Yeah, I'm playing with Dual Weapon in some Izushiotome testing. Makes the deck way less CB heavy, and just cuts down on the need for something like Onibayashi even more

@@tyfyghtrTCG There's a certain combo you can do with the old infinite loop pieces - Dual Weapon, Metamorfox, and Hiden Scroll - and the addition of Fright Sickle, which allows you to make upwards of 20 attacks on first stride. Of course, you can't really pull it off with Shirayuki, since the -10k makes it impossible for Dual Weapon _not_ to hit the vanguard for his skill to proc, and if your opponent is smart, he'll take the one damage rather than let you pull off your wombo combo. Still, Izushiotome is freaking nuts and crazy good; not to mention, she easily has one of the best artwork of all the new strides!

@@tyfyghtrTCG yeah I think the second list is better than the first one

Trust me, I get the frustration, I play Novas after all, and Bushi thinks Ethics Extreme is worthy of being a card in the same set as Vowing Reverse, and now Ripples 🙃 Hot takes make for content though, not cooler, "thought about it more" takes, so we stay appreciative 🙏

We've all had moments like that, dw about it

Honestly can't wait to physically play with it. It's such a good, generic stride that even some more casual Murakumo builds can do things now *Cough* Weasels *cough*

@@tyfyghtrTCG there’s a 24 attack combo on 1st stride apparently. And having yuki deducting power with that is devastating.

So there's actually a couple of decklog links in the description that I was theorycrafting with the new stride. They need some fine tuning/adjustment for play style, but they're testing well so far. Haven't thought about the G Guard much, but it should be pretty easy to just slot in somewhere in there lol

@@tyfyghtrTCG thank you very much! Whish it was that easy ahah every cards looks like a staple in my mind, having much troubles finding slots… i’m considering even removing goumas

When you stride, the unit still retains it's original name as well as the name of the stride unit. So when you stride the GB8 on top of Shirayuki and use the ability you can call out 2 more Shirayuki from deck. A couple days late but I hope that helps :)

Potentially, yeah! Especially with the new Stride, I think there's some more options that can make it more viable. Maybe not competitive yet, but definitely better

Exactly. And it's why one of the lists I shared, and the one I'm leaning towards the most/working on the most, has way less CB usage

I still need to pick up Hyakki Reverse 😬 Seems like it'd be a fun build tho

Combos and interactions are pretty neat. Just gotta be careful with all the clones, since they can be targeted and there's not much ways to let them vanish (Reverse, Hidotama Handler, Hyakki Zora Asougi can do that) On the bright side, pumping their power to some level of bs while letting them attack from the back and one of his support cards being able to shadow clone mid-battle feels alright

What would make them optimized?

@@tyfyghtrTCG esperaridea, dart spider for resource management for fantasy Yuki, the inclusion of sebreeze so you can call esperaridea when your opponent grade stalls, dual weapon to duplicate your fantasy Yuki/esperaridea.

@@shiki_gg this combo would immediately be shut down by heal guardian tho

@@shiki_gg Esperaridea is a little redundant because of Viktor, and it would also mean less or no Nyudo since that's the slot it'd be fighting for, unless you wanna play a super bricky variant of the deck with both in. No Nyudo means less soul too so why bother at that point. Dart Spider is interesting but the deck usually kills before being CB starved anyway and can play a fine game with little or no CB too. The crit pressure is more worth it imo.

The new stride makes this deck so much more threatening. An all but guaranteed 6 attacks minimum on first stride while the opp is -10-20k? Insane, honestly

@@tyfyghtrTCG mhmmmmm shit is painful af hahaha. It’s k people will learn soon enough 😂