Joshua Schmidt Reacts to New Monster Reborn and Raika Archtype

[Streamed Live on 8th January, 2024]

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[BezimiennyMarcel]

Raika is Joshuas worst nightmare, a link climbing plant archetype

[Ankastraa]

For anyone curious: I tested this engine out in Traptrix. Josh mentions 2 things here that stood out to me: A. it dies to nib B. it doesnt need a normal summon

Traptrix right now is a fairly low ceiling deck that struggles with single handtraps such as ash, but is good at playing around nib, as we can make rafflesia on the 5th summon with virtually every hand in the game. This means that we can fascilitate the rafflesia+sera+1-2 set trapholes combo AND do this link 5 into the trap play ontop.

What do we get from this? Usually the "ontop" plays in midrange trix would be smth like a parallel exceed to make a time thief redoer or pinguicula, very low to the ground. Instead of that we turn this into basically 4 pops (2 of the trap because we have an insect and plant link and 2 of the link) and a kashtira birth. In addition, we can actually use the level 4 as a free extender and traptrix is very desperate for tools to pick apart boards which this does. The grind game of these cards is also kinda insane, as every single turn you can summon back any raika via the spell, then shuffle it back for the link 2, 3 or 5. Ontop of this, since we are insect/plant/reptile locked anyways, Aracnocampa is a legit free extender for the entire engine

Now what is the synergy between these? and here it gets interesting. Besides the trap being okey at a baseline if we endup drawing it without having a raika combo (its always atleast a generic pop 1 card) we have a level 4 extender but whats more, traptrix can fairly easily fascilitate jasmin to summon the raika plant from deck. Not only this, but the level 3 raika being able to summon back any level 4 or lower, allows us to get additional traptrix monsters on board. This way we can combo from either fairly low traptrix count hands (like aracnocampa and this new raika circular) into a more normal traptrix board (with sera rafflesia) while fascilitating the link5, or we can combo from traptrix into this, while still making rafflesia on the way.

I do want to note some things: We can now use the reptile therion technically which is an incredibly powerful card as it represents 2 bodies in 1, technically if you search borea lily (via jasmin or jasmin summon mardel etc.) you can get discollo, search the reptile, link borea off, summon reptile with borea. Use its effect summon borea, and now you have accessto a rank 8. Now this does require some bricks, so here a less cope play:
If you have additional extenders you can make Benghalancer first, then link it off to go into the link 3 and link 5 plays, and at the end of your combo use for example sera (link 1) and the link 3 to summon back benghalancer.


Realistic endboards i ended on have: Sera, rafflesia, link 5, raika trap, 1-2 set trap holes, Raika Birth. with this you not only have fairly serious setups for turn 1 but also alot of grind potential. And your booties are actually massive together with the spell, allowing you to deal alot of damage very quickly. Also reusing the link 2 every turn means you can basically get link 2 + link 5 back every single turn (and link 4 too if its in grave).


Overall i feel like this can fix alot of traptrix issues, its inherent mega weakness of going second getsless obnoxious, it gets a higher ceiling combo that still allows it to play low to the ground, its consistency in its endboards goes up by alot. Now if you just replace exceed, the raika engine takes 8 slots for the combo and 1-2 for the trap so 9-10 slots in comparison to exceeds 3 slots, So we obviously have to think about deck ratios again. Extra deck also feels very tight and i am not sure yet what else to fit in there, as the link 2 has a turnwide lock meaning cards like S:P or rank 4 generics arent as accessible as in pure trix. But i am overall really looking forward to this archetypes release

[Mr.Stitch]

Bro, this deck looks like it'll be super fun to play ngl, it looks like it has so many tech options with the loose lock of insects, plants, and reptiles

[bobjones]

The Raika deck seems to revolve around the ability to keep bringing back your big Link monsters. I guess that's why their effect isn't super broken, cuz you can keep bringing them back and reusing them for almost no cost.

Also, you may want to play more than one copy of the Trap, cuz you can keep using all the Link Monster's effects since the cost to bring them back is pretty small.

[grodon]

I think it's really interesting. It's a 1 card starter in a RIP type deck, so you could hypothetically run pure with a ton of handtraps. The starter is a level 1 0/0, so you can search it with one for one, piri res map, probably other cards. You could play it with a lot of handtraps. Or, with the link 4 effect, you can ignore handtraps and use the ever-popular time-tearing morganite (/s). More realistically, it's a pretty compact main deck engine and a few ED cards for the benefit. If you can fit them, it can potentially raise the ceiling on those deck's

Beetrooper might be good, you can send/banish gokipole and resonance insects, it adds something to do with the link-4 if it's pseudo-towers isn't useful or if you can bring it back with Saturn. -It can sometimes avoid nib with the battlewasp and scale bomber cards as well, so if you can bring either of those out, you can Raika climb fairly safely (especially due to their recursion).- Ignore that, I'm illiterate.

I imagine reptile/Ogdoladic, Rikka, Traptrix could all consider a use for these cards. If nothing else, I'm buying playsets because the art is sick .

[endeavor]

I'm both a Beetrooper and Ogdoadic player so I couldn't be happier in my life, but I dunno how much those two themes can be mixed. Now I predict a LV2 Reptile and a second trap in the next set for this archetype, because the first thing is missing and an unsearchable spell wouldn't make sense.

[mangavore]

All I see when I read these cards is an insect boss monster that ACTUALLY ends on interactions!

But really, the insect cards here combo so-well with established insect plays. Just being able to recycle banished cards as a part of extension is something the deck desperately needed. Correct me if I'm wrong, but these can recycle banished ED cards as-well? Unlike something like Absolute Neptune which says it has to shuffle them back to the Main Deck? If so, then these are absolutely insane. Combine this with the fact that the last set of insect support started to tie the cards together with plants (Circle of Fairies, Fairyant, Beargram, Diabolantis). The amount of special summons may even enable killer cards like Danaus to be a consistent threat. Not sure how nicely the reptiles will come in since Insect and Plants are BOTH notoriously xenophobic, but I'm looking forward to playing around with these.

Insects finally meta?

[tcoren]

Normal summon lonefire, tribute for the plant raika. Search the insect raika, special summon it. Make the link 2, revive lonefire with the insect raika, do some generic plant stuff (can even like special orphys scorpio and stuff like that), continue from there

[tobiasfrey]

18:07 - There's that insect shinobi link 2 that's completely generic (just needs two monsters with different names). So yeah, it's a piece of cake to get out and to get back from the grave if you have any plant, insect or reptile monsters accessible in your deck.

[JustByss]

spell card: "monster reborn" lets you summon divine monsters without them going to the graveyard at the endphase, so it's kinda cool.

[insertname]

“Right English speakers” -realizing how insanely good he is at language

[MrGshinobi]

i feel like i'm the only person that understands the reference behind the new monster reborn.
in the manga in the battle city rules all spell cards were quick plays by default, so the new monster reborn is a quickplay that shows artwork from the manga where yugi used it to revive DM, the name of the card is Yugi saying he's activating the spell card monster reborn.

[four-en-tee]

I don't know if its better than Monster Reborn, but it being a quick-play is phenomenal if you're trying to dodge or interrupt GY targeting effects.

Since we're all not playing mandatory Ash, Called By and Maxx "C" in the TCG, it'll have proper use cases as a tech card and can rotate in and out of the format like any well designed tech card. If anything, its probably a better going first card since its spell speed 2, but it still has a fair amount of strong applications for going second (someone in the chat already mentioned dodging Called By and Bystials). And this still has a lot of applications in link and synchro climbing strategies among other uses, which helps give it a niche. Like, i'd love to draw into this off of JAM Extreme Session in a deck like PUNK, even if i just have it splashed in there as a 1-of in the main deck. It'd allow me to keep combing further.

[ohhuhwhatyeahuhhuh.ok.]

This deck looks cool af in my opinion. I’m gonna be cooking up Raika/Traptrix ideas.

[DirtCheapFU]

I think this deck will be more of an engine when it releases

[gamesdevluke]

Joshua waiting to have PTSD about a new archetype that uses plants to link climb off of 1 Level 1 Plant Monster. 💀

[Jarjarfunk]

The lab is hot right now cause raika got me cooking out here. Havent been this hype since tri brigade

[earthteamjordan]

Ogdoadic Aliens are looking spicy 🔥 Can't wait to test Raikas!

[qwertyg]

It's also cannot activate it's effects. Cards with continuous effects will still apply. Fossil dyna for example.

[WaLlAb]

Run 3 of the plant, 3 of the rota/birth spell, and one of the insect. Small tri type engine that gets you into a decent big guy that forces interaction from your opponent before carrying on with the rest of your decks other engine. Just like tri-brigade.