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Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel
Orcust Mitsurugi Deck List & Card Guide
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Orcust Mitsurugi is a Control deck in Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel, featuring the newer support for Orcust to go with the strongest Ritual archetype in recent memory. See the core deck list, key combos, strategies how to play & beat as well as free-to-play (F2P), budget and alternate options here!
Orcust Mitsurugi Deck List
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| Extra Deck: 15 cards | ||||
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Orcust Mitsurugi Breakdown
Monsters
Spells
Traps
Extra
| Rarity | Name | Qty |
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 | Foolish Burial | 1 |
| Called by the Grave | 1 |
| Crossout Designator | 1 |
| Mitsurugi Prayers | 3 |
 | Mitsurugi Ritual | 1 |
 | Orcustrated Babel | 1 |
 | Mitsurugi Mirror | 1 |
| Rarity | Name | Qty |
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| Infinite Impermanence | 3 |
| Dominus Impulse | 3 |
| Orcust Crescendo | 2 |
| Mitsurugi Great Purification | 1 |
Alternate Cards for Orcust Mitsurugi
| Artifact Lancea | |
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Artifact Lancea is more designated as a counter for banish-centric strategies, especially with Maliss being extremely prominent as a top-tier Deck. Once this hand trap successfully resolves, both players are locked out of banishing for the rest of the turn. |
| Code Igniter | |
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Code Igniter is an interesting pick for Orcust Mitsurugi. It actually works well if you disregard its first effect and hyperfocus on its second. It can conduct a Ritual Summon for any Ritual Monster you have on hand, which is handy if you don't have Mitsurugi Ritual or Mitsurugi Mirror in order to get Futsu or Murakumo. |
| Number 38: Hope Harbinger Dragon Titanic Galaxy | |
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Number 38: Hope Harbinger Dragon Titanic Galaxy is a great Xyz Monster to consider when anticipating Decks that need to activate crucial Spell Cards in order to do their combos. It can also redirect attacks targeting your other monsters into itself, which it can survive most of the time due to having 3000 ATK. |
| Pre-Preparation of Rites | |
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Pre-Preparation of Rites is Mitsurugi's best searcher, and is the reason why Mitsurugi Mirror is a viable card for the Deck. It also searches out Habakiri, the best Ritual Monster in the archetype and in the game, which by itself is full combo by itself. |
| Forbidden Droplet | |
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Forbidden Droplet allows this Deck to evade targeted effects to your cards on the field, all the while negating the effects of select monsters the opponent controls for the rest of the turn and slashing their ATK in half. |
| Super Starslayer TY-PHON - Sky Crisis | |
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Super Starslayer TY-PHON - Sky Crisis is the last restort Xyz Monster you summon if the opponent ends up having Special Summoned monsters on their field. This can use just one monster on your field as material in response, and while it is on the field, monsters with 3000 or more ATK cannot activate their effects. This is on top of its effect to bounce a monster back to their hand. |
Orcust Mitsurugi Deck Guide: How to Play
Playstyle and Win Condition
Orcust Cards
The gameplay for Orcust has not changed even with the addition of the newer support for the archetype. If anything, it has gotten easier to get to the higher-tier Link Monsters.
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The two key monsters in the Main Deck remain the same; Orcust Harp Horror and Girsu, the Orcust Mekk-Knight are one-card combo starters for the Deck, and can kick things off immediately when they are summoned to the field.
In Orcust Harp Horror's case, they can banish themselves from the GY to Special Summon a fellow Orcust monster straight from the Deck. That would be Girsu, who can bring out an Orcust Token if it's the only monster you control on the field.
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Those monsters can be used to summon the new LINK-1 Monster in Galatea-I, the Orcust Automaton. The trade-off for this Link Monster that cannot be used for an Xyz Monster is that it is a searcher, and can Special Summon itself from the GY.
Then comes the original Galatea, which we often use to summon out Dingirus, the Orcust of the Evening Star. By itself, it cannot be destroyed by battle, and can shuffle back a banished Orcust monster of yours to Set an Orcust Spell/Trap straight from the Deck.
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The cards it usually gets are either Orcustrated Babel and Orcust Crescendo. Usually, it's the latter for its ability to turn all Orcust monster effects into Quick Effects, so long as this Continuous Spell card is face-up and active on the field.
If you already have the Continuous Spell on the hand or field, you can instead get Orcust Crescendo. This Counter Trap card can only be used while you control an Orcust Link monster, but it negates a card's activation and banishes the card.
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Then we come to the monsters with higher Link Rating. Longirsu the Orcust Orchestrator is immune to card destruction effects, and can send a Linked monster the opponent controls to the GY on top of shuffling your own banished Machine-type monsters (whch Orcusts are predominantly). With Orcustrated Babel active, this becomes a Quick Effect monster removal if it fulfills the Linked condition.
The newest boss monster of the archetype is Enlilgirsu, the Orcust Mekk-Knight, which can add back a banished Orcust or World Legacy card to the hand. In the same effect, it can take control of a monster the opponent controls by shuffling a card from the hand. Babel makes this card a Quick Effect, letting the player steal a monster during their turn.
King of the Feral Imps
The King of the Feral Imps is the Xyz Monster that connects the two archetypes together. Ideally you want to summon this Xyz Monster with either two Level 4 Orcust monsters, or one of each from Mitsurugi and Orcust, since this Xyz Monster has generic requirement materials.
This is the card you need to get to the Mitsurugi cards, as it searches out a Reptile monster to add to hand. Most of the time, this is what you will use to get Habakiri on hand to use its effect.
Mitsurugi Cards
As of writing, Mitsurugi is the undisputed best Ritual archetype in the game, and one of the best overall because of great cards that synergize with one another. It also takes up little space despite the need for its dedicated searches, Ritual Spells and Monsters, allowing this card to take advantage of Orcusts's own key cards as a surprising synergy.
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You can actually make do without Futsu no Mitama no Mitsurugi, but its Special Summon effect is strong by itself, especially once you have Ame no Murakumo no Mitsurugi set up in the GY to be Special Summoned. After all, the latter has an effect that wipes out all monsters the opponent controls on Special Summon.
Ame no Murakumo also can force the enemy into a painful choice between letting an effect get negated by this card's effect, or discarding a card to stop the negation.
Ame no Habakiri no Mitsurugi needs no introduction at this point; this is the searcher that enables so much of the Deck, from Special Summons to tribute effects to searching effects. This Ritual Monster can activate itself from the hand without even being summoned first for a Special Summon and tribute off the rip.
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The three Mitsurugi no Mikoto monsters are here to search the other Mitsurugi cards, getting every card possible on the hand to be used to continue the combo. Especially with Ame no Habakiri's effects to Special Summon and Tribute effects, you want to start off with Saji with his effect of searching a Mitsurugi Spell/Trap card; oftentimes, that will be Mitsurugi Ritual.
Aramasa and Kusanagi are often used as tribute fodder with Mitsurugi Ritual, and since they are tributed, their effects trigger to recycle the Mitsurugi Ritual you used in the GY, and search a Mitsurugi monster, often one of the three Ritual Monsters of the archetype.
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The Spell Cards are what enables extensions of the combo to go into powerful board end states. If you have a Reptile monster on hand or field, you can tribute that to trigger both effects of Mitsurugi Prayers, being a searcher and a Special Summon from the hand or GY in one fell swoop.
Mitsurugi Ritual can be used twice in one turn, one for each method to Ritual Summon a monster from either the hand or from the Deck. Mitsurugi Mirror is typically searchable thanks to Pre-Preparation of Rites, but here it is a win more card due to the fact that it shuffles itself into the Deck if one of the 3 Mitsurugi Ritual monsters gets tributed while in the GY.
Core Combos and Interactions
Sample Orcust Combo
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| 1 | Normal Summon Girsu, the Orcust Mekk-Knight. On summon, trigger its effect to send Orcust Harp Horror from the Deck to the GY. Then, use its second effect to summon World Legacy Tokens on both sides of the field. This turns off any further chances for the opponent to use Infinite Impermanences or Mulcharmy activations from the opponent. |
| 2 | Activate Orcust Harp Horror from the GY; banish it to Special Summon Orcust Knightmare from the Deck. |
| 3 | Use the World Legacy Token on your side of the field as material; Link Summon Galatea-I, the Orcust Automatron. Then, use it and Girsu as materials to Link Summon the original Galatea, the Orcust Automatron. |
| 4 | Activate Galatea, the Orcust Automatron; target the banished Orcust Harp Horror and shuffle it back into the Deck, then Set Orcustrated Babel in your Field Spell Zone. Make sure to activate the Field Spell before moving to the next step. |
| 5 | Activate Galatea-I from your Graveyard; target the Girsu in your GY and banish it, then Special Summon the Link Monster back onto the field. |
| 6 | Using the LINK-2 Galatea, LINK-1 Galatea-I, and Orcust Knightmare as materials, Link Summon Enlilgirsu, the Orcust Mekk-Knight. |
| 7 | Set Orcust Crescendo and Infinite Impermanence, and pass the turn. |
| Field Spell: Orcustrated Babel | ||||
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Core Mitsurugi Combo
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| 1 | Activate Ame no Habakiri no Mitsurugi from your hand; Special Summon Mitsurugi no Mikoto, Saji from the Deck, then immediately tribute it afterwards. This will trigger Saji's effect upon being tributed; add Mitsurugi Prayers to the hand. |
| 2 | Activate Mitsurugi Prayers from the hand; tribute Ame no Habakiri no Mitsurugi from the hand to be able to trigger both effects. First, add Ame no Murakumo no Mitsurugi from Deck to hand. Then, pay 800 LP to Special Summon Mitsurugi no Mikoto, Saji from the Graveyard. |
| 3 | After being tributed, trigger Ame no Habakiri no Mitsurugi's effect from the GY; add Mitsurugi Ritual to the hand. Activate it for the first time, using its second effect; tribute Mitsurugi no Mikoto, Aramasa and Mitsurugi no Mikoto, Kusanagi as material from the Deck, to Ritual Summon Ame no Murakumo no Mitsurugi you have on hand. |
| 4 | Trigger both Kusanagi and Aramasa in the GY after being tributed. Chain Link 2: Activate Kusanagi's effect; add back Mitsurugi Ritual from the GY to the hand. Chain Link 1: Activate Aramasa's effect; add Futsu no Mitama no Mitsurugi from the Deck to the hand. |
| 5 | Activate Mitsurugi Ritual again from the hand, this time using its first effect. Tribute the Ame no Habakiri no Mitsurugi from the hand as material to Ritual Summon Futsu no Mitama no Mitsurugi from the hand. |
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Boss Monsters
| Ame no Murakumo no Mitsurugi | |
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Ame no Murakumo no Mitsurugi is the boss monster of its respective archetype, and one of the biggest threats in any variant of a Mitsurugi Deck. On the field, it forces the opponent to discard a card once per turn to let an effect avoid negation, and on Summon it wipes out all the monsters the opponent controls. |
| Dingirsu, the Orcust of the Evening Star | |
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Dingirsu, the Orcust of the Evening Star is Orcust's main Xyz Monster, providing protection to other cards while this monsters has materials attached to itself. It can make of an Orcust Link Monster as the sole material needed to Xyz Summon this monster, making it easier to get on the field. Lastly, on summon, it has the option to send a card the opponent controls to the GY; no targeting done. |
| Enlilgirsu, the Orcust Mekk-Knight | |
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Enlilgirsu, the Orcust Mekk-Knight is the newest LINK-4 monster for the archetype, and it does wonders for Orcust both defensively and offensively. It can add back a World Legacy or Orcust monster that was banished to the hand, and in the same effect it has the option to steal a monster the opponent controls by shuffling a card from the hand. Then, if this card was sent from the EMZ to the GY, it can banish itself to send a card from the field to the GY. |
| Accesscode Talker | |
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Accesscode Talker is the iconic Link Monster that ends games once it hits the field. Between its ATK-boosting effect that can end games by itself, to destroying cards using its effect that the opponent cannot activate card effects in responds towards, bring this monster out once the opponent has no more interruptions and can Link Summon this monster. |
Orcust Mitsurugi Counters: How to Beat
Best Decks to Use Against Orcust Mitsurugi
Mitsurugi Ryzeal
Mitsurugi Ryzeal is currently the strongest archetype variant of a Ryzeal Deck, being fairly easy to learn but has an absurd amount of interactions once they have their boss monsters on the field. Ryzeal Detonator in particular can mess up an Orcust combo by destroying a card on the field as a response once per chain.
They can also shift easily into Mitsurugi, which becomes an equal threat. At that point, you are well aware the dangers an Ame no Murakumo no Mitsurugi could bring with its negation and monster wipe effects.
Mitsurugi Ryzeal Deck List & Card Guide
Blue-Eyes White Dragon
The Synchro-centric version of a Blue-Eyes White Dragon Deck can actually mess up Mitsurugi Orcust, especially when they get to their powerful Synchro Mosnters in Blue-Eyes Ultimate Spirit Dragon and Crimson Dragon into Stardust Sifr Divine Dragon.
An additional threat to consider is Blue-Eyes Tyrant Dragon, which can attack each monster once each, which can then set up a Trap Card after attacking. This is combined with Majesty of the White Dragon, which pops cards equal to the number of Blue-Eyes White Dragons shown wherever.
Blue-Eyes White Dragon Deck List & Card Guide
Maliss
Even with numerous hits in the banlist, Maliss remains a powerful threat in the game. It bypasses a lot of effects as they banish cards, then gain advantage from there with effects from Dormouse and White Rabbit.
This is especially prominent once they have their powerful Link Monsters. White Binder and Hearts Crypter do so much for the Deck from stopping interaction and providing advantage, and it only got stronger once Allied Code Talker @Ignister was added recently.
Maliss Deck Guide and Card List
Best Cards to Tech Against Orcust Mitsurugi
| Soul Drain | |
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Soul Drain prevents both players from using effects from either the GY or Banishment. This disables so many cards from Orcust, which needs to be banished from the GY as part of their activation requirement in order to trigger their effects. |
| Dimension Shifter | |
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Dimension Shifter also messes up both Orcust and Mitsurugi cards as both archetypes use the GY as a secondary resource pool. However, the GY must not have any cards to activate this card's effect from the hand. Consider the Spell and Trap variants of the card, Dimensional Fissure and Macro Cosmos. |
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Both Orcust and Mitsurugi being under the DARK attribute leaves their monsters on the field to be used as Fusion material via Super Polymerization. It can whisk away key cards, and very few cards can stop the effect of this Quick-Play Spell thanks to its condition specified in the card text. |
| Nibiru, the Primal Being | |
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A full combo from either Orcust or Mitsurugi consists of more than 5 summons in a single combo line. Nibiru, the Primal Being is often the best counter to such strategies. Just make sure not to use this effect in the presence of the Mitsurugi Ritual Monsters if there are any on the field. |
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