Why star is now a lock deck

     At the creation, Stars was designed to be a lock deck : Astraeus + Frozen stars = obvious lock combo. But it turned out that the community didn't use they that way : Damian topped with a grind/flood Star decklist. Me, and every other Stars players followed this way. The lock concept just wasnt competitif.

With the recent support, it is now the lock variant under the spotlights.

Explanation of the evolution of the lock.

TL;DR Star (Top 4 French BSF)

For more analyse about stars

Buddy :  Moon Celestial, Selene

 Size 2 (8) 

4 King of Forest, Zlatorog 
4 First Tribulation, Gold Lion of Nemea

 Size 1 (10)

4 Schedar Cassiopeia
2 Rigel Orion 
2 Sirius Lailaps
2 Stallion of the Divine King, Sleipnir

Size 0 (6)

4  Moon Celestial, Selene
2 Procyon Melampus

 Spell (23)

4 Starfall Night 
4 Great Fate, Frozen Stars 
3 Symbel Gard
4 Breathen Gard 
4 Holy Grail
4 Oswira Gard

 Item (3) 

3 Star Bow, Artemis Arrow  

 

 

 Sideboard

1 Fifth Omni Dragon Lord, Tenbu
2 Taurus Aldebaran 
1 Stellar Deity, Astraeus 
1 Capella Origar 
2 Loki the Ehrgeiz
3 Dragon Extermination Knight, Siegfried 

Update with HTB2 :
- 2 Rigel Orion
+ 2 Seventh Omni Earth Lord, Count Dawn
 (no Perseus Algol)

Decklists inspired from Damian Siwy's.

New video : Game replay : Star vs Purgatory knights

Deck review : Star

Deck playtest

TL;DR (top 4 French BSF)
Update Buddy All-stars

   Star is a grind deck which turns around stuns. With all the two criticals, they dig slowly the opponent's life while soft locking the opponent with Great star.

    Because of Frozen stars, your opponent will be forced to focus your side monsters, and with Schedar cassiopeia, lion and Zlatorog, you can refresh the board every times it gets empty (at least you are supposed to, on paper) .

    The main (if not only) formation in the deck is : size 2 non star to the center, size 1 and size 0 star in the sides. The size 2 (Zlatarog  or Gold lion of nemea) are here to give you on call advantage, it is logic to call them to the center otherwise your opponent will ignor them.
     Of course, the two stars on the side are here to enable Frozen star.

     With all the 2 crits, they have good damages, and Breathen gard can easilly kill at 6 lifes. Which is very unexpected and gives Star good power play (this + Frozen stars).
     With gold lion and Cassipeia, they have nice Card advantage.

    But outside of that, I hardly find any quality to the deck :
       Field control is not that good : They have better power than Wizard, but no destruction.
      As a legend world deck, they have very lackluster defense.
      But unlike other Legend world's deck they have bad Gauge management. LW gives them gauge, but the huge cost will make you run out of gauge.
      It is a pretty straightforward deck, and very unconsistent because of how reliant on Frozen star they are.
     
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Deck playtest : Star

     Star, archetype that was first seen as a total stun deck, with the combination of board nullifier (Frozen stars, also called 'The gate') that applies as long as you have monsters on the sides, and Astraeus that willl make those monsters undestructable.
      With tests, this way of playing is for the anime only. In the TCG, you have to play it a different way.