First, an introduction to the introduction deck. It's built off Air, one of the more-supported symbols of late, and 52 of the cards are commons. 8 more are uncommons at 2x each, and the character is a promo. I deliberately built most of the cards {and all of the uncommons} out of the KOF2006 set, so it can {hopefully} be built "out of the box," so to speak, with a little help from store vets. The main kill is Melancholic Mercurius, pumped up by a stacked momentum, and hopefully preceeded by some mid attacks to bait out blocks, although those mid attacks can certainly be fatal in their own right {3M9 Fei Long's? 4M11 Omnidirectional?). So anyway, here's the deck:

1x Temujin Air-Chaos-Fire

Attacks - 16

4x Omnidirectional Clusterbomb {lots of uses} 5/3 +1M SNK04

4x Melancholic Mercurius {the main kill card} 4/2 +2H SNK03

4x Hakkei {introduces Reversal and Stun; pretty good stats} 4/3 +2M SF09

4x Fei Long's Forward Kick {card advantage, cheap attack for Temujin's pump} 3/3 +2M SF08

Actions - 4

4x Tag Along 5/4 {fetches Mercurii, negates opposing character... a staple} SF07

Foundations - 40

4x Chinese Boxing {stupidly good} 3/4 +3M SNK04

4x La Superba {generates high CC momentum for Temujin's ability} 2/5 +1M SNK04

4x Soul of Ling-Sheng Su {6cc, helps checks} 2/6 +2H SC06

4x Kabuki Artist {fetches attacks with help of Pro Soldier/Superba} 2/4 SNK03

4x Professional Soldier {see La Superba} 1/5 SF08

4x White Magic {generates momentum} 1/5 +3M SNK04

4x Infected {6cc, spam} 0/6 +2H SC06

4x Powerful Style {lifegain+spam} 0/5 +2M SNK04

2x Military Combat Arts {see La Superba; depletes blocks} 1/4 +2H SNK04

2x Return to Southtown {card advantage, see Infected} 1/6 +0H SNK04

2x Shooting Capoera {makes the world go round} 2/4 +2M SNK04

2x Angel of Evening {does good things} 2/5 +2L SNK04

Total -- 60 + 1

CCs:

1. 0
2. 4
3. 12
4. 16
5. 18
6. 10

To expand the deck... one of the happy coincidences I noticed while building was that 3 out of every 5 foundations happen to chain Chaos as well, so sticking some hot Red Lotus/Destiny/Oral Dead/Anti K' action in is definitely one direction you could go. Inhuman Perception was one card I chose to leave out primarily because it's a sought-after common from a set that was IMO pretty mediocre (especially in terms of its URs), although I did include Soul of Ling Sheng Su and Infected, which are kinda in the same boat . Inhuman is also another stress on Temujin's tiny hand {Air's biggest weakness IMO, compared to All, Order, Water or Earth, is that it has very little card draw}, so it's up to you on if you want to leave it in. Healer would be a pretty good tech to add as well, and SOME answer to Defender loop would be nice {I'm at a loss here, short of splashing Fast Food Lover or Tira's Contract}

Any suggestions, thoughts, or ideas on a good deck to match this up against? I was thinking about Hugo or some other Earth deck, since they're pretty **** popular in our meta and fairly easy to play {play pile of foundations, draw cards, more grey piles, play single orange card for your life total}.

not many ppl have Lord of the Makai do they.

hmm i think u can find a better attack for air than Hakkei even by todays standards i think its a piddly attack what about...

Sonic Boom EXTRA 3m 4d P:2 ranged +2m 4dif 3cc

if u need momentum and u cant get LOTM then may i sugest White Magic its not much momentum but it will help if u dont draw into ur attacks fast enough

MegaMan said:

LotM is a sought-after promo, SBE is an ultra-rare. Considering that the primary drive to make this deck is to make it cheap {to the point of running 2x-es of uncommons } and still playable, adding cards that sell out for $10 to $15 seems extremely contradictory. As for White Magic, it's already in the deck; look under Professional Soldier.

I quite enjoy this decklist... it's pretty good.

Great way to introduce new people!!

I'll be sure to use it to bring new people in...

Cheers

hanzo