Hey guys, Andrew here
You guys requested it and now it's finally here
Some budget decks for those of you who are just getting started with the game
or don't want to spend too much money on it
In general these decks should be quite easy to obtain
in all the freebies that you're given
at the start of the game
Now rush decks as always don't require
too many fancy super rares
The first list that i have here includes some old favorites
such as Fighter Braid Claw and also Tulk, the Oracle
There are also a couple of new additions in Zack Ranba, the Sword Attacker
who's a 2 mana 1k that becomes a 3k creature
while you have available mana
which should be most of the time anyway
We're also playing more 3 mana 
speed attackers in Rikabu
a new fire bird Rikabu that has the
exact same effect
and also this guy, Funnoo, the Bloody Winds Officer
Really just an overstated 3 mana 
Rikabu having 3.5k power
and his drawback isn't really one that
your opponent is going to abuse
All in all this deck only really has four very rares in the Holy Awes
with all the other cards really easy to obtain
Think we should give this one a go
Nice, so perfect start
Easily play Tulk, the Oracle on turn one
and right into Deadly Fighter Braid Claw and 
Tulk, the Oracle the turn after
So that lets you break one shield from Tulk
and then another 3 shields the turn after, wow
And here's the new Rikabu
Just when you thought that they didn't print enough 3 mana 1k speed attackers
there's another one
So now you can run 8 Rikabus if you really wanted to
Break
Hope for no trigs
Again, the bane of all aggressive decks is breaking into
Aqua Surfer early or any sort of shield trigger really
So yeah this deck you can almost craft straight out of the gate
As most of these cards are commons and uncommons
So with the freebies that you do get 
at the start of the game
you should be able to make this quite easily
All right, let's play Rikabu
I think the theme and the reason why
they were printing all these fire bird cards
is because of Death Phoenix and 
Soul Phoenix and all the
vortex evolutions that have come out in the new set
Do stay tuned i do have a spicy list
for your death phoenix
I know our friend Doug is gonna be
quite excited for that one
Yeah so Death Phoenix is probably the 
flavor of the month at the moment
you'll see a lot of them running around
like what our opponent is playing
Oh no it's Boltail
I guess he's a dragon, so he could play his death phoenix if you wanted to but
I don't see much point if you can just kill off all my creatures here
This is actually not looking too good here
Oh that Boltail actually really did 
make a difference because
he couldn't kill off all my creatures before 
but now he can
And this just makes it extremely hard for me to
break his last shield and try to finish the game
I saw Sasabo the other day
play a variant of this deck
but he ran two copies of Apocalypse Day
Which was a new light shield trigger spell that
Once theres more than five creatures i believe on the field, or five or six creatures on the field
then you get to destroy all creatures on the board
So it's a 6 mana light spell shield trigger
And i thought you know for situations like these
when your opponent doesn't really want to break your shields he's kind of developing a board
A card like that might be quite good
Over here Snip Striker Bullraizer, as good as he is
doesn't quite match up when your opponent has a board
And my opponent is just gonna keep 
spamming this blocker
Not looking good
Oh, so that's quite a unique dragon that's 
pretty powerful at the moment
He's a 4 mana armoured dragon so one of the cheapest armored dragons in the game right now
He lets you search a fire bird
As you can see they obviously had the the whole phoenix vortex evolution idea
in their mind when they designed this card
as you can get your fire bird
and then there's also this other fire bird
oh it's that 2 mana one on the field
and that lets you search for a phoenix
and put it on the top of your deck
So as you can see those synergies
work really well
and you can pull off Death Phoenix a lot
more easier than you could back in the tcg
Let's see if my opponent plays one
Okay so he's just going for blocker spam
All these snip strikers are not doing me well
Well Holy Awe
only three mana
That came a bit later maybe I could do something with it
I think my only hope is really for him to
break into Holy Awe and then I speed attack with Rikabu
I think that's the only win condition i have left
Ah so here's the the phoenix that didn't 
get released in the TCG
Forgot his name but he's really strong
I think when you play him you get to destroy a creature that's 12k or less
and then when he dies
Oh theres his Death Phoenix
You return all fire cards or fire creatures from your graveyard to your hand
Well speaking of Rikabu, here's Rikabu
I just need him to break into Holy Awe
that'll give me a way in
But this doesn't look like
Yeah, damn
And what he's going to do is just
attack with Death Phoenix only and Death Phoenix destroys your shields like Bolmeteus
Damn he's playing the super lame way
I guess you do whatever you do to win
Damn, why do you play like this just 
break into my Holy Awe
He's gonna Terror Pit
Come on just break my last shield
Give me a chance
Oh my gosh she's just gonna play super lame, all right
You win this one
The second deck is our Wave Strikers list
Which is a slight variation on the list that i
covered a few weeks ago
Instead of fire we're running light to
maximize our 2 cost Wave Strikers
as those are the ones that we really 
want to get out on time
As you can see aside from the four Terror Pits
the rest of the deck is filled with Wave Strikers
which are all quite easy to obtain
The four copies of Jagila can also
easily be replaced by more copies of
Saliva Worm and ninja pumpkin
I've really come to love playing this deck
you really do get some really fast games
and playing down a creature every turn
just makes it feel so smooth to play
So as you remember Macho Melon is
now a double breaker
2 Mana 2k as well
It's possibly probably my favorite card at the moment
This this deck is just so consistent
Every turn you have something to play
in it runs enough 2 mana cards and 3 mana cards
that you have something to play on
2 mana and 3 mana respectively
and those turns are especially crucial for a deck like this
as you do need again the magical number
of three Wave Strikers for your effects to activate
Let's go ahead and play Asra here
What you want to do is even when 
you don't have three Wave Strikers
on the field you do want to still break
As you can imagine
if he doesn't have a shield trigger here
next turn you can break all his shields
This really does make for some really really fast games
Okay so my opponent does play some destruction 
but not to worry
Ah, my favorite boy is back
This is just insane
Now it's what turn three
and my opponent is down to two shields
I can curve right into Jagila next turn
Almost feel how strong this deck really is
Hope you guys have as much fun as i'm having with this deck at the moment
You climb up the ladder so fast as well
All right let's see
So that card was the mystery totem
I believe is his name
You draw a card for each different
race you have on the field
It's quite a slow card but
when pulled off correctly it can give you
quite a good card advantage
So here's Jagila on curve so that 
cuts down his hand size in half
and then double break with Macho Melon
Trigs, trigs, trigs
No trigs
And that's game
So there we have it
Last but not least we have a somewhat
more expensive deck list
for those of you who do have a bit of extra time
this is something that's definitely easily obtainable
So this deck list features none other
than Warlord Ailzonius
which effects remains the same as again the TCG
5 mana gladiator evolution
your opponent can't choose this creature
so no Terror Pits 
no Aqua Surfers
Real cost of the deck on the four copies of Astral Reef
which are essential for this deck as
Astral Reef really does enable
you to be aggressive early on
Otherwise the other card I wanted to
quickly touch upon is
Garden of Sacred Birds and Crystal
a 3 mana nature/water Spiral Gate type effect
that allows you to search a creature
that costs the same or less in the 
creature that you just Spiral Gated
And with the prevalence of your new vortex evolutions
this is one easy way to get rid of them
hope you guys have fun with this one
I wanted to showcase some of the newer
cards in the expansion
and that being Warlord Ailzonius
Although this deck really does play out more like
an Astral Reef rush deck as you've seen before
but with more of a Warlord Ailzonius flavor to it
So you play cards like Bronze Arm
and Poisonous Mushroom
so you can play out your Warlord Ailzonius 
as soon as possible
But if that doesn't work you still got your
attackers in Astral Reef, Hulcus and whatnot
It looks like from judging from this 
hand I'm playing mono water
And i wonder what our opponent is playing
because he's just charged a few Terror Pits
Oh he still charged fire bird so
seems like he's playing something with 
Death Phoenix although that card is quite strange
So that card when you play it
you get to return a shield to your hand
which in most circumstances you would 
ask you know, why would you do that
but for aggressive decks since your opponent 
doesn't really break your shields anyway
you can use it as a form of card draw
Or should i say shield draw
Belix
Belix sometimes comes in quite clutch
you often charge your Holy Awes early and then
later on on in the game
especially when your opponent you know, 
doesn't have that many shields left
you can play Belix and get your Holy Awe back
Here's our friend again he's probably
one of the most broken cards at the moment
Searches a fire bird and he's also a dragon
So he sets up so nicely
for your Death Phoenix
or the other phoenix's
Let's go ahead and speed attacker our
astral reef here
so that 3 mana 4k blocker is like a Bloody Squito
so he does die if he blocks
although he is a nickel dragon so
I guess that's the reason why people play him
otherwise why would not just play 
Bloody Squito, it's 2 mana
I dont know if I should break here
I can push but then he'll just kill off
on my creatures with his board
Alternatively i can wait
So that that card gets health like the 
1k for each of his fire birds
so it's not really worthwhile attacking
because he can just kill off my Astral Reef for free there
See if he just plays his death phoenix here
he doesn't
That's the fire bird that searches
the phoenix puts in at top this deck
The next turn is going to play out his Death Phoenix
Which is not bad because i have the garden of sacred bird or something whatever it's called
that can return the phoenix
I think I'll play it here so I can start breaking
Should I play it on the blocker or 
should i play it on his dragon
So if i play on this dragon then he can't evolve
Oh no he can just evolve on the Necro
so I'll just play it on blocker
Its our first gladiator that we drew
which is quite nice actually because
now if we draw Warlord Ailzonius
I can speed attacker him
One pretty unique thing about Warlord Ailzonius
is you want to break with your creatures
that are not Warlord Ailzonius first
because remember your opponent can't
target Warlord Ailzonius
so no matter what he's most likely gonna
get his attack off
unless you break into something like
Holy Awe, of course
He's down to one shield now
but he can kill off my creatures
so this is going to be close
Especially if he plays out some blockers
Definitely not a done deal here
Plays out of blocker but that's not too bad for me
because I can just play the garden of birds
Deal with that
Alternatively if I draw Warlord Ailzonius
I can just easily play it
Is he going to attack into my Aqua Hulcus
Yeah
So this this game really does reflect the power of
Astral Reef at the moment
You really see that without it
you do really run out of steam quite fast but with it
you just have consistent
draw power throughout the game
Cool let's just Spiral Gate that back
Play blocker
Break
Now if he does play the other phoenix
The fire one
then he can clear my board
and potentially do something the turn after
but we'll see
I think I have this one in the bag
What did he put
I guess he didn't put anything
Oh here we go
here's our fire phoenix
It's not too bad because i can just play
it on my little guy's next turn
Weenies
Oh and here's Belix
So the Holy Awe combo I talked about before
heres the application
Play Bronze Arm
I'll just use Bronze Arm to charge mana for me
other Bronze Arm
Play out the blocker I think
no I think I'll just play Poisonous Mushroom
because it can attack
Cool
Say go
I wonder if he plays something like burst shot
I don't see it as common anymore
you just got so many other cards that you have to play
that you can't run cards like burst shot anymore
You just don't have space
Oh he played Galzark as well
Ah that's not enough
You need to recheck your maths
Three is greater than two
Oh and two Holy Awe's for good measure
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