Budgetguard 17: Pale Moon Circus~!!

Hey Cardfighters,

This week we go to the circus/crit town with Pale moons using the Beast tamer Legion and Luqcier Reverse.
 
Winning Image: Deck Thinning via the starter Emile


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     The main boss of the deck is Cracking Beast Tamer, The ability to legion critical triggers back into the deck is key. Along with her first ability which is when anything is place on rearguard from soul she get s+3k. Which instantly gives her +9k using her legion skill. "When this unit Legions CB2: soul charge 2 and choose up to 3 units from your soul and call them to rearguard. This lets you fill up the field gaining hand advantage or recovering from field destruction skills. As well as call Emile from the soul to use her ability more.


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     The secondary boss was chosen for us since it hast to be silver thorn and the only one which lands in our price range is Luquier "Reverse". her limit break abilty is good since you can get a use out of emile every single turn which makes your deck nothing but triggers or allows you to gain advantage slowly which is good against rushing decks.


Deck List: (cost, anything without a price is a common)
Starter: Silver Thorn Beast Tamer, Emile
12 crit
4 heal

G1s:
4x Silver Thorn Assistant, Irina
4x Silver Thorn, Breathing Dragon
2x Silver Thorn Beast Tamer, Ana
4x Silver Thorn Assistant Zelma (0.50)

G2s:
4x Silver Thorn Beast Tamer, Maricica (0.30)
3x Silver Thorn, Rising Dragon (0.40)
4x Barking Sky Tiger (1.00)

G3s:
4x Silver Thorn Dragon Queen, Luquier "Reverse" (4.50)
4x Cracking Beast Tamer (1.00)

G4s:
2x Heat Element, Magum (4.00)

Final Cost: 38.8


Deck Comments:
     This first thing to note about the deck is that its 12 crit. This is because the deck can thin for non triggers easily making you chances of double critting very high. Also the boss cards are capable of generating lots of advantage which means you don't really need the draw triggers. We area lso not using the silver thorn perfects which are too expensive for our budget as it requires strides to enhance trigger checking capabilities even more. Another important thing is that we don't use any perfect guards. This is because it is a very aggressive build and can gain a lot of advantage on its own. I had to choose between non-silver thorn PGs and Luquier Reverse and I decided it was more important to keep Silver thorn targets for Emile to reinforce the game plan.

Match ups:

• VS. RE-birth (Loss)
•  This game starts out iffy with only a grade 1 grade 2 and 3 triggers in my opening hand. I take a damage to be able to maricica's skill next turn and start an offensive. I get 3 strong attacks in but I realize now that I could have done 4 but I am not experienced enough with pale moons. 4-1. He tries to get my field down by going after rears but I have the shield necessary. 4-2. I don't top deck my grade 3 but I am in a really good position so I don't g-assist and use emile followed by irina. Unfortunately for me emile hits a grade 3. so I continue my offense. 4-2. My opponent rides to grade 3 lucky him and I continue to protect my rearguards and take a rearguard crit attack. 4-4. Still no grade 3s I go for taking out his rearguards this time to slow my death, he 1 to passes but my trigger luck stops and I don't get it. 4-4. He has almost no cards in hand but manages to stride anyway which I have to take but he gets no crits. 4-5. Yet again a grade 3 avoids me and I can't punch through his defenses.
• VS. Abyss (Win)
• With  no grade 2 in hand grade lock seems to curse me this week. Luckily I use my plethora of grade ones to put up an offensive 2-1. He responds with a full front row of grade 2s and hits my rears. 2-2. I have to g-assist, but I get marcica and he takes a crit. 4-2. I take rearguard hits but block judgebau. This sets me up for legion with beast tamer. I fill up my field and attack with beast tamer at 36k (boosted) I guess he didn't have enough shield in hand or even if he did he would lose to a crit so he no guards and I get the crit for the victory.

Overall Performance:
      Grade locked plagued me during my testing. I didn't use G-assist a lot because I want my strides for when my deck is mostly triggers and there are only 2, as well as the fact that marcica puts in a soo much work its okay to stay on her. The deck performed excellent the early crits really strengthen silver thorns rushing abilities and give a good late game with deck thinning and striding. The lack of pgs didn't turn out to be a huge problem as it let me be more aggressive and there were not a lot of situations where I needed them.

Tips for Mastering:

• Figure out whether its better to stay on marcica or ride to grade 3. 
• Take a breath before making a decision pale moon has a ton of options and it can be easy to get lost in them. Its up to you to figure them all out.
• The deck thinning strategy may not always be the best way to go so learn the match ups. deck thinning gives you a good late game but sometimes you can aggro them out before they can even get going.

Tips for adding money:
    The Two most important things are PGs and STRIDES. Prioritize getting those and the deck should be pretty complete. After that you need to focus on the deck thinning style or the hyper aggressive style and you may want to add even more money to go for a pure silver thorn build.



I tried out a new format for the deck costs did you like it? Is it better or worse than the previous style? Want to request a budget deck from me? Please leave a comment and help me help you.
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~Bambi