Character:
***J. talbain***

Foundations: 36
x4 Blood Runs True
x4 Chester's Backing
x4 Lord of the Makai
x4 Fight or Flight
x4 Unorthodox Training
x4 Mortal Strike
x3 The Curse Broken
x3 Bitter Rivals
x2 The Tae Kwon Do Zephyr
x2 Tira's Contract
x2 American Made

Attacks: 13
x4 Spiral D.D.T.
x4 Crack Counter -> Vaulting
x3 Sakura's Shinku Hadoken
x2 Dragon Cannon

Assets: 10
x3 Ocladan's Mentoring
x3 Heisheng Jian
x2 Jeff's Gloves
x2 Lynette's Shop

Actions: 6
x3 Kung-Fu Training
x3 Tag Along

Control Checks:
2s= 4
3s= 12
4s= 10
5s= 23
6s= 16

Alright, heres my Talbain deck off of all. Now some things to note:
1. Im playing an all deck, Im not duel or tri symboling him (atleast not till I go Block 3, and that will only be with 1 card)
2. Im not trying to abuse him as rediculously as everyone else seems to want to. It does hurt to just play to have fun
3. This is a block 2 deck, I paid for the cards so Im going to play them as long as I can.
4. The main things I play against in my area, are 7/20- characters
5. If you are going to suggest something to go in or come out, then please suggest something to come out or go it for said card(s) .

It's defintely a solid build if his character didn't do what he did, go with tricky basket for reloading spiral ddt shennanigans, still don't like any of the talbain builds posted so far. Take jeff's gloves out and 2 of the crappier attacks, when you can smash ddt's in their face all day you need tech attacks that do stuff to edge your opponent into a corner.

Oh man, you really need to stack promo Talbain into it (the 9 Hand Size one). I played Talbain*** off of [ALL] in two local tourneys and were almost unbeated in both (only Talim won me once at the swiss rounds in the second tourney). I'll post my list for reference, so you might take some ideas.

J.Talbain *** (starter)

Character (4)
4 J.Talbain ** 6/6 +0M

Action (7)
4 Yoga Adept 4/2 +2M
3 Dark Heart 1/4

Attack (6)
3 Seichu Nidan Tsuki 4/2 4M6 Multiple:2
2 Kuzuryu Reppa 6/3 +1H 4M6 Multiple:1
1 8th Bill of Punishment 5/3 3H5 Throw

Split (8)
3 Clones 2/3/5 3M6
2 Born to Hunt 2/3/5
4 Vast Resources 3/4/5

Asset (12)
4 Seal Of Cessation 3/3 +2L
4 Lynette's Shop 3/6 +1M
4 Olcadan's Mentoring 0/6 +0L

Foundation (23)
4 Blood Runs True 2/5 +1H
3 The Curse Broken 1/6
4 Fight Or Flight 2/4 +2M
4 Lord Of The Makai 2/6 +1M
1 Rat Chaser 1/5 +0H
4 Bitter Rivals 3/4 +2M
3 Saikyo-Ryu 0/4 +3H
1 Chester's Backing 4/6 +1M

Checks:
2 -> 7
3 -> 7
4 -> 14
5 -> 14
6 -> 20

Side Deck:
3 Leave At Dawn 2/5
1 Kung Fu Training 2/5 +1M
1 Dark Heart 1/4
3 Tag Along 5/4

Just some notes: in Talbain*** decks, Yoga Adept is *waaaay* better than Kung Fu Training. I only owned 1 Chester's Backing at the moment, so I couldn't run any more. Clones is the only card that doesn't have [ALL] from the beginning, but is a great attack to start for, and a great check too. Anyway, it is very quickly put in your staging area due to opponent's Olcadan's Mentoring.

Good luck with it! nokto.-