Standard Budget Deck: Murakumo (Weasel Gang)

Assemble!

Occasionally, Bushiroad will gift us with a package that is absolute gold for budget play. This time around, we got the WEASEL GANG.

Aside from being the absolute goodest bois, they have legitimate use. Weasel Red creating an easy-bake board with 30k+ units is neat, especially on turn two. Even if it's at the cost of what's usually going to be your entire hand, this rushdown is well worth it.

Luckily, Murakumo has a decently large cardpool in Standard, and we have access to multiple boss units that we can try out. Since the goodboi engine and triggers take up over half your deck, Weasels are super easy to build, and they're one of the most beginner-friendly decks I've seen in a while.

Standard Budget Deck: Nubatama (Kujikiricongo)

Discard No Jutsu!! 

Nubatama has always been a fun clan for me to brew, even since the original series. Controlling cards in the opponent's hand was something I never really tried in card games prior to Vanguard, and when V-BT03 came around I was looking forward to seeing how Bushi would adapt the clan for Standard. 

I was initially confused when the VR was revealed to be Magatsu Storm, alongside the rest of his ride chain. However, and more importantly, Shura Stealth Dragons returned to Standard alongside the mainline Magatsu set. Let's talk about them for today.

Budget Deck: Great Nature (Leo-Pald)

So I'm doing another hyper-casual deck. One that has probably been completely forgotten about now that Honorary Professors and Bigbelly just got support.

It's Leo-Pald!

OG Leo-Pald is bad. Reverse Leo-Pald is questionable at best. What makes the deck shine is the Leo-Pald G Unit. It may seem simple and underpowered, but it is actually strong. Its effect is as follows:

[AUTO](VC):When this unit attacks a vanguard, if you have a heart card with "Leo-pald" in its card name, choose one of your rear-guards, and until end of turn, it gets [Power]+4000, and "[AUTO](RC):At the end of your turn, retire this unit." and "[AUTO]:During your end phase, when this unit is put into the drop zone from (RC), search your deck for up to one card with the same card name as this card, reveal it to your opponent, put it to your hand, and shuffle the deck.".

Budget Deck: Tachikaze (Raptors)

Note: This deck is completely casual and should not be used in any sort of (competitive) tourney. It is outclassed by Ancient Dragons, Gaia Emperor, and Rexes.

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Budget Deck: Great Nature (Hammsuke)

Aspiring to be a

Mangaka

So the deck came sooner over later. Awesome.

So a certain deck has been in demand by a lot of people. Everywhere.

It's called Hammsuke.

It's pretty cheap and Great Nature hasn't been covered in a long time, so I decided to cover it. While the deck isn't something to write home about, Hammsuke's been a fan favorite for awhile now and the moment that they were announced plenty of people got hyped up and excited. But the thing is...

The old set of Hammsuke cards are crazy hard to find now and I'm not surprised. It's been almost four years since they've been released and everyone's trying pretty hard to get their hands on them. G1 Hammsuke even spiked up to $10 at one point(and is sitting solid at $5).

So I decided not to use the old ones. And this is what I came up with. It surprisingly did better than the variant that I tested using the older Hammsukes.

Budget Deck: Tachikaze (Rex)

Tachikaze, right now, has 3 major builds. Ancient Dragons, Gaiaemperor, and finally, Rexes. Putting ADs aside for a sec, Gaia is an extremely good deck. Being able to launch Dogma waves one after the other consistently, making power collumns and gaining a major hand, Gaia is straight out the best deck Tachikaze has ever had. That being said, Gaia's also one of the most expensive decks that Tachikaze ever got. Gaia himself is about... $15, and then Dogma is a thing, who is sitting at $25 or so. That being said, thanks to Gaia, the other two builds became really cheap.

One of the two is Rex, which is a legacy deck that people wanted revived for a long time, including me. Rexes are a decent deck, being able to use Squallrex to push in the damage while finishing the opponent with Darkrex shenanigance. Their stride, Hellrex Maxima, supports this strategy by helping you tutor out a Rex you needed in that specific time (which, in most cases, is gonna be Squall, sometimes Dark) while giving the entire front row a +4k, helping in the 10k base that you tend to suffer from while powering up Tank Mammoth. Rexes also have an amazing fodder in the form of Assault Rex, who helps you hit hard while nullifying the cost of many cards for a simple draw 1 (Remember kids: field to hand conversion is good as Aurageyser has proven over the years).

Oh and also, remember that Assault Rex also triggers off if you used Squall/Darkrex on him and have nothing else in the bind zone. How does this work when Iguano + Darkrex over Spinodriver doesn't? Don't ask me, ask Bushi.

Anyways, Rexes can maintain a solid attacking spree while collecting a bunch of cards into the hand with Assaultrex.

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.

Budget Deck: Aqua Force

Aqua Force is a clan that I'm not too familiar with. I've almost never fought against the clan, nor have I ever used it. And when I tried to build an Aqua Force deck back in the day, it didn't go too well. So, when I decided to write this article, I was really... Stressed? I wasn't sure how well it would go. I build a deck in CFA and tried playtesting a bit and... Bam! I couldn't believe my eyes. I built a deck that actually works well and crushes most of my matchups.

So, before anything else, I need to talk about a few things regarding this "deck". It was originally designed to be a Blue Storm rushdown killing deck, but when I saw the price of all 3 Maelstroms in existance... (all $10+) I modified the deck little by little, and came up with another rushdown deck... That actually worked great most of the time. It abuses the fact that you go first and punishes your opponent early game. And it's really easy to do this. Having multiple attackers that restand, and a couple 3rd battle or more pressure units, it works really well.

Budget Deck: Gear Chronicle

Tick Tock Tick Tock!

Gear Chronicle. A mysterious clan that came from another timeline, that became the "police" of Cray, controlling Stride, is right on the meta line... Sorta. Gear Chronicle, being a new clan, lacks options, support, and cards. It is the current protagonist clan in the anime, so it'll get overwhelming support sometime soon enough, but as for now, Budget deck time!

Firstly, I want to talk about Ragnaclock Dragon. This is an amazing finisher unit for GC. It gives a Silent Tom skill to himself and a crit for just one CB. So this is a staple for all GC decks. 

Did you catch that? It's the forbidden Foiled Staple.

This costs like $20 for one. For One. People this is ridiculous as hell.

Budget Deck: Narukami (Brawlers)

Brawlers are a bunch of bullies who just fight fist-on-fist. Among these, the big bad is Big Bang Knuckle Buster. It can... Literally clear the field. It's not even funny. Big Bang costs like... $30? Nononononononononono don't build a deck around him and say "It's a Budget Deck!". Don't you dare.

So, before there was Big Bang, there was Skybeat Dragon. Yes, the horrible card that retires one front row unit. Yes, I'm telling you to build around him.

Inazuma~~~ 11!

People underestimate this too much, it's not even funny. That little free retire comes in handy. Yes it does. In fact, you can literally combine this and the mate and Earthcrack Dragon to create an absolute front row demolishing beast. It works better than you think.

But we won't be front row demolish in this deck: we'll be beating down stuff. Wait, no, put your fists down, we'll be making a Beatdown deck (Funny how that works).

Budget Deck: Dimension Police (Dimensional Robos)

-Insert Random Kenji Ride Chant here-

Dimensional Robos, Drobos for short, are some kind of Super Sentai Megazord buisness. I mean, look at every single unit out there! It's clearly gigantic robos fighting for Justice! Wait, is it Transformers? Anyway, Drobos boast an amazing amount of Critical sacking on one place, and mainly now, guard breaking.