From Budget to Competitive: Dark irregular Part 1

Its time for me to do a new budget deck. This time after a few people's suggestion I decided to try making a dark irregular deck. Thanks to the availability of it in the recent GBT03 booster, and how many top tier players find it weak. I have decided to look at what is possible for making this deck work and work out a cost-efficient means to play this deck.

This time round I will try a different approach towards making the deck. I will first look up all the possible cards we can add, availability, and price range, before deciding on options. Based on a little digging and some running around Singapore, this is the price range I could get for these:

Noteable Pricing:

I will mark the prices of all the options as *Worth getting, *not so budget unfriendly, and *super-budget unfriendly.

(RR) Scharlachrot Vampir ~$4-6 each, easily found
(RR) Flag Breaker ~ $3-4 each, easily found (Compulsory)
(RR) Squall Maker Vampir ~$2-3 each, easily found
(RRR) One Who is Abhorrent, Gilles de Rais ~$6-8 each, easily found
(PR) Flying Librarian ~$1-2 each, not so easy found
(RR) Doreen the thruster ~$6-9 each, very hard to acquire
(RR) Emblem Master ~$2-5 each, very hard to acquire
(PR) Psychic of Ash, Hadar ~ $25+ per legion pair, very hard to acquire
(PR) Astaroth Legion ~$7-9 per legion pair, not so easy found
(RR) Yellow Bolt ~$2-3 each, not so easily found
(R) Alluring Succubus ~$2-3 each, very hard to find
(RR) Great Demon, Soulless Demagogue ~ $1-2 each, easily found
(RRR) Amon's Claw, Marchocias ~$2-3 each, not so easily found
(RRR) Demon Marquis, Amon "Яeverse" ~$5-6 each, not so easily found
(RR) Amon's Follower, Vlad Specula ~$4-5 each, not so easily found


Dark knight of nightmareland ~$2 for play set, not so easy
Hysteric Shirley ~$2 for play set, not so easy
Most C ~$1 for 5, most R ~$2 for play set
Di C and R play sets from GBT03: ~$10 for play set, easily found (see image)

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He's our main man... I mean Vampir...

Since we are going about the cheaper and more easily available cards, it effectively makes our deck revolve around striding, You have to play 4 Flag breaker and 4 Scharlachrot Vampir, and 2 Gilles to have a decent chance against most decks. That is ~$47+ cost already. If you include the C and R bundle, that's close to $60. So while this deck is reasonably cheap, its not one of those super budget ones.

If you are lucky and are one of the few who bought box slots @ ~$50 for 8 slots, you might get most of this for a really good deal and have spares to either trade for what you need or sell spare C and R! The rest of you don't give up! Check up trade forums and have a look out at stores and player base to see if they have any sweet deals for these. Its entirely possible to get this under $50 if they are desperate enough to let them go!

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Deck List:

Budget Dark Irregular

Grade 0: 17
1 Werbat Ordonnanz
4 Alice (heal)
4 Monochrome (stand)
4 Weretiger (crit)
4 Dark knight (crit)*

Grade 1: 13
4 Flag Breaker (PGG)
3 Lunatic Masquarede
4 Pure love Succubus (stride fodder)
3 Killing dollmaster

Grade 2: 11
4 Knife conducter
4 Werewolf Jaeger
3 Squall Maker Vampir


Grade 3: 4
4 Scharlachrot Vampir
4 Sweet Predator

Grade 4:
4 KissKill Lila
2 Gilles
2 Demagouge**

* Its not found in GBT03, but you will definitely get a play set in your DI playing career, so just grab them from stall if possible.
** This is particularly strong with Starter + stride skill adding 6 cards to soul in 1 turn. It is a bulk RR in FC15, so its reasonably easy to acquire.

Total cost: ~$60

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Winning Image:
Stride every turn and make 21k columns. Lunatic + either Knife or werewolf will make 21k columns with little effort, while squall with any booster makes 21k column for 1 CB. Ideally you have 3 soul breakpoints; 6 (Scharlachrot stride skill), 10 (other effects) and 15 (Gilles). It is extremely vital NOT to rush to 15. Take it slow and reap the benefits off Scharlachrot stride skill to retire, and only go to 15 for the kill. Sweet predator is mostly fodder or an extra RG attacker, but you can push her up through dark knight, monochrome, werebat or dollmaster, also making columns.

My favorite G1 for this deck. Works like a Doreen, but none of the commitments required! 

Disclaimer: This is the base required for the deck to function properly. Trust me, it works out fine if you pace your soul charging. You don't have to all in at once, and take a while to whittle down opponent with 21k+ columns. You get decent advantage off Kisskill + Scharlachrot + monochrome, so you can still stay afloat while you hammer away at your opponent.

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Next time round I will talk more about possible improvements, as well as look into building towards the Amon sub clan as well. Till then, leave some comments and share your opinions! Let me know if you prefer the older format or this format.