Budgetguard 40: Gilvaese Shadow Paladin

Hey Cardfighters,

The forgotten knight of Shadow paladin. Overbearing Knight, Gilvaese wants you to "Gilve" him a chance.... yea that was bad.. sorry not sorry. Let's get into the deck!

Winning Image: Crit Presssure among other things!


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      This guy is going to be the main boss of the deck providing some pretty neat effects for no counterblasts! Focusing on a boss like this has a lot of benefits allowing your rearguards to counter blast a lot. His first ability makes it VERY hard to guard strides without a Perfect Guard. This is going to play well into the on-hit pressure and extra criticals of the strides. He also provides a decent change up getting to provide a field control style of on hit pressure.


Deck List:
Starter: Knight of Meditation, Mac Nessa
1 Promising Knight, David
8 Critical
4 Draw
4 Heal

G1s:
4  Little Skull Witch, Nemain (0.60)
4 Cherishing Knight, Branwen (1.00)
4 Night Sky Eagle
1 Sabmyu (1.00)

G2s:
3 Skull Witch, Nemain (0.30)
4 Dark Knight Maiden, Macha (0.40)
4 Knight of Brawn, Grosne

G3s:
4 Overbearing Knight, Gilvaese (0.25)
4 Demon World Castle, Totwachter

G4s:
4 Dark Knight, Efnysien (2.00)
4 Dark Dragon, Phantom Blaster "Diablo" (1.25)

Final Cost:  $23.9

Deck Comments:
     This deck is designed to be able to transition back and forth between stride turns and using Generation Break 1 skills. With Gilvaese and Efnysien you have on hit field control skills while Diablo and Totwachter provide crits. Switching between the two should provide a nice strategy to take out the opponent. Most of the skills are free which leaves out CB open to use Nemains and Machas as much as you like. The rest of the deck is mainly focused on power and stride fodders to help enable your transition plays when you like. I wanted to run less Branwens but I didn't feel like much else fit the deck well.


Match ups:

Overall Performance:
     The deck actually performed a lot better than I expected the power Gilvaese adds can really throw off numbers and makes it hard to guard any stride without a perfect guard. This deck has a lot of synergy with itself allowing you to transition between plays to keep up constant pressure which I really like but think it might fall a little short of being super competitive. That being said, I think Gilvaese could go into a Claret Sword deck extremely well and mesh a lot better than Blaster Dark Diabo does.

Tips for Mastering:

• Change up between strides and GB1s to trip up your opponent and get the effects you need.
• "Diablo" doesn't force you to retire 3 so try to think of him as a super powered Atmos being 41k unboosted with Gilvaese.

Tips for adding money:
     The changes to the stride zone I would make is to swap out efnysien to Grim recruiter. This will help you build the field for sacrificing plays later and also creates more options between strides and GB1s. Other than that if you want to keep the deck the same I'm not sure what else you can add. Keeping with the theme though you could replace Totwachter with Claret sword and start adding in Claret support like Darkpride and Darkquartz in for some of the other cards you find less useful.


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Thanks for reading,

Chris