Budget Deck: Royal Paladins (Sanctuary Guard)

Oh my God I have been so looking forward to writing this.

Sanctuary Guard, an Archtype that has been out for a very long time now (Withought any direct support) suddenly got an amazing new support in FC 2015. Holy Dragon, Sanctuary Guard Regalie is a fantastic card. No, like seriously. It's one of the best Strides in the game so far. A deck focused on this guy can be scary, and due to the reason that most of their cards aren't foils (RR or higher) this build is fairly budget.

The only problem? Sanctuary Guard Dragon is $20 and the most consistent way to call Grade 1s to the field right now is Swordmy who has a fairly expensive price right now and sucks at being available.

Because of that I have, during the past few months, been looking for another consistent way to search out Grade 1s and, apparantly, RP has more than one ways of doing that. It was preety easy building a deck withought Swordmy.


The only problem left was how to bypass the original Sanctuary Guard Dragon... And I tried out a Sanctuary Guard deck with only Guarantee, and while the 10k base does hurt, I don't care. It worked a lot better than I expected. While Dragon does work better, this is equally as good. This deck, my friends, is the incarnation of pure rushing. Welcome to Sanctuary Regalie.

Grade 4

Cavalier Sword!

So, our main priority Stride is Regalie so you really won't want anything else, but hey there's always a "Just in case".

In RP, there's this "Big 3 Generic" Stride list. They are consisted of the following: Gablade, Samuel, and Jirron. These three are the most Generic Strides that RP have right now. Gablade is self explinatory as the usual on-hit unit, and Jirron is extremely useful no matter what your deck is. Samuel is withought a doubt the least Generic compared to those two, since it can't be used in a CB heavy deck, but it again, withought a doubt, has the strongest effect. CB2 for a free damage is really good. Really really good. 

Also, the most awesome thing about this deck is that Saint Blow can be completely ignored so that's awesome.

Grade 3

I am the Guardian Dragon

In a Sanctuary Guard deck, it should be obvious, right? 

Run as many Sanctuary Guard Dragons as possible, and fill in the missing gaps by using Gurantee. After that? There are the typical backup choices, but from my testing, I found the most useful unit Fang of Light, Garmore. He can search out Grade 1s which is good as it already is, and, believe it or not, you'd sometimes want to ride him. 

Don't get me wrong you should totally go Regalie 10/10, but there are decks that get stuck on 2 on purpose the whole game to shut out your recourses (No Stride = No GB and no Regalie), which is this guy'd turn to shine. Garmore gets 1k for each Snogal out in the field. Combining this with the Grade 2 version of Garmore, you'll have at least 2 Snogals out the whole game. 2 Snogals out means Grade 2 Magic number all over the place, so you're not playing a complete Vanila game if nothing.
  
But of course you wouldn't want to ride Garmore (Obviously, unless your opponent gets gradestuck) so if I were you, I'd tech in a copy of Altmile to search out using Siclius in the worst case, but I dunno since I haven't played with the idea yet.

Grade 2

Legion revival now. No I'm
serious as hell. Any kind of
revival for this hell of a
card like they did with Macha.

Just because you have a unit that favors Grade 1s, don't run like 8 Grade 2s. I mean it isn't a bad idea actually, but with all the Grade 1 searching that you can do with this deck you can run 11 Grade 2s and still have a full Grade 1 field.

There are a lot of ways to search out Grade 2s, like for one, Akane. While CB2 seems like too much, Sanctuary Guard decks can seriously have some free CBs to use, and this fits in perfectly. Run at least 2, but 3 might be too much. 

Akane's also there's but you'd want to use Archer of Sanctuary over Akane anyday, anytime. Archer of Sanctuary isn't limited to High Beasts, and can become a 11k attacker. The only thing that Akane has over this guy is that Sanctuary can't be used on the VG but honestly it isn't much.

I guess Constance works too.

The original Garmore works really well over here. Not only does he search out Grade 1s he's also CB free, so he can be splashed in any deck you want. So you have at least 6 engines in your deck that can call out Grade 1s. That's perfect. It's enough.

Also, using Starlight Violinist in this deck is, while it doesn't seem like it, a fantastic idea. You've just added in a card that searches in your Grade 2s, which can search out Grade 1s. Basically this is even more copies of any Grade 2 available in the deck.

Grade 1

Meh, not really much stuff to say here. You'd obviously want to max out Snogal with all the engines that can search him out (MAX HIM OUT NO MATTER WHAT), then what?

PGs obviously (Not really PGGs, since this deck doesn't even come close to needing an unflipper) and then there's Knight of Shield Bash that can be used for early rush (Power attacking both late game and early game? Oh god) and there's Sicilus in case you don't have enough Grade 3s to Stride with. That should practically make up your Grade 1 lineup.

Do not run:
Rendgal: Only temporary, at most Akane fodder.
Richard: How do you plan to call him out?

Grade 0

I blame Llew.

If only Barcgal wasn't banned...

So there are 2 choices of starters when you use a Generic deck in RP. Knight of Drawn Sword and Millius. I guess you could use Brugal at 4 and use him instead of Snogal but why would you?

So anyway the choice between the two is obvious. Drawn Sword is a -1 and Millus is a wash, so it's already obvious, but there's more. Millus can search out a Grade 2. It can search out a Grade 2. I repeat: It can search out a Grade 2. With all the stuff like Garmore and Archer, it means? Grade 1. This is superior in the sense of how Violinist is good in the deck.

The choice between the two is obvious, but the choice between him and Jumpgal? Not so much. Jumpgal becomes a 10k Vanila Grade 0 thatcounts towards Regalie, while Milius as I said, can search out any Grade 2  (Preferably Archer) and use him to search out a Grade 1. It is really a tough choice... So just test it out!

The trigger lineup gets a little tricky. You obviously want crits, and Draws in this deck works because Garmore, but then again Stands get deadly in this deck. You can run whatever you want, but I really can't give much advise here.

                                                                                                                                                                      
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
• Shining Knight, Millius/Jumpgal  x1

Grade 1:

• PG of choice x4 
• Snogal x4
• Knight of Shield Bash x3
• Laurel Knight, Sicilus/Righteousness Seeker, Gangaren x3

Grade 2:

•  Beast Knight, Garmore x4
• Starlight Violinist x4
• Archer of Sanctuary x3

Grade 3:

•  Sanctuary Guard Guarantee x4
• Fang of Light, Garmore x3
• Blue Sky Knight, Altmile x1 

Grade 4:

•  Holy Dragon, Sanctuary Guard Regalie x4
• Divine Knight of Flashing Flame, Samuel x1
• Shrouded Divine Knight, Gablade x4
• Great Sage of Contradiction, Jirron x2
• Holy Dragon, Laserguard Dragon x2
• Dark Element, Dizmel x2
• Metal Element, Scryew x1

                                                                                                                                                                        Effectiveness: 10/10

Price: $20-30

Competetive: Yes


Final Words: So Sanctuary Guard right now is wreaking havoc in Japan right now, making Bushitroll.... Bushiroad keep an eye on Swordmy and Regalie, of which we'll be troubled of... Anyway enough of news, to the deck.
So the deck is something I'll be testing a lot in the future because... I'm gonna build the very deck in front of your eyes (Exception of using Dragon instead of Gurantee, because I can) there, and try it out. So far the deck has been very autopilot and very competetive, and just overall one of the most efficient decks I've made so far. Would defenitely recommend this for both competetive and casual play for being amazingly fun to use and competetive at the same time.