This is sort of a workin draft at the moment, as it's something I threw together with my prerelease pulls, plus a few things I already had.

I've always been a HUGE Nightmare fan. Like...seriously. He was my favorite SC character from the time I started, only competing with Kilik for that spot. With time (and UFS, haha), he now has to compete with Kilik, Seong-Mina, Tira, and Cervantes (well, Yoshitmitsu, too, but...well, y'know). Anyway, I've always loved him in UFS, but his characters, while decent, have been a little lackluster (the promo with Timmy's is busted, tho).

Imagine my excitement when he was finally back! =D

Characters: 0 + starter
1x Nightmare

Actions: 7
4x Rejection
3x Kung-Fu Training (there's a reason to run this now!)

Assets: 4
4x Olcadan's Mentoring

Attacks: 15
4x Upper Claw
4x Leg Slash
4x Dash Low
3x Knight Breaker

Foundations: 39
4x All Life is Prey
4x Blood Runs True
4x Chester's Backing
4x Intimidating Presence
4x Oral Dead
4x The Red Lotus of the Sun
3x Corrupting Force
3x The Glare from the Abyss
2x The Azure Knight
2x Beacon of Evi
2x Bitter Rivals
2x Cutting Edge
1x Charismatic

Deck is too large and the card choices suck. I already know this.

But somehow it still works...

Anyway. The point is pretty dang obvious. This deck is meant to destroy the bejeezus out of the opponent's backfield, and regularly is able to toss HUGE attacks with almost no staging area to speak of. I think my current record is a 28 damage Dash Low, thanks to All Life is Prey, which is a really stupid damage pump =/

Beacon of Evil is GREAT, but probably too expensive to run, being a fourth high difficulty foundation, alongside Chester's, So Bitter, and Azure Knight. I get the feeling Azure Knight is going to get the kibosh, since, while it is a good damage pump, it relies on having a really low number of cards to work with. It will likely be replaced with Enraged Golem for better pumpiness. I'll probably also ditch Beacn of Evil, even if it DOES make playing attack strings stupidly easy. I'd like to find some way to play Jotun's Fury, since it has the self-pump that also fuels All Life is Prey.

Which brings me to All Life is Prey. This card is redonkulous. It counts any foundations that area destroyed for the entire turn - due to effect OR cost, meaning I've got a whopping 14 cards (plus character) in my deck that will shoot it up. Intimidating Presence is a massive enabler here, since it gives +1 just for the cost, and, if that attack deals damage, +1 for the effect. Then I respond with Nightmare, commit something and pop another one, and on the next attack I destroy the committed foundation with Intimidating. I've destroyed upwards of nine cards in an opponent's staging area in a turn with JUST Presence, not to mention Nightmare and Corrpting Force.

The big weak point is that Blinding Rage sort of crap all over this deck. A few well-placed Owlfaces during the building portion, though, should alleviate that difficulty. So what I need is a way to make the deck better - trim the fat, work on the difficulty ratios, find the best attacks (I JUST pulled my first Launcher today ;_ , and I'd like to find a draw mechanic of some kind. And I'm not beyond dual-symboling to get it (****, I wish Nightmare was Death/Earth/Evil).

Tear it apart, yo.

Needs more Soul Wave, Hunger for Souls, and Revenant's Calling. That's a lot of actions though, so you need to balance out numbers and such. I'm not 100% convinced on Hunger for Souls in this deck (since you claim to get pretty ridiculous destruction numbers without it) but it could work quite well. Did I see Bitter Rivals in the deck? I can't remember.

Needs more Soul Wave, Hunger for Souls, and Revenant's Calling. That's a lot of actions though, so you need to balance out numbers and such. I'm not 100% convinced on Hunger for Souls in this deck (since you claim to get pretty ridiculous destruction numbers without it) but it could work quite well. Needs a full compliment of Bitter Rivals.

Yep. I need to GET HfS first (which will soon be done). I'm planning on putting 2-3 Soul Waves in the sideboard, since the asset destruction ability isn't particularly necessary yet. And I think the only reason I forgot to put Rev's in is because I left them at home at the time xD

But I'm going to work on polishing the deck. God I love the new Nightmare.

And Launcher is going in ocne the set is finished. Screw you, Upper Claw!

If you still need it when i get over to Denton in a few weeks, i have a hunger for souls im willing to trade. But yeah, i love the deck the new nightmare is a beast.

Also, All Life is Prey + Hunger for Souls is absolute sex. Midnight Launcher + Hunger for Souls + Kung Fu Training, blow up 5 of each's foundations, and toss out another attack, you're lookin at around +10 per All Life is Prey if you checked a 5 for Hunger for Souls, and that's not counting his other destruction. Fun stuff

Card Draw is just something you aren't going to find for the three symbols. Sad fact is sad.

Add in like one more Bitter, I say (I'm so stingy with ratios, you'll see me always run things in 3s rather than in 4s...) Some people swear by 4 Oral Dead's. I really don't-3 should really do it.

For the most part, I really agree...4 is totally overkill.

Sadly, all the draw stuff is in Death (Hugo)...and I don't wanna play that ='(

Ah Nightmare my second fave char in the game currently. The build seems really nice although a bit strange but thats just cause im used to seeing things in 4s and 3s and not 2s and 1s. Really the only suggestion for draw power is the card im using in my Nightmare deck M. Bisons Fierce punch. It has a floating ability that says whenever you negate an opponents ability or destroy a card in their staging area you draw a card (lol at nightmare). The only backfire to the card is that it gives a two. but the rest of the stats are nice. good luck on your deck and if you wouldnt mind give some suggestions for my Tira deck if you have any =3

if your looking for for good attakcs to go with ML and KB go with reverse Flayer. combo the three in one turn, flayer->launcher->breaker, thats 31 damage plus breakers combo E and it's a 5diff->5diff->7diff. if your worried about the 2cc you could always run iga legacy. this is what I plan to do with my version of the deck for the event at DieCon, June 6, Collinsville, IL.