Changes: MaltNEXT

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MaltNEXT モルト NEXT（ネクスト） (Moruto Nekusuto)
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MaltNEXT is a one-shot kill beatdown deck type.

It is very similar to the Malt "King" deck.

Details

It focuses on putting 5 Fire Civilization dragons into the mana zone as fast as possible and bringing out MaltNEXT, Super Battle Dragon Edge and Heart Burn, Battle General Galaxy Fortress to make a combo that can one-shot the opponent all by itself.

It is one of the top tier meta decks that persisted since the end of Dragon Saga and boasts with its powerful ramp abilities with Mendelssohn and Child Festival of Faerie Fire as well as its insanely powerful offensive powers and swarming capabilities.

Powerful Dragons such as Ryusei Kaiser, the Eternal give resistance over discard decks, Dogiragon, Legendary Legend provides beatdown resistance and Dogiragon Buster, Blue Leader, when used with Ryusei the Earth, provide extra lethal hit points, and it can also be used to initiate an infinite dragon spam "loop" by trying to Revolution Change with Batorai Bushin, Blazing Deluxe.

Forbidden Creatures, namely Dokindam X and Dormageddon X can be implemented in the deck easily due to the huge amount of Command Dragons that this deck has, and can be used for both offense and defense. But as this deck has no way to protect forbidden creatures, one must beware of them being removed which leads to defeat.

In Revolution Final, it can utilize Mega Manalock Dragon and Scramble Change which allows it to lock down many decks perfectly, and Scramble change also allows lethal dragon spams via Batorai Bushin, Blazing Deluxe to be performed in turn 3 or 4. While both Scramble Change and Manalock are restricted, it does not change the meta status of the deck.

It is not as affected by Onikamas, Strange Flow or Senno, Brainwash as many revolution change rushes and mass cost trample decks do due to the presence of Mega Magma Dragon, but Deathmatch Beetle can be troublesome for decks without Final Dogiragolden.

However, despite its immense offensive powers and swarming capabilities, it has no trigger resistance and some triggers such as Arcadia Spark, Ragnarok, the Clock and Heaven's Gate can result in the player's defeat. It also has no resistance against faster rushes and loops such as Jokers and Goemonkey Loop and often fails to outrun them if Mana Acceleration with Mendelssohn fails to net at least 1 dragon, or even worse, when Mana Acceleration spells and cost reduction are not drawn at all. In extreme cases, it is easily beaten even by Mono-Fire rush or other budget rush decks.

Shinobi Dolgeza and Light Nature Metallica counters this decktype well because the former stops all offenses with Shinobis while the latter stops ramps with DG ~Time of Judgment~. The latter is destroyed by Mega Magma Dragon, however.

Also as it relies on come into play effects and dragons, it is very bad against various types of ramp decks such as Five Color Faerie Miracle and Gale Vesper which often have VAN Beethoven, Zenith of "Shura" or Wald Brachio, Absolute World King to totally lock out the player.

Codeking Mozart also easily locks the template build unless the player stalls until Dormageddon's forbidden big bang or removes it with a slayer Batocross Battle.

It is a very easy to use deck that even beginners can easily use, but the expensive price of the dragons and secret/promotional cards makes them less ideal to people who do not want to spend huge sums of money on decks.

However, after the March 2018 Hall of Fame update, the deck has fallen from the top of the meta due to MaltNEXT no longer being able to use Batorai Edge, Blazing Sword, which results in it no longer having the stampeding abilities it did previously and greatly weakening its would be versatile card pool. As so, it became into a Dorgan Churis buster variant which uses Romanesk, the Dragon Wizard to give huge amounts of mana at the beginning.

Recommended cards

Recommended cards:	Reason:
MaltNEXT, Super Battle Dragon Edge	Main finisher.
Heart Burn, Battle General Galaxy Fortress GuyNEXT, Super Battle Victory Dragon	Main Dragheart. Gives speed attacker to all your Dragons. Has no real counters once it appears.
Glenmalt "Head", Dimension Dragon Edge	Secondary finisher.

Other candidates

Recommended cards:	Reason
Mettagils, Passion Dragon Batocross Battle, Passion Dragon Mega Blade Dragon	Shield Trigger Dragons. Mettagils can be used against Dragheart Fortresses and Battocross Battle can be used to remove a creature up to 7000 power. However, Battocross Battle does not stay in the battle zone while Mettagils does.
Scramble Change	Hall of fame card that lower Dragon's cost and spam dragons such as Mega Manalock Dragon and Onimaru "Head", can lower MaltNEXT's cost by 3 and give it SA, giving MaltNEXT the potential of Drama via Batorai Keep loop.
Mega Manalock Dragon	Hall of Fame powerful mana freeze against multi-civilization decks. May have no real counters depending on the opponent's deck. Powerful combo with Scramble Change
Mega Magma Dragon	Anti-psychic and/or anti-weenie meta.
Diehard Ryusei of Invincibility	Shield burn, defeat prevention if things get awry. May be used to loop with Batorai Keep to burn all of your opponent's shields by combining with Buster.
Dorgan Churis	Revolution Change into Dogiragon Buster, Blue Leader to bring out Romanesk in turn 3.
Romanesk, the Dragon Wizard	Mass Mana boost on turn 3 combined with Dolgan Churis and Buster.
Ryusei Kaiser, the Eternal	Anti discard.
Zark Taiser, Passion Admiral Ryusei the Earth	Anti discard & hand replenishment.
Onimaru "Head", Victory Rush	Hall of Fame finisher, has no real counters.
Shadow Sword "Yagyuu" Dragon	Mana untap.
Bolbalzak Ex	Hall of Fame mana untap.
Forever Princess, Eternal Ruler	Cost trampling measures.
Faerie Life Child Festival of Faerie Fire Gachinko Roulette Mendelssohn Reap and Sow Bolshack Dragon / Duelist Charger	Mana acceleration. Reap and Sow can also mana burn.
Mitsurugi Boost, Matchless Dragon Demon Johnny Walker, Exploding Mask Yell Life	Mana acceleration and removal.
Tenshukaku, Dragon King Keep Hero Mystery, Burning Galaxy	Shield trigger removal. Tenshukaku can be used to search a finisher and Hero Mystery can be used against Dragheart Fortresses and D2 Fields
Explosion!! Hardrack	Super Shield Trigger removal that cost tramples creatures.
Jackpot Entry, Dragon Secret Formation Dogiragon Entry Gaimusou, Angry Hero	Pseudo Drama, can be used to cost trample MaltNEXT
Explosive Ninpo, Phoenix Jutsu	Reuse Come Into Play abilities and remove seals.
Bolshack Dogiragon	Revolution 0 Trigger life saver, counter to Rush type deck.
Forbidden ~The Sealed X~ / Dokindam X, The Legendary Forbidden FORBIDDEN STAR ~World's Last Day~ / Dormageddon X, Forbidden Armageddon	Command Support, does fixed direct attacks.
Dogiragon Buster, Blue Leader Final Dogiragolden Shin Gaiginga	Revolution Change finishers.
Dorago the Great, Dragon World	Dragon limitation lock can be easily spam out with Batorai Kaku/Bushin or Scramble Change

Darkness additions

Recommended cards:	Reason:
Evil Heat, Screaming Demon Dragon	Hall of Fame SA Dragon with a graveyard recycling ability. Can Revolution Change into Dogiragon Buster, Blue Leader.
Bolmeteus Black Dragon	Cost 8 Dragon with fixed removal. Can burn shields.
Dark Masters, Demon Dragon	Heavy discard choice.
Codeking Wilhelm	Triple breaker that comes with mana burn effect. It can also be used to accelerate mana and start spamming 2 dragons or more, starting with the next turn.
Codeking Mozart	Heavy removal, destroying all non-dragon creatures, and locks down the opponent's dragons.

Water additions

Recommended cards:	Reason:
Nicol Bolas	Mass Discard.
Bolmeteus Blue Flame Dragon	Speed Attacking Shield Burner.

Light additions

Recommended cards:	Reason:
Katsuking Jr, Kung Fu Generation Puchohenza, Mia Moja	Revolution Change finisher, Puchohenza with powerful Final Revolution effect, Katsuking Jr can increase your own shield and decrease foe's shield
Top of Romanesk Romanesk, the Dragon Wizard	Blocker dragon with powerful mana accel ability
Meteorite Ryusei the Flash	Tap All + Revolution Change Bait.
Falconer, Lightfang Ninja	Strong one-time attack block.
Rafululu, Sound Faerie	Prevents casting of spells when sent out by Dogiragon Buster, Blue Leader.

Recommended Draghearts

Recommended cards:	Reason:
Gaiheart, Galaxy Sword Gaiginga, Passionate Star Dragon	Secondary finisher to be equipped with MaltNEXT. MaltNEXT can dragsolution it in one go as well.
Gigaheart, Invincible King Sword Ohginga, Strongest Passion	Give speed attacker and invincibility to Malt "Head".
Gaial, Leader Dragon Sword Gaiburn, Furious Leader Dragon	Force battle.
Gaiohburn, Head General Sword Gairaioh, Victory Head	Force battle and +3000 power.
Protoheart, Galaxy Sword	Grant two attacks to Malt "Head", does not trigger during the turn it is put into the battle zone.
Proto Gigaheart, Invincible Sword	Grant resistance to removals.
Tenshukaku, Dragon King Keep ~Fighting Spirit Mode~ Gaishukaku, Passion Dragon	Grant +2000 power.
Forefront Double Cross Shogunate GENJI "Heaven", Passion Dragon	Blocker removal.
Gaial Horn, Iron-slashing Sword	Aid unsealing creatures.
Joan Mizell, Revolution Spear D'Arc-en-Ciel, Holy Spear Dragon Elemental	Creature Tapper.
Javeleon, Beast Lance	Defense against rushes.
Endless Heaven, True Holy Church Neverend, True Destiny King	Shield defense. It can be dragsolutioned into a secondary finisher.
Judaiou, Jurassic Jungle Sauzaurupio, Terror Ancient King	Prevent creatures that have power 4000 or less from attacking. Nice counter against Glenmalt, Dragon Edge.

Template Build

(This deck was last updated April 2018.)

#	Card:
4x	MaltNEXT, Super Battle Dragon Edge
4x	Glenmalt "Head", Dimension Dragon Edge
4x	Dorgan Churis
4x	Dogiragon Buster, Blue Leader
4x	Bolshack Dogiragon
4x	Romanesk, the Dragon Wizard
4x	Ryusei the Earth
3x	Mitsurugi Boost, Matchless Dragon Demon
4x	Mendelssohn
4x	Child Festival of Faerie Fire
1x	Dokindam X, The Legendary Forbidden

Hyperspatial Zone

#	Card:
1x	Gaial Horn, Iron-slashing Sword
1x	Ryusei Kaiser, the Victorious
1x	Gaiheart, Galaxy Sword
1x	Gaiohburn, Head General Sword
1x	Gigaheart, Invincible King Sword
1x	Heart Burn, Battle General Galaxy Fortress
1x	Judaiou, Jurassic Jungle
1x	Endless Heaven, True Holy Church

Batorai Edge, Blazing Sword must be replaced since the March 2018 Hall of Fame update.

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 It is not as affected by [[Onikamas, Strange Flow]] or [[Senno, Brainwash]] as many revolution change rushes and mass cost trample decks do due to the presence of [[Mega Magma Dragon]], but [[Deathmatch Beetle]] can be troublesome for decks without [[Final Dogiragolden]].
-However despite its immense offensive powers and swarming capabilities, it has no trigger resistance and some triggers such as [[Arcadia Spark]], [[Ragnarok, the Clock]] and [[Heaven's Gate]] can result in the player's defeat. It also has no resistance against faster rushes and loops such as [[Jokers (deck)|Jokers]] and [[Goemonkey Loop]] and often fails to outrun them if Mana Acceleration with [[Mendelssohn]] fails to net at least 1 dragon, or even worse, when Mana Acceleration spells and cost reduction are not drawn at all. In extreme cases, it is easily beaten even by [[Mono-Fire rush]] or other budget rush decks.
+However, despite its immense offensive powers and swarming capabilities, it has no trigger resistance and some triggers such as [[Arcadia Spark]], [[Ragnarok, the Clock]] and [[Heaven's Gate]] can result in the player's defeat. It also has no resistance against faster rushes and loops such as [[Jokers (deck)|Jokers]] and [[Goemonkey Loop]] and often fails to outrun them if Mana Acceleration with [[Mendelssohn]] fails to net at least 1 dragon, or even worse, when Mana Acceleration spells and cost reduction are not drawn at all. In extreme cases, it is easily beaten even by [[Mono-Fire rush]] or other budget rush decks.
 Shinobi Dolgeza and [[Light Nature Metallica]] counters this decktype well because the former stops all offenses with [[Shinobi]]s while the latter stops ramps with [[DG ~Time of Judgment~]]. The latter is destroyed by [[Mega Magma Dragon]], however.