Today I learned Joshua loves Raye and would die for her

now that josh has given out the info on his locals someone is gonna rock up to the next tradiotional tournament with circular loci

this decklist is missing runicks

another advantage of accesscode is that you can banish gala/longirsu and then bring them back with world wand, rarely occurred but it's a nice recursion option if skeleton already used or get blocked. for pure otk borrelsword is still better tho since access+ding isn't game yet

Sometimes late at night, i get into my bathtub, cover myself in viscus dark liquids and think of raye.

i actually took this to locals yesterday, went undefeated and only dropped 1 game to illusion chimera. deck is unbelievably fun.

Thanks! Been wanting to test it out at my locals too. Nice list which is easily adjustable.

I think this deck is pretty unexplored now, like it genuinely feels really good and better than rogue which is where it's at now For example here josh says he broke a board of a spell/trap negate, monster negate and a pop and barely won, and uses that as a negative, but is it really? How many decks in the current format can realistically break that without board breakers? Well, snake eye can't(ash eats a negate, oss eats a negate, and even if they open both diabellstar + ash, the pop still stops any link 2 plays) Tenpai can't, unless they open multiple field spells to bait out disruptions Voiceless can't (monster negate for saffira, pop for whatever lo activates and then there's the additional spell/trap negate left) Branded can't (spell negate for brafu, pop for quem if they access it to prevent plays on the opp turn, monster negate for cartesia) But that's kinda this deck's main strength, being all gas means it's extremely good at going 2nd and extremely consistent at going 1st, however it does have some major weaknesses Like droll, or the grind game not being as good as other orcust variants, since after turn 1 you're basically playing pure, barebones orcust This is somewhat different compared to more "pure" orcust builds from 2019, as in those bardiche + ding could easily clear 2 bodies during both players turns, so no walling up like what josh described here, and fog blade could reborn a monster from the gy for more material, while the dangers provided more gass for borrelsword otks, which were also stronger without walling up That's probably why josh remembers orcust as grindier and more explosive, it's not just vibes, the deck was both grinder and more explosive, and thanks to mermaid extremely consistent and more resilient to hand traps so opening dead cards like the pk monsters, wand or fog blades wasn't an issue

A deck that I tested recently and would be cool to see your take on is Melodious Lightsworn, the idea is just Melodious can acess a early Appo or do Minerva XYZ to start milling. Another thing is that since Refrain is a Light, you can use her with Revolution Syncron to make Miguel and go into Minerva Syncro

Hey i won an OTS Championship also with Orcust but with no Horus :D

I've been liking a Bystial Package in Striker Orcust for a while. The new Striker cards will actually make that even EASIER to do stuff with that, and gives you more ways to set up targets for Crescendo since it can target Banishment, though you do have to watch out for the searches keeping you from summoning the thing.

I played a similar deck with Scraps before Harp came back at 3, maybe i will try it again now.

I played this exact main deck except I had a gizmo instead of one of the chalices, it’s nice to put under zeroboros when u don’t have babel on field

I personally been playing this the last two weeks and ik its not much of a statement but i have been mostly undefeated including most meta decks. I've only had 1 loss which was to voiceless voice. I played topologic bomber dragon, and an anima because of the girsu token and it comes up a good number. Also the bomber helps to facilitate control of the board which has consistently been winning me games because of what it does

This is a really good report and analysis even though it isnt for a big event. I am curious as to why you didnt play cards like Topologic Bomber Dragon or Trisbaena in the extra deck since they provide the board wipe options that Accesscode doesnt since it can only pop at best 2 cards

I really like this type of content. What do you think about the Orcust Horus variant? Do you think it is more or less effective than the one with SS?

I hate that I laughed this much to "locked into dogs"

If you play pure Sky Striker or Sky Striker/Orcust, i recammand the spellcard "Blink Out" because this card opens so many play that Sky Striker could benefit from. THis quickplay spell has the effect to target and shuffle one of your link monsters back to the extra deck and special summons one of the monsters used as materials back to the field. It can be another link monster as long as you summoned it properly and used it as a link material. This allows to dodge certain negates or allows you to re-summon another link monster back that you can use right away. I love this card and think people who play link heavy decks should consider to play this card. For my pure Sky Striker deck i run EM:P Meowmine, Link into the Vrains and Blink Out and these 3 cards do so much for this deck and will be even better once the new support comes out, whenever we get it. They give extra bodies, recycle and dodge certain negates or other effects. Sky Striker has problems to keep the pressure up but with these cards i feel you end up with having more to use. So if you use the Striker engine or play the pure version, try these cards out, i personally have good experiences with it and think they are great.

I didn’t watch the build stream but was the existence of the scrap combo variant of orcust at least considered/addressed?

Josh never fails to change his video titles

Runick Bystial Orcust is amazing. Highly recommend it for an upcoming locals

you should do a video where you explain your side deck thought process. i feel as a player i always worry about what to take out because a deck can be really tight and i never feel like i wanna take a card out without breaking my consistency.

you should make a video about crystal beasts since you brought it up, that deck has a lot to be explored.

Have you considered morganite in this deck? It seems decent and I don't see any real conflicts.

Hey josh, I want to meet your locals this saturday but at the website there is no event shown for the 25th, only for tuesday. Am I missing something? Because you said you probably will be there the next time on the 25th.

Orcust can be played with a small Phantom Knight engine and/or Diabellstar package for strong end boards or consistency, maybe its time to bring back knighmare mermaid to boost orcust.

Personally, I find runick orcust to be stronger, but idk if the mention of runick with orcust is something Josh needs to know about lol

Orcust is definitely a fan favorite, I think is a matter of time before we see some support. Also, some Thunder Dragon support wouldn't hurt, as we can all see, Colossus at 1 does less than nothing.

We need meliodas chimera deck

You should try vaalmonica! Maybe when it comes out in master duel, should be soon

You should do a "josh fix my deck " series for edison and current formatt

I'd be interested in seeing you play virtual world

Question for Josh or anyone in the comments with experience with the deck. Is it playable without SP/Typhon? Or is there no point at that point.

When is Orcust Sky Striker Runick dropping?

I lost to paleo first round of the regional this weekend...thanks josh

I'd like to see you do stuff with Virtual World :).

Would like to see runick orcust

In germany we don't say: "I'd be happy to visit you josh". We say: "bruder in was fürm kaff lebst du?" and i think thats very beautiful

Just call it "Stricust" :)

should try a thunder list

ofc you did

Bomber is nice too instead of zeroboros. Doesn’t banish your babel and has same concept

No way im finding out about locals in my neighbor town from a random video i clicked

why are we playing forbidden chalice of widow anchor?

OH MY GOD YES

I love these videos

Optimal deep draw striker lists would drop harp to 2, drop grepher, drop return to 2. Zeus should be in extradeck since girsu is Zeus + orcust combo going second

I want a deck that isn’t 1000$ that makes the use sky striker package that’s good in 2024 cuz the striker package is honestly super interesting and I love the way it plays I just wish there was a deck that it mixed well with

Heroes ! Also please film your games with voice overs

please josh, i am beging you to make a suship deck profile. I know you wont but i really want to see it

Orcust feels like it's lacking some things when creating the end board. Follow up is also a question at times. There is just better Rogue decks to try than this deck.

Should play scareclaw or Revolution Synchron im that Orcust

When salad revival

unironically, I would better see orcust in a runick deck than with all this draw power... sure you don't have access to babel but I feel like backing up the runicks with a dingirsu and crenshendo + some link interactions is better than pure orcust... and hugin discard harp seems soooo good

I also hate playing orochi in the orcust engine, it's bad at managing resources

Shouldnt lose a resource battle with a deck that can cycle infinitely if done correctly! 🤷🏻‍♂️

Make bujin decks pls

Hey Josh can you Maybe try yubel ?

You are the best❤

locals report best report

You’re from Germany?

You making me wanna play modern again frick

You prob will never try to play vaylantz but what I have figure this format is that you either draw lava golem or lose playing vaylantz so I think a sky striker vaylantz deck could be fun, upstart also gives you more consistency and vaylantz already loses to droll and shifter so who cares lol

There is Raye in my Deck

could you do me a favour and build a burn deck that is based on banish burn like d.d. dynamite banquet and so on... handtraps could be moonlight chill, mahaama. Its nearly 8/10 an otk burn and the others are one turn later... Why could it be great? its a big surprise everbody summons monsters and want negate monsters not traps so it feel mendetory to play a deck type no one is prepared for. in the side deck you can play curse of darkness, shifter, lava golem and fire cracker - its a secret tec choice because he give 1000 damage to your op as a quick effect from the hand....

BLACKWINGS BEST DECK

Has anyone tried playing this with runick?

What about purrely

Wait......why no super poly

Hi Joshua! ❤

Ich würde mich freuen wenn du mal Infernity, Infernoid oder Insektor Spielen würdest

Try out raidraptor my guy 😂

I built this deck in MD and it feels just like you said. It is ok, but rogue at best. I often had moments where small nuances in play would have made a difference. Maybe I'm not so familiar yet with all the lines and the resource management, but even with perfect plays I still think it would have been just ok. Also fuck Maxx C, already murdering this deck in deckbuilding. Having to play 6 more monsters and 2 CbtG just felt awful.

First haha

HÜRTH GANG IN CHAT

What are they playing at these locals that these low power level decks are winning every week 😂

¿so i don't have to? My guy, you wouldn't possibly be able to convince me to play other deck this format than Orcust. 2 Cymbal Skeleton is too many, you could also reduce the draw power and not play into Droll & Lock Bird so hard. You're not exactly encouraging playing the deck that much, when it has room for innovation.

Such bad deck... Literally zero traps... AND if you play zero traps why not run Royal Decree in the deck ? Auto win against Labrynth. No Twin Twisters either which is BROKEN going second in Sky Striker AND Orcust destroys their defenses and fills your graveyard instantly with whatever you want there to be. Your deck lists are so bad World Champion.