When Gold Becomes Black!

Yo! It has been a while. In my last post we talked about the viability of MLBs in the new era of Limit Break. I was intending to analyze how the rest of the “old” clans are coping with the new Bosses, but then VG-EB03 Cavalry of Black Steel was released and I found myself a new favorite deck that’s going to be without a doubt a major factor in the formation of the Meta.

 

I’m talking of course about Ren’s Gold Paladins, which practically are the materialization of Black Knights. Following the same concept of Shadow Paladins, Black Knights are sacrificing their comrades in order to gain more and more advantage leading you to a solemn victory.

Their leading units are Black Dragon Whelp, Vortimer, Jet Black Vanguard Vortimer, Knight of Black Dragon Vortimer and finally their trump card Spectra Duke Dragon.

 Essentially with every ride and each “evolution” you gain an incredible advantage, at the beginning by adding a grade 2 or grade 3 unit to your hand by looking your 7 top cards. This means that setting up and finding your missing part of the chain, Knight of Black Dragon Vortimer or Spectral Duke Dragon is a piece of cake. Next step is sacrificing one Gold Paladin, and superior call up to 2 others from your top of your deck.

The pinnacle of Black Knights is Spectral Duke Dragon and its Limit Break ability. By sacrificing 3 of your Gold Paladins at the close step of Dragon's and opposing Vanguard's battle , Spectral Duke can stand himself , losing though his Twin Drive ability( be careful you still drive check once though! ). Also an important fact regarding Dragon that tends to be neglected is that its attack rise up to 11k when you have Knight of Black Dragon in Soul, covering the weakness of having a 10k vanguard and thusly saving up more cards when it comes to guard.

 

 Beside Black Knight’s side are 3 new cards , 2 Valkyries and 1 new knight.

Blade Feather Valkyrie(Grade 1) and Flash Edge Valkyrie(Grade 2). Flash Edge can superior call one Gold Paladin of your top of the deck by counterblasting one when it’s called of your deck while Blade-Feather has the same effect with the requirement that it needs to boost a Flash –Edge one and the attack hits the Vanguard.

Last but not least, a new draw trigger is introduced. Falcon Knight of Blue Sky is not only a draw trigger but when it’s called from the deck it can boost another gold paladin of yours by giving it plus 2k.

Other than these cards the “skeleton” of the deck is the same as the one using Ezel .

My preferable trigger configuration is 8 crits , 4 draws , 4 heals. Spectra Duke is especially good with Flame of Victory.

Black Knights will surely find their place among the Tier decks and rise to the top.