Frognarchs = Building Ideas

So I've decided to piece together Frog Monarchs and I wanted to get some ideas on my build.

So far my deck list looks like this.

Monsters
3 Battle Fader
1 Gorz
1 Trago
2 Treeborn Frog
2 Rhonin Toad
3 Substitoad
3 Swap Frog
3 Caius
3 Raiza
2 Thestalos
3 Light and Darkness Dragon
2 Dark Dust Spirit

Spells
3 Enemy Controller
1 Heavy Storm
1 MST
1 Giant Trunade
3 Soul Exchange
1 Scape Goats

Traps
2 Spiritual Water Art Aio or 2 Treacherous Trap Holes

-2 thesalos
-scapegoat
-tragodia

+2 vanity fiend
+2 dupe frog

or
-2 thesalos
-scapegoat
-tragodia
-1 ronintoadin

+2 vanity fiend
+2 dd crow
+1 dupe frog

Vanity's Fiend is good and can create a pretty amazing lock just like LADD.....hmmm I like that. Thestalos is so beautiful though man I love his control/burn but I think your right Vanity's may be a little more useful.

At the very least side the thestalos, as there are a few match ups where vanity fiend is subpar.

Yea he will def. be sided along with 1-2 Jinzos.

I would actually run trip water art and mind crush, with all the hand viewing from water art mind crush would be an easy call. Maybe drop goats and something else. Just adds more control IMO.

I hate Mind Crush...it is so dead usually for me I tried running it a couple formats ago with Trap Dustshoot. I'd hate to give up a dedicated spot for this. Scapegoats was a terrible tech idea I was just thinking to help with stall a bit till I can get my monarch cycle off. This deck has so many tribute monsters though I am worried that I'm going to be a victim of constant 2 spell 4 tribute monster opening hands. A little advice on the number of monsters. I mean I'm seeing people running 25-28 monsters in Frognarch so....
Although.....people are adding alot of things from there deck to there hands these days especially with X-Saber matchups...maybe 2 Water Arts and 2 Mind Crushes wouldn't be so bad. Debate?

Mind crush is more of a personal choice, but it's useful against alot of decks:
bw- whirlwind and obvious attacks with kalut in hand
gb- any equeste play
infernity- whatever archfiend snags (which could save you from otk)
sabers- gold sarc/darksoul
herald- sonic bird/manju
those are just the top decks.

I would drop a dust spirit maybe, he's good but semi-useful. This also helps mitigate the high tribute monster count.

-1 roanin
-1 dark dust
-1 goates
-2 thestalos

+2 vanities
+1 dupe
+2 crow

Ladd makes vanaties fiend broken just back up a ladd with a vanaties in tha grave and thats 2 broken and leaves them with less plays