Budget Deck: Megacolony (Darkface)

Okay, let's try this again.

After being left in the darkness for the longest time, Bushiroad finally decided to give Megacolony support, and surprisingly, it's good, cheap, and fun to play with, trolling your opponent all day. MC is a great budget deck, being probably one of the cheapest competetive builds. Plus, it's ridiculously fun to play with. I can't say this enough: It's fun to play with.

Grade 3

Greatest troll of
all of Vanguard

We got a very nice Strider this season with the cool name of Intimidating Mutant, Darkface. And guess what, the name isn't the only thing that's cool. The skill is too. Usually on-Stride units give you a +1 for a CB1. Darkface, my friends, gives you a delayed +2 with a bit of soft plussing with the paralyzing. Plus, he has a GB2 that screws up many decks (Like, AqF, which is very meta now and will be again soon), even with that SB2.

With this great Strider, we should be able to make a meta breaking deck, right? Wrong. The biggest problem with this deck is the lack of a good backup G3, because Bishitroll decided to give the trolls the worst backup ever (probably). Plus, all our past support weren't that... impressive, so we're in a loss for our Backup. Plus, the backup needs to be able to support the deck if ridden instead of Darkface, which none of our options (currenty) can do. If I were to choose a backup, it would probably be... Cyclomatooth. Why? Because you can actually sit on Cyclomatooth and then Breakride, and do a "field nuke". The fact that Cyclo also paralyzes the VG helps, because this deck utterly lacks reliable VG paralyzing which, for MC, is amazing. Why?

This is why: The shocking truth

Anyway going back... Cyclo is a good backup because you can sit on him, and VG paralyze. The other options are... Machining Warsickle is probably the next best, considering that VG paralyze. The other option is Avectro Zeus, having that meh second skill, but I'd just run Cyclo/Warsickle in the end.

Grade 4

Fun fact: This guy is
an artificial zombie

In order to "amend" our unfortunate "lack of backup G3" problem, Bushi gave us at least, a good Stride. His name shall be remembered, honored, feared- Okay I'm done. Anyway the main guy is Paraspear, is a great Stride. The moment he comes into play, if your opponent has 3 or more RGs, he automatically gives you a +1. Also, it doesn't have to hit, all he needs to do is be Stridden. Anyway, this guy could be Stridden in any point of the game and still be good, so I'd run 3-4.

The next Stride in our hand is Stun Beetle, which is... Not really as flexible as Paraspear, but is still good, because of that immense pressure, and possible VG paralyze. The best part about him is that you could run an od number and still use him, since you don't have to persona flip if it doesn't hit. The good thing about this is that you could run 2, and your opponent would (try to) block both, thinking that you'll have an extra Stun Beetle. Or, you could run 3 and have access to pressure 2 times, and laugh at your opponent if he/she blocks the 3rd one too. Anyway, Stun Beetle is practically a staple of at least 2 in Darkface decks.

Then your other Stride option is... Jaggydevil, who in all honesty is preety meh. Darkface provides the paralyzing, and Stun Beetle provids the pressure. Plus restricting into Front and Backrow is preety bad for many reasons. In order to fill up the last spot, I'd personally use Blizza, because of the insta-GB2, and possible final turn power ram after your opponent used all of his PGs on Stun.

Grade 2

Dandy Bug

 Let's first think about the pre-Stride turn options that you could use in the deck, since early game options never hurt to have. G-BT04 gave us Abyss Diver made specifically for this purpose... but did a poor job on it. Darkface needs the Soul, Darkface needs the CB. It's just not really worth it. Instead, there's a better version of this guy and her name is Papilio. Papilio is completely free of a paralyze, which is unquestionably better than Abyss Diver even withought the intercept restriction pasted on her. Then, we have Bloody Hercules as another early game option, but meh.

A staple for a Darkface deck, her name is Sweet Cocktail. Seriously, this is a must have in Darkface decks, due to that amazingness plastered in her. Amber cost for a front-row gigaparalyzing (Which is plain great considering it fills up Darkface's problem). Plus, she's only a R. She's great.

Other options to consider are mainly consisted of Buster Mantis for the offense option, Machining Armor Beetle for that soul fill and another early game option, and Toxic Trooper just because.

Grade 1

This tragedy will never happen again.

Let me dedicate a section towards the MC PGs. Our original (And the only) PG for the longest time used to be Paralyze Madonna, who, due to the reason that everyone wanted her and that she was an old card, skyrocketed her price all the way to $15. Her price did go down recently, but she's still $8, and it isn't worth it. Instead, G-BT04 offered us a new PG called Rebel Mutant, Starshield, which helps solve our CB probelms and wallet problems.

Anyway going back to G1 options, running 4 of the PG and the Stride fodder fills up 8 of your space. Your other options are: Scissor Finger to boost Buster Mantis to 21k, Phantom Black just because, and Brillouin Blister to troll. And then, there's one guy that you must run at 2 or more for Darkface's GB2: Machining Mosquito.

Grade 0

Kidbug (Just kidding)

Crimebug is a wonderful starter for Darkface, giving another access to front row paralyze, which Darkface can't do. And you don't have many other starter options anyway, the only good one being Megacolony Battler C, which is only good for giving early game pressure and guranteed SC for Darkface.

The triggers? Simply two words: No Draws. Darkface already provides a looot of drawing to the point that the only way to lose is by deckout, which is made worse by running draws. Either go 12 crit or 8 crit 4 stand.

                                                                                                                                                                   

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
• Young Executive, Crimebug x1

Grade 1:

• PG of choice x4
• New Face Mutant, Little Dorcas x4
• Scissor Finger x4
• Machining Mosquito x2

Grade 2:

• Machining Papilio x3
• Buster Mantis x4
• Charming Mutant, Sweet Cocktail x4

Grade 3:

• Intimidating Mutant, Darkface x4
• Unrivaled Blade Rogue, Cyclomatooth x4

Grade 4:

• Poison Spear Mutant Deity, Paraspear x4
• Snow Element, Blizza x1 
• Force Spear Mutant Deity, Stun Beetle x3
• Wild Strike Mutant Deity, Struggle Dipper x2
• Dream Mutant Deity, Scarabgas x4
• Dark Element, Dizmel x2

                                                                                                                                                                   

Effectiveness: 9/10

Price: $20-30

Competetive: Yes

Final Words: MC is one of the clans that I'm very interested at thanks to that cool gimmic (even if it's completely outclassed by Lock) and watching them get good support, that's cheap, made me really happy. Anyway, this deck can become a really annoying nut to crack with that hand and lack of RGs to attack. MC is a control clan so it's not excatly "Autopilot"...  Anyway this is a fun deck that can be used in both competetive play and casual play and be forgiven, and you can be a ridiculous troll for your opponent.