.
Move 2 Rhythm card(s) to hand.
Decrease Cost of 1 of those cards by 2 until activated.

Show Effects

★★

Spotlight II

Upgrade

When 3 Rhythm cards are activated in a turn, create 1 Spotlight with Exhaust and decrease Cost of those cards by 1 (1 time per turn).

Show Effects

★★★

Spotlight III

Attack

350% Damage.
Select and move up to 2 Rhythm cards to hand, then activate those cards

Show Effects

★★★★

Spotlight IV

Skill

Select up to 3 Rhythm cards from among Draw Pile or Graveyard and move those cards to the top of Draw Pile.
Draw 1 of those cards.

Show Effects

★★★★★

Spotlight V

Attack

140% Damage.
Draw 2 of those cards.
Discard all non-Rhythm cards.

Show Effects

★★

Epiphanies:

Neutral [★] - Target Neutral Epiphany: Morale. While this option will result in less damage than alternative Epiphanies from Tenebria herself, Tenebria teams relying on certain cards like her Signature or Encore II will need a lot of morale to get high value out of them making this a competitive option in those instances. Still, that is not the recommended use of Tenebria, as she is generally played as a basic attack carry.
Spotlight I
[★★] - Now draws 2, but only cost-reduces one. This option will generally be an upgrade to Spotlight (Neutral) and sometimes an upgrade to Spotlight III, but it will tend to be a downgrade more than it is an upgrade compared to Spotlight III, as the costs of Rhythm cards often will end up making Spotlight V’s 2-cost cheaper in the end.
Spotlight II
[★★★] - The card becomes an upgrade which makes a 0-cost base Epiphany Spotlight, once per turn. This effectively is just a better neutral Epiphany for Spotlight, as it is = to having AP and Draw 1 effects on Spotlight (Neutral) together, which are both neutral Epiphanies Psionics cannot currently acquire.
Spotlight III
[★★★★] - Now is a 2-cost that auto-activates the cards moved. While the 2-cost is daunting, it will likely end up saving you AP in the end. One of the go-to Epiphanies for DMG-based builds, but there are variations that can use = to better options, making it not an option you will likely always take in practice.
Spotlight IV
[★★★★★] - Now moves 3 Rhythm to the top of draw, and draws 1 random. Initially this was bugged, but it has since been fixed and the select effect works as others do (selecting 1-cost Arpeggio last means that you will guarantee draw all Arpeggio's). This is an extremely reliable and consistent way of setting up for Tenebria that is a lot less AP and Draw intensive than alternative builds.
Spotlight V
[★★] - Now a 0-cost which draws 2, but discards all non-Rhythm cards drawn through it. This is a solid Epiphany, especially since you can use it for both Draw and AP with a Divine, but its draw effect can be unreliable without certain synergies like Spotlight IV.

Divine Epiphanies:

Which Divine Epiphany to go for will depend on what your team needs and which Epiphany you chose, but here are the main ones to look out for if you have spare Save Data: AP (Spotlight IV, V), Draw (Spotlight IV), Draw 1 Card of this Unit, Draw 1 Common Card & Treat as Common Card, 2 Vulnerable.

Card 3

Neutral Epiphany

★★★

Call & Response I

Attack

[Haste]

250% Damage.
If in hand, treat as a Rhythm card.
Attunement: Draw 2 Rhythm card(s).

Show Effects

★★★★

Call & Response II

Attack

[Haste]

240% Damage × 2.
If in Draw Pile or in hand, activate this card when a Rhythm card is activated.

Show Effects

★

Call & Response III

Skill

Draw 2 Rhythm card(s).
If in Draw Pile, activate this card when a Rhythm card is activated.

Show Effects

★★★★★

Call & Response IV

Attack

[Haste]

120% Damage.
When a Rhythm card is activated, add 1 Hit to this card (max 5).

Show Effects

★★

Call & Response V

Attack

[Retain][Haste]

700% Damage.
If in hand, treat as a Rhythm card. When a Rhythm card is activated, decrease Cost of this card by 1 until this card is activated.

Show Effects

★★

Epiphanies:

Neutral [★★★] - Target Neutral Epiphany: Morale. While this option will result in less damage than alternative Epiphanies from Tenebria herself, Tenebria teams relying on certain cards like her Signature or Encore II will need a lot of morale to get high value out of them making this a competitive option in those instances. Still, that is not the recommended use of Tenebria, as she is generally played as a basic attack carry.
Call & Response I
[★★★★] - Now Attunement: Draw 2, instead of Draw 1. This effect is incredibly strong and can alleviate most of the major draw issues of Tenebria, but it requires hand-space (at least 3-4) to capitalize off of, while Call & Response III only needs 2-3 and doesn’t take up an additional hand-space slot.
Call & Response II
[★] - Now a 2-hit that activates for free when a Rhythm card is played (hand or draw-pile). This is a solid option, but not enough damage to really justify losing the needed QoL that other builds give for most set-ups.
Call & Response III
[★★★★★] - Draw 2 Rhythm Cards & activates if in the draw pile when a Rhythm card is played. This Epiphany will easily net strong draw value and has a good chance to cost 0AP effectively.
Call & Response IV
[★★] - Now does less damage per hit but gains a hit for every Rhythm played (up to 5). This is a solid damage Epiphany for a multi-hit Tenebria carry setup.
Call & Response V
[★★] - Has a much higher base ratio and is now a 7-cost that decreases in cost for each Rhythm played. The counts as Rhythm card effect on this is less useful than alternative options like Neutral or Call & Response I since Tenebria is often played with Rei whose Strike of Darkness V will automatically trigger this (removing the +1 Rhythm bonus). The damage on it, itself can be quite high but it doesn't work with Encore's replay which hinders its carry potential quite heavily.

Divine Epiphanies:

Which Divine Epiphany to go for will depend on what your team needs and which Epiphany you chose, but here are the main ones to look out for if you have spare Save Data: Draw 1 (Call & Response III), Draw 1 of this Unit, Draw 1 Common & Treat as Common, Cost-Reduction.

Card 4

Neutral Epiphany

★★

Encore I

Attack

120% Damage.
If the last card activated was a Rhythm card, activate that card 2 times

Show Effects

★★★★★

Encore II

Upgrade

[Unique]

For every 2 Rhythm cards activated, 100% Damage to the enemy with the lowest HP (15 times per turn).

Show Effects

★

Encore III

Skill

For the next 3 Rhythm card(s) activated, decrease Cost by 1 and add 1 Hit.

Show Effects

★★★★★

Encore IV

Skill

[Unique]

Activate all Rhythm cards in Graveyard.

Show Effects

★★★★

Encore V

Skill

Draw 1.
If that card was a Rhythm card, increase Damage Amount by 100% until activated for 1 turn and repeat 1 more time (max 2 times).

Show Effects

★★★

Epiphanies:

Neutral [★★] - Target Neutral Epiphany: Morale. While this option will result in less damage than alternative Epiphanies from Tenebria herself, Tenebria teams relying on certain cards like her Signature or Encore II will need a lot of morale to get high value out of them making this a competitive option in those instances. Still, that is not the recommended use of Tenebria, as she is generally played as a basic attack carry.
Encore I
[★★★★★] - Ability to activate last used Rhythm card 2x. NOTE: This currently does not work with Call & Response’s ‘Rhythm card while in hand effect’. Even though this doesn’t work with Call & Response, it is effectively the same value as Spotlight III but costs 1 less AP.
Encore II
[★] - Becomes an upgrade which adds an additional non-card hit effect for every 2 Rhythm played. This is a decent card as it will passively add hits to Tenebria, but it’s hard to get full value off of it since most Tenebria decks won’t play as many Rhythm cards as it asks, or even close to, on-top of it not working with Tenebria's main source of buffs (Basic Attack Buffs, likely from Rei or herself).
Encore III
[★★★★★] - Now is a skill which reduces the cost of the next 3 Rhythm cards and adds one hit. While this option is not preferred when used with certain allies, it can be equivalent or better than much more AP-expensive alternatives.
Encore IV
[★★★★] - Card changes to be 3-cost with an effect of activating all Rhythm cards in the Graveyard. This basically works like Heidemarie’s Sword Rain III, activating 5-6 Passion attacks from the Graveyard (and therefore activating any effects that each Passion attack would trigger). However, this costs 3x as much and can’t be duped, making it a much worse option than Heidemarie’s Sword Rain III.
Encore V
[★★★] - One of her best draw cards, especially when paired with Spotlight IV. Its ability to activate Divines multiple times also makes it a great AP card. However, it often requires very specific set-ups that sacrifice damage, as Encore III or Encore I will add more raw damage most of the time.

Divine Epiphanies:

Which Divine Epiphany to go for will depend on what your team needs and which Epiphany you chose, but here are the main ones to look out for if you have spare Save Data: Draw 1 Card of this Unit, Draw 1 Common & Treat as Common, Draw 1 (Encore IV, Encore III), Cost-Reduction, Vulnerable 2.

Memory Fragments

The Memory Fragments & Equipment suggestions below are based on calculations we did. If you want to check the damage formula and how scaling the damage works in CZN, check this guide.

Recommended Loadout

Black Wing [2-PC]

Executioner's Tool [2-PC]

Seth's Scarab [2-PC]

This is her best memory fragments setup and most versatile one, since she has access to attack cards of various cost and multiple skill cards that deals damage, sets like Conqueror's Aspect and Line of Justice will end up losing value with most builds.

Specialist Loadout

Prelude to a Hero [4-PC]

Executioner's Tool [2-PC]

This is also a viable choice when paired with Nia or any sort of discard to trigger the Prelude to a Hero passive effect, since discarding a Passion Attack card once per turn will result in a 15% critical rate increase to Tenebria. Tenebria herself will also activate this effect easily if using Rhythm: Fortissimo as its [Link] tag will satisfy this condition during setup for its damage from [Link] discarding off ally [Link].

Main and sub-stats

In a lot of cases, flat sub-stats are better than percentage ones when it comes to HP, ATK and DEF. The reason behind this is that in CZN the characters stats are pretty low and you get more value from flat bonus rather than percentage one based on calcs.

Ideal

CRIT Rate > CRIT DMG

Desire

ATK% >= PASSION DMG%

Imagination

ATK%

Substats:

CRIT Rate% > CRIT DMG% > ATK > ATK%

Maxing out Tenebria's potential 7 is the main stat breakpoint to watch out for. Fortunately, it's incredibly easy to do so, and all you need is 700 ATK, which almost all Tenebria builds can accomplish.

Partners

Our best Partner recommendation try to balance both the raw damage boost they provide based on our calculations with the additional utility provided by the skill - combined with how it interacts with the character's kit. We have rated each Partner based on how much additional damage and the utility they provide. Read the comments under each Partner to better understand our reasoning.

No calculations in Chaos Zero Nightmare are completely accurate for all scenarios, including the ones below. What team, decks, epiphanies, gear, equipment, and enemies you're facing all impact them. Because of this, take the results as guidelines and combine them with the explanations to make your decisions. Calculations use endgame save data set-ups, including 5 turns of combat using the whole deck with all Ego skills unless otherwise stated.

5 Turns 149.72%

Aria(E4)

This is the best option, but it requires high investment that may not be worth it for people who aren't high spenders or dedicated fans of Tenebria. This is the best option because it gives a 48% multiplicative buff specifically to Basic Attacks, which effects Rhythm cards, alongside a hefty 40% crit-damage and an additional 20% buff to basic attacks from ego skill for the entire combat.

5 Turns 127.63%

Aria(E0)

Her signature partner offers her the most amount of buffs and by far, she is recommend if you really want to push Tenebria to her limits. This is the best option because it gives a 24% multiplicative buff specifically to Basic Attacks, which effects Rhythm cards, alongside a hefty 20% crit-damage and an additional 20% buff to basic attacks from ego skill for the entire combat.

5 Turns 111.10%

Bria(E0)

Ivy, Bria and Itsuku are better options than Eloise due to their better stats coming from the fact they are 5-stars, however their passives do not benefit to Tenebria in significant way. Because of this you can use any of them that you have fully levelled and invested into.

5 Turns 106.22%

Eloise(E4)

E4 Eloise is the best partner for Tenebria if you do not wish to pull for a 5-star, her passives and ego skill do not synergize with her, she is simply here for the stats she provides.

5 Turns 100.00%

Zatera(E4)

A F2P option that's fine to use if you have nothing else but falls behind in damage compared to the options above. Should be replaced as soon as you're able.

5 Turns 98.78%

Eloise(E0)

E0 Eloise is very easy to get but not all that great until you get more copies of her. With that said she's still better than E4 Zatera so we recommend using her and just upgrading her Ego level as soon as you can.

Equipment

In the Zero System, it's incredibly easy to access all items acquirable via the shopthanks to the two free refreshes you get each shop node - that's why the recommendations below are limited to them only. ATTENTION! Area-specific items can sometimes be more powerful than shop items, but are far less consistent to get or require running a specific world or giving up certain event options. Use the shop list as a starting point for building up your deck saves.

Weapon

Criticism of Discord
Tentacles of Chaos
Dagger That Tricked the Shadow
Singing Sword
Shell Bug Horn

Armor

Fairy King's Crown
Mask of Flames

Trinket

Pulsating Egg
Verdant Day
Verdant Night
Verdant Shackles
Eye of the Eyeless
Flower of Dead Souls
Amorphous Cube
Quantum Collector

Comments - Weapons

Criticism of Discord
- Offers a huge amount of passive Attack, which for most Attack scalers makes this weapon the de facto best in slot weapon if you're able to acquire it from the rare Senectus / Cthulu event after a fight.
Tentacles of Chaos
- Provides 8% Attack to all characters in the team making it the go-to support weapon for most characters not acting as the main DPS when supporting Attack scaling carries but also a very viable option for ATK-based carries since it means you can no longer get Discord (as only one is offered from same event).
Dagger That Tricked the Shadow
- One of the best non-mythic options that is typically the go-to when Criticism of Discord cannot be acquired in the run, when in Swamp.
Singing Sword
- It's a competitive option if randomly happened upon while farming the Foretold Ruins, but not recommended to specifically farm for because of lackluster other slot options in the zone.
Shell Bug Horn
- It's a competitive option if randomly happened upon while farming the Twin Stars, but not recommended to specifically farm for because of lackluster other slot options in the zone.

Comments - Armor

Fairy King's Crown
- The Crit Rate this armour provides is almost always in demand and a competitive option making it a piece worth seeking out unless you're able to obtain better more specialized options.
Mask of Flames
- Provides a 35% (Multiplicative) damage boost against enemies which are vulnerable. Powerful on characters that value multiplicative damage boosts (less so on those that don't) but only so long as you can consistently keep Vulnerable applied.

Comments - Trinkets

Pulsating Egg
- A strong alternative to Criticism of Discord, when it isn't offered but can't be found in Swamp where you already have access to extremely strong equipment alternatives for all slots.
Verdant Day
+
Verdant Night
- Provide a unique buff-type that is a massive damage increase while active, without taking your Mythic slot. The choice between Day and Night depends on the content and the turns you are planning to do more damage, with even-turns favoring Night and odd-turns favoring Day.
Verdant Shackles
- A strong option that works on all turns, but locks you out of Mythic options in other slots.
Eye of the Eyeless
- A solid trinket for DPS that relies on their basic attacks.
Flower of Dead Souls
- \nA solid option for characters that uses attack cards with high base DMG because of its multiplicative buff.
Amorphous Cube
- The go-to generic damage accessory for most characters that is trivially easy to use and always for the most part a solid addition for any character that can make use of additive damage. Wont beat out more specialized options but always a great fallback.
Quantum Collector
- Grants 20% (multiplicative) damage to the wearer any time any combatant uses an upgrade card (no limit) but only for 1 turn. In specific teams targetting low turn count kills this can be the best accessory available, but in longer fights, or low upgrade teams it loses a lot of its appeal.

Recommended Build

Tenebria Builds

Check the best builds for Tenebria below.

Move to the Rhythm!

Ballad of Vulnerability

Setup Summary

Character

Partner

Equipment

Criticism of Discord

Fairy King's Crown

Verdant Night

Fragments

No Fragments

Cards Summary [9 selected]

Sound Check

Attack

100% Damage.

Music, Start!

Upgrade

[Unique][Opener]

Exhaust all Basic Attack Cards.
Create and give each ally 2 of their own Rhythm in Draw Pile.
Apply Haste to Rhythm cards of this unit.

At the start of each turn, when this card is the first card used, Draw 2

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Spotlight III

Attack

350% Damage.
Select and move up to 2 Rhythm cards to hand, then activate those cards

Reduce the cost of this card by 1.

Show Effects

Call & Response I

Attack

[Haste]

250% Damage.
If in hand, treat as a Rhythm card.
Attunement: Draw 2 Rhythm card(s).

Show Effects

Encore III

Skill

For the next 3 Rhythm card(s) activated, decrease Cost by 1 and add 1 Hit.

Draw 1

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Deck Explanation

Move to the Rhythm! - Ally Decks: Rei (Basic Attack Buffer). Strategy is typically to use a Spotlight to play the 2 lowest cost Arpeggios, then Rei Strike V (to play the drawn high-cost Arpeggios for free), then play Arpeggio to replay the 2 highest (original) cost Arpeggios for a mass amount of damage. Deck uses cost-reduction to maximize consistency, it's highly recommended to play with Rei to make the cards cheaper to play (Strike of Darkness V) and apply a mass amount of buffs (See Rei (Basic Attack Buffer) build) that raises her damage potential considerably.
Ballad of Vulnerability - Ally Decks: Nia (Forbidden One, Double Funger), Rei (Basic Attack Buffer). Call & Response helps support draw and Encore IV is the finisher. Because of the high AP and draw requirements, it’s generally recommended to be played with Nia (Forbidden One, Double Funger, etc.) who can support both draw and AP via Forbidden: Hunger or playing high-cost cards for cheaper via Adagio + G-Chord activation.

Conditional Card Removal

Fan Service
- While Basic Attacks are kept in (as they are exhausted), Fan-Service is still generally removed. However, it is sometimes kept in order to activate Clover of the Forest (or other effects that Tenebria’s team needs to use a heal-skill to activate), when there aren’t allies with a heal-skill to do so.

Card Copying Priority

Spotlight
- Spotlight is most commonly copied, sometimes with 2 different epiphanies after save-data editing (Spotlight IV + Spotlight V, for example). Spotlight III is the main copy target with it being able to efficiently trigger 2 Rhythm cards with little to no downside besides its cost.
Call & Response
- Some Call & Respond epiphanies, like I or III, are sometimes copied 1-2x instead of Spotlight or Encore in order to alleviate the burden of draw from Tenebria.
Encore
- Encore I might be copied in some builds because of its similar efficiency but cheaper cost than Spotlight III (but more reliance on card-order played).

Best Synergies

Rei

Able to activate all basics in hand at once via Strike of Darkness V saving a tremendous amount of AP.
Rei provides a large amount of Basic Attack multiplicative buffs, but keep in mind the same buff will not stack twice (only turn-counter) so you need to use different epiphanies together (neutral + IV + I).
Rei provides very little draw after turn-1, as her main draw is an [Exhaust] card, which will often require Tenebria to be forced to play with a draw unit as the third, when played with Rei.

Nia

With Forbidden: Hunger, Nia is one of the few characters who can make both enough draw and enough AP to alleviate most of the major issues Tenebria teams have.
Nia can allow you to play certain high-cost cards for ‘free’ by using Adagio to move a card to top-of-draw then G-Chord to play it at a lower cost, this is particularly useful for the 3-Cost Encore IV epiphany.

Veronica

Veronica is able to both Draw and give AP via Divines, allowing her to aid in two areas that Tenebria struggles with at once.
Veronica still might struggle to make enough AP, so it’s recommended to pursue further AP divines on allies when being used with Veronica.

Narja

Narja is able to apply a buff for Basic Attacks and generate Voracity from Basic Attacks from Narja’s Voluntary Control Upgrade, since Tenebria does most of her damage from basic attacks, this can be a rather useful synergy.
Narja can reduce the cost of cards for an entire turn, even if they are moved or replayed. Since Tenebria is able to move and replay high-cost cards many times in one turn, Narja is able alleviate the AP needs much more efficiently than alternatives if the stars align.
While Narja has a lot of buff and AP synergy, she lacks any innate draw so Narja can introduce draw issues to Tenebria teams as a trade-off.

Mei Lin

Tenebria is able to convert Mei Lin basics to be a bit stronger, enabling a dual DPS build with Tenebria and Mei Lin spamming the Rhythm basic attacks Tenebria makes.
Tenebria is able to play one of the highest amount of passion cards of any unit in the game, which is solely what Mei Lin scales off of, so she’s able to support her a high amount. It’s important to keep in mind the best teams will be mostly locked to first turn OTK as Tenebria raises the AP and Draw needs significantly.
While she has extremely high potential with Mei Lin, Elasticity is a modifier on every boss from S1 to S3, so it’s not recommended to hedge your bets around a Tenebria Mei Lin team.

Best Teams

Chaos Teams

Generic - Chaos

DPS

Healer

Flex

Save Teams

Tenebria Hypercarry

DPS

Buffer

Flex (Draw/AP)

Mei Lin OTK

DPS

Buffer

Flex (Draw/AP)

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Neutral [★★] - Target Neutral Epiphany: Morale. This option is recommended more than some other epiphanies simply because the base Rhythm card tends to be a stronger and more consistent build than they are and not because of the neutrals themselves. Still, Morale is the recommended choice as most other neutrals do nothing to increase damage.

[★★★] - Makes Rhythm: Crescendo. Rhythm: Crescendo can reduce its cost after activating subsequent ones, allowing the player to eventually play them for 0-cost. The issue with Rhythm: Crescendo is that this ‘eventually’ comes rather late and its damage potential is worse than the high-cost Arpeggio's.

[★] - Makes Rhythm: Staccato. Rhythm: Staccato increases its cost when a Rhythm card was played before it, but does relatively high damage. This lacks ways to draw and/or reduce its cost, making it a harder option to play around than its competitor Epiphanies.

[★] - Makes Rhythm: Fortissimo. Rhythm: Fortissimo has [Link] and gains 1-hit when at least 3 [Link] cards are in hand. To get full value out of this Epiphany, the player will likely need an absurd amount of draw and AP on top of its damage per hit being lower than alternatives.

[★★★★] - Makes Rhythm: Fermata. Rhythm: Fermata allows the player to select one of the non-Arpeggio Rhythm options to convert all Rhythm cards into, and draw 2 of them every turn. This lessens a lot of the draw concerns that Rhythm cards can have and makes it much easier to build Tenebria than most alternative options besides Music, Start V.

[★★★★★] - Makes Rhythm: Arpeggio. Rhythm: Arpeggio gives 5 different Rhythm cards with varying costs and effects; the important thing to keep in mind is that the 4-cost one is the highest damage, and will decrease in cost as Rhythm cards are played, and the 0 and 1-cost ones have QoL elements that enable you to draw, activate, or play your other Rhythm cards much easier.

Neutral [★] - Target Neutral Epiphany: Morale. While this option will result in less damage than alternative Epiphanies from Tenebria herself, Tenebria teams relying on certain cards like her Signature or Encore II will need a lot of morale to get high value out of them making this a competitive option in those instances. Still, that is not the recommended use of Tenebria, as she is generally played as a basic attack carry.

[★★] - Now draws 2, but only cost-reduces one. This option will generally be an upgrade to Spotlight (Neutral) and sometimes an upgrade to Spotlight III, but it will tend to be a downgrade more than it is an upgrade compared to Spotlight III, as the costs of Rhythm cards often will end up making Spotlight V’s 2-cost cheaper in the end.

[★★★] - The card becomes an upgrade which makes a 0-cost base Epiphany Spotlight, once per turn. This effectively is just a better neutral Epiphany for Spotlight, as it is = to having AP and Draw 1 effects on Spotlight (Neutral) together, which are both neutral Epiphanies Psionics cannot currently acquire.

[★★★★] - Now is a 2-cost that auto-activates the cards moved. While the 2-cost is daunting, it will likely end up saving you AP in the end. One of the go-to Epiphanies for DMG-based builds, but there are variations that can use = to better options, making it not an option you will likely always take in practice.

[★★★★★] - Now moves 3 Rhythm to the top of draw, and draws 1 random. Initially this was bugged, but it has since been fixed and the select effect works as others do (selecting 1-cost Arpeggio last means that you will guarantee draw all Arpeggio's). This is an extremely reliable and consistent way of setting up for Tenebria that is a lot less AP and Draw intensive than alternative builds.

[★★] - Now a 0-cost which draws 2, but discards all non-Rhythm cards drawn through it. This is a solid Epiphany, especially since you can use it for both Draw and AP with a Divine, but its draw effect can be unreliable without certain synergies like Spotlight IV.

Neutral [★★★] - Target Neutral Epiphany: Morale. While this option will result in less damage than alternative Epiphanies from Tenebria herself, Tenebria teams relying on certain cards like her Signature or Encore II will need a lot of morale to get high value out of them making this a competitive option in those instances. Still, that is not the recommended use of Tenebria, as she is generally played as a basic attack carry.

[★★★★] - Now Attunement: Draw 2, instead of Draw 1. This effect is incredibly strong and can alleviate most of the major draw issues of Tenebria, but it requires hand-space (at least 3-4) to capitalize off of, while Call & Response III only needs 2-3 and doesn’t take up an additional hand-space slot.

[★] - Now a 2-hit that activates for free when a Rhythm card is played (hand or draw-pile). This is a solid option, but not enough damage to really justify losing the needed QoL that other builds give for most set-ups.

[★★★★★] - Draw 2 Rhythm Cards & activates if in the draw pile when a Rhythm card is played. This Epiphany will easily net strong draw value and has a good chance to cost 0AP effectively.

[★★] - Now does less damage per hit but gains a hit for every Rhythm played (up to 5). This is a solid damage Epiphany for a multi-hit Tenebria carry setup.

[★★] - Has a much higher base ratio and is now a 7-cost that decreases in cost for each Rhythm played. The counts as Rhythm card effect on this is less useful than alternative options like Neutral or Call & Response I since Tenebria is often played with Rei whose Strike of Darkness V will automatically trigger this (removing the +1 Rhythm bonus). The damage on it, itself can be quite high but it doesn't work with Encore's replay which hinders its carry potential quite heavily.

Neutral [★★] - Target Neutral Epiphany: Morale. While this option will result in less damage than alternative Epiphanies from Tenebria herself, Tenebria teams relying on certain cards like her Signature or Encore II will need a lot of morale to get high value out of them making this a competitive option in those instances. Still, that is not the recommended use of Tenebria, as she is generally played as a basic attack carry.

[★★★★★] - Ability to activate last used Rhythm card 2x. NOTE: This currently does not work with Call & Response’s ‘Rhythm card while in hand effect’. Even though this doesn’t work with Call & Response, it is effectively the same value as Spotlight III but costs 1 less AP.

[★] - Becomes an upgrade which adds an additional non-card hit effect for every 2 Rhythm played. This is a decent card as it will passively add hits to Tenebria, but it’s hard to get full value off of it since most Tenebria decks won’t play as many Rhythm cards as it asks, or even close to, on-top of it not working with Tenebria's main source of buffs (Basic Attack Buffs, likely from Rei or herself).

[★★★★★] - Now is a skill which reduces the cost of the next 3 Rhythm cards and adds one hit. While this option is not preferred when used with certain allies, it can be equivalent or better than much more AP-expensive alternatives.

[★★★★] - Card changes to be 3-cost with an effect of activating all Rhythm cards in the Graveyard. This basically works like Heidemarie’s Sword Rain III, activating 5-6 Passion attacks from the Graveyard (and therefore activating any effects that each Passion attack would trigger). However, this costs 3x as much and can’t be duped, making it a much worse option than Heidemarie’s Sword Rain III.

[★★★] - One of her best draw cards, especially when paired with Spotlight IV. Its ability to activate Divines multiple times also makes it a great AP card. However, it often requires very specific set-ups that sacrifice damage, as Encore III or Encore I will add more raw damage most of the time.

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