I've been experimenting with Insects a lot recently too. My initial playtesting had a list *very* similar to this, but after hundreds of hours testing, it morphed into a more high risk, high reward strategy. It's still similar to this, but plays Assault Roller, Beetrooper Field Spell, Beetrooper Fusion Spell, 2 Scale Bomber, 2 Scout Buggy, Cicada King, Absolute Hercules. After going through dozens of combo lines, I've not found a second Resonant Insect to be almost entirely unnecessary. It doesn't come up enough, and if when it does there's always another line that is almost as optimal anyway. I do play the very risky 1 Battlewasp Wind though. But with these changes, I've found I can extend through far more interruption, more consistently chain block (which you mention), while still having 12 handtraps (not counting 1 Retaliating), and its end boards are more resilient. But you're trading this for a slight hit to consistency. I've also considered just going over 40 and adding 2 more Supply Squad. Getting to the Fusion monsters is now super crucial, especially Cruel Saturnas (which is partly why I'm playing more Beetroopers). Being able to bring back Armor Horn when it's banished by its own revive effect, is what more optimally allows ending on Stag Sovereign. It also puts Armor Horn back in GY to use its effect next turn for more free extension. One thing people never except, is Grand Partisan getting its effect when banished from GY for some reason, and with Armor Horn, Beargram, Fusion Spell, Mantis Monk, Assault Roller, there's many ways to do this. You don't mention it, but a mistake I've seen some people making with Insects from a ruling perspective as a Judge, is that equipping Bio-Insect Armor with Picofalena will not banish the equipped monster (or itself) when they leave the field. So worth noting that.
I'd recommend cutting Almiraj, and probably S:P too. If you drew only Resonance Insect, link it off with Almiraj, you get the search, but think about what your search targets are: BW Rapier needs you to control no monsters, or only insects, and you now have a cyberse on field with no way to link it off. Supply Soldier can't special itself if you have no way to activate another insect effect. Bio-Insect Armor does nothing in hand, and Beargram needs you to have 2 more insects to banish to summon itself. Maybe going second you can search Beetrooper Sting Lancer, but then you're putting Resonance back in deck and not getting the search from banishing it. With only two copies in main deck, the scenario just does not come up often enough, and Almiraj hardly ever fixes a hand that bad. Instead, you can use Cicada King for the negate and revive effects, and or Ultimate Great Insect, which is more situational but combos with Bio-Insect Armor or Picofalena. I would also recommend running the Beetrooper Descent fusion spell instead of Instant Fusion, since it is easily searchable and allows you to get both Saturnas and Heavy Cavalry out in the same turn.
Combo video? I also rlly love the landing, not for the fact that it’s a good card but for the fact that it accesses saturnas is rlly strong. I’d also play double buggy and cicada king with them tho.
If you want it to win breakers with all this new support they boards are just to strong there going second isn’t weak but I’m just gonna make fusion four insect and let you deal with tremors beetlejuice
If you swap the scale bomber and the spell for scout buggy you can put cikada king on the endboard which is also a negate and a reborn for any insect. Scary moth could be a target post side
Thanks for the profile! Also building this right now. I think Arbalest is at least a 2-of: The reborn on normal summon is not once per turn so you could potentially pull it off 3 times to keep linking/synchroing. Best target is Ragnaraika Samurai Beetle, so I’m trying to make lines that foolish Beetle alongside Gokipole with Diabolantis so you can summon Arbalest, reborn Beetle, link for Mantis, and then revive a bug as synchro or link material off of Beetle’s effect (Most likely reviving your Resonance Insect to get another search). You’re right that it plays really bad into Mulcharmys. Maybe it should just be a going second beatdown strat, then? Playing breakers instead of handtraps, and taking advantage of normal spells for Thrust targets. Beargram enables that strategy, Battlewasps do burn, and maybe even the new Heavy Poly being used to cheat out the huge Beetrooper fusion could do some pushing
Arbalest isn't really worth running multiples. You can recycle it back to deck with Picofalena if you need it on other turns, but it can't special summon itself and you need to have targets set up in grave for it. You basically never want to see Arbalest in your opening hand since you search it out with the other Battlewasp cards during a combo.
Yea!!! Love my 60 card insect pile it's doing very well....then watched this video this list is just odd No cidada king? No very mini ragna package....almiraj isnt needed whatsoever.
I didn’t realize that the exclusives were out, this is not too bad, but by far the best thing you can be doing is playing scary moth. The only issue is that, well, this deck is always getting cooked by evenly or ANY board breakers. On interrupts alone it’s decent, but not being able beat board breakers due having 0 negates is just too weak on a format that Tenpai being a top deck.
I think you didnt played enough this deck of you think this way. Not only Atlas, heavy knight, e partisan are indestructible by card effect, not only Is you are in Battle knowing evenly you can banish partisan and heavy knight so you can bring back partisan. After all of that you have huge follow up, your Oppo skip the Battle , e you still have a boss Monster e a big synchro tower. Droplet and dark ruler cannot trader with raika trap e beetrooper trap. I dont know man i think you must play more. Fun fact the raika pop on field spell tenpai or beetrooper trap on normale summon of White dragon Is GG. Shifter, droll, fuwa e purulia are strong card that out this deck down a bit. But with Friends we are try the deck tò push even this situation. Sorry for bothering you.
You can use the giant moth fusion with bio insect armor also. It's very good. Infinite antlion is also great for abusing resonance insect. The banish two 2800 attack insect should also be played.
Insects have way too many good cards that it gets hard to decide what to add without hurting consistency, but some cards to think about are Dragonbite, Ultimate Great Insect, Praying Mantis, and the Krawler package. Dragonbite gives you a level 4 tuner that special summons another lvl 4 or lower insect from your hand and level manipulates by banishing. Ultimate Great Insect allows you to contact fusion an insect with a 2000 or higher defense that is equipped. This can help trigger effects that you want without needing to link off or whatever. And it is a pretty big body. Praying Mantis is to have another target for Resonance Insect to send to the grave as it gives you a token by its GY banish effect. The Krawler package is to have 3 bodies (Krawler Soma and two level 2 Krawlers) on the board with only sacrificing 1 monster being placed face down.
Praying Mantis is probably the easiest to include, and he could easily cut Bio Armor Insect. The token comes up so much in combos and its so easy to send it to grave.
It baffles me how they made made a flawless adaptation of Mako's deck to meta but not Weevil when he had some of the most fleshed out strategies in the original show literally just make a Zombie World but for Insect and an Insect Queen that can negate by tributing Insects from EITHER field
The thumbnail has the cursed energy perfectly balanced 10/10 🙂↔️
I've been experimenting with Insects a lot recently too. My initial playtesting had a list *very* similar to this, but after hundreds of hours testing, it morphed into a more high risk, high reward strategy.
It's still similar to this, but plays Assault Roller, Beetrooper Field Spell, Beetrooper Fusion Spell, 2 Scale Bomber, 2 Scout Buggy, Cicada King, Absolute Hercules. After going through dozens of combo lines, I've not found a second Resonant Insect to be almost entirely unnecessary. It doesn't come up enough, and if when it does there's always another line that is almost as optimal anyway. I do play the very risky 1 Battlewasp Wind though. But with these changes, I've found I can extend through far more interruption, more consistently chain block (which you mention), while still having 12 handtraps (not counting 1 Retaliating), and its end boards are more resilient. But you're trading this for a slight hit to consistency.
I've also considered just going over 40 and adding 2 more Supply Squad. Getting to the Fusion monsters is now super crucial, especially Cruel Saturnas (which is partly why I'm playing more Beetroopers). Being able to bring back Armor Horn when it's banished by its own revive effect, is what more optimally allows ending on Stag Sovereign. It also puts Armor Horn back in GY to use its effect next turn for more free extension. One thing people never except, is Grand Partisan getting its effect when banished from GY for some reason, and with Armor Horn, Beargram, Fusion Spell, Mantis Monk, Assault Roller, there's many ways to do this.
You don't mention it, but a mistake I've seen some people making with Insects from a ruling perspective as a Judge, is that equipping Bio-Insect Armor with Picofalena will not banish the equipped monster (or itself) when they leave the field. So worth noting that.
hi man, i play test this deck a lot irl, and i would love to see your decklist and maybe share out decklist tò improve this deck. Bye
I'd recommend cutting Almiraj, and probably S:P too. If you drew only Resonance Insect, link it off with Almiraj, you get the search, but think about what your search targets are: BW Rapier needs you to control no monsters, or only insects, and you now have a cyberse on field with no way to link it off. Supply Soldier can't special itself if you have no way to activate another insect effect. Bio-Insect Armor does nothing in hand, and Beargram needs you to have 2 more insects to banish to summon itself. Maybe going second you can search Beetrooper Sting Lancer, but then you're putting Resonance back in deck and not getting the search from banishing it. With only two copies in main deck, the scenario just does not come up often enough, and Almiraj hardly ever fixes a hand that bad.
Instead, you can use Cicada King for the negate and revive effects, and or Ultimate Great Insect, which is more situational but combos with Bio-Insect Armor or Picofalena. I would also recommend running the Beetrooper Descent fusion spell instead of Instant Fusion, since it is easily searchable and allows you to get both Saturnas and Heavy Cavalry out in the same turn.
i want a link 1 generic insect😢
Sweet list. Looking forward to these Battlewasp cards for insects
Yes I need more battlwasps such a fun deck
I’m loving the thumbnail 😂😂😂
Combo video? I also rlly love the landing, not for the fact that it’s a good card but for the fact that it accesses saturnas is rlly strong. I’d also play double buggy and cicada king with them tho.
Drop the bottom 6 or 4 hand traps and play more Beetroopers or extenders. You always need more bodies in a deck like this.
9hts at that point is not enough he should probably just be on breakers
If you want it to win breakers with all this new support they boards are just to strong there going second isn’t weak but I’m just gonna make fusion four insect and let you deal with tremors beetlejuice
100%
banger thumbnail bro lmao
Thumbnails cursed, right on spot
Peak thumbnail
I just went undefeated with this vs yubel and chimera. I definitely cut alot of the bad cards played 12 handtraps and 1 whirlwind.
good list, other than bio insect armor loops super clean, i suggest you to also try a mini ragnaraika package
If you swap the scale bomber and the spell for scout buggy you can put cikada king on the endboard which is also a negate and a reborn for any insect. Scary moth could be a target post side
Scout buggy is just too much of a brick for the pay off and you can use rapier's level drop on arbelest to make cicada king
Would love to see you take this to a locals and give us a tournament report on it with match ups. Low key want to build this buddy
Thanks for the profile! Also building this right now.
I think Arbalest is at least a 2-of: The reborn on normal summon is not once per turn so you could potentially pull it off 3 times to keep linking/synchroing. Best target is Ragnaraika Samurai Beetle, so I’m trying to make lines that foolish Beetle alongside Gokipole with Diabolantis so you can summon Arbalest, reborn Beetle, link for Mantis, and then revive a bug as synchro or link material off of Beetle’s effect (Most likely reviving your Resonance Insect to get another search).
You’re right that it plays really bad into Mulcharmys. Maybe it should just be a going second beatdown strat, then? Playing breakers instead of handtraps, and taking advantage of normal spells for Thrust targets. Beargram enables that strategy, Battlewasps do burn, and maybe even the new Heavy Poly being used to cheat out the huge Beetrooper fusion could do some pushing
Arbalest isn't really worth running multiples. You can recycle it back to deck with Picofalena if you need it on other turns, but it can't special summon itself and you need to have targets set up in grave for it. You basically never want to see Arbalest in your opening hand since you search it out with the other Battlewasp cards during a combo.
Yea!!! Love my 60 card insect pile it's doing very well....then watched this video this list is just odd
No cidada king?
No very mini ragna package....almiraj isnt needed whatsoever.
I didn’t realize that the exclusives were out, this is not too bad, but by far the best thing you can be doing is playing scary moth. The only issue is that, well, this deck is always getting cooked by evenly or ANY board breakers. On interrupts alone it’s decent, but not being able beat board breakers due having 0 negates is just too weak on a format that Tenpai being a top deck.
I think you didnt played enough this deck of you think this way. Not only Atlas, heavy knight, e partisan are indestructible by card effect, not only Is you are in Battle knowing evenly you can banish partisan and heavy knight so you can bring back partisan. After all of that you have huge follow up, your Oppo skip the Battle , e you still have a boss Monster e a big synchro tower. Droplet and dark ruler cannot trader with raika trap e beetrooper trap. I dont know man i think you must play more. Fun fact the raika pop on field spell tenpai or beetrooper trap on normale summon of White dragon Is GG. Shifter, droll, fuwa e purulia are strong card that out this deck down a bit. But with Friends we are try the deck tò push even this situation. Sorry for bothering you.
You can use the giant moth fusion with bio insect armor also. It's very good. Infinite antlion is also great for abusing resonance insect. The banish two 2800 attack insect should also be played.
Bug Link hell yeah
Insects have way too many good cards that it gets hard to decide what to add without hurting consistency, but some cards to think about are Dragonbite, Ultimate Great Insect, Praying Mantis, and the Krawler package.
Dragonbite gives you a level 4 tuner that special summons another lvl 4 or lower insect from your hand and level manipulates by banishing.
Ultimate Great Insect allows you to contact fusion an insect with a 2000 or higher defense that is equipped. This can help trigger effects that you want without needing to link off or whatever. And it is a pretty big body.
Praying Mantis is to have another target for Resonance Insect to send to the grave as it gives you a token by its GY banish effect.
The Krawler package is to have 3 bodies (Krawler Soma and two level 2 Krawlers) on the board with only sacrificing 1 monster being placed face down.
Praying Mantis is probably the easiest to include, and he could easily cut Bio Armor Insect. The token comes up so much in combos and its so easy to send it to grave.
i saw the title and verbally said no.
Where’s the Reptile pile update
How good is ultimate great insect?
Bugs are cool
Why no ragnaraika?
It baffles me how they made made a flawless adaptation of Mako's deck to meta but not Weevil when he had some of the most fleshed out strategies in the original show
literally just make a Zombie World but for Insect and an Insect Queen that can negate by tributing Insects from EITHER field
Imagine giving good cards to rogue strategies...
What strategy? Getting a cocoon and wait a year for it to evolve into a boss monster with no good efects and no protection? Yeah
It rhymes!
I wish they made insect queen it's own archetype from an egg to a more powerful queen
Why playing Sting lancer and no trap the only target being the spell is kindoof a waste of its potential.
I actually prefer to hold lancer in hand as a hand trap unless I absolutely need it for extension. Trap is brick. Brick is bad.
The endboards are just way too weak man
Sting Lancer propoganda!