Budget Deck: Tachikaze (Ancient Dragons)

About time I made this blog.

Ancient Dragons are the "bomb". They can rush, they can crit, if they felt like it they could (But shouldn't) tank.

But the main big deal here is the rush.

Rush, is one of the best tricks in Vanguard right now. The G-era promotes rushing very much, and the strategy works very, very very well. Nowadays the game doesn't become hyper until people Stride. By rushing instead, they can hyper play earlier, resulting in a ton of damage going straight into your opponent's face while they get to do... well, nothing.

Anyway, the point here is that ADs have one of the best rushes in the entire game, and they're budget, so they're defenitely a very good budget deck.

Grade 3

Use Earthquake!!!
Wait this isn't pokemon...

This, my friends, is the one card that revived Ancient Dragons back in the Legion era. Quake has been a long time favorite of mine, and will probably continue to be. Anyway going back to the point, this T-Rex is an absolute beast. It hits your opponent as hard as it gets, which is 30k 2 crit which, nowadays... Doesn't seem too great. However, Quake's greatest justification on the "low" number is that it can do it consistently every turn (If you get Bite on your field once) and your opponent isn't going to be blocking all of that. On top of that, Quake's second skill can be used even if you aren't in Legion and help you extend your attack count while rushing.

The other options are... Preety awkward. Magmaarmor is preety bad as a backup, Legend is preety horrible, Spino is a breakride and Volcatops is overcosted. Okay, let's go through this one by one.

Y no Aquaarmor

Magmaarmor isn't worth using outside his own deck, usually. Using Magmaarmor as a final push when your opponent doesn't die is a preety decent idea. The only problem with him is the mate, Knightarmor, who is preety slow for this deck, and doesn't synergize with Stride whatsoever. If you have G2 space to fill in, I guess you could use it, but really I would stay away from it in this deck.

Legend, whether you like it or not, should be ran at 1, since Babyrex is too good to pass by. I mean, helping attack extension early, synergizes with Parititan. If you want to run more than 1? Sure, that works if you're extremely paranoid, but he's really... Meh. The best he can do is extend attack count late game while hitting for 21k 2 crit, but otherwise it's really just... Meh.

Spino's effect is preety good for tanking. Also that power boost + crit boost can majorly screw up your opponent at 3 damage once Quake descends on top of this. However, there are many flaws. First, he's a breakride, which means you'll be taking a -1 and having to wait until late game. Second, he eats your CB like a beast. Lastly, to pull off the Quake combo I was talking about you need to be dependant on getting out an LB enabler, which no one has space for more than 1. Overall he seems preety bad, but if you're going to be sitting on a specific card while waiting for Quake to be ridden, this works fantastic.

Lastly Volcatops is... Again, overcosted. CB1 and Retire 1 for a +5k to two units is really really overcosted. If it gave power to 3, or all it needed was the Retire, I would consider this, but no.

Putting the Limit Break aside let's look on ways on how to make this work instead... which is really hard. The best justification for this would be his second skill, allowing him to extend attacks in case you misrode Quake, which is a preety big bonus I guess, but that's as far as it gets. Otherwise it sits there being a  vanila 16k beaterstick. Well, looking at the other options I guess the extension of attack is a preety huge bonus... But meh

Grade 4

Cannons are love,
Cannons are life

Ancient Dragons were blessed enough to recieve an amazing Stride. No no not an absolutely broken OP Stride but a decently balanced good enough Stride with a lot of utility. This is basically a means for ADs to unconditionally retire an annoying unit that were blocking their rush, or when it comes down to it, it can act as a finisher as well, or just do both. Anyway run 4.

Then their other options are... Few. The only other Tachi Stride is Archraider which is as good as it gets. Gains power? Check. Pressure? Check. Extension of rusdown? Check check check. This is great.

Then the other most viable option is Madew who is a net +1 as long as you Legion, which in ADs is as common as it gets. Also that plus is useful for synergizing with Parititan.

Grade 2

Rawr

Here, are the two key pieces to AD rushdown. Bite, and Crowd. Do you get it yet? Crowd eats Bite, Bite comes in as stand, rinse and repeat 3 times.

Anyway, both of those must be ran at 4 no questions asked. The other 4 slots of options could be literally anything. It could be Beamankylo for the 12k attack, it coud be Launcher Mammoth for the unflipping, it could be Cannon Gear just for the lolz (Not too good of an idea. Trust me).

Grade 1

English. Now.

The Grade 1 counterpart of Bite is Iguanogorg, and the Grade 1 counterpart of Crowd is Gattlingaro. Both of these can (And probably should) be ran at 4, along with the PG, to kill off 12 of our G1 lineup, leaving 1 to go. Usually Gioconda would be the best choice except... It never came out in english... So okay, let's put our minds together and think.

If you ran an LB, a tech-in of Blaze might work in case of an extremely situational situation that'll probably never happen. Otherwise another option would be Skyptero for the bouncable ability, or Triplasma for the beatdown. Or maybe Sonic Noa as main ride target, but that's about it.

Grade 0

Chibi Dino 10/10

So the starter choices in AD is really low. Babyrex probably synergizes best with the deck, but if you want other options, Dragon Egg would work, but he'd be too reliant on Parititan to be bounced back.  Another option is Babysaurus which is amazingly good in being bad. Just... run Babyrex.

Trigger options? Basically you have 12 crits, 8 crits and 4 Stands, 8 crits and 4 draws. Among those three, 12 crits would probably be the best, promoting aggression, but dem Stands might work too (Although, crits would work better). While it's the worst choice I personally run draws, just because I can.

                                                                                                                                                                   

Decklist: 

Note: I highly support building your own decks and doing your own testings. Please do not straight out use this deck, but use it as a base to start and spread out and make your own Version.

Grade 0

• 16 Triggers of choice
• Ancient Dragon, Babyrex x1

Grade 1:

• PG of choice x4
• Ancient Dragon, Gattlingaro x4
• Ancient Dragon, Iguanogorg x4
• Sonic Noa/Ancient Dragon, Triplasma x1

Grade 2:

• Ancient Dragon, Dinocrowd x4
• Ancient Dragon, Tyrannobite x4
• Ancient Dragon, Beamankylo x4

Grade 3:

• Ancient Dragon, Tyrannoquake x4
• Ancient Dragon, Tyrannolegend x4

Grade 4:

• Super Ancient Dragon, Pearly Titan x4
• Rain Element, Madew x1 
• Destruction Tyrant, Archraider x2
• Destruction Tyrant, Gradogigant x2
• Destructive Equipment, Hammer  Gewalt x2
• Iron Armor Chancellor, Dimor Phalanax x4
• Dark Element Dizmel x1

                                                                                                                                                                   

Effectiveness: 10/10

Price: $50-70

Competetive: Yes

Final Words: Well this turned out better than I thought. Much better, seeing the usual qualities of my blogs. Anyway to this deck, the deck is really great for having one of the best rushes in the game, and one of the hardest crit hitters in the game, early. Autopilot? Defenitely not. Thinking of what to do is harder than it seems. This can be a monster competetively, and be very fun to play with casually. This would be my first budget deck of choice.