Insect Pile

Going first Insect Pile post-ROTA. The main goal is get to Rapier the Onslaught, which can be done via Sting the Poison or Armed Rebeelion for Resonance Insect to search Rapier. The deck plays 12 starters with Rapier and the ways to get to it being the first 9 and Evil Seed being the other 3.

Besides this, the main plan with the deck is put a load of extenders in and hope to bait an imperm or an ash due to my opponents lack of experience with the deck. This is why there are 2 Pin the Bullseye's, as the card is a great extender, as well as 2 Wicked Butterflys, which allows you to use your normal to bait handtraps.

The ideal end board the deck goes for is: Grand Partisan, Heavy Cavalry, Stag Sovereign, Cicada King, either Wisteria of Woe or Hunting Dance set, a Scary Moth in grave and at least one handtrap in hand, ideally drawn off of Picofalena or Wicked Butterfly. Use Cicada King to negate your opponents normal then summon the Scary Moth and, if your opponent has allowed you to get to this stage, most likely win the duel.

Since Resonance Insect is perhaps the most important card to the deck, I'll briefly explain its targets. Your first Resonance target should always be Rapier if you have not opened it or one of the ways to get to it. If you open Resonance and a way to get to Rapier, then your Resonance search goes to Krawler Soma for an overwhelming amount of extension. However if you do not open Resonance or a way to get to it besides the Picofalena search, then use your one Resonance search to get to Supply Squad, which then leads to Heavy Cavalry, a vital piece of endboard. If you get to a turn 3 situation, or are going second, Beargram is a fantastic way of wiping an opponents board after getting through any interaction they may have.

For going second, side out the Scary Moth, Ballgame, a Gokipole and the Krawler package and lay on the handtraps, including both the "C" monsters. As for the rest of the side deck, Rivalry is there as a floodgate that can be very effective against the right decks, as can Chain Coils against the likes of Danger! Darkworld. The Drolls and the Nib are useful as going second tools but are also effective as Crossout targets if your opponent is running either, as these handtraps are perhaps the most effective against the deck.

The deck has a number of weaknesses however, mainly in an inability to correctly counter Spell and Traps, as there are no Insect monsters that can negate the cards specifically. This is why I have included Atypus in the extra, as the card can negate face up Spells and Traps and even destroy them to help get out of sticky situations. This also explains the Selene Snapper I have included in the side. The other problem the deck can have is grind games. This deck aims to have things wrapped up by turn 3, but if this is not the case, your only way of recycling cards is Picofalena. This means your resources can run very dry if a duel begans to last a while, so siding copies of Insect Invitation or Beetrooper Might Neptune may be appropriate if you see fit.

If you prefer to run a consistent 40 card build, simply remove the Ragnaraika package in the main deck, the Scale Bombers, the extra copies of Gokipole and Pin the Bullseye, Formation, Ballgame and the Triple Tactics cards and have a blast.