Long Live the King for Block 4

[LanceLiezure 0]

I just put together King from the new Tekken 6 set. In playing so far, it has been solid, but I'm not sure if it's just perfect yet. I can see some characters (Hilde, Zi Mei) that could just run over it. I don't have a sideboard yet, but the deck looks like this so far.

1x King.

Actions
4x Ready to Launch

Assets
3x Jaguar Mask

Attacks
4x Flinging Half Nelson
4x Cobra Clutch
4x Cobra Twist
4x Hip Buster

Foundations
4x In Service to Country
4x Red Cyclone of Mother Russia
4x Battle Prowess
4x Hulking Brute
4x Huge Wrestling Army
4x King of the Ring
4x Blinding Rage
4x The Glare from the Abyss
4x Bloodline Rebellion

Some things are self explanatory like Ready to Launch and Jaguar Mask.  But I've included a lot of attack buffs (Brute, Army, King, Bloodline) to make sure that my Ready to Launch hits like it should.  All of my attacks are throws to ensure that when I run out of attacks I will always have a LOT of choices in the pit.  Battle Prowess, Service, Cyclone are for some defense.  Blinding Rage is there for Foundation destruction.  And the only slot that I'm iffy on is The Glare from the Abyss.  It's good, but I just don't know if it fits.  The check and control is amazing, but the effect is rarely used.  I hardly ever use the first ability on King of the Ring or Bloodline Rebellion, but I couldn't ask for better pumps.

Lastly, with my attacks.  I've chosen Flinging Half Nelson just because it is AMAZING, and Hip Buster works well with it and King's ability (thanks to a idea from a previous post).  Cobra Clutch is just essential for King I think.  It wrecks BRTs.  Clutch is decent.  It can be returned with the Mask which is really nice, but since it's a combo, it loses its low cost by needing to have a throw played before it previously, and I don't know if 3s/3d is worth it for 5 although the ability is really good.  One thing I know is that I want to keep all attacks, all throws, all day!

Please feel free give me your suggestions, ideas, etc.  I am really enjoying this deck so far.

[ShippuJinrai 0]

Deck seems fine but this really isnt block 4 dude. Warrior's dreams is not legal.

[Protoaddict 0]

LanceLiezure said:

4x Hip Buster
4x In Service to Country
4x Red Cyclone of Mother Russia
4x Battle Prowess
4x Hulking Brute
4x Huge Wrestling Army
4x Blinding Rage
4x The Glare from the Abyss

 

None of thoes are block 4 legal.

[LanceLiezure 0]

Ahh!  See someone told me some stuff had rotated out, but I couldn't find out which ones!  What sets rotated?!

[Hayamachop 0]

everything except shadowar, soulcal 4 and tekken 6

[LanceLiezure 0]

Wow... I did not know that.  I thought we were still on 4 and 5 point stars for Standard Constructed... or is there a new Block format?  I'm still fairly new to this whole constructed thing.  So, I'm not 100% sure on everything yet.  Is there a Block only, Standard, and Legacy... or how does it work exactly?

[Kitties_Outcast 0]

sorta yea...the 3 sets (tekken, soul cal 4, shadowar) have 5 pointed stars..

there are also some promos with said star..

those are the only things that are legal in standard format..

everything else is considered legacy..

[Da_ghetto_gamer 0]

yeah it happened sooner then everyone thought. The game designers didnt like the place where the game was and decided make rotation happen when tekken officially came out instead of feburary like it was normally supposed to.

Im pretty sure its all posted in the august state of the game if you want to go back and look at the post that explains it all alot better

[LanceLiezure 0]

Ahh, I missed that post I guess.  Up to speed now.  I did not realize that was the case.  I will be making some changes to King.  I'm just glad to know this before I start the October events here... that could have been bad! lol

Thanks a lot guys.  I will be reposting a new decklist soon.  I'll see what everyone thinks of it.

[guitalex2008 0]

You may want to keep that list anyway... some scouts want to run events using the old Block 3/4 standard so as to still be abel to use the older cards.  And for all it's worth, looks like a nice deck.

If you want ideas on how to update it, check out Shadowar for Rashotep support such as:

Sandstorm Throw
Flooded-Nile Throw
Ka Technique
Undisputed Ruler

Also look for some Ragnar support, such as:

Brooding
Crushing Embrace of the Jotun (if you're OK with it not having a block)
Body Slam

And in SCIV, look up Siegfried support in the form of foundations such as:

Torn Hero
Memories of a Nightmare
Atoning for his Wicked Deeds

And also for some Astaroth support in the form of:

Hungry for Battle
Laughable (funny to use in King if you have The Entertainer preventing you from drawing)

In Tekken well, use King stuff lol