Ok here is the rest of the post.
There are some cheap and decent (Or maybe
Leela awesome) cards that can possibly carry you to 1300s:
Leela,
Daqun, Billy Hilly,
Rosen, and
Sigurd.
Rosen is purely for the power of
Roots since
Roots is overall good; Pussycat is cheap awesome half deck; All Star has
Karen;
Freaks are cheap; Berserk has some usable commons.
Honorable mention:
Sentinel has some usable a little expensive choices but overall cheap full deck (very skill based though).
This limits us to 6 clans.
4-star and the rest: half deck materials here, but good ones.
Eddie +
Eugene +
Felicia(I just like her);
Lakit half deck is OK i think; second tier Vertex since you only play for the bonus + 2-star DR;
Frozen is awesome for half deck
Eliska among other great commons;
Piranas if you are really into SOB but no good 4s there.
The only thing hard to find is cheap SOA, but that's not a must.
Sentinel only works as a full.
Now we have 10 half decks +
Sentinel; As you mentioned All-star can go full, but I personally disliked so.
The Deck
Mix now; I always liked pussycat with another offensive half.
But I started this week by using
Daqun half with Frozen; doesn't feel so good
then used
Leela pussycat + Frozen, got to 1300+ on Friday.
Will try
Hilly Billy deck next week or maybe
Freaks + Pussycat
Deck:
http://www.urban-rivals.com/presets/?id_preset=2536525