Much like in Hisotensoku, Sakuya must be holding a deck consisting of exactly 20 cards, with no more than 4 copies of each card.
Sakuya has the ability to perform an autocombo by repeatedly pressing Ⓐ when close to an opponent, allowing her to follow up with additional melee attacks outside of the character's standard Ⓐ Normals without any other additional inputs furthermore, the move assigned to + Ⓐ can be charged by holding Ⓐ, allowing Sakuya to perform a more powerful variant of the move with additional properties. Sakuya's gameplay is based on Touhou Hisoutensoku, which gives the character the ability to graze through projectiles by air dashing or running, on top of being able to utilize said game's Spell Card system, which comes with the additional abilities to 'level up' and alternate between three sets of Specials for each input, as well and shuffle the cards additionally, Sakuya has a spirit gauge mechanic that allows her to charge spirit orbs, which are required to perform Ⓑ / Ⓒ attacks and Specials. Ⓨ is used to cycle through the cards in Sakuya's hand, while Ⓩ uses the selected card in Sakuya's hand. Ⓧ is used for Sakuya's dashes, as well as her flight system in conjunction with. Sakuya_Izayoi is a six-button character whose gameplay is near identical to that of Hisoutensoku: using Ⓐ for her Normal melee attacks and Ⓑ and Ⓒ for her Normal projectiles and Specials.
