Not only assassins, of course. Another spicy play is if there's no creepers in play but ruthven in hand, traveler the creeper from deck to then SB it out, SC2, ruthven, put it back in , SB it out, SC2 again. (If you have enough assassins already)

Since your maybe an expert in aqua force. Can you rate my deck in standard (Sorry i am only a beginner of this game since i was worn out playing yu-gi-oh and pokemon) Grade 3 4 - Navalgazer Dragon 2 - Blue Storm Dragon Maelstrom 1 - Riptide Dragon Grade 2 4 - Tidal Assault 4 - Tear Knight, Lazarus 4 - Storm Rider, Basil 4 - Marine General of the Restless Tides, Algos Grade 1 4 - Influent Dagger / Battle Siren Neferli 4 - Light Signals Penguin Soldier 2 - Tear Knight, Theo Grade 0 3 Critical Trigger 3 Front Trigger 2 Draw Trigger 4 Perfect Guard, Draw Trigger 4 Heal Trigger 1 Officer Cadet, Erikk Need for your suggestions ASAP thanks

Why not run the old grave keeper when rode soul charge 1 just a idea

Because it's 4 dead cards in deck when you don't ride it on turn 1.

how many assassins do you run? 3?

Thanks man

Appreciated! :D

Truly appreciated man! :)

Truly appreciated!

João Castro Santos “The only way to beat an NLK, is be to a faster NLK.” -Solem 2k18

Awesome to hear! Thank you :D

Mah man

Thank you!

One thing I forgot to ask. What are your thoughts on Blue Dust V for both Premium and Standard? I feel for Standard it is very strong, but I'm not sure about Premium... Just honestly looking for options for my own deck and Blue Dust keeps popping up in my mind. Figured I'd ask since you usually have very spot-on ideas and thoughts about certain cards and deck building

The fact that it needs to hit makes it a very very very mediocre card for Premium. And possibly even mediocre for Standard I'm afraid. You generally want to run some combination of Ruthven, gwynn and werbear in standard as far as I'm aware :)

Thanks for the input :)

thank you!

Awesome to hear! :)

Thank you!

ty!

Thanks !!! :D

You saved my booty :P

I'm Belgian :D traveled to France. Thank you!

@@SolemnVanguard Oh I see :D Well still a french-speaking country as well (half of it, at least) xD I'm not french either, but from a french-speaking country as well. But seeing that there are Vanguard nationals in France gave me hope to import the game here and eventually introduce people to it :D So, thank you ^^

Oh cool! Yeah, my mother tongue is Dutch/Flemish but I'm like.. a 5/10 on French :P So I can communicate in the language but I sometimes forget words hha

@@SolemnVanguard Oh so you're from the Dutch/Flemish part of Belgium :D Nice~ I'm North African (from Tunisia, if you've ever heard of it xD), so my mother tongue is Arabic, but we study French since elementary school so I'm fluent in it as well. (Still I like the English language more than both of them though, haha XD)

Haha yes

Thank you :D

Solemn Vanguard no problem, and funny enough, my buddy who me into Vanguard is trying to build a Dark Irregulars deck

+Corbin De Laet Eccentric is enkel begin van main phase, dus je gaat al minstens 1 soul charge minder hebben dan met Yellow Bolt

I SO heavily considered nightmareland crits but I valued the "10k to pass" on NLK swings into crits a bit more. As well as shield or defensive value when someone decides to go hard on the rush. To be honest, to this day, I'm still not sure which one of the 2 crits I prefer. It's the one thing that's debatable in this list. Anything else is set in stone.

1) Thanks 2) A bit closer to release, yes :) 3) Thanks !!!

ty!

Thank you

Was nice talking! Thank you :D

Thanks! This build actually becomes terrible the second people know about it. I'd NEVER run it this way again :) It only worked due to surprise factor

Solemn Vanguard Mm makes sense... I run builds like that in the past so I understand your point🤔 I’ll just have to think of a somewhat more me approach as it were😸 Still u having given me some great ideas😍 thanks

Good luck! :)

Solemn Vanguard thanks

I actually like a format where a special build can pop out of nowhere, unlike standard where the format is solved on the day of release :)

That'd be odd ;P

Solemn Vanguard no we can come to the conclusion you went to a clan fight tournament

I considered that but the issue is that when you do a half-loop with only 2 assassins, you need to have a full field before you start looping. Prisoner beast stays on field whilst werewolf goes to soul. It can get very tricky to keep a full field and a full soul when you're charging wolves away. I did heavily consider it though :)

@@SolemnVanguard Ah, that makes sense. Thank you!

You probably shouldn't copy this exact list since the ban list hampered it a bit :) Try taking my latest NLK deck on the channel instead.

Thanks! Also I just wanted to say that your videos are really good quality and entertaining to watch

No, I didn't. I mulligan super aggressively. Anything that isn't a single grade 1 or a 3, goes away. That + 12 Draw triggers really makes it hard to miss grade 3. And if you G assist into g3, it's not a big deal since you win that turn anyway. You just throw away draw PGs/dead creepers when 1 is in soul already/crits, since they don't do anything when in hand.

Assassin should be limited to 1. I thought regular NLK was a bit inconsistent from time to time so I was semi "okay" with it. It could be beaten by Ange/Luard/a good rush. This variant? Idkk, you have to not attack me for like 4 turns straight and then kill me in 1 turn... Have fun with that. Shit needs to be hit.

@@SolemnVanguard oh the defenders will just say that gyze genesis will balance it out

Gyze genesis doesn't even get their shit till they ride g3... They'll be dead by then.

I feel kagero and link joker has small chances of breaking your combo

No, there is counter-play, but it's so counter-intuitive and so little decks can actually do it, that it wasn't a big concern for me going into this tournament.

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You pray that they don't figure it out. That's why I scooped in round 7. Preserve info. You can still kill with demagogue loop+assassin if worse comes to worst, but you don't want that to happen.

NLK is the fastest otk style deck. It dies to rogue decks like Link Joker and Kagero if they can get their G-Guardians off during the loop.

@@AqwAndRandomstuff yeah he was mentioning a weakness to lacking damage, and I was tinkering with a premium nociel build, which was tanky as hell, but needed a bit more offensive power, which ironically would help against his build concept.

It just stays 2 crit :)

Oh ok thx