Small correction, I mis-spoke while talking: Free Traveler doesn't put NLK in soul. It only charges Assassins :) Long 2 days + only fast food + long drives = dead me haha
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
So proud of you, bro. And so glad somebody else understands the nuances of early game and pressuring opponents before they have the chance to respond. See you at worlds, bro!
This was incredible! I just started vanguard with my friends with standard and even though I don't play premium I was blown away with this deck and your mindset behind it! Every aspect of it was fine tuned for victory. I went to my NJ regional and took 11th and was feeling low because I didn't make top 8. But this video and the strategies you went in depth with were crazy and got me so hyped for what's to come. Congrats man I hope your game breaking mind wins worlds!
Congratulations Solemn! I admire your way of thinking, which is focused on the win con. Go hard or go home mentality is more important than playing safe for decks like these. I wish you the best in worlds 👍😊
I'm very proud of you brother! You deserve it! You'be been working so hard at it and have learned A LOT along the way! I knew you had what it takes! Keep it up and I look forward to seeing you do well at worlds! Very nice deck profile, well done! I love seeing these kinds of videos!
Firstly, that deck was a shocker for me in so many ways, gratz on the creativity an OP plays, man. Solemn Vanguard, 2019 Premium World Champion. #IBelieve. All the best, my friend!
Congrats man! I loved seeing how your deck is an out of the box deck that isn’t remarkably close to the standard builds! I can’t wait to see you at worlds
Man first of all. Congratulations on your victory man. I want to say that man I love your videos. You are one of the few youtubers that I blindly follow for updates and opinion on cards. Cuz while you have your fav you are not biased man. Love it I am glad to see DI dominate this hard. Granted I hate fighting it XD. I mostly run OTT and Palemoon, but man this is hella off topic. Ty for your content and insight on the game. It really motivates me to keep playing this game. I hope that you win worlds man. I am rooting for you my guy. Duckbill is proud of you
THIS IS THE DECK I NEED! I barely kept on losing against someone and when I saw this, I started winning, thanks bro! I also kept on doing wrong moves but I started doing better moves now.
I just faced this list with Megacolony Gyze. I played against it like a boss. Since I watched this video I knew what to expect. I didnt give em any counterblast whatsoever, got extra lucky with triggers. And managed to pull off my gyze while he had 0 avaible counterblast so I didnt attack during my ulti stride. Which won me the game. He only got to have two damage in his damage zone. All thanks to me knowing exactly what list I faced off against
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 :)
congratulations! i hven't been keeping up with vanguard been doing a lot of magic, but i now have a premium amaterasu deck. sadly missed my regionals and chara expo! ;-; anyway. i hope ill be able to go to my next regionals and maybe top. ANYWAY! Congratulations, take it all the way at world championships!
You have proven that you are not an ordinary fighter, you are among the top fighters and YES Congratulations man, So going to Worlds!! Well its quite big thing to achieve you know And well you know there is no vanguard my country, I still play, always wanted to get to worlds but can't, so I hope you enjoy over there and one more thing, bring the victory home
I suppose deck ideas like this is what it takes to win...but I could never...I'd never be proud to win that way, couldn't get time off from work anyway, still congrats on winning man
@@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)
@Solemn Vanguard Hey man! First of all I congratulate you for the win! I'm a huge fan of the DI clan but I keep getting blown away by the other clans in standard. Do you think you can gimme a few tips for a standard DI deck?
Question! Do you have any idea of what you’ll be running at worlds if Assassin is limited or banned before then? And also, this was an excellent video! Deckbuilding is my favorite part of this game, and you’re completely correct in saying that with this deck it needs to be somewhat unconventional, haha When building a deck you need to chose one major thing, or as the anime would say, a “winning image” to create your deck around. While selecting units you have to make sure they can help that image in some way
Gottem :^) Also, no Dark Knight of Nightmareland for even faster acceleration? I guess reduction of Power and Shield could be detrimental lol :v Anyway, we'll see if this trend you're setting takes off in subsequent events :D Major congrats! \o/
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.
You mentioned that counterplay does exsist but implied that non of the options are reliable enough for hiw fast this deck is. Did I understand that correctly?
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.
"I never had to stride" This is basically the philosophy I'm trying to build a premium thavas deck around here in VBT-11 land, haven't cracked it yet but I'm just at the theory crafting stage, so far it's looking like top of deck calls board control and value with the premium collection 2020 order to enable sabre flow sailors first grade 3 turn
Now thats what i like to see🤩 love the build for NLK💞💞 out of the box different styles are my kinda thing😋😋 congrats on your win/top....... Would u mind if i tested your build out for myself?? Looks like it could be right up my ally😋
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
Great deck. One question I have is, what do you think of running Werwolf Freiwilliger instead of Prisoner Beast? Since it goes into the soul, I thought Werwolf would be slightly better.
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 :)
it says something when for a large amount of this deck profile hes basically saying as a person who is considered pretty familiar with this deck as he won a major tournament "this deck is broken, bushi please fix"
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.
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.
I have a friend who played this deck [kinda well, he just learned this recently]. However, a few of us saw that this deck kinda just deckout real easily once they does not get damage since he can't do the A hole loop. Just saying, this deck still dies if you doesn't gives it damage
Yes, you can keep this deck at 0 damage and win, but if you give them 1-2 damage, you die :) Almost no one assumed they should pass turn for the first 4 turns.
Small correction, I mis-spoke while talking: Free Traveler doesn't put NLK in soul. It only charges Assassins :)
Long 2 days + only fast food + long drives = dead me haha
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?
YASSS GURL HIT EM WITH THE DECK BUILD PHILOSOPHY
Congrats fam, always rooting for ya
Thanks man
So proud of you, bro. And so glad somebody else understands the nuances of early game and pressuring opponents before they have the chance to respond. See you at worlds, bro!
Appreciated! :D
Congratulations Dude! That's amazing! Totally deserved :)
Truly appreciated!
This was incredible! I just started vanguard with my friends with standard and even though I don't play premium I was blown away with this deck and your mindset behind it! Every aspect of it was fine tuned for victory. I went to my NJ regional and took 11th and was feeling low because I didn't make top 8. But this video and the strategies you went in depth with were crazy and got me so hyped for what's to come. Congrats man I hope your game breaking mind wins worlds!
Congratulations Solemn! I admire your way of thinking, which is focused on the win con. Go hard or go home mentality is more important than playing safe for decks like these. I wish you the best in worlds 👍😊
Love listening to your premium deck builds, congrats on the win! Hope you enjoy the world championship :D
Awesome to hear! Thank you :D
Well said! Congratulations; much love from the Philippines
I'm very proud of you brother! You deserve it! You'be been working so hard at it and have learned A LOT along the way! I knew you had what it takes! Keep it up and I look forward to seeing you do well at worlds!
Very nice deck profile, well done! I love seeing these kinds of videos!
Truly appreciated man! :)
Firstly, that deck was a shocker for me in so many ways, gratz on the creativity an OP plays, man. Solemn Vanguard, 2019 Premium World Champion. #IBelieve. All the best, my friend!
João Castro Santos “The only way to beat an NLK, is be to a faster NLK.” -Solem 2k18
Congrats man! I loved seeing how your deck is an out of the box deck that isn’t remarkably close to the standard builds! I can’t wait to see you at worlds
Man first of all. Congratulations on your victory man. I want to say that man I love your videos. You are one of the few youtubers that I blindly follow for updates and opinion on cards. Cuz while you have your fav you are not biased man. Love it I am glad to see DI dominate this hard. Granted I hate fighting it XD. I mostly run OTT and Palemoon, but man this is hella off topic. Ty for your content and insight on the game. It really motivates me to keep playing this game. I hope that you win worlds man. I am rooting for you my guy. Duckbill is proud of you
Mah man
Mah man
Yes your deckbuild rocks it help me a lot
THIS IS THE DECK I NEED! I barely kept on losing against someone and when I saw this, I started winning, thanks bro! I also kept on doing wrong moves but I started doing better moves now.
Awesome to hear! :)
Congratulations Solemn Vanguard!
Too smart, nice one! Enjoy worlds.
I just faced this list with Megacolony Gyze. I played against it like a boss. Since I watched this video I knew what to expect. I didnt give em any counterblast whatsoever, got extra lucky with triggers. And managed to pull off my gyze while he had 0 avaible counterblast so I didnt attack during my ulti stride. Which won me the game. He only got to have two damage in his damage zone. All thanks to me knowing exactly what list I faced off against
As a DI main, congratulations my guy. Thanks for using my favorite clan ^^
I'm a new subscriber to your channel but just wanted to say congrats on 1st place!!! I really enjoy your content!
Amazing deck and theories/philosophies, as always!
Congrats on your victory and I will be following you during Worlds :D
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 :)
Congrats Solemn! Great deck profile!
Damn. Congrats for the win, man.
Somehow.... In my heart... you are my new online vanguard coach..... XD... Congrats and all the best in your world championships.... XD
Congrats! Happy for your win.
thank you!
This deck is stupid fast and aggressive, holy shit
Congrats on the win brethren 💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾
Damn those are some fucking brutal and awesome plays! Intentional scoops are so rare!
Congratz man~ No heals in the deck, mindblowing bro ~~
Hope you doing a video about zero as i assume you tried it in the tournament
Yo Congrates man!
“Stand up, Vanguard!”
Anyways, interesting list. Keep up the great work👍
Thank you :D
Solemn Vanguard no problem, and funny enough, my buddy who me into Vanguard is trying to build a Dark Irregulars deck
Well done dude!!! :) rock the house down at worlds!!
Congrats solemn. Sounds like you busted it out for this one, good on you boss.
congratulations! i hven't been keeping up with vanguard been doing a lot of magic, but i now have a premium amaterasu deck. sadly missed my regionals and chara expo! ;-; anyway. i hope ill be able to go to my next regionals and maybe top. ANYWAY! Congratulations, take it all the way at world championships!
Congratulations!!!
Proud
You have proven that you are not an ordinary fighter, you are among the top fighters and YES Congratulations man, So going to Worlds!!
Well its quite big thing to achieve you know
And well you know there is no vanguard my country, I still play, always wanted to get to worlds but can't, so I hope you enjoy over there and one more thing, bring the victory home
I didn't know this was played in france nice
your welcome :D
Knew you could do it and glad I could help
You saved my booty :P
I suppose deck ideas like this is what it takes to win...but I could never...I'd never be proud to win that way, couldn't get time off from work anyway, still congrats on winning man
I love this deck. Huge fan of degenerate decks Thanks for pushing the meta for this deck even further beyond! Good luck at world$!
Congrats :)
Holy shit, congrats and damn cool
Thank you!
Congratulations
Congrats!
Best deck peofile so far
Nice, good luck at the world championship, hope you will win. Nah i am sure you will win. Good luck
Congrats solemn Vanguard
ty!
Congrats Senpai.
This year and vanguard youtubers topping large events seems to be quite a thing
Lol for a moment I thought waterfall would be in the deck list XD
That'd be odd ;P
Solemn Vanguard no we can come to the conclusion you went to a clan fight tournament
Oh you're french! Didn't know :o And congratulations for the win! Well deserved ^^ (Je kiffe la liste, bravo!)
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)
i rewatched this and i realized he said "this deck is just so the opponent doesn't get to play his favorite card game"
SOLEMN GAINZ!!!!
Dark irregulars for life 💗💗👌🏿🤩
Haha yes
Awesome job man !!! :D
Thanks !!! :D
Congratulations on your victory!! And can u show us your game play with your build after worlds
@Solemn Vanguard Hey man! First of all I congratulate you for the win! I'm a huge fan of the DI clan but I keep getting blown away by the other clans in standard. Do you think you can gimme a few tips for a standard DI deck?
22 min... Krist was right, we had THE CLASS!
I m your nlk oponent good vidéo and very good déck list 😋
Was nice talking! Thank you :D
Congrats man! Next time maybe if you can please record when you play? I want to see you and your deck in action!
Hey congrats again bro
Question! Do you have any idea of what you’ll be running at worlds if Assassin is limited or banned before then?
And also, this was an excellent video! Deckbuilding is my favorite part of this game, and you’re completely correct in saying that with this deck it needs to be somewhat unconventional, haha
When building a deck you need to chose one major thing, or as the anime would say, a “winning image” to create your deck around. While selecting units you have to make sure they can help that image in some way
Tournament Report: I looped, and he died.
Great job winning it all. Congratulations :D
congrats 🤩
ty!
Solemn vanguard please welcome me to standard , because this build and others like it must burn in the fires of hell from where they came
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 :)
Why do you run vermillion gatekeeper and not Spade jack of nightmareland
This was amazing lol
Congrats man, would love to play against you and hearing your opinion on a Diablo/PBD premium deck
I was waiting for your thoughts about Mystery-Flare
First:Good Video
Second: Will You Talk about bison for Great Nature/Do a deck profile for standard?
PD:Congrats man!!!
1) Thanks
2) A bit closer to release, yes :)
3) Thanks !!!
Gottem :^)
Also, no Dark Knight of Nightmareland for even faster acceleration? I guess reduction of Power and Shield could be detrimental lol :v
Anyway, we'll see if this trend you're setting takes off in subsequent events :D
Major congrats! \o/
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.
Congratz :) eccentric disector kan misschien een alternatief zijn? Of is er anders een reden waarom je jellow bolt boven hem verkiest?
+Corbin De Laet Eccentric is enkel begin van main phase, dus je gaat al minstens 1 soul charge minder hebben dan met Yellow Bolt
Congrats on your first place in nats
Thank you
What card is being referred to when he's describing Gwynn the Ripper. Can't figure it out.
Take a shot for every “Assassin”
You mentioned that counterplay does exsist but implied that non of the options are reliable enough for hiw fast this deck is. Did I understand that correctly?
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.
i was there :D placed 45 of 68 tho :x
"I never had to stride"
This is basically the philosophy I'm trying to build a premium thavas deck around here in VBT-11 land, haven't cracked it yet but I'm just at the theory crafting stage, so far it's looking like top of deck calls board control and value with the premium collection 2020 order to enable sabre flow sailors first grade 3 turn
So, it's like playing Deletors... I have mixed feelings about this, but congratulations for the 1st place
Now thats what i like to see🤩 love the build for NLK💞💞 out of the box different styles are my kinda thing😋😋
congrats on your win/top.......
Would u mind if i tested your build out for myself?? Looks like it could be right up my ally😋
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
Great deck. One question I have is, what do you think of running Werwolf Freiwilliger instead of Prisoner Beast? Since it goes into the soul, I thought Werwolf would be slightly better.
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!
it says something when for a large amount of this deck profile hes basically saying as a person who is considered pretty familiar with this deck as he won a major tournament "this deck is broken, bushi please fix"
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.
“One Damagloke” 21:12
NLK? More like FTK lmao. Anyway congrats man!
Nlk rush mirror in worlds this time?
Hope that new card make new story vanguard G next season 2019 of the future
I'm running a zanbaku premium deck. Are you scared to see you get rest lockt in worlds as a posibel counter on dark and other stuff
Hmm did anyone use Scharhrot ???
Which part of the video showed the grade 0 assassin?
So you didn't run other G3, other than No life King? For all the tournament game, do you ever G assists for the G3 ride?
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.
Hey can i participate in tornaments with a trial deck.?
Since I’m trying to build for 2020, what should i add or replace if limited for Enigmatic Assassin just can add x1. @Solemn Vanguard ?
I have a friend who played this deck [kinda well, he just learned this recently]. However, a few of us saw that this deck kinda just deckout real easily once they does not get damage since he can't do the A hole loop. Just saying, this deck still dies if you doesn't gives it damage
Yes, you can keep this deck at 0 damage and win, but if you give them 1-2 damage, you die :) Almost no one assumed they should pass turn for the first 4 turns.
How was the link joker gyze deck??
Hey I’m pretty new to vanguard and this deck really interested me. Are there any videos of you playing with this deck?
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
This entire video I thought u said lube instead of loop
*cough* freezeray*cough*
good shit. what was the prizes for winning?
Paid trip to World championship at Japan, medal, exclusive 1st place prize card, certificate, top 8 mat :)