Introduction
Welcome to Reichphobia!
Scareclaw is a Link-based deck with a straightforward gameplan that was first introduced in Battle Trajectory and has recived a solid amount of direct and indirect support since.
The deck aims to summon Scareclaw Tri-Heart to scare the opponent's monsters and control the flow of the duel with it, to end up in a powerful OTK using the different effects of its monsters. While preparing different interactions like level 10 - 9 synchros, link monsters, spell/traps etc...
The power of the deck really depends in what is meta at the moment but most of the time is a very solid rougue option that can reach high ranks.
Now the deck is easier to build thanks to the secret pack Beastly Claws of Terror. So is a good oportunity to give it a try!
Main Deck Monsters
Thanks to Scareclaw Light-Heart all your main deck Scareclaw monsters except Scareclaw Kashtira are both one card starters, and extenders. This gives the deck a lot of consistency to get your combos going.
All the Scareclaw Main Deck monsters except Scareclaw Kashtira share one effect, the ability to special summon themselves from the hand to an adjacent zone of that of a Scareclaw monster. This plays into the thematic that they are a pack and are stronger together
Scareclaw Reichheart x3
The king of Reichphobia himself!
Reichheart is the most important monster of your main deck. Like the other Scareclaws he can summon himself to a zone adjacent to a Scareclaw monster. Reichheart can search a Scareclaw spell or trap when its summoned, the spells and traps of the archetype can be extenders, end board pieces or protection, that makes Reichheart search very versatile, letting you search for whatever the situation calls for.
Also, if there are 3 or more defense position monsters on the field after searching he can draw you one card. Reichheart is your most important search so if you have it in your opening hand try to use it as an extender rather that a starter to bait your opponent handtraps and then play him (also is good to play around his extra draw so summon the monsters you are gonna use for link or synchro summoning in defense position before playing him).
Scareclaw Astra x3
A good bite should be fast.
Representing the fear of thunder and lightning we have Scareclaw Astra. Like the other Scareclaws it can summon itself to a zone adjacent to a Scareclaw monster. Its the most important of the level 3 monsters, because it can give your Scareclaw Link monster in the EMZ the effect to attack as many times as Scareclaw monsters in defense position with different names you control. This is will let you OTK very easily with Scareclaw Tri-Heart in a lot of situations.
