Joshua Schmidt (Earthbound Runick) vs

[@JoshuaSchmidtPlus]

I only made Timestamps for Game 1 and Game 2 because I don't want to spoil if it's a 2 or 3 game Match. Let me know if it's good this way. -editor

[@gamermulti5883]

It should be lile this👍

[@R4INMAN94]

Thanks for editing. It must be a lot to go through. Your work is appreciated.

[@bingingwithbabishisamazing4034]

i saw that there was no game 3 and was so sad i spoiled it and it was a 2-0 AND THEN YOU WON!!! keep it like this.

[@daedalus5253]

That‘s annoying, tbh

[@dadakii9210]

More earthbounds pls. Maybe a New Version after Phantom nightmare?

[@Kantiran96]

I love this new format - from building the deck to playtesting it with real cards. Really cool! Please keep it going

[@jimtsap04]

Too bad everything will dramatically shift once phni releases and everyone is forced into playing fire decks, at least there's quite a few different veriants like fire king rescue ace salad infernoid and everything in between but get ready to see snake eye spam everywhere

[@Benji-ky2or]

I don’t usually comment but please please more content like this and the deck building ! It’s nice to see inside the brain of one of the top duelist. I learn a lot

[@shen.daniel]

just from the chat you can see so many people are combo-brained. they see josh ending on "1 baronne only" and say it's bad or miserable, but with fountain and a hand full of cards, potential runicks, the deck is very much capable of grinding.

[@hasan7275]

from the most intense matches i’ve had and the high level play i’ve watched i feel the ability to grind is one of the key factors for high level play and playing with people at a similar level to you and a lot of people have this weird mentality that the game is always over just a few turns when i feel it’s more like half short games half grind games.

[@shen.daniel]

​@@hasan7275 it comes down to a topic that has been circulating in the community recently, many ygo players are just not good at assessing the game comprehensively.

[@four-en-tee]

if you dont have a bunch of cards in hand after building your board in Runick, either you opened with some other side engine, got Ash'd or Droll'd, or you're doing something wrong. It is a mill deck after all, its not built around pushing hard or establishing a big board. Its about ripping cards from the deck. Its basically a modern day Empty Jar deck thats capable of defending itself and reaching lethal at about turn 5-6 or later if they've emptied their opponent's hand of resources. Now if you do want to end on big boards, i'd recommend playing a Dogmatika package along side your Incredible Ecclesia package. Nadir Servant is pretty strong in this deck if you resolve it after your Runick shit, and Ecclesia can summon from the deck either Iris Swordsoul going first or Fallen of Albaz going second to eat cards like Naturia Beast. If you're wondering how I grab Fountain if i cant go into Hugin, I grab it off Tip if necessary since sometimes Hugin's -1 puts me in a tough situation. And if i can end on a lot of pieces like Punishment and Iris, I can usually defend myself with my quickplays in my hand, so Hugin is optional sometimes.

[@cydra_infinity1423]

Master Duel Players.

[@geiseric222]

I mean this deck is a combo deck. Sometimes it doesn’t do very good combos but it absolutely is a combo deck

[@AllusivePanda]

This and the deckbuilding video are the kind of content that makes me appreciate the depth of this game. There are so many layers to this beautiful game and it is an invaluable resource to get this kind of content for free.

[@JavierHernandez-vi9nc]

Love this content keep doing what you’re doing Josh and thank you for being one of the main content creators that does competitive content that’s in depth and sees things from your perspective

[@veloric3446]

I like this concept. It's really cool to see some deck building and then testing them in remote duels. Would love to see more!

[@mpsmeinpersonlichesschicks519]

Thanks for doing this. It helps a lot to see a deck built like this. i’m looking forward to the next building process.

[@KazutoKirigaya-je1vb]

I’m definitely hyped for more live duels with a cool overlay and camera, watching good duels between good players is really enjoyable

[@nsiderultimaseth]

Love the Gen II Pokemon music in the background. I've been replaying SoulSilver myself recently.

[@tecul1]

yoshi's island woooo

[@MrShinigami8]

I loved the concept ! Please do more of those !! And yeah with a LP count, show the match score on stream and a better camera angle (because sometimes we see your hand), it will be perfect !

[@leviathan5207]

To fix the not enough non-tuners problem: I dislike adding more runick spells, because I always draw the ones I've already used that turn. Also, we are limited to 5 extra deck summons, one of which only combos with a level 1 tuner. A few ideas to play instead of vision + 2x gaia : Calligo claw crow - free special summon if you control a dark, which should be easy enough in this deck. Level 2 also fits great into the synchro pool as it can substitute for a hugin. Snatch steal, change of heart, mind control - sucks going first, but using opnents monster to synchro seems great, although the levels and availablity are unpredictable, which makes it hard to plan around. Worst case you can bait a negate this way. 2x living fossil + monster reborn - fossil is great because it can be either a tuner or non tuner, whichever you need. Same thing with reborn, plus you can use your opponents grave or monsters which are higher than level 4 to shortcut into high level synchros. Or maybe cut afd for power tool dragon as a level seven and play 3x living fossil. This way power tool will guarantee a living fossil, which can be used to recycle either a non tuner runick or tuner earthbound. Or maybe I'm just coping as I don't want to order cards, which I don't already own to fix the deck ':D

[@tecul1]

very insightful

[@LukasWanke-uv9cu]

I humbly ask for more content like this.

[@Mattwhitehorse]

Need more of that boss man! That was an epic and very educational match! I look forward to seeing more keep it up king

[@theemvypiepshow1142]

Love this content, especially the deckbuilding video! I would really like to see more of this

[@raizen4597]

This is kinda ironic the fact that at the end is always Josh saying: "i need more runick man!" It was before and it was still now, simply incredible😂. Overall the deck seems decent, i think this match help you to understand more the deck. I enjoy this duel/video sir 👍

[@douglasgonzalez6580]

It was a pretty nice video man, hope u can do more of these

[@blugger]

Josh's work on the Eb Runicks deck was a thing of beauty Just wish Ko$ had seen more fit to make the EB fusions better. The kraken is a boss of a card, but it's so difficult to make (even with Harmonic Fusion, since there's only one non-tuner eb in stone sweeper) and Gremlina is an awkward level with a very limited selection of search targets And the BIG fusion looks cool as hell, but while Kraken is only difficult to bring out, the big guy is nigh impossible...

[@gungnir382]

Alternativ Art is perfect Art in 25th Anniversary

[@KazutoKirigaya-je1vb]

I really enjoyed this and the earthbound stream vod, they were very educational (I might be biased because I enjoy runick decks and might play it)

[@codynelson7575]

Would love to see a video of changes you would make to the deck. You said in game 1 wou would cut Crimson Gaia and Vision resonator so im curious what other changes you would make

[@ivancannistra1188]

Beautiful content! Excited for the next one ❤

[@panda_expewess8714]

Yo I’ve literally been waiting all week for this ❤❤❤ let’s goo

[@Eru_3ru]

i would love to have more matches like that in the future

[@Gubelleeni]

This contents and deck building live are simply incredible imo

[@xenoborg2637]

Incredible TCG Content

[@Pektekgenetik]

That is exactly the contet i am looking for because this way i learn more about the tcg . Because i just play master duell and it get a little bit boring because i wanna play with people and not just online

[@lukadetr]

Yeah the fact that we can see 2 ycs champions duel and have josh's insight is something that in the 12 years of game I've never seen and it's huge for people that are trying to step up in the game

[@michaelmorales1602]

I think I found a good Dis Pater line, but it requires you to draw into a 3rd Runick off of Fountain (or even just open 3) Start off with the standard Groundskeeper + 2 Runicks line: 1. DP activate Runick to summon Hugin, Hugin discard to search Fountain 2. MP1 summon Ground Keeper to summon Line Walker, Line Walker search Prison 3. Synch Hugin with Line Walker into Rose Maiden, Rose Maiden search Black Garden 4. Synch Rose Maiden with Ground Keeper into Coral Dragon 5. Activate Fountain, activate 2nd Runick to summon Geri, draw two (or three if you discarded a Runick off of Hugin) with Fountain 6. Synch Geri with Coral Dragon into Baronne de Fleur, draw one off of Coral Dragon This is where I diverted 7. Activate Black Garden, activate 3rd Runick to summon Sleipnir, which summons a token off of Black Garden 8. Activate Black Garden's effect targeting Line Walker in your grave, destroying the token and summoning Line Walker 9. Synch Sleipnir with Line Walker into Crimson Dragon, activate Crimson Dragon targeting Baronne de Fleur to summon Dis Pater At this point you have Baronne de Fleur and Dis Pater on board, Prison and 3 other cards in hand, plus a Rose Maiden in grave you've not yet used. If you've drawn another Runick with your 3-4 draws, you can summon another Hugin to search your 2nd Fountain, then summon Coral from grave with Rose Maiden's effect. Synch Hugin with Coral to make Omega. My build also runs Pot of Avarice which is I save until this part of the combo. You can return Hugin x2, Sleipnir, Geri, and Coral Dragon into the Extra to draw two more cards, which hopefully makes your Fountain live for the opponent's turn (there should be 2 Runicks in grave for drawing). You also get to rip two out of the opponent's hand before their turn even starts using Omega twice. If you didn't end up drawing a 4th Runick, you can still use Rose Maiden to summon Coral, then summon Rose off of Dis Pater to make an 11 synchro, but I don't think it's worth the Extra Deck slot. In test hands, I've been ending on Baronne, Dis Pater, Geri, Fountain, and 6 in hand.

[@nopeno-s5r]

this is a similar combo to what josh already does, he chooses to instead summon back the ground keeper to make chengying, which saves on ED space

[@dollybaba4961]

I really enjoy this new Type of deckbuilding content! :)

[@dragon-id5uj]

HEY Josh OR SKRELP. having LP on screen is easy I *think*. have a calculator/neuron/whatever open in a window, and have it as an object in OBS. you can even crop it so it *just* shows the total

[@EMICIME]

You know half of these comments are yugioh players as they can’t read the “-editor”. Good job btw, like the time stamps.

[@dadakii9210]

I also think if you have to combo so hard to end on baron an omega, you should definitly play the fusion synchro spell. Its a shorter combo and better against droll and you still can end on baron and pred. Plant. But the goal should be baron, dis pater and omega. You would have Potential runicks or handtraps too. This endboard would be strong

[@grodon909]

Plays into nib though right?

[@cuttlefish6839]

Do be aware the fusion predaplant is a plant and conflicts with black garden. Also from the video he did during deck building it was cut because it turned out to be a worse when considering all aspects of building the deck Also plays into nib with nothing to show but a token while the other line let's you keep playing

[@leviathan5207]

Watch the 3 hour deck building vid and you'll understand why harmonic synchro fusion is not worth it.

[@dadakii9210]

I did watch it but i still think the Version with the fusion synchro spell works better and it uses less recources. You could cut resonator for the spell. 1) summon sleipnir in draw Phase 2) classic earthbound combo for summons 2 and 3 and add the fusion synchro spell 3) use spell for summons 4 and 5, which one of them is baron and can negate nib i guess. And it uses only 1 runick to get baron + predplant. U could also use/summon the earthbound fusion monster to get fountain. And it can play out under droll.

[@dadakii9210]

And with a secon runick spell you could get frecki to summon omega. Your endboard would be predplant baron (not the atk halfed one like in his version) and omega with only 2 runicks Or U could summon hugin to discard for fountain after that (2 runicks used by now) for Set up if you have one more runick. Later you could make level 5 synchro plays lets say danglon for nine pillars. Yes, you would need to play the trap once as a potencial brick...but come on. This Version is still easier to play out than his first Version. His Version would be insane if he could make dis Pater, baron and omega with maiden in grave for the loop.

[@brandonvanderhoff5678]

What do you think of the baby chaos dragons plus chaos space as a way to make dis pater? You always put a light and a dark in the grave and chaos space is at worst a free discard to draw 1. They make level 10 synchros alongside coral dragon and can be looped with dis pater. You can even put chaos space back in the grave with omega for additional draws in the grind game. Edit: This would also be able to replace a second runick quickplay in hands where you only draw one as they can replace geri as a level 4 non-tuner. A hand of 1 runick, level 1 tuner, baby dragon would end on baronne, dis pater, and omega loop 1 with garden rose back in grave for follow up.

[@BenjaminSandmeier]

That‘s nice. More remote/IRL duels please

[@9thR8Duelist]

I like the deck, but I feel it’s missing some pivotal boss monsters. Granted, this is a budget deck, not an optimal deck, but perhaps reevaluating the synchro climb and end board monsters might help to optimize the deck.

[@leviathan5207]

You do realize that the runick spells provide another point of interruption? Also, they skip your next battle phase, so pushing for game after stalling out your opponents turn once does not really work. Baronne + gamma + a couplw of spells and any handtrap you draw into is a lot of interruption already, I think. More boss monsters also means less small synchros to use for climbing which will lead to better end boards with great handa and useless end boards with bad hands. I'd rather have more consistent but weaker boards than inconsistent banger boards. If the latter was preferable, everyone would play snychro spam with tripple quasar.

[@dadakii9210]

You could go after baron for shenshen. I mean it would hinder you too, but you coul later synchro it away for chengy

[@klemenhrovat1281]

@@dadakii9210 plus you can revive it later...

[@ml6549]

oh! i like this joshua, is very good!

[@foxmccloud9115]

Josh was like the Adam driver meme Need more Runick spell cards

[@gungnir382]

57:25 I love Yoshi Island Music!❤🎉

[@tecul1]

love that game to pieces

[@gungnir382]

@@tecul1 i play it still on my handy

[@DatYGOFrenchDude]

Great game, loved it !

[@victorortega1036]

I think the Centurion Synchro would be spicy in this deck it gives you removal and more draw power

[@zenbozic6184]

josh (or anyone), i would like to ask why dont we use revolution synchron over jet synchron to send off accel, my arguments would be: if you draw it and u have only runicks and none of the tuners its a better normal than jet, otherwise you can discard it and it performs almost the same as jet (the only downside being you have to have something already to summon it unlike jet which could help extend when u have nothing) however the upside js potentially milling a runick instead of discarding something, the fact that if you send off accel you can easily make accel 8 and use another hugin to go into baronne

[@seadnamaccasarlaigh279]

How I handle Life points for live streams is I use OBS ninja to screenshare from my phone or my tablet and then just use the Neuron life points counter. You can set a timer, do dice rolls etc and it all gets broadcast to OBS.

[@rex2g4]

Josh the Jeff Leonard of Runick

[@kahahncrease8798]

Ive been messing with this deck on sims for a couple of weeks now and zalamander catalyzer solves a couple of problems,1 it is a level 4 non tuner, and 2 it provides a way to summon an earthbound outside of your normal summon

[@blinkesk]

Hi Joshua congrats for your content, It's always interesseting. What do you thinks to have in main Deck maybe a Caligo Claw Crow for an "easy" no tuner special summon?

[@ygoandanime2206]

Alt art unicorn has IBLEE riding it, no IP. 😂😂😂

[@meisterschwert]

it might as well be I:P given what that card does.

[@ygoandanime2206]

@@meisterschwert for sure, haha. It’s an iconic interaction atp

[@joebey7446]

@JoshuaSchmidt what do you think about monster reborn possibly? I know u mentioned wanting more non tuner bodies a few times and if you get into a grind game its easy to run through all ur runics. Im in love with this deck, ive been messing with it myself. I completely cut the resonator pkg it felt off to me, and replaced with 3rd Talents, called by, and ive been waffleing between a 19th runic spell and mon reborn. In theory reborn is great its basically whatever you need in the mid-lategame.

[@AndrewUdal]

Pak is correct!! Not enough people have talking how droll isn’t that good, it removes some disruption but not enough to outright win still gonna be a long grind. Fire king is a deck that requires a minimum of 2 hand traps to actually stop more effectively.

[@seanferguson2051]

Thoughts on something like fenrir to give yourself a body and more hand advantage? I understand it’s not the greatest if you summon Hugin in DP, however I feel it gives a solid body and helps play into boards

[@ChristosEglezos-nr9js]

At 1:00:00 how pak used kurikara ? Did i misses something ? Cause sleipner didnt activate his effect ? How he can still tribute it for kurikara then?

[@Eric-ih5mb]

He used its effect to make a token that turn

[@luka3933]

It seems like you ran out of big synchros pretty fast. Crystal wing feels like a really good card in here, but idk what to cut.

[@tyr3039]

pak game 1 turn was a master class

[@KnightCini]

I feel like the issue with the resonator engine is it needs at least the scarred to red dragon archfiend synchro combo in the mix because then you have the threat of the flip all face down and board wipe with red dragon plus you can build off the 8 into a 9 with a level 1 for abyss if you add it or just crocodragon, or a 10 for barronne using vision which only really bricks if you have only a line walker left as a tuner but the odds of that happening are pretty slim when you can pretty much just synchro linewalker and stonesweeper. otherwise im not sure how much 2-3 new synchro monsters swapped out from the extra deck would hurt it, but its a more solid line, but I also see the issue with the resonator engine at the same time. honestly im out here just trying to set up for greater linewalker and earthbound immortal whale so I can burn my opponent then go runick fountain so that they are left with 1600 LP after turn one and still hand full of runick cards. otherwise dope vid. so glad earthbound has support making it viable again.

[@left8em]

Does anybody what box pac used in the 1st minute when opened it to put unicorn in??

[@timjones2227]

For the hands that you get double same name runick it seems like munin forces fountain through

[@hazardrequiem2537]

what if you draw 5 runicks, or no earthbounds? do we have a line for that?

[@malaxianos374]

Cooking

[@DotonDomu]

If you need more space on screen you can remove the chat on the KZbin video. Anywise really nice video, I learned a lot as someone who wants to play earthbound runick for the next year.

[@LeviJacobs-q5o]

How?

[@thomasvalentine2013]

The yang zing and predaplant fusion play is better than the witch synchro cause in game two you could have an omni negate for cyclone which would let you draw 3 and have a monster negate not to mention what you draw off of fountain

[@kyle_gamin9416]

On paper it is, but as joshua said in his deck building stream, nine pillars is a hard garnet and if you get nibiru'd there, it's just a dead card

[@justusneubeck]

gardenmaiden plus shipping is 10€, charge is like around 4€ and sleipnir is like 22€ also a talents playset is not cheap

[@leviathan5207]

The entire deck is around 130€ (no side deck). I think thats fairly cheap for a rogue deck option, all things considered

[@chrissy_d7789]

For playing into boards is there a world where you play Metaphys Horus to negate card then jerry to make a light dark chaos angel?

[@bIeed]

Could you talk out your thinking process during the gameplay? ofc you would need to mute your self on discord.

[@Dracofirz]

sick

[@callumwhittington99]

I hope you see this Josh but what about Apple dragon as the token it makes is a tuner and a non tuner

[@8BitDuelist]

dumb question, does Broww activate with hugen's discard? Brow is a level 3 fiend so if that's possible it could also be searched out with the level 5 earthbound,

[@linksbootymeat]

Huginn discards for cost so it doesn't trigger Broww.

[@Ragnarok540]

My favorite thing about the new earthbounds is that they have zero synergy with the old earthbound immortals.

[@starfighter9087]

Could coral dragon be used with harmonic synchro under the effect of contain ?

[@SoLoSHoT44]

What about Ancient Pixie Dragon? Another Level 7 Dragon Synchro Monster that also always you to draw a card if your activated and resolved a field spell the current turn. @JoshuaSchmidtYGO

[@dpacula63]

I hope runick decks are decent into phni format. It’s pretty much the best thing I can afford. Although I’m not confident since Josh said himself he’s pressured into playing a fire deck post phni.

[@frank4984]

Keep this up

[@touriian8371]

Don’t tell me what to do frank. Also, I agree, he should

[@SimpleMath98]

Joshua try ice barrier runick with the new support in ygopro you draw 7

[@AuratticStride]

Had a thought - probably best to take marcher out for dis pater, and then in the 6 non engine slots have 6 ghost girls, as 3 star tuners to be summoned with fairy dragon to make dis pater

[@CrystronHalq]

Against rescue ace... why does nobody side in lightning storms and harpie feather dusters? Im so confused. Yes they can chain some, but atleast their backrows are all gone

[@andrewnguyen4801]

Runick is a grindy deck and lightning storm post their first turn is a dead draw

[@gustavoheringer]

Why not cut the Synchron package?

[@HALsc2]

imo having level 2/4 tuner suits Runic better what you rly want is lv6, 10 and 12 synchro ( and omega I guess

[@dadakii9210]

We need more improvement. I guess this deck could be really strong.

[@andrewmason5131]

More videos like this ❤️

[@CTrain822]

Which town theme remix is this?

[@joseestevez2639]

Hi Joshua, I just saw your vid, I think the deck is awesome and has a great potential. I was thinking… maybe you can do some changes adding 1 or two lights monters, so you can use Black Dragon Collapserpent because you already have a lot of dark for White Dragon Wyverburster. Also you can add instant fusion taking out the lvl 10 synchro and adding a lvl 5 or lower fusion. Maybe a light monster or something that helps with the follow up.

[@HiImTylerr]

If you droll but they get ash plus another card on field, they still end on ip flamburge whale + princess in gy. Assuming the most common play STARTS with Ash, droll wont be too good. Droll is stopping them from getting to the fire king cards and making heatsoul. Droll only hard punishes the low rolls.

[@alexYu-gi-oh]

Ip + princess is a dogshit end board so droll done enough honestly, idk why people want droll to outright win the game on the spot

[@HiImTylerr]

​@@alexYu-gi-ohI mean sp or apoll for 3 then flamburge summoning 2 to 4 bodies and searching 2 to 3 more cards is pretty strong. Even if youre able to clear all of it theres no way you kill them which is enough.

[@detached2338]

where can i get the see the lines merch ^^

[@nomoregiorgio731]

Do ya yall think that earthbound fusión could chance anything? Not necesarily cuz of the fusión effect but more the gy effect to summon from hand or grave

[@xSOURSKITLESx1993]

Is there a deck list for this

[@giulianop3631]

If you Play one chaos space and one of each baby dragons? To and synchro summon dis Pater with coral dragon and one of the babys?

[@lilpimp994]

DCUO lobby music was hitting.

[@ocben2184]

Dumb question from a new player does detaching material from a xyz count as being destroyed?

[@Canaria-tm5ow]

no

[@e-tan3911]

Generally, unless a card specifically says "destroy" it does not destroy. The only exception is with older cards that have not been printed for 15+ years, those are weird.

[@goncaloferreira6429]

1st turn takes 4minutes, 5 tutors and 6 special summoning, 1 card recycle 2 and draw 2.

[@tecul1]

better than 37

[@forgeree]

i dont like metal marcher because rarely will they imperm your level 1 instead of hugin, sure it would suck to not be able to extend but the extra is so tight idk if that deserves its own line

[@Kostte-zp6he]

you should try to copy pak kamera placement to avoid showing hands.

[@mattr791]

Do we know if/when earthbounds getting a 2nd wave of support?

[@monkfishy6348]

Phantom Nightmare with "Earthbound Fusion", I believe they also revealed "Earthbound Resonance" in 24th Premium Pack.

[@mlgmantis]

Earthbounds have alot of support. This is like wave 2 or 3 at this point.

[@JayDubYGO]

I think kashtira Fenrir can shine in this deck has a non tuner option

[@lamos101]

I like this

[@luisrodriguez402]

Couldn’t you use bone arch fiend

[@XSON982]

me thinking about the deck its not really earthbound runick its more like runick and extenders for other stuff

[@thatguy-nk5wu]

So in remote duels, who cuts ur deck? Lol

[@MomirViggwilv]

Contain kills this strategy. Josh is cooking with this deck but I just don't think it's up ot snuff vs fire pile.

[@ashikjaman1940]

Why do so many people think it's I:P on Unicorn lol

[@cydra_infinity1423]

It’s Iblee no? I think people mix up the names.

[@ashikjaman1940]

@@cydra_infinity1423 yeah, in the lore she controls the Knightmares

[@nero294]

I think because ip into unicorn wss the standard for like years. Untill sp

[@ashikjaman1940]

@@nero294 but like, they look different lol

[@ducky36F]

The alternate art unicorn is so much cooler

[@justusneubeck]

Man I played like around 20 matches and omega came up five times and it was good once

[@Ragoodtama]

some josh viewers are funny, watching him more hours than mine and yet still clueless all the time lmao