Ghostly Gambits & Starry Fights (Ghost Deck pt.2)

We’re back for the second half of our Ghost deck tech! If you haven’t read part 1, I will summarize quickly:

We covered our Neopet Deck colour choices, Red and Yellow, The Painted versions we’re using, and why we are playing 5 Rainbows in our tournament-level Ghost deck.

We saw the 3 Faeries we’re playing; Naia, Jhudora and Soup Faerie. I mentioned that Jhudora might be the best card currently printed, but I also spoke about Soup Faerie being the best turn-1 in the game. I ended it there, so lets cover the rest of the list, and then the modest and budget Ghost builds I’d recommend!

There are some cards that are questionable. Mainly The Breadmaster and Dr. Flexo.

The reason for The Breadmaster is that it can be a pseudo-3rd copy of a card. Late game if you need to find a card in your deck, The Breadmaster will get it for you! On turn 4, you could play The Breadmaster, search for a Iron Skeith, and the Iron Skeith could play your Khan the Unstoppable. This also helps if the Khan is in your hand, as you shuffle it back in your deck.

There is 1 reason why I like Dr. Flexo so much. There is no current level-2 legend that draws you 3 cards. All the 1-cost cards can only draw you 2 cards, and Usul Defender as a level 3 draws you 4 cards, which is great, but I would like to do other things on my turn 3, such as painting my Neopet, playing a Meuka, or even Eyes of Dark to discard some of my Jhudora Equipment. Especially if you’re struggling to find your 3rd Codestone, Dr.Flexo lets you see a lot of cards while putting a high-level card or a paint brush back that you don’t need.

I am only playing 1 level-5 card in this deck, but it is actually just a level 4. As I touched on with The Breadmaster, Skeith into Khan. Being able to play Khan on your opponent is devastating. They do not lose the game, but something worse happens, they have to waste resources to continue the game.

There currently is not way to recur your Codestones, so having several Codestones go to your discard and having to continue the same game isn’t great, as you have to decide to put more Codestones on your Neopet to get some value back, or choose not to put more Codestones on your Neopet and wait for your opponent to knock your Neopet out to start the next game. Both options feel terrible, if you wait for your opponent, they can continue to get high level value while you draw for turn and attack. 

This is why you need to play the Skeith Khan combo. 

We have ways to recur Khan: Siona, Vira, and Meuka. Since playing a Khan on somebody is so devastating, what if we did it THREE times? Game over, man.

So I talked about our card advantage, taking away our opponents board, and replaying cards in our discard. What’s left in the deck? We play with 4 pieces of equipment, all Jhudora equipment.

Since we are playing Ghosts, we want to be efficient and combo with our cards. As I said, our first couple turns we set up. On our turn 3 we would finally paint our Neopet Ghost. Using our 1 action to paint our Neopet on turn 3 lets us cheat in 1 of these 3 equipment. Gaining a bonus of 2 Attack and 2 Defence with the added bonus of one of these equipment, makes the Ghost deck very unpredictable.

The last part of the deck protects us from opposing Khan’s, and helps our Khan’s resolve. I am talking about our Hot Dogs!

Hot Dog of Justice, and Hubert’s Special Hot Dog are our ‘Counters’ in this game. Having Justice as protection to guard against an opposing Khan, or someone’s Meuka, or Angry Tax Beast. As powerful as Justice is, you also play the ‘Counter’ for the ‘Counter’ in Hubert’s Special Hot Dog. Justice is used to stop your opponent from resolving a powerful legend, while Hubert’s Special is used to let your powerful legend resolve. 

Always try to save your Justice for a powerful legend, as just using it on your opponent’s level 1 draw card is not worth negating that effect.

I also play 1 Hubert to search out either of these cards! It is a fantastic turn 1 to thin your deck, plus to have the known protection. If your opponent is playing around a known counter it makes later turns very difficult for them.

Filling out the rest of the deck, we play Harry and Blooplum, Kastraliss, Nilo and Angry Tax Beast.

Harry is there to find you more Codestones when you need them.

Kastraliss is a low-level draw card that can also help set up your discard pile. 

Nilo is the 2nd copy of each level-1 card you play. Instead of playing 2 Harry’s, 2 Huberts, etc, I play 1 of each with 1 Nilo.

Nilo is a utility card that thins your deck, but also finds you what you need when you want. Especially in this deck when you can find The Breadmaster and play it.

Angry Tax Beast is a resource disruptor, when you have Khan’d your opponent, but have another Skeith, finding an Angry Tax Beast to pull 2 random cards out of your opponent’s hand, stripping them of resources, while also netting you 2 new cards is a great second villain choice.

Let’s move onto the Modest Budget Ghost list we have!

Let’s talk about the differences!

The rainbow painted Neopets are gone! They’ve been replaced by Starry Neopets!

I wanted to stay well-balanced in our Neopet choices. Red Aisha was replaced with Red Usul, and Yellow Moehog was exchanged for Red Lupe. The reason I had to swap Neopets is that the Starry Neopets and the Ghost Neopets are limited. There are 6 Neopets that are both Ghost and Starry, while the Rainbow Neopets do not have a limitation.

I have a chart in my last article showing the relations from version to version.

(https://themanabase.com/the-colourful-world-of-neopets-battledome-a-guide-to-painting-your-neopets/)

The Neopet I decided not to include was Zafara. While either Usul or Zafara be our new Attack Neopet, I ultimately chose Usul, as Usul has higher Attack, and the Starry form impressed me more with 4 Attack, 7 Defense 3 Agility, Zafara’s stats being 3 Attack, 5 Defense, 6 Agility.

Able to be our aggressive Neopet, but able to change into an aggressive/defensive Neopet is fantastic to have. 

Lupe replacing Moehog isn’t an exact replacement, as Lupe is being used only to paint. It becomes very hard to defeat when painted, so you should pick Lupe when you need to be aggressive early, and paint turn 1, 2, or 3.

I had to scale back the quality of our cards, so we are no longer playing Jhudora, nor the Khan combo. In exchange we are playing a deck that affects both our board and our opponents. That’s why we’re running more level-1 cards, such as The Pant Devil, and Pant Devil’s Evil Twin. We are also playing more Jhudora equipment, with more draw than discard effects. 

I added Ghostly Hot Dog and Shield of Scorching as well. Since they are inexpensive and strong cards individually, with 1 copy of Eyrieki to help us search our deck for a villian for potential turn-3 play such as Meuka or Vira.

This list is made to play a card each turn, get value off those cards, and force your opponent to use most of their resources while struggling to defeat your Neopets!

Finally is our Budget-Friendly deck list.

This list is for those who want a strong deck that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg, but still doesn’t skimp out on the power.

The Neopet choices are the same as the previous list, but I cut 1 of the paint brushes to focus on the Ghost aspect.

I added Korbat Defender and Hot Dogs for extra draw in the early game. This way we can access more of our Jhudora equipment. I also increased the total amount of equipment in the deck, including a very strong level-5 in the form of Vira’s Winged Dagger. That equipment will help you close a game out very quickly!

I also added Nova Blade, Supernova Blade, and Shield of Reflection for more protection.

Both ‘Nova’ blades can heal you over the game which can cause your opponent to waste more resources trying to defeat your Neopet, while you’re drawing more cards and healing up your Neopet to win the match!

That’s it! Those are my 3 recommended builds for a Neopets Battledome Ghost deck!

If you start with the Budget version and slowly build it up, be sure to keep in mind what’s being played around you, your local meta. If a lot of people are playing Frost decks, you need to pick up another Shield of Scorching. Or, if opponents get fed up playing against all your equipment and so you need to protect it, you might want to pick up a Camouflage Hot Dog!

Have fun playing, and have fun building your decks. If you want me to see what you have been building, I’d love for you to share it! If you have questions or suggestions, please let me know as well!

I’ll be back soon to cover our Faerie deck. Thank you so much for reading!!!