Frieza is the new black

If the title isn't any indication, this is all about everyone's "favorite" villian that can talk for 25 episodes in the last 5 minutes of a planet's destruction.. Frieza!

It wasn't until recently I was trying to come up with a new "out of the box" deck that I stumbled across him. He is just amazing for at least my playstyle.

Powers of Frieza

Level -1 Whenever you stop an attack, gain an anger
Level -2 Power: Discard a card from your hand to perform the last attack against you this combat, it gets an additional +2 power stages of damage
Level -3 Your attacks deal +3 stages of damage and you can use your level 1 power
Level -4 Power: Destroy the top 4 cards of your opponents life deck, search your life deck for a frieza named card and put it into your hand, you can also use your level 2 power.

Umm... YES PLEASE! 

Now, why is frieza so good? well, his level 1 and 3 are designed to help him get to his level 2 and level 4 personalities fast. his level 2 is amazing. The wording on the card means you perform the last attack, secondary effects and ALL because you are basically copying the last attack.. So, if you are playing against say, orange ginyu and they throw a staredown just to do damage.. ditch a card in your hand and banish their guldo or burter.. Playing against red or saiyan and they just did one of their multi hit attacks? copy it and do it again later.. least til it's ruled other wise.

What's even better is that you don't even have to let the attack go through. you can block it and still perform it on your next turn by ditching a dead card in your hand.

Named cards of Frieza

His physical attack has an added benefit when being ditched. It's normally a physical that does AT stages, but when ditched from your hand it raises or lowers a players anger. So, ditch it to do frieza's level 2 power and gain an anger in addition to all the effects on the card that was just played (because you are performing the last attack after all) Win win

The money card tho.. is SUPERNOVA!!!!! (yes, with added exclamation points). It's an energy attack that costs 3 stages to perform, but it's damage is 5 life cards + X where X is equal to  3 times the number of frieza named cards in your discard pile. remember all those captive strikes you discarded to do his level 2, or those early supernovas that are sitting in your discard pile?add em all up and do a big supernova for half their life deck. Base damage on the last supernova comes to 20 life cards of damage in one attack.. and that's not including modifiers from mastery, drills, etc. That;s a huge chunk of damage.

Styles of Frieza

There are really only 3 styles of frieza that I would consider workable. Red, Black, Orange.
Frieza blue is a trap. Sure, you can get off level 1 easy but you'll be hard pressed to get past level 2..

Red seems to be the popular choice as a lot of the red blocks gain you anger so getting to level 2 and level 4 will be a snap. It's also more physical with multi attacks that raise your anger on each bounce and help you hit the MPPV condition really fast.

Orange is the middle ground, and a personal favorite of mine. it's drills ramp up the damage to make that supernova do even more damage when you blast them to the dome with it. it also has on table blocks and the style itself is very defensive, a counter and blast type move.

Black.. the Ideal, in my opinion, choice for Frieza. There's just so much manipulation inside of black and a ton of the cards in black do bonus stuff when you discard them..Also, Cards like Black searching technique, and black scout maneuver, can really mess your opponent up.. Playing against namekian? take out all his hybrid defenses and energy blocks with two cards, then counter with your big super nova.. you can also get even more copy cating thanks to Black reflection. That good card they used that banished? use it and gain all the benefits of the card. Black also has a ton of anger generation in it so you can get up to level 4 very fast and just mill your opponent to the brink of destruction.

So, there you have it. A brief overview of Frieza.
I plan to have a few decks pop up over the next couple of days once I start to work out the kinks like ratio of damage to energy, why this card over that, etc.