Budgetguard 22: Neo Nectar Stride Deck

Hey Cardfighters,

This week I have a Neo Nectar Stride deck. I would have really liked to make a Musketeer deck but unfortunately a lot of the Musketeer support is quite expensive. But that is one of the things that you have to deal with when building decks on a lower budget.

Winning Image: Create Power Columns with Multivitamin Dragon


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     The main goal of this deck is to consistently use Multivitamin Dragon to power up your cards and push your opponent to high damage. The effect is "When your unit is place on rear guard. then you can choose upto three OTHER units with the same name and give them +5k." This ability is really good to use while you are still setting up your field and sometimes for combos.


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     Asha will be our main boss card for the deck she has a stride bonus skill to help you set up your field while at the same time providing power ups with Multivitamin Dragon. She also has a GB2 effect which gives all your units +5k as long as you control another unit with the same name as that unit. This is a useful finisher skill after having set up the field using her stride bonus skills or if you have nothing to stride with.



Deck List:
Starter: 2x Spring Waiting Maiden, Oz
8x Crit
4x Stand (Maiden of Daybreak)
4x Heal

G1s:
4x 100% Orange (0.60)
4x Valkyrie of Reclamation, Padmini (0.60)
4x Melancholy Warrior, Onion

G2s:
4x Grace Knight
4x Barrage Warrior, Watermelon
4x Platycodon Musketeer, Evelina

G3s:
4x Ranunculus Flower Maiden, Ahsha (2.70)
4x Maiden of Frilldrod (0.25)

G4s:
4x Sacred Tree Dragon, Multivitamin Dragon (0.50)
4x Flower Princess of Spring, Arborea (2.50)

Final Cost:  $28.6

Deck Comments:
     I think this deck is pretty straight forward. Using Onion we will guarantee calls to gain power boosts each turn with Multivitamin Dragon. The grade ratios are a little odd but it is to make sure that you always have a copy in the deck ready to call with an effect like Ahsha. The grade 2s are all capable of being 11k hitters with a little bit of set up. This is important for hitting the correct numbers with our main booster Onion and to synergize with stand triggers.

Match ups:

• Vs. Liberators (Win)
• I get to go first riding my perfect guard. The next turn I ride and call padmini to grab ahsha from the deck revealing my frilldrod  and discarding a crit trigger to guarantee my striding. He takes both hits 2-1. He calls a rearguard column and rushes vanguard I take 1 and guard the other attack. 2-2. I ride ahsha and call evelina into the column with padmini. He takes rearguard and guards vanguard 3-2. He rides the gancelot breakride and attacks without striding (I assume to save his grade 3 for breakriding next turn. I guard my rearguard evelina and take his vanguard attack. I draw and ahsha which I use to stride Multivitamin Dragon copying a padmini. I then call my frilldrod in front. I attack with frilldrod's column first which he lets hit. This allows me to copy an evelina over my frilldrod powering up the other evelina and making the m11k attackers. I swing with the new evelina first then vanguard. Get a stand. Attack him again for 16k and then my 28k powered up column. Brutal multi attack turn ends at 5-3. He goes for the stride this time I assum to try to crit me out. Then he attempts to use blaster blade liberators skill that he called last turn. He realizes his mistake and leaves. I count it as my win because I had a PG for his Atmos and replacement rearguards if he wants to attack my rears.
• Vs. Genesis (Win)
• I mulligan greedily to keep padmini and onion and ahsha in my hand. I don't get my grade 2 but I G-assist and hit it. so it doesn't work out too bad. My opponent goes crazy with grade 2s on his turn. I take the first one and get a damage trigger. He doesn't hit any triggers on his vanguard attack and it completely nullifies his turn. I ride to grade 3 and attack his vanguard. Stand triggers not being super useful with no rearguards. He G-assists too but misses. He uses his G3 searcher and calls boosters. 2-2. I simply call Onion on my turn and then attack him getting a critical trigger. 4-2. He strides into doom brace soulcharging more with orange and calling a rearguard. I protect my precious onion from his rearguards and take the attacks to my vanguard. 4-5. Spoiler Alert Crazy Combos incoming. Unfortunately I draw an onion so I can't go super crazy. But I stride multivitamin using Ahsha to copy Onion to the other rearguard column, which gives the original power. Then main phase starts and I use onions skill to copy again giving power to my two other ones. I then call an Ahsha from my hand over the newest onion (its the weakest) and copy it using my starters skill. This leaves me with two 27k columns along with vanguard attack. He takes the first attack PGs vanguard while I get a stand and crit. He takes one attack and gets the 6th damage heal. and has enough to guard my last attack. He goes into doom brace again getting a booster. I PG his vangaurd attack and use up most of my hand guarding his other attacks. It looks bad because I don't have anything to stride with and I'm at GB1 only so I can't use Ahsha's GB2 skill but I top deck a grade 3 like a boss and while I can't use Ahsha's skill since all my copies are out I use my stand trigger and call the last onion in my hand to make 27k columnet on both sides. He doesn't have enough guard so he takes the first attack and that's game.

Overall Performance:
     The deck performed well beyond my expectations. Onion's self calling ability works extremely well with Multivitamin Dragon's ability and the plethora of 11k attackers synergizes extremely well with stand triggers. Maiden of Frilldrod allows for multi-attacks if it hits while powering up your other rear-guards with Multivitamin's skill. The deck has a lot more synergy than you would initially expect and this brings it into the realm of being competitive. I believe that creative and skillful use of Multivitamin Dragon can bring the deck to power levels on par with Sanctuary Guard Dragon.

Tips for Mastering:

• The First and most important thing is to learn to play with Multivitamin's skill to get extremely powerful columns.
  
• Next you should work on balancing your early aggro with keeping important rearguards in your hand so that you aren't messed up too bad by people attacking your rearguards or retiring them.
  
•  Lastly you need to learn when to use Arborea and when to use Multivitamin. I think that Multivitamin will almost always be the correct choice as you should be able to set up your field nicely if you combine Ahsha's skill with your Starter. That being said in retire heavy matchups Arborea has definite advantages.

Tips for adding money:
     The first thing that I think will add a lot of consistency is to change out one of your grade 2s for the Amber clone 'Maiden of Gladiolus" She serves as an important card for filling up the field against controlling clans and adds to your ability to do Multivitamin Combos. The second is to get a 1-2 Primavera's for the Stride zone. She will be super important against retire match ups as she can fill your field from just two rear-guards and returns cards to the deck guaranteeing that you have more copies to call. The last decision will be up to you, but you may want to consider adding 2 blizza to the stride zone to be able to guarantee GB2 off the first stride and a strong vanguard push if games go long.

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Thanks for reading,

Chris