Budgetguard 13: Schwarzschild Freeze Ray

Hey Cardfighters,

This week we have a super anti aggro deck for you with a combination of Schwarzschild Dragon and Freeze Ray
Winning Image: Get a ton of early advantage and ride it to victory.


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The main boss of the deck will actually be Freezeray Dragon. This is because he allows for free locks via damage adders and completely shuts down any rearguard dependent strategies. The LB effect is that whenever something is locked he gets +3k. But his non-limit break is the real killer. everytime a card is placed into your damage zone you lock an opponent's rearguard. This means that you can actually lock your opponent's rearguards during THEIR attack phase. This will allow you to mitigate early damage with ease. Cost: 0.40


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Schwarzschild Dragon is the secondary boss of the deck. While we have the ride chain the deck is not dependent on it. Shwarzschild can be used to triangle lock your opponent and then pressure them with the power boost and crit. This is from the its LB4 effect "CB3, persona blast: Lock 3 of your opponent's rearguards and then this unit gets +10k and a crit" He also has an on ride effect of "CB1: look at the top 5 cards of the deck and search for Shwarzschild Dragon and put it into your hand". This helps enable the LB4 effect which makes the card work very well as a finisher. Cost: 3

Cost so far: 10.60

For grade 2s our non-commons are 4x Osmium, (0.50) 4x Gravity Collapse Dragon (0.25), and 3x Negligible Hydra (N/A)

For grade 1s we get 4x Gravity Ball Dragon (N/A), 3x PG (5.60) 1x QW (1) 4x Damage adder (N/A) 2x Nickel (N/A)

Total Cost: 29.65

Then with 2x Magum (4)


Final Cost: 37.65

Deck List:
Starter: Micro-Hole Dracokid
8x Crit
4x Draw
4x Heal

G1s:
4x Gravity Ball Dragon
3x Refusing Deletor, Evil
1x Star-vader, Rejection Dragon
4x Imaginary Orthos
2x Deception Star-vader, Nickel

G2s:
4x Flash Gun Star-vader, Osmium
4x Gravity Collapse Dragon
3x Negligible Hydra

G3s:
4x Star-vader, Freeze Ray Dragon
4x Schwarzschild Dragon

G4s:
2x Heat Elemental, Magum

Deck Comments:
       In this deck we use a mix of ride chain to get some free bonuses if you can get it to work. And then the damage adders which will help bump upto limit break early as well as enable essentially free retires via Freezeray Dragon. Nickel is used to help you filter hand while you are being attacked as well as free filtering if Nickel is out as you use the ride chain.Osmium will help apply early pressure with locks provided by the ride chain.

Match ups: (opp dmg - my dmg)

•  Shadow Paladin Witches

• He gets to start first and I miss the ride chain :( I draw into Freeze Ray and ride him to prevent him from going super aggro. Striding to apply pressure and get him to higher damage. Unfortunately I only get a whiffed heal trigger. 3-1. He strides which I perfect guard and then take his rearguard hit which in retrospect was a bad idea considering that I could have guarded easily and the lock didn't really help me. I stride again to try to aggro him down but I get a pg and no triggers again. He gains advantage using Fianna's skills and reduces my field down to only Grade 0s. He calls an attacker but I can block it of by no guarding and locking. This lets him use the starter to unflip and soul charge which may have been a misplay in retrospect. I use my damage adder to lock up his field some and call osmium to go for omega locks. He takes attacks smartly to avoid osmium. 4-3. He draws even more off fiana and reduces my field to 0s yet again. I guard attacks to prepare for taking a lot of damage on his game winner turn. Another damage adder comes out to lock up his field some. Unfortunately I'm not really able to whittle down his hand. 5-3. He goes into "Final Turn" dropping me to -10k power and attacking so that I have to bank on him not getting a crit which he does. 

• Thavas Aqua Force

•  I start second but I have both grade 1 and 2 of the ride chain in my hand. With a ton of grade 2s I plan to go on the offensive early. My opponent beats me to it and I take an early hit which gets me a crit trigger nullifying his attack pattern, I let his vanguard hit and a crit regains his position. 1-4. I don't draw into my grade 3 but the ride chain lets me lock down an important column for him. I then play out my osmiums and pressure him to get the omega lock. which was guaranteed with the heal I got. He g-assists to get Thavas and attacks I no guard to conserve cards but Schwarzschild goes into the damage. Luckily I G-assist into him and lock his starter. Using the on ride to guarantee me either stride fodder or a super lock crit turn. I go aggresive again to hit with osmium. Which works out. and his rearguard stays locked shutting down the column. He draws into a stride fodder and goes into attacks. I protect my osmiums and pg his vanguard attack. 4-5. The only trigger he gets is a draw so next turn I opt to use Schwarzschild's persona blast to lock the rest of his field which gets rid of his interceptor. He guards 1 pass successfully but doesn't get the heal he needs to survive.

Overall Performance:
       From these two decks we can see 2 things. This deck has TERRIBLE power plays. Your biggest power play is a generic stride. This means against a controlling vanguard centric deck you can be shut down really easily. However as you can see in the case of the Aqua Force match up you can really shut down rear guard dependent clans. Going into GBT-02 This will become really important as cutting off attackers in a multi attack turn will totally crush their momentum.

Tips for Mastering:

• Get good with Freezeray's effect. This will make the biggest difference.
• Learn when to call damage adders as boosters/attackers even without using the skill.
• Master attack patterns which maximize your ability to hit with osmium

Tips for adding money:
     NUMBER 1 PRIORITY. Fill out the deck's stride units. Freezeray functions the best when you stride every turn because it gives you a high offensive and an obnoxious defense. My loss to Witches wouldn't have been so over whelming if I had more stride units. The next thing you should look into is Volt line, who has the same ability as osmium to maximize the effectiveness of your ride chain. Also since the deck isn't good at making power columns its better to focus on on hit pressure. In this vein I would also suggest getting Astro Reapers to supply your hand with grade 3s to stride with. Both of these should replace damage adders as they are only useful when freeze ray is your vanguard and you didn't stride which ideally won't ever happen. You can also decide to follow the Freezeray path or the Schwarzschild build path and focus on one over the other.


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~Bambi