Hello lads and ladettes, its me its your best friend its CanYouSayG and today we will be going over the latest builds and innovations that have topped in Premium Standard these past two weeks

With the release of VBT02 Strongest AL4, the meta has had the introduction of three more decks: Dark Irregulars (No Life King + Assasin), Palemoon (Nightmare Doll Alice Combo) and Murakumo (Mandala Beatdown)

Join in as we go over all the new tricks and tech that everyone is playing!

Royal Paladin

First up is Blasters. As you can see, in order to counter smaller G-Guards of the deck, players are playing more copies of the regular G1 Null guard. Against Dimension Police, it becomes more and more important to be able to search up a null guard, so playing normal null guards increases your chances of this happening, instead of taking 10 damage or so to the face.

This is a good example of the Blaster Javelin Larousse style of the deck. Instead of trying to cheese out a ride to 3 getting multiple gifts with Tarna, the deck instead takes a route that pumps Blaster Blade up to 30k+ and searches up Flogals to multi attack, Packgal to countercharge, and uses it to secure very stable multiple attacks, whether you stride or not!

One fun tech is Techal, which is searchable with Blaster Javelin Larousse. Use it in backrow to boost or in front row to attack. Both are good! Another cards you might want to consider is Scramble Griffin, which is searchable by Blaster Javelin while providing shield value to your field. Great for that Ichikishima matchup!

This is another interesting concept: utilizing Tarna Alfred to rack up force Markers and soul and taking advantage of little CB and SB use to win with a high powered Thing Saver. Combined with the newer high power triggers, it makes it easy to break through with Crits after putting them all back with Legion!

Next up is Kagero

This is a rather interesting concept: Blademaster Overlord. The deck uses Blademaster Kouen to retrieve a blaze g3 card from the drop zone every turn. As the cards Overlord the Purge, Overlord the Ace dont actually require any G3 Overlord Heart, only one as cost, the deck strides to all forms of Kagero strides.

Next up is Demagogue Assasin, which is sort of a Misnomer for the deck at this point.

Despite having debut only last Friday, this deck has already solidified itself at the top of the meta, there are still a great many forms of this deck that are around.

The first example uses all new G3s: No Life King and Ghoulish Despoiler as well as a new G1 Werewolf Freiwillinger. This use of Friewillinger over any other powerful G1 speeds up your soul charge speed, a very important aspect of the deck.

The second deck uses one copy of Bladewing Sullivan not only to load up your soul with 5 cards,but to also recycle dropped copies of Assasin and other key parts to the deck.

The third deck uses Demon Eater to get extra attacks on the Assassin turn, as well as plays the G0 Trigger for Shaharot in order to get extra big power on the Shaharot GR turn: One of your big win conditions.

Another key point that you can see is that this deck plays Closet Balloon, to get extra value out of those null guards, seeing as how easy it is to get to 6 soul in the deck.

As you can see, Dark Irregulars has a great variety of win conditions: All Guard restrict combining Balaams GB3 with Baleful Repressor, the NoLifeKing and Enigmatic Assasin combo, Shaharot GR one shot with Vroukalakas to get very very big power, Making the deck all stand triggers and using Blademaus, and more.

One of the mainstays of the deck is Blood Sacrifice Ruthben, not only good at Countercharge with Vrokalakas, but also does double duty by sending the Wertiger Jaeger or Enigmatic Assassin to the soul to set up your kills!

Next up is a Luard decklist.

Luard maintains its spot as the top meta during this time.

This build plays more critical triggers and forgoes draws, using Dragabyss's high power to make critical triggers extra impactful.

You can also see them playing the GBT14 starter over BT04 Fullbau, because frankly speaking old fullbau just isnt worth it. If you miss Blaster Javelin ride, you just lose out on 1 Advantage.

This build plays more G2 Darkness Maiden Macha, to speed up the early game and deliver more offense in the early game, along with Charon to maintain counter blast cost which can burn quite fast due to Blaster Javelin, Blaster Dark.

This is followed by Palemoon. Palemoon decks have yet to win any tournaments in Premium

As you can see, as the Harri stride is very powerful and your primary stride, the deck is very ready to play Harri support in their G2 and G1 slots.

There is a lot of stringing of attacks and combo play, taking advantage of re-calling units into the accel circle to deliver multiple attacks without needing to dedicate much hand, as most of the combo comes from the soul.

Nova Grapplers

Nova Grapplers have come to an interesting place.

As the Victor null guard is harder to use without a Victor Vanguard, this deck instead plays Twin Blader as its choice for null guard, freeing up more maindeck space for draws, stabilization, and power.

They also play Battledore fighter, a great card not only on V, but on R as well. Battledore has fast become one of the most impactful cards on Nova Grappler builds for both standard and premium due to how flexible it is.

Bermuda

Next up is Ange, another mainstay of the Format.

As we can see, both Harmony Ange topping BCS Richmond and Kevin Ajolt Nyugen's Trois Ange winning the New Jersey Regional Championship, solidifying Ange as the clear top meta.

Easy search, unending advantage, multiple high powered attacks all make it the mainstay of the format.

Oracle Think Tank

Oracle Gyze has won several events over the past week, and is established as the mainstay of the format. The builds do not do anything particularly new, but the strategy and how good it is at denying strategies due to keeping the opponent at 1 damage makes it such a strong counter to too many decks. Expcect to see more of it in coming days.

Another interesting tech choice for OTT is to add Magus parts to the Ichikishima-Tom deck, from BCS Richmond also.

Imperial Daughter and other cards already give you access to a lot of top deck checking, so using Stellar Magus and Semilunar Magus to change that into card advatnage for the deck is an interesting choice.

Semilunar Magus is interesting, as instead of being a +1 in early game to rival Lozenge Magus, you can convert it into another +1 later in the game if it is not destroyed, being a flat one card more advantage than Lozenge Magus over several turns.

Granblue

Granblue has no particular new tech these past few weeks, but still maintains its position as a stable deck that counters commonly played guard restrict based decks such as Ichikishima-Tom and Megacolony. However, the rise of Oracle Gyze has been lowering how often the granblue deck is played.



Spike Brothers

Living Proof is at it again with his stable Spike Brothers builds. Spike Bros are still staying strong despite their medium popularity.

One of the interesting changes that was made is using Rising Supernova to accelerate to GB8 without any CB for the Oracle Gyze matchup. Considering making this change in your own build as well

Last up is Murakumo



While Murakumo Mandala might be played a lot, this Shirayuki build takes advantage of Accel circles and newer triggers to deliver a solid win.

One of the most interesting techs is using both new AND old Bloody Mists. This allows the newer version to superior call out a copy of the old one with higher base power but no effect!

Aquaforce

At the mment, Aquaforce has solidified into the Ripple aggro variant, taking advantage of the 4 copies of Oddysseus with its synergy with Diamantes as well as Front triggers in the deck to deliver a deadly string of attacks

Take note of how they are using the old Tidal Assault to get multiple attacks without being held back by cost, as well as giving up Alecs as FV to just go with Eric.

Thats all for premium watch this week. I hope this helps people with their deckbuilding and card choices, as well as shows you what to look out for!