Zeroth Dragon of Death Garden, Zoa So we have the full set reveal for Zoo. And oh boy, since I last spoke about Machining we got 2 things that I asked for, a Stride Fodder, and a New Grade 2. The deck looks sweet, super cheap, with some upgrades that could make the deck have some massive potential to shove some Meta Decks right down.

Lets start by covering the new toys we got. I’ll go from the top down with one of my Favorite cards to come out.

Machining Princess

Card Effect(s)

[ACT](RC):[[Rest] this unit] Choose one of your units with “Machining” in its card name, and it gets [Power]+3000 until end of turn.

[ACT](RC)[1/Turn] Generation Break 2:[Counter Blast (1)] [Stand] this unit, and until end of turn, it gets “[AUTO](RC)[1/Turn]:At the end of the battle that this unit attacked a vanguard, if the number of your opponent’s units in [Stand] is zero, choose one of your other rear-guards with "Machining” in its card name, and [Stand] it.“.





This Beauty right here is so good. We are talking the ability to Multi-Attack consistently, Fix numbers, and Set up for Despot. So the first ability lets you [Rest] it to power up any Machining unit by 3k, the reason that’s important is it [Rest] itself, giving you a [Rest] Unit for Despot to stand.

Now the next half of the card, although it costs a precious Counter Blast it gives you the ability to stand your other column no matter what. Lets talk numbers on this one. On your first stride you will want 2 Counter Blast open, 1 For this 1 for Overwhelm, then you have a choice, do you make your Mosquito mk2 column a 21k to stack triggers on, then restand later with this as a 14k+triggers. Or do you leave mk2 as a 18k column, and restand it at 11k+triggers? Now this gets more complex as you hit GB3 depending on the number of facedown damage your opponent has, not to mention multiple Princesses. I will do the math at a later date. For now lets just say Princess is INCREDIBLE.

Machining Tardigrade

[CONT]:Sentinel

[AUTO]:[Choose a card from your hand, and discard it] When this unit is placed on (GC) from hand, you may pay the cost. If you do, choose one of your units with ”Machining“ in its card name, and it cannot be hit until end of that battle.

[AUTO]:When this unit is retired from (GC), you may Soul Charge (1).



HOLY MOTHER. Machining FINALLY got a perfect guard. A subclan from the days of before eradicators, that never got any more than a Quintet Wall for years. And this is pretty sweet. After using it you get to Soul Charge. The reason this is so nice to see is the deck wants to be able to toolbox it’s soul as much as possible thanks to Beat Atlas. Also it gives you fodder for the next card I’m gonna be talking about.

Machining Leafy



[CONT](Hand):If you have a vanguard with ”Machining“ in its card name, while you are paying the cost for Stride, this card may be discarded as a grade 3.

[AUTO]:[Soul Blast (1)] When this card is discarded from hand for the cost of a G unit with "Machining” in its original card name for Stride, you may pay the cost. If you do, choose one of your opponent’s rear-guards, and that unit cannot [Stand] during your opponent’s next stand phase.



Following the trend of Sub-clan stride fodders with skills when discarded to stride. This one lets you stun something when you discard it for a Machining stride. This is ONLY relevant with Destroyer, with him it’s great. Despot doesn’t care about the extra stun, and we don’t have any more Machining Strides. The fact that this is a Machining is the only good thing in all honesty. It does give you some use for the extra soul you have though.

Machining Bagworm



[AUTO]:Forerunner

[CONT](RC):If you have a vanguard with “Machining” in its card name, this unit gets “[ACT](RC)[1/Turn]:[[Rest] this unit] If the number of your opponent’s units in [Stand] is zero, Soul Charge (1), and if not, choose one of your opponent’s rear-guards, and [Rest] it.”.

[ACT](RC):[Put this unit into your soul] Choose one of your rear-guards with “Machining” in its card name, and [Stand] it.



Really cool update to Little Bee, it helps make sure you can trigger Dark Device on Toxin, it can help make sure everything is [Rest] for Mosquito mk2 and Princess to do dumb things. The only thing I don’t like is that without the easy 3k to Mosquito when you call it out you kinda lose out on the potential of an nice 21k Column with Mosquito mk2.

Machining Snow Wing



[AUTO]:[Bind this card face up & Choose another card with “Heal” from your drop zone, and bind it face up] When this card is discarded from hand for the cost of calling a G guardian, you may pay the cost. If you do, Counter Charge (1) or Soul Charge (1).



Hello there Mister Counter Charge, how are you doing? This here is the answer to all our problems! well almost, there is another I would like to talk about that isn’t Machining, but we’ll get to that a bit later. So following the trend of Subclans getting these cool as all hell Effect heals we see Machining getting it too! Lovely to see, and this gives us 2 Machining Counter Charge outlets.

Machining Treehopper

[ACT](RC) Generation Break 1:[Return this unit to your deck] Choose one of your opponent’s rear-guards, and that unit cannot [Stand] during your opponent’s next stand phase. Shuffle your deck.



Ooow this is pretty sweet. A recycling Crit that gives you the ability to stun stuff, with the subclan name. Nice. Only issue I have is the GB restriction. Oh well this will be played cause it’s goes back to deck. Side note, it’s a CB free way to stun in Giraffa, without adding in deck building restraints.

Now for some other things that I feel are relevant.

DART SPIDER CLONE.

Megacolony Battler G



[ACT](RC):[Put this unit into your soul] Counter Charge (1).



Like this is a “better for the deck” Widow Maker. I’m feeling a 7 Crit 5 Stand version of the deck just so we get more Counter Charge. Also the fact that the Counter Charge is an [ACT] Skill means you don’t have to risk them removing your Widow Makers to during combat. (Darkface loves this more, but I’ll cover that another day) Also this just should’ve been Machining.

Excelling Mutant, Promularva



[AUTO]:Forerunner

[AUTO](RC):[Counter Blast (1) & Put this unit into your soul] At the beginning of your ride phase, you may pay the cost. If you do, draw a card, and [Rest] all of your opponent’s units.



Like if this was Machining OH GOD IF THIS WAS MACHINING. Counter Blast 1 draw a card and guarantee your Mosquitoes and Princesses work. If this was Machining then Stag Beetle would be able to abuse this so much. That aside I’m actually considering this just to get your Mosquitos online turn 2, and to remove cards that can be targeted by Chaos and Overlords early.

Now onto my preliminary decklist!

Starting Vanguard

1x Machining Bagworm / Excelling Mutant, Promularva

Grade 0s

4x Machining Snow Wing (Heal)

4x Machining Treehopper (Crit)

4x Machining Firefly (Crit)

4x Megacolony Battler G (Stand)

Grade 1s

4x Machining Cricket (Despot Enabler)

4x Machining Leafy (Stride Fodder)

4x Machining Tardigrade (PG)

2x Machining Black Ant / Machining Caucasus / Machining Locust - I actually have no idea which one I want to run. Probably Black Ant at the end of the day.

Grade 2s

4x Machining Princess (Despot Enabler, and Godsend of a card)

4x Machining Mosquito mk2 (Good Card is good)

4x Machining Dive Beetle / Machining Red Soldier - This is down to how consistent I want Despot to be, and how valuable Early Aggression becomes.

Grade 3s

4x Machining Beat Atlas

3x Machining Stag Beetle / Machining Warsickle - This is down to how many decks are running 10k Vanillas or Effect 10ks to if Stag or Sickle will be more viable.

GZone

4x Oppression Mutant Deity, Machining Despot

2x Carapace Mutant Deity, Machining Destroyer

3x Poison Sickle Mutant Deity, Overwhelm

2x Suppression Mutant Deity, Tyrantis (Can drop 1 for another Destroyer)

1x Zeroth Dragon of Death Garden, Zoa / Lawless Mutant Deity, Obtirandus

1x Mutant Deity Fortification, Grysfort

1x Seven Stars Mutant Deity, Relish Lady

2x Feather Wall Mutant Deity, Morphosian

This is the deck as I am seeing it at the moment, after more testing I will say what the deck looks like in my opinion after the dust has settled. Thats all for now PEACE OUT!