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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Chris

Budgetguard 27: Revenge of the Revengers!

Hey Cardfighters,

New Shadow support has been revealed so let's see what it can do for our previous build of revengers. (Not all new content will be updated versions of older decks I just found that all the other shadow budget options hover too close to the Legend Deck as it comes so if you are looking for another good budget deck you should definitely check that out at $30 its a great buy)

Winning Image: Crit pressure with legion and Peredur.


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     The main boss of the deck Cormack provides an easy way to get extra criticals for the low cost of 1 unit. This is going to provide lots of on hit pressure and force your opponent to drop cards early than they want. The other main purpose of this card is to legion to provide extra advantage of off Teyrnon and his mate Macart.


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     The back up boss is Peredur again, but he's gotten so much better he's almost at main boss level if it weren't for the deck relying on relegioning from Cormack. The card that changed it all was Finegas the LBE for Shadows. Finnegas can call the LBE behind him using his on-ride skill which lets you hit his LB4 skill of +10k and +1 Crit while your opponent is still at Grade 2! The skill also fills up  the drop zone for legioning later with Cormack so there is pretty much no downside to that play. Unfortunately Peredur's effectiveness dies off quickly so you'll want to switch to Cormack ASAP.



Deck List:
Starter: Frontline Revenger, Claudas (0.20)
6x Crit
6x Draw
4x Heal

G1s:
4x Little Skull Witch Nemain (1.50)
4x Transient Revenger, Masquerade
4x Tempting Revenger, Finegas
1x Branbau Revenger

G2s:
4x Fighting Spirit Revenger Macart (5.00)
4x Wily Revenger Mana (0.50)
4x Adroit Revenger, Teyrnon (0.30)

G3s:
4x Ambitious Spirit Revenger, Cormack (1.10)
4x Halberd Revenger, Peredur (0.60)

G4s:

Final Cost:  $36

Deck Comments:
     This time the deck is much more focused on generating crit pressure with the vanguard to end games quickly. because of this we use a 6 Crit 6 Draw trigger line-up. This should give use the cards to keep up a field while having enough crits to be scary. Next you'll notice there is almost no ways to use CB in the deck. The only ways are Teyrnon and Peredur. This won't limit your ability to act no matter your damage. It is also to save CB for Teyrnon which can be used in multiple (if you have multiple out) when you legion. Lastly while most of my decks recently have used strides this one forgoes them. preferring to use extra grade 3s to relegion for more Macart/Teyrnon activations or to discard to PGs.


Match ups:

Overall Performance:
     I didn't get to play many games with this deck but as you can see from the video oh man is it brutal. The deck is an mid game power house hitting extremely hard with crit from the moment your ride grade 3. Masquerades help apply some pressure early to make your crits even more effective. I think the deck is positioned extremely well in the current meta game as pressuring your opponent right from the get go either makes them guard so they don't have enough cards to play their game or gets them to high damage where they are forced to guard. If you are looking for a competitive budget option this is your guy. I would suggest adding the cards I suggest below :)

Tips for Mastering:

•  Manage your aggressiveness since you need 2 cb to do the combo with Peredur you might not want to go offensive if you think your opponent will attack your rearguards.
• Be careful about calling macart and teyrnon before they are effective since you'll leave them open to attacks. the same can be said for mana incase you can't use her superior call skill.
• Almost never swing at rearguard you need to pressure the vanguard due to your lack of late game. 

Tips for adding money:
     Surprise Surprise the first thing I'm gonna say is to flesh out the stride zone. The cheapest strides are the commons Phantom Blaster "Diablo"s from the Legend Deck. You'll need one other stride to hit the requirement for Diablo so I would suggest Efnysian. You can use him in combination with Peredur to fetch out a fodder and then immediately sacrifice it. It will also provide on hit pressure which gives your opponent another reason to guard after all the crits on everything else. Once you finish up the stride zone you should consider swapping out Masquerade's for Stride Fodders. This will let you have a healthy ratio of options to choose between striding or relegioning. But it weakens the early game. Overall it should be an improvement as you don't call too much early to get 2 damage from peredur for his combo and it really adds a more consistent late game.

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Chris

Budgetguard 14: Shadow Paladin Revengers

Hey Cardfighters,

This week I build a deck with a sweet combo that I've always wanted to put into practice. Darkbond Trumpeter into Crisis Revenger, Fritz allows you to fill up your back row extremely easy.

Winning Image: Get early advantage and ride it to victory.


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The main boss of the deck is going to be Ambitious Spirit Revenger, Cormack. His first ability is that he gets +3k when there is another unit in the same column. But more importantly his legion ability is when he attacks you can retire one of your own units to give it +1 critical. The second effect is key to providing extra pressure on your attacks which will carry over your advantage into later in the game. (0.80)


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 Our back up boss is Halberd Revenger, Peredur. His limit break ability bring his on par with Cormack by having you CB1 and retire 2 units when it attacks to give +10k and a critical. This will help you give pressure while his second ability helps fill the field by calling out dark bond straight from the deck.(0.60)

Cost after Grade 3s: 5

For Grade 2s 3x Fighting Spirit Revenger, Macart (3), 4x Masquerade (2)

In the Grade 1 we have 4x QW (1.20) 4x Dark Bond (0.20)

Cost: 27.60

With $12 left we can fit in 3x Magums in the Gzone.

Final Cost: 39.60

Deck List:
Starter: Witch of Banquet, Lir
12x crit
4x heal
3x Crisis Revenger, Fritz

G1s:
4x Revenger, Dark Bond Trumpeter
4x Hellrage Revenger, Quesal
4x Transient Revenger, Masquerade

G2s:
3x Fighting Spirit Revenger, Macart
4x Revenger of Nullity, Masquerade
4x Darkness Revenger, Rugos

G3s:
4x Ambitious Spirit Revenger. Cormack
3x Halberd Revenger, Peredur

G4s:
3x Heat Elemental, Magum

Deck Comments:
      The first thing to notice is that we are running a witch starter. This is because it gets 2 grade 0s when you hit and boost during legion. This will allow you to call out 2 Fritz for no cost and is the main reason we run Cormac as our main boss so we can consistently and easily fill the field.


Match ups:

• Vs. DOTX
• I started out first with no grade 3s in hand but lots of grade 2s. This allowed me to rush really hard. By the end of my grade 2 turn he was at 2 dmg and I drive checked my grade 3. He did a counter offensive. 2-2. I opt to stay on grade 2 and continue to rush. He uses up a lot of guard and goes to 3. He cleans pops Lir with gatling claw. 3-4. I go into grade 3 and legion with 2 macarts on the board to gain board position. this lets me call dark bond into lir, and a masquerade into the last spot in my back row. I add pressure using Cormack's skill but he guards. 3-4. He goes to stride but I PG. I hti him with the crit from cormack but again pull no triggers. Lir gets to go off. and gets me 2 fritz. 5-4. My opponent strides root flare and uses a gatling claw to retire the rest of my field. I opt to go for another legion to refill the field with my macart. I manage to not drive check any triggers again. 5-4. He goes into DOTG which wipes out my rears. I don't have enough guard and he gets the crit to end the game.
• VS. Nova
• My opponent got to start the game off, and the first few turns were pretty uneventful just trading vanguard blows. When we hit grade 2 I went all out calling Macart, Rugos and filling my boosters with darkbond -> fritz. 4-1. He opts not to go to grade 3, I assume to prevent me from using legion/stride and advancing my lead. He targets my rearguards. 4-1. I know I have the advantage so I stay at grade 2 and fill up my field again and he no guards my vanguard and I get the crit to win the game.

Overall Performance:
       I was very surprised and happy with this deck. Its potential for early field advantage and rushing is really high. Usually you can put yourself in a good position to win the game. My Nova opponent got critted at an unlucky time but he was put in a really hard spot by my quick rushing. My DOTX opponent got really lucky and I managed not to drive check ANY triggers at all the whole game but even then I was still really close to winning. I think this deck is a good example of how rush decks are really strong in the current meta.
 

Tips for Mastering:

• Don't be afraid of staying at grade 2. A lot of times you have more rear guards than them and can beat out other players who stay at grade 2
• If you legion Lir back into the deck you can get her out with dark bond to help recover your field against crazy field retires.

Tips for adding money:
     The obvious way to add money to this deck would be to use Revenger Phantom Blaster "Abyss" to replace Cormack and Macart, but you also lose out a little on your ability to create advantage. Overall it should be a good upgrade. The other way to make the deck better is to add in more useful stride units like Atmos.

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~Bambi