Premium Budget Deck: Genesis (Iwanagahime combo)

With Premium Collection 2020 finally being released, a lot of interest in the format is being revitalized. Since the most expensive base rarity card in set is Tempest Sphere @ $10, upgrading your Prem decks right now is super cheap. Because of this, it's also a great time to get into the format. Our list today doesn't showcase its Premcolle 2020 stride, but it's still a very low-cost and efficient deck to pick up: Iwanagahime Beats!

Firstly, a brief explanation on how the deck functions. The best beater rear that the clan has access too is Iwanagahime. She can give herself upwards of 40k power (or 60k once the clan gets their respective Crit Sentinel). Our main stride is going to be last year's Premcolle stride, Amaruda Aphross. We will be utilizing both of her skills, her first one to give Iwanagahime an even fatter number, in addition to the draw and soulcharge, and then her second skill to restand Iwan and add a blanket sentinel restrict for the turn. We then extend the attacks by soulblasting Tahro with the skills of our other rears. 

In total, the deck should be swinging with a 63k 3-Crit Iwanagahime three to five times, with each attack after the first unguardable by sentinels. The deck aims to secure the combo first stride, and I've found that it usually kills if it goes off. 

Premium Budget Fight: Spike Brothers (Bad End)

Congrats Chiefs

So with the Superbowl being a recent event, I thought it'd be appropriate to talk about Spike Brothers. In both Standard and Premium Spikes are a pretty solid clan that sets up rear guards to threaten the opponent each turn. Recent sets have also given the deck the ability to complement their aggressive playstyle with draw power and nice tech options as well. V-EB09 has graced us with the return of Bad End Dragger, and with everything Spikes already have alongside with being pretty budget in general, we can revisit a popular premium variation that use him alongside his stride Good End Dragger for a strong aggro turn.

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.

Standard Budget Deck: Pale Moon (Nightmare Doll)

Special thanks to James/Fenrir for allowing me to contribute to Budgetfight! As for me, I'm Nem. I've been a contributor to the local St Louis Cardfight community ever since the start of 2016, helping with playtesting for locals/regionals (even got a couple Top 8s under my belt!) and providing proxy decks to try out for every clan in the game starting from the beginning of Standard Format. Breaking out into content creation and contributing further to a wider audience are always things I've liked/wanted to do, and I've done a couple clan primers in previous formats for our team on Youtube (Team Hivemind).

I've always been a fan of this blog because it lowers the barrier required to get into this game (money can always be an issue with TCGs) by providing easily accessible deck lists for decks that have the potential to contend with the meta!

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Once such deck that can contend post-Phantasmal Steed Restoration meta is none other than Nightmare Dolls from the Pale Moon clan! Slightly overshadowed by the more popular Silver Thorns, a diamond in the rough of Pale Moon's previous Standard Format life cycle has emerged in the form of a new boss: Nightmare Doll, Carroll.


Carroll's main utility is in her ability to put combo pieces into soul, call it out if it was a Grade 3 Workeroid, and get a psuedo-restand VG ability by reriding herself or Alice from the soul. If enough CBs are available, she can do this multiple times in one battle phase!