Springans (Post Duelist Nexus)

General Description 

This is a standard Springans build, that got updated after the 5/27/2023 banlist.

What's the difference between this list and the older ones?

After the 5/27/2023 ban list (The Cyber-Stein Ban), the deck lost basically everything that made it actually good. Now it's a for fun deck, that's cheap and actually pretty fun to play.

What's this deck?

Springans was, for a very long time, just a For Fun budget deck, that can only be played fused with other engines, like Time Thiefs. Konami tried to fuse Springans with the Branded engine, with cards like Springans Kitt (That's actually a cool card) and Decisive Battle of Golgonda (That isn't that much good in the deck). However, in Photon Hypernova, Konami give the deck two very good cards: Gigantic "Champion" Sargas (Searcher, Disruption and free Zeus material, all in one card) and Tally-Ho! Springans (Reinforcement of the army and Soul Charge for the archetype). Thanks to this, Springans managed to become an ok deck, and a micro engine in some decks (Like Traptrix for the Therion). Unfortunately, after the Cyber-Stein ban, the deck lost a lot of power, going from Rogue to For Fun. As I said before, it's a very budget deck, with only Gigantic "Champion" Sargas beeing expensive and Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS - Sky Thunder, that you can "cut it out" for some other budget cards. If you like spamming xyz and big robots, this is perfect for you.

Deck Analysis

The pure version always run ~25-30 cards, giving players a lot of space for other cards. In this decklist, i filled that gap with some Handtraps, but you can put everything you want, like little engines, draw power, going second cards, etc.. The extra deck can also be very personalized, because you only need the Archetype cards (Merrymaker, Exblower, Sargas and Sprind) and than you can throw every cards you like. If you want, you can cut some engine cards to 2 instead of 3 to add more cards, that's up to you.

Engines

This is more a for fun section, but I wanted to talk about it. The deck can be fused with a lot of other decks, but there are some engine that I really recommend:

1. Time Thief: The good old Time Thief is a very good engine for the deck. You can basically start every combo with just one card and this engine gives the deck a very good normal summon, that Springans usally doesn't have.
2. Mathmech: This is playable thanks to Primathmech Alembertian, that requires generic level 4 monsters. The engine it's not bricky, cauze a lot of the monsters can be Special Summoned and they are level 4, so they can actually help you make start some combos. 
3. Spirit: Thanks to the reprint of Aratama, now everybody can play this little engine, composed some copies of Aratama and Sakitama (I only play the Sakitama, but you can play the other one too), cauze the deck doesn't have a really insane normal summon, and having basically a Free Xyz only normal summoning it's very good for the deck.
4. Adventurer Engine: As I already said in the Spirit section, you can also play the brave engine, cauze you don't have an important Normal Summon and the engine it's still pretty good nowadays. 
5. Centurion: This is possible thanks to Infernal Flame Banshee, an Xyz monster that searches any Pyro monster, like Centurion Trudea, one of the Centurion cards that's a one card combo. 

I know that there're a lot of other engine that can be played, but those are the best ones in my opinion.

Budget Changes

The deck it's actually budget on is own, but there are some cards that actually cost something, so, those are the changes you can make:

1. Gigantic "Champion" Sargas: The only archetipe card that actually cost something, and that you can't cut. It's too much important for the combos and can actually give a lot of utility (Zeus, Search, Disruption, etc.). You can cut it too one copy, but you can't cut it out.
2. Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS - Sky Thunder: Right now (14/09/2023), Zeus isn't a very expensive card, but if you don't want to buy it, you can put Evilswarm Exciton Knight, that's a "budget" version of the card, or you can put another Xyz monster of your choice. With Gigantic "Champion" Sargas, this is a very strong card for the deck, that cannot be changed very easily, but if you really wanna try the deck, you can always change it. 

As I previously said, the main deck cards can easily be changed, so, if you don't have cards like Nibiru, the Primal Being, feel free to put some budget staples or cards that you have.

Combos

The deck has a lot of combo lines, and explaining all of them in this wall of text it's pretty hard, but I will show you the best combos and a bricky hand.

Standard Combo (2 Cards: Springans Rockey/Springans Watch and Great Sand Sea - Gold Golgonda)
Steps:

1. Activate Great Sand Sea - Gold Golgonda 
2. Activate the effect of the field spell, discarding Springans Rockey 
3. Special Summon Springans Merrymaker from the Extra Deck
4. Effect of Springans Merrymaker, milling Springans Brothers 
5. Springans Brothers effect to Special Summon Springans Rockey 
6. Springans Rockey effect, add to hand Springans Brothers 
7. Normal Summon Springans Brothers 
8. Link into Qliphort Genius 
9. Effect of Springans Rockey to attach
10. Effect of Springans Brothers  to attach
11. Special Summon Gigantic "Champion" Sargas from the Extra Deck using Springans Merrymaker as material
12. Effect of Gigantic "Champion" Sargas to add Tally-ho! Springans 
13. Activate Tally-ho! Springans detaching 2 materials (Springans Rockey and Springans Brothers possibly), add Springans Branga and Special Summon Springans Branga and Springans Brothers 
14. Chain 1 Qliphort Genius,Chain 2 Gigantic "Champion" Sargas
15. Gigantic "Champion" Sargas add to hand the field spell and Qliphort Genius add Therion "King" Regulus 
16. Special Summon Apollousa, Bow of the Goddess using Qliphort Genius, Springans Branga and Springans Brothers as material for a 2400 ATK.
17. Special Summon Therion "King" Regulus equip Qliphort Genius 
18. Effect of Springans Branga banishing himself and Springans Rockey to add another Tally-ho! Springans 
19. Set Tally-ho! Springans 

Ending Board: https://i.imgur.com/oyKbPtP.png (6 Interruptions)

Anti-Nibiru Combo (3 Cards: Springans Kitt, another Springans monster and 1 random card)
Steps:

1. Normal Summon Springans Kitt (First Summon)
2. Springans Kitt effect to add Branded in High Spirits 
3. Activate Branded in High Spirits
4. Send the other Springans monster from hand to the Gy and send Sprind the Irondash Dragon from the Extra Deck to the Gy, add another Springans Kitt
5. Special Summon Springans Kitt (Second Summon)
6. Special Summon Springans Merrymaker using the 2 Springans Kitt (Third Summon)
7. Effect of Springans Merrymaker to send Springans Branga to gy
8. Special Summon Gigantic "Champion" Sargas from the Extra Deck using Springans Merrymaker as material (Fourth Summon)
9. Effect of Gigantic "Champion" Sargas to add Therion "King" Regulus 
10. Special Summon Therion "King" Regulus  equip Sprind the Irondash Dragon (Now, if the opponent actives Nibiru, the Primal Being, you can negate it with Therion "King" Regulus)
11. Effect of Springans Branga banishing himself and the other Springans monster to add Tally-ho! Springans 
12. Activate Tally-ho! Springans detaching 2 Springans Kitt, add Springans Rockey (Or any Springans Monster that you want) and Special Summon the 2 Springans Kitt
13. Effect of Gigantic "Champion" Sargas destroying the equiped Sprind the Irondash Dragon 
14. Use the 2 Springans Kitt for 1 Xyz monster (Like Time Thief Redoer or Abyss Dweller or whatever you have in your Extra Deck)
15. End phase, effect of Sprind the Irondash Dragon in the Gy, Special Summon Springans Captain Sargas from your Main Deck

Ending Board: https://i.imgur.com/MM8GLPO.png (4+ Interruptions, based on what Xyz monster you choose to Summon)

Brick Hand (2 Cards: Great Sand Sea - Gold Golgonda and Springans Booty/Tally-ho! Springans)
(This will happen once in a lifetime, having the Field Spell and no monster or no way to add a monster without wasting Tally-ho! Springans, but the more you know the better)

Steps:

1. Activate Great Sand Sea - Gold Golgonda
2. Activate the effect of the field spell, discarding Tally-ho! Springans/Springans Booty
3. Special Summon Springans Merrymaker
4. Effect of Springans Merrymaker sending Springans Branga
5. Attach Springans Branga to Springans Merrymaker
6. Special Summon Gigantic "Champion" Sargas from the Extra Deck using Springans Merrymaker as material
7. Effect of Gigantic "Champion" Sargas to add Tally-ho! Springans
8. Activate Tally-ho! Springans detaching 2 materials, add Springans Kitt and Special Summon Springans Kitt and Springans Branga
9. Chain Link 1 Springans Kitt, Chain Link 2 Gigantic "Champion" Sargas targetting the Field Spell
10. Add to hand the Field Spell, add Branded in High Spirits and put a card back to deck
11. Link for I:P Masquerena using Springans Kitt and Springans Branga
12. Effect of Springans Branga, banishing himself and Springans Merrymaker, adding Springans Brothers 
13. Activate Branded in High Spirits, sending Sprind the Irondash Dragon from the extra and Springans Brothers from hand to the Gy to add Springans Kitt
14. Springans Brothers effect to Special Summon the Springans Kitt in the Gy
15. Special Summon Springans Kitt in the hand 
16. Xyz using the 2 Springans Kitt
17. End Phase, effect of Sprind the Irondash Dragon to Special Summon Springans Captain Sargas from the Deck
18. During your opponent's turn, after using the effect of both Sargas, you can link them using I:P Masquerena for a 3 material Apollousa, Bow of the Goddess 
19. Or you can use one Sargas, possibly Gigantic "Champion" Sargas, for Knightmare Unicorn 

Ending Board: https://i.imgur.com/9cw2enx.png (4+ Interruptions, based on which Xyz monster you choose to Summon and which Link monster you choose to Summon with I:P Masquerena)

Conclusion

First of all, if you see some english error, I'm sorry. I'm from Europe and my english level is not that great, but I hope you understood my point. I'm an hardcore Springans Fan, even back in the days, when the best combo was F0 -> pass, so, i always wanted to build this deck in the best way possible, showing to the new players the things that you can do. Probably there are better version, but this is the one that give me more fun (And wins too). If you wanna ask something, feel free to do it, I will try to respond with my best english. That's it, Good Luck and Have Fun guys. Bye.