Megacolony Decks

So, it surprises me that budget decks have overtaken both mixed and rush decks for the lists that you guys want to see.  Since the economy sucks and money is tight, I'm going to be releasing a quick series of budget decks.  Let's go with the cheapest, and most unreasonably underestimated clan of all, MEGACOLON.  For these budget decks, any card that costs more than a buck will be labelled with a rough pricing, so you can get a good idea of how much the deck will cost you.

Machining Deck:

The Machining build focuses around its soul.  It uses Machining units that are in soul by either giving a rear guard Mantis or Hornet +3000 power if one exists in there, or riding a Stag Beetle and choosing two of the Machining units from soul and bringing them to rear guard circles and giving Stag Beetle their power.  Since they come out at rest, Worker Ant is typically one of the units that is brought out, since it stands a Machining when it gets called.  If used in conjunction with Machining Armor Beetle, you can put Worker Ant back in the soul to stun (prevent standing) an opponent's unit while getting to call Armor Beetle and letting it stay standing, all while making your Vanguard +14000 power.  It's pretty strong.  You can also make 21k on the RG by calling a Hornet (which will be a 10k boost for that turn) behind a Tail Joe or a Mantis that was also called that turn.  Hell Spider is a strong back-up ride.  Vesper lets you get a cheap plus to compensate for using Armor Beetle (or just to be a free plus).

Starter - Machining Worker Ant

Triggers - 8 crit, 4 draw, 4 heal

Grade 1's

4x Paralyze Maddonna ($6)
4x Machining Hornet
4x Machining Mosquito
2x Megacolony Battler, B <- Best grade 1 MEGACOLON

Grade 2's

4x Machining Armor Beetle ($3, in the current promo packs) <- Best grade 2 MEGACOLON
4x Machining Mantis
3x Tail Joe

Grade 3's

4x Machining Stag Beetle ($2)
2x Hell Spider
2x Violent Vesper

COST - $44 + R's and C's


Giraffa Deck:

This deck is really strong at tanking early game.  Generation 2 (set 4) ride chains are over 50% likely to hit their grade 1 and secure you an 8k and 10k Vanguard for your first two turns.  If you miss the grade 1, 3/10 of your back-up rides are 8k, which can give you reasonable tanking early regardless.  If you go first with this deck, it's very easy to shut down any deck that doesn't have the ability to rush you by dropping a 10000 power shield to negate the first attacks they do.  This is because (especially with archetypes) most people will have a 7000 power Vanguard boosted by a 5000 power forerunner, which, even with a trigger, isn't strong enough to break through 8000 + 10000.  Late game, you're all sad that you managed to miss the grade 2, even though the odds of that happening are terrible.  NO WORRIES!  Toss the grade 2 into soul later in the game with Armor Beetle, problem solved.  :D  Okay, now that early guarding and stuff is out of the way, let's talk about the deck.

The grade 1 Giraffa allows you to discard a grade 3 to search your deck for the grade 3 Giraffa.  You have the ability to make 20000 rows with your rear guards by using Iron Cutter, or 18k with Iron Cutter and a Battler B/Giraffa boost.  Both the grade 2 and the grade 3 Giraffa have good on-hit effects.  But there's plenty of tactics with the deck, too.  If your opponent is low in damage, you can disrupt their field heavily if Giraffa hits (retire 2 of your units, retire two of their grade 1's).  If it's boosted by a Battler B, you can also stun one of their front row units.  Priority of stuns should typically be:  Grade 3's > Grade 1's > Grade 2's.  Unless you're against Musketeers.  Then you just don't stun.  Fuck those guys.

Starter - Larva Mutant, Giraffa

Triggers - 8 crit, 4 draw, 4 heal

Grade 1's

4x Pupa Mutant, Giraffa
4x Paralyze Maddonna ($6)
2x Stealth Millipede (NOW we can make 21k, so this is stronk) 
2x Phantom Black
2x Megacolony Battler, B <- Best grade 1 MEGACOLON
 
Grade 2's

4x Elite Mutant, Giraffa ($6 for all 4)
4x Iron Cutter Beetle
3x Machining Armor Beetle ($3, in the current promo packs) <- Best grade 2 MEGACOLON

Grade 3's
4x Evil Armor General, Giraffa ($6 for all 4)
4x Violent Vesper

COST - $39 + R's and C's


MegaDRAWlony Deck:

This deck focuses on building soul and attacking rear guards with Fraude, typically supported by Battler C initially.  For those unfamiliar with the grade 3's in this list, Ant Lion is their megablast unit.  We use him to feed our soul for rear guard Fraudes.  Fraude's effect is, if he hits anything, you can soul blast 3 and draw.  If you swing with him and a 5k boost into a rear guard, they'll be annoyed.  They have to drop 10000 to guard their rear guard, or lose that rear guard, give me an extra card, and I can choose to stun a unit.  Sadly, even though Battler B is the best grade 1 MEGACOLON, his effect only works if the attack hits the Vanguard.  So place him behind the Vanguard, and if you have extras, behind your other row.  This deck is all about on-hit pressure, so remember, if your opponent doesn't hate their life after playing against this deck, you aren't trolling them hard enough.

The combination of draw power, stalling, and annoying-bugginess is enough to make this deck legitimately close to as likely to lose by decking out as it is by hitting 6 damage.

Starter - Megacolony Battler C

Triggers - WHATEVER THE FUCK YOU WANT SINCE THEY'RE ALL GREAT FOR THIS DECK

Grade 1's
4x Paralyze Maddonna ($6)
4x Machining Mosquito
3x Megacolony Battler, B <- Best grade 1 MEGACOLON
3x Phantom Black

Grade 2's

4x Machining Armor Beetle ($3, in the current promo packs) <- Best grade 2 MEGACOLON
4x Tail Joe
2x Bloody Hercules
1x Water Gang

Grade 3's

4x Death Warden Ant Lion
4x Master Fraude

COST - $36 + R's and C's