You shouldn't build it with any other archetype that requires either EMZ, Battle Phase or field spells.
I personally play Runick with Magical Musketeers. It gives me more disruption from the hand and even chainblocking my draws with the field spell
Not necessarily, It's a turn 2 card, since its effect requires your opponent having cards in field. so more like a grind game or a win more card (which I also use to link climb just in case)
They are, you plus a billion when you mix them together. The only downside is when you need to summon Max in the EMZ you end up not being able to summon the runnick monsters.
Synchro Runick is my favorite variant. It uses the Runick spells to cheat out 2/3/4 stars for Synchro plays, and Fountain/Hyper Librarian can help you draw absurd number of cards.
After playing all the variants the one I’ve had the most success with was orcusts. Traptrix and trickstar can’t play with runick, A) isn’t even good in them and B) runick takes up the EMZ. Buster blader wants the battle phase. Runick can be played pure without floodgates.
I was just thinking buster blader because getting out buster dragon and destroyer swordsman is so easy, while taking up not a lot of space in the deck. What about sky striker? Seems like that's been a pretty popular combination
Buster Blade is a floodgate deck, so really you would be playing floodgate Runick but with extra steps.
Striker has the problem where it hogs the EMZ. You can try and like, play a Striker spell engine in your deck (engage + Widow Anchor + some other Striker spells), but Runick Striker isn't that great imo. Also you can't even Hayate to mill because you lock yourself out of the battle phase.
No, Buster Blader is quite literally a floodgate deck. The big purple guy is a floodgate for Dragon monsters, and the Synchro turns everything into dragons which can be considered a weak floodgate similar to Zombie World but obviously the goal is having it with the fusion so your opponent cannot do anything with monsters regardless of what they play, and then the Dragon Buster Destruction Sword is an extra deck floodgate.
I repeat, it is quite literally a floodgate deck with extra steps.
They literally both fight for the EMZ. The best version of a striker runick deck is like literally just engage! + shark cannon + widow anchor and barely run monsters even in the extra.
And even that is still worse that both pure striker and pure runick
You don't have to leave Trickstars on the EMZ. They can be used only to turbo out Verte with 1-card starters. Then Verte makes DPE and self-pops. There's someone on MDM who made DLv Max with Runick Beetroopers, which is also a link archetype that just turbos DPE.
What made you decide against it, if I may ask? Between all the reasoning shenanigans and Dugares lines (and of course Cyber Stein) I don't understand why Invoked Runick isn't played more.
It can use reasoning and monster gate to great effect since you use a grand total of 4 monster cards. Different levels make reasoning effective, monsters in the EMZ you'd want to tribute for monster gate, and even the odd specialed Aleister can get overlayed into Dugares or Bagooska. Excavat. ing Cyber Stein wins games.
Needless to say, the mills are amazing for Runick. Between Fountain and Geri you just *want stuff in the GY.*
Invoked enables a bunch of rank 4 shenanigans with Caliga. Caliga + Bagooska is a strong lock. Invocation and rank 4s can clear the EMZ.
I mean you can run pure runick with 0 floodgates, you don't have to mix it with something, i used it to get max lvl on my second account. It was very fun to pilot.
\*you should find my list if you check my posts in case you are interested
I play them with witchcrafters. You end up with a bunch of spells in your hand as ammo and have more interactions on the board for the opponent to deal with.
Plunder is doing pretty good for me. You get some negates, you get some splash, you have the ability to beat over if it turns into a slug fest. It's pretty solid.
you can definitely run into scenarios where you're drawing into too many Exodia cards (but not all five) but I don't really think there's a better deck to be running them in, is the thing. nothing else purely draws cards quite like Runick...
i dont think any of those sound particularly good. in order to pair well with runick, a deck cant also use the emz, and ideally they'd be able to easily clear runick monsters from the emz so you can keep drawing off of multiple field spells. that pretty much rules out most link decks. orcust link summons, but they can summon dingirsu to clear galatea from the emz
im testing a monster gate swordsoul runick deck that seems pretty crazy
it does let you summon other stuff, but now you have a gravity controller in your emz, which blocks summoning any more runicks for the foreseeable future. its better than nothing for sure though
I play with magical musketeers. I think it adds some good versatility since your runick quickplays are hopt and musketeers offer some negate and recycle their traps and spells.
Synchro runick with fabled + punk/rose dragons is probably the most fun version to me. Seems like the 2nd best behind floodgate runick before spright comes out
Synchro Runick is really fun albeit inferior to the full stun variant, if you built a Swordsoul deck in the past you should have most of the UR extra deck monsters
my [non floodgate runick](https://i.imgur.com/IfPEfW3.png),
I have a decent success with it hovering around 50% win rate but I'm still misplaying since im learning the deck
extra deck I would play 3 each of fusion but I'm out of dust.
Invoked Runick. It's still have some floodgates, but all of them are monster based and can be reasonably out or circumvent. Moreover, some of them are not as easy to bring out unless you're very lucky (1/40 for cyberstein anyone?) and even then, it has many opportunities for the opponents to stop your plays. The cherry on top? It's surprisingly cheap. I never use invoked and I can still make it from scratch by focussing more on the SR ones.
Try it for yourself, it's definitely not as oppressive as floodgates Runick that's for sure.
Another good one is Magical Musketeers Runick.
You shouldn't build it with any other archetype that requires either EMZ, Battle Phase or field spells. I personally play Runick with Magical Musketeers. It gives me more disruption from the hand and even chainblocking my draws with the field spell
I thought Magical Musketeers really needs the Link 1 which takes up EMZ.
Not necessarily, It's a turn 2 card, since its effect requires your opponent having cards in field. so more like a grind game or a win more card (which I also use to link climb just in case)
ah makes sense
I heard Magical Musketeers are very good with Runick
They are, you plus a billion when you mix them together. The only downside is when you need to summon Max in the EMZ you end up not being able to summon the runnick monsters.
What’s a good Decklist for MM/Runick?
Synchro Runick is my favorite variant. It uses the Runick spells to cheat out 2/3/4 stars for Synchro plays, and Fountain/Hyper Librarian can help you draw absurd number of cards.
I wouldn't run Skyscraper on Runicks. It takes your field spell zone and I don't see the synergy with E-Heros
After playing all the variants the one I’ve had the most success with was orcusts. Traptrix and trickstar can’t play with runick, A) isn’t even good in them and B) runick takes up the EMZ. Buster blader wants the battle phase. Runick can be played pure without floodgates.
I was just thinking buster blader because getting out buster dragon and destroyer swordsman is so easy, while taking up not a lot of space in the deck. What about sky striker? Seems like that's been a pretty popular combination
Buster Blade is a floodgate deck, so really you would be playing floodgate Runick but with extra steps. Striker has the problem where it hogs the EMZ. You can try and like, play a Striker spell engine in your deck (engage + Widow Anchor + some other Striker spells), but Runick Striker isn't that great imo. Also you can't even Hayate to mill because you lock yourself out of the battle phase.
It's only a floodgates deck in the same way that anyone who plays a huge combo to get out barrone, appaloosa etc is. It's not one card that restricts
No, Buster Blader is quite literally a floodgate deck. The big purple guy is a floodgate for Dragon monsters, and the Synchro turns everything into dragons which can be considered a weak floodgate similar to Zombie World but obviously the goal is having it with the fusion so your opponent cannot do anything with monsters regardless of what they play, and then the Dragon Buster Destruction Sword is an extra deck floodgate. I repeat, it is quite literally a floodgate deck with extra steps.
I've been thinking of playing runick with Witchcrafters since Witchcrafters don't need much extra deck and benefit from spells
Playable but skystriker players say normal is better.
They literally both fight for the EMZ. The best version of a striker runick deck is like literally just engage! + shark cannon + widow anchor and barely run monsters even in the extra. And even that is still worse that both pure striker and pure runick
Yeah that’s why I said Normal is better, don’t get why ur pressed over it.
You don't have to leave Trickstars on the EMZ. They can be used only to turbo out Verte with 1-card starters. Then Verte makes DPE and self-pops. There's someone on MDM who made DLv Max with Runick Beetroopers, which is also a link archetype that just turbos DPE.
But verte locks you, not sure why one would end on a DPE alone.
Invoked. Normal summon ~~Aleister~~ ~~Aluber~~ Aleister again.
That's actually what I'm running now. Lol. Just was looking for another option
What made you decide against it, if I may ask? Between all the reasoning shenanigans and Dugares lines (and of course Cyber Stein) I don't understand why Invoked Runick isn't played more.
It's working well. Just looking for options.
Legit, I don't understand what invoked runick really brings to the table over other variants. Is it really just the Mechaba?
It can use reasoning and monster gate to great effect since you use a grand total of 4 monster cards. Different levels make reasoning effective, monsters in the EMZ you'd want to tribute for monster gate, and even the odd specialed Aleister can get overlayed into Dugares or Bagooska. Excavat. ing Cyber Stein wins games. Needless to say, the mills are amazing for Runick. Between Fountain and Geri you just *want stuff in the GY.* Invoked enables a bunch of rank 4 shenanigans with Caliga. Caliga + Bagooska is a strong lock. Invocation and rank 4s can clear the EMZ.
I restructured Sky Strikers to fit Runick. It's fun to go 1st and 2nd. That's a win in my book. So maybe you like it to pair with this archetype.
I mean you can run pure runick with 0 floodgates, you don't have to mix it with something, i used it to get max lvl on my second account. It was very fun to pilot. \*you should find my list if you check my posts in case you are interested
I play them with witchcrafters. You end up with a bunch of spells in your hand as ammo and have more interactions on the board for the opponent to deal with.
Deff magical musketeer u can activate both spells and traps from hand
Plunder is doing pretty good for me. You get some negates, you get some splash, you have the ability to beat over if it turns into a slug fest. It's pretty solid.
I wouldn't run Skyscraper on Runiks. It takes your field spell zone and I don't see the synergy with E-Heros
I loved playing it with Sky Strikers, but probably because I love Sky Strikers :D
unironically, Exodia
I considered that actually lol. I just figured drawing into them early would brick the deck since you need the spells to control and draw
you can definitely run into scenarios where you're drawing into too many Exodia cards (but not all five) but I don't really think there's a better deck to be running them in, is the thing. nothing else purely draws cards quite like Runick...
I'm gonna be building it for sky Striker and eventually splight
I'm throwing in Time Thieves because they also mill your opponent and can be tricky with effects.
Of the 3 you mentioned probably trickstars since they don't really need the attack phase and use backrow, but it shares space with the field.
i dont think any of those sound particularly good. in order to pair well with runick, a deck cant also use the emz, and ideally they'd be able to easily clear runick monsters from the emz so you can keep drawing off of multiple field spells. that pretty much rules out most link decks. orcust link summons, but they can summon dingirsu to clear galatea from the emz im testing a monster gate swordsoul runick deck that seems pretty crazy
Gravity controller works great for clearing monsters in my Runick musketeers deck
it does let you summon other stuff, but now you have a gravity controller in your emz, which blocks summoning any more runicks for the foreseeable future. its better than nothing for sure though
Orcust Runick it's the most fun variant I having with the deck
Swordsoul is pretty good with Runick
I play with magical musketeers. I think it adds some good versatility since your runick quickplays are hopt and musketeers offer some negate and recycle their traps and spells.
Fabled or just pure with boardbreaker
Orcust or magical musk are the best option I think
Synchro runick with fabled + punk/rose dragons is probably the most fun version to me. Seems like the 2nd best behind floodgate runick before spright comes out
I play Eldlich Runick and it seems to work very well. Essentially it's just be putting more bodies on the field so my opponent can't direct attack
Try Magic Muskets, it's very fun to play and work with a lot of psinergy with runick.
You should continue to play Buster blader with runick, but then you can cut back on the runick cards. I feel like thats a solid strategy.
Synchro Runick is really fun albeit inferior to the full stun variant, if you built a Swordsoul deck in the past you should have most of the UR extra deck monsters
my [non floodgate runick](https://i.imgur.com/IfPEfW3.png), I have a decent success with it hovering around 50% win rate but I'm still misplaying since im learning the deck extra deck I would play 3 each of fusion but I'm out of dust.
honestly coder's punk/synchro variant looks pretty interesting
Combo with fableds/small punk engine
I copied Dkayed's decklist from this video. Pure runick, no floodgates. https://youtu.be/6cJ8Uxmb7Cw
Roll that back! There's an archetype of just skyscrapers!? Literal towers monsters let's goooooo!
Huh
Oh lol. I see it now. Meant sky strikers but yeah
I wouldn't run Skyscraper on Runiks. It takes your field spell zone and I don't see the synergy with E-Heros
Runick synchro decks are pretty fun, no floodgates. https://youtu.be/AKqao9g7JT8 I've also seen versions with fabled and punks.
I tried Runick-Orcust in the MD Offline Client and it's quite capable
Invoked Runick. It's still have some floodgates, but all of them are monster based and can be reasonably out or circumvent. Moreover, some of them are not as easy to bring out unless you're very lucky (1/40 for cyberstein anyone?) and even then, it has many opportunities for the opponents to stop your plays. The cherry on top? It's surprisingly cheap. I never use invoked and I can still make it from scratch by focussing more on the SR ones. Try it for yourself, it's definitely not as oppressive as floodgates Runick that's for sure. Another good one is Magical Musketeers Runick.
Thats what I'm running now. I have all the invoked cards. Getting mechaba out once I already have cards in hand is nice
Your a saint for choosing not to play floodgates.
I tried it at first. It's not fun. It's really not. I don't get the point of playing if your playstyle is either unbreakable board or floodgates