# Mitsurugi Makes Sky Striker TIER 1 | Sky Striker Mitsurugi Deck & Combo Guide

**Channel:** bad hands & heartbreak
**Source:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl4gaUaKbT4
**Transcript page:** https://www.withtranscript.ai/video/Kl4gaUaKbT4

## Chapters

- 0:00 — Introducing the Sky Striker Mitsu Build
- 0:35 — Main Sky Striker Core and Staples
- 2:23 — Mitsurugi Engine and Extra Deck Choices
- 5:17 — One-Card Combo Into Full Board

## Transcript

**[0:00]:** What's good? My third rate duelist. So I was recently watching one of the best players in the world, Junping's Sky Mitsu video, and he went over a combo, skipped a bunch of steps. Well, me, I'm autistic as and sometimes I need things broken down and explained to me like I'm five. And even then I might ask them to lower it to maybe 4 years old. So today I'm going over my optimized Skystriker Mitsurugi deck profile. And then at the end of the video, I'll go over a step by step combo, showing y' all what exactly the Mitsu cards can do for Skystriker and why I do think it is one of the best engines to make Skystriker elevated to the next level. I honestly do think the Mitsu cards make Skystriker a Tier one deck Deck. Let's just go straight into the deck profile and I'll go over why I believe that.

**[0:35]:** So to start the deck profile, we have three copies of Rey, one copy of Rose.

**[0:41]:** Obviously nothing really changes too much there. Might as well just go ahead and throw one reinforcement of the army in there as well. And rounding out the rest of the non Mitsu monster cards, we have three copies of Ash Blossom. Ash Blossom is the only hand trap we are running in this deck profile, by the way. Then we're running three copies of Linkage.

**[0:57]:** I know some people run two copies. I even seen a list that had one copy. I do not agree with that. I feel like this is one of the best cards in Skystriker. And then with Mitu, it's even stronger.

**[1:06]:** I definitely want to be running three copies of this. Then of course we're running three copies of Engage. Never want to go lower than that. What is different with this deck profile is we're only running two copies of Widow Anchor. I know a lot of people run one copy.

**[1:20]:** This is a going first version, by the way. I should point that out. Which is why I feel like the Mitu cards add so much. It enables Sky Striker to go first. And yet we still have a bunch of engine and non engine that even if we did go second, it doesn't really matter.

**[1:32]:** It's meant to go first. Can go second and be just as good though. But we have two copies of Widow Anchor, one copy of Drones, one copy of Lemnoscape. We are running three copies of Radiant Typhoon Vision and then one copy of Mystical Space Typhoon. I did finally just put Mystical Space Typhoon in here.

**[1:50]:** Wasn't A fan of it? Honestly, I don't really like drawing it. What led to this decision was honestly one game where I drew Radiant Siphon Vision and I didn't have a quick play spell. It's only happen once, but that one time honestly soured me enough to go ahead and add Mystical Space Typhoon. It does decently. Obviously, if you're going against decks that require field spells and even just being able to pop one of the back rows, going second isn't the worst thing. Then we're winning. One copy of Triple Tactics Talent, one copy of Called by the Grave, three copies of Forbidden Droplet. Rounding out the Non Mitsu Deck Engine.

**[2:23]:** Now going over the Mitsu cards, we have one copy of Aramasa, one copy of Saji, one copy of the Board Breaker Murakumo, and then one copy of Habakkiri. Honestly, this deck would have been so powerful if we had three copies of Habakiri. But it was hit on the band list. But it's still good because we have three copies of Prayers, which does so much for the deck. That is what I'm going to be going over in the end of the video showing you what exactly Prayers does one copy of Ritual do not run more than one. If you want to run another copy of the Board Breaker Murakumo, or if you want to run the other Futsu Ritual, you can run two copies. I like having the one card starter aspect of Mitsurugi. Don't really like the bricks that it adds to the deck. So yeah, that's why I only run one of the rituals that's a non starter.

**[3:07]:** Then again, for going first, we are running one copy of Great Purification. If you wanted to stick to the GW second aspect or just wanted to cut one other brick out of the deck, you cannot cut Mir. Unfortunately you can cut Great Purification and But I just feel like again, going first just makes the end board so much stronger. And then speaking of consistency and spell cards that just do so much for the deck, we have three copies of Pre Prep. So why do Sky Striker players add all these hard to pronounce Mitsu cards? Well, let's see. Go ahead, zoom out. So we get one, two, three copies of Pre Prep, three copies of Prayers, one Aramasa and one Habakkiri. So that's eight new one card starters. Honestly, Saji isn't the worst if you depending what your other cards are in your hand. But this is eight new one card starters for the deck.

**[3:53]:** Skystriker isn't really known for having One card Starter. So being able to have this does so much for the deck. Unfortunately, we do have to run the bricks. However, cards like Murakumo make it so much better when you do go second because it's a board wipe completely. Board wipes your opponent. Yeah. So this is my specific version. Again, if you wanted to add a second ritual, you could also put in a Futsu. Or you could not even run the other ritual. And you can add this card as well. I'm trying to minimize bricks as much as possible.

**[4:19]:** It's not going over the extra deck. Aside from the XYZs, it's very standard. We're running two copies of Ace of Zero. One copy of Camellia, one copy of Amatsu, one copy of Azalea, one copy of Engage. Zero.

**[4:35]:** Two copies of Kagari. One Hayate, one Shizuku, one Zeke, one Little Knight. And then we have the XYZ, Baguska, Typhon and Exoton Knight. Again this deck is designed to go first. However, I feel like the XYZs are really great if you are going second.

**[4:53]:** Having cards like Typhon and Exiton Knight, really good void breakers. And since we prioritize going first when we're a hand trap, we can easily go into a Baguska. And this card is so toxic and so good. Going first. I'm going to be going over the Baguska line and how we can kind of play under Droll with this card in my next combo video. Part three of the Sky Striker Stuff. But yeah, you can run this in the regular Sky Striker deck as well. Yeah. That's it for the extra deck.

**[5:17]:** Let's go ahead and go into the combo. Go ahead. Activate our Quick Place spell Prayers. You can also do this in the draw phase. We're going to grab our Habakkiri from our deck to our hand. And we officially have one spell in our graveyard.

**[5:28]:** Now we're going to go ahead activate our Habakkiri in our hand. And we're going to special summon out our Sagi from our deck to the field. Then Sagi gets tributed, goes to the graveyard. And now we can add our ritual with our Sagi because it was tributed. So we have two cards in hand now.

**[5:42]:** Now we can go ahead and activate our Mitsurugi ritual. And we're going to send our Murakumo from our deck to the graveyard. And then we can summon our Habakkuri from our hand. 2400 attack by the way. And now we have two spells in our graveyard. And then because we tributed our Murakumo, we're going to go ahead and get its effect to add a Mitsurugi Mirror from our deck to our hand. So we're going to go ahead add Mitsurugi Mirror. Then we can go ahead activate this summoning our Muromo from the Graveyard. And then we're going to tribute off our Habakiri. Now Habakiri gets its effect. It's gonna go ahead Special Summon itself back, and then you can go ahead and search as well. And we're gonna search an additional copy of Mitsurugi Prayers with our Habakiri. So that's pretty much it. That is why we want the Mitsu cards.

**[6:26]:** That one card got us three spells in our Graveyard, Emitsuriki Prayers, and two bodies on board.

**[6:33]:** It's also why I always say in my Skystriker videos why cards like Chameleon are so much better in other engines than the actual deck. It's meant for Skystriker, obviously. It's great for Sky Striker. However, as you can see now, it's better when we have other engines in our deck. Because now Camellia requires two effect monsters, which is what we got. So again, the Mitsu stuff gave us one card starters. With this combo, we got three spells in the graveyard, two bodies on board, and a Mitsurugi Prayers. And we still have four additional cards in hand. Now we can go ahead and link off these two cards and go into our Camellia. One other thing, if you were going second as well, we could have used this card to go into a Board Wipe as well.

**[7:11]:** So not only is it great going first, but we have the option to board wipe with our Murakumo. Really good card, which is why some people do run two of it. Again, I want to minimize the bricks as much as possible, so I'm only running one copy. But if you did want to run two for whatever reason, wouldn't be mad at that either. So we go ahead, link off into Camellia and what do you know? Camellia can go ahead and send our Engage to the Graveyard. And. And we are officially doing Skystriker stuff. Yeah, pretty cool. Again, really advise if you guys want to spice it up.

**[7:38]:** Obviously, if you're playing Yu Gi oh, you're probably addicted to the game. You're probably addicted to buying cards. You're probably addicted to building decks like myself. So obviously just building the Skystriker stuff is enough. You want to see what else the deck can do. They just go together. So, well, now we're going to go ahead to link off our camellia and we're going to go into our Skystriker Ace Kagari. Kagari obviously is going to go ahead and grab us back. Engage. Now we can use our Engage to grab us a drones from our deck to our hand and we get an additional draw with the Engage because we have the spells in the graveyard.

**[8:09]:** So Engage got us a Drones plus a draw. Now we can use our drones, get us a token on board. Now we have two cards to go into our Ace 0. Ace 0 can now grab us another copy of Engagement, which we're going to go ahead and utilize. So Engage grab this Lemnis Gate and we get an additional draw. So we got two draws. And our Limnis Gate is actually a lot more powerful with this combo because we have three Sky Striker spells. And then on our opponent's turn, we're going to go ahead and use our Ace zero to balance itself. Obviously getting our pop. And then we'll have three Sky Striker Ace Monsters in our graveyard. So Lemniscate becomes a Double Bounce, which is something we don't often get with the regular Skystriker version. It's usually just used for one balance. But yeah, we had a Double Bounce.

**[8:50]:** Now obviously a pop with Ace zero. We got two draws in hand. We have a Mitsuruki Prayers able to set. And on top of all of that, we have four additional other cards in hand because this was all done with one card. So we have six total cards, plus our Lemniscate that we're probably gonna set, and Maturity Prayers. So we have the interruption with ACE0, the interruption with Prayers, the interruption with Lemniscate, and then six additional cards in hand. And our Mitsurugi Prayers can go into stuff like the Board Wipe, which would go ahead and Board wipe our opponent and get us a Negate as well. So yeah, really cool stuff. One other thing, I also have the Radiant Typhoon stuff if you guys are interested in seeing what Radiant Siphon can do. It adds a lot more one card starters. The ceiling of the deck is a bit lower with Radiant Typhoon stuff, and it is a lot more expensive.

**[9:35]:** However, it runs no additional bricks and gets you additional bodies on board. Plus you're able to draw four cards. I'm going to be doing that combo, the Draw four combo with Radiant Typhoon. But let me know if you guys want to see the actual deck profile. Just the combo if you want to see more Mitsu sky stuff. Yeah, I think that's all I got for you guys, and I'll catch you guys in the next video.