Starter - Workerpod Saturday (Conroe offers a little more consistency, but I choose Workerpod for the theme)
Triggers
4x Alabaster Owl (Critical)
4x Bringer of Good Luck, Epona
4x Blue-Ray Dracokid
4x Embodiment of Spear, Tahr
Grade 1's
4x Embodiment of Armor, Bahr
4x Little Sage, Marron
5x Vanilla 8k's from other clans
Grade 2's
3x Knight of Silence, Gallatin
3x Knight of Determination, Lamorak
3x Dragon Knight, Nehalem
3x Cross Shot, Gaap
Grade 3's
4x Dragonic Waterfall
4x Knight of Conviction, Bors
The Kageroyals have been one of the most frightening and powerful mixed clan decks out there. When this deck was originally theorized, I was mostly just planning to troll by having Star Drive Dragon and Crested Dragon and using it as an excuse to run all vanillas and all criticals. After winning 10 games in a row, I was terrified with what I had created. I adjusted the deck to include some more powerful cards (Soul Saver and Waterfall as Vanguards, Palamedes and Alephs as Rear Guards) and had some similarly powerful results. After being frustrated with the inconsistencies of Aleph and Palamedes, and being unimpressed with Soul Saver, I switched the grade 3 line-up to its current incarnation, Waterfall and Bors. This enabled my deck to hit 21k with Waterfall as Vanguard and 21k with Bors as Rear Guard. In addition, I had an outlet for my excess Waterfalls with Waterfall's skill.
The biggest warning about this deck has nothing to do with the deck itself. It is about changing the deck. You can, but be careful. The general line of thoughts I've seen are, "Oh, I could just run more
Kagero g3's, 12 Kagero crits, some retire..." then all of the sudden you
aren't hitting 21k with anything but Waterfall and you miss all of your
RP triggers because you just don't have enough RP's out.
Right now we don't have any clans that have a +3k vs. Vanguard And a Bors clone, save Royal Paladins. Royal Paladins have Soul Saver, but she is a vanilla 13k. At that point you're better off playing Palamedes/Bors. That's not a bad idea, but if you get too many grade 3's, then you sit on a dead hand. There are two +3k vs. Vanguard units that CAN get rid of your excess grade 3's, Dragonic Waterfall (gets rid of himself) and Origin Mage, Ildona (gets rid of excess Shadow Paladins to draw). The reason I play Waterfall over Ildona is because Ildona can remove any Shadows. That sounds more versatile (and it certainly is!) but you'd be sacking vanilla 8k's and 10k's. That's not too appealing. If you get a lot of Ildona (who is the target you want to sack) then you can do it and feel good about it, but then your versatility just got reduced to Waterfall levels (essentially a persona blast). They also have to be on the field, so you might have to call over units, and then you don't feel the card advantage you might have gotten otherwise. Dragonic Waterfall keeps it simple.
Hi,
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking of giving this deck a roll, but I don't have 4 Bors, would using 4 Red River Dragoon, 4 Plasma Bite and replacing the Epona with Malevolent Jinn change anything?
Also, I'd be using Conroe, so would the use of 4 Iron Tail ruin anything?
You can run Conroe, but I wouldn't go with the Iron Tails. 17k isn't a great number to swing for. 20k can be relevant, but it will make you feel pretty bad swinging for 1k less than you need to hit over an 11k vanguard.
DeleteI would say that it's mostly up to player preference, I just prefer to run the 8k vanillas from other clans.
As for why I run Workerpod over Conroe, that is all about the deck "feeling good." Nobody wants to not pull their starter back 60-80% of the time. People thought much worse of the deck when Conroe was the suggested starter just because of how frequently people missed pulling him back. Yes, Conroe is a better starter, but it doesn't fit the budget theme, and playing a deck should make you feel good, not be upset every time you don't land a Kagero.
Running the Narukami version of this deck works, but your ratios will be slightly off because there's only one vanilla 10k available in English for Narukami. When we get the new Eradicator and Liberator trial decks, both Golds and Narukami (and at that point Bermuda, OTT, Nova Grapplers, etc.) will all be able to replace Royal Paladins for that section of the deck.