Watching Josh play is just beautiful. The concentration, the composure he regains (pun intended) right after a missplay or a match loss, the souless stare, the precision and mental strength is just kind of art. Bravo.
Josh is absolutely playing out of his mind but he isn't being sarcastic calling it "accidentally". I count his unfavorable matchup because he post all of it in his twitter and for 18 of all match that ycs he genuinely just got 6 bad match and he lost 2 and draw 1 out of it. In top cut he only have to face 1 R-Ace and fortunately lucky to draw the out basically. He 100% deserve the win but he can't just replicate this in any format and any day because of how random the variance is. That's why he's right about just play what he like so even if the luck isn't in his favor at least he have fun.
Tbh it is not true. I am not saying that Bystial Runick is not a good deck because it definitly is. But you have to keep in mind that josh is just a different breed.
@_kenemon_ one day on stream, Josh was checking out new sky striker support and said that the only people who get excited about new sky strikers are the ones who see this and go "Oh my God I love Raye I will die for sky striker ace Raye this card is going to change my life .." etc etc. Obviously he was joking around but it became a meme and now that he won with quem people are replacing Raye with her in his copypasta
Josh is a true "professional" in every sense. He understands completely how his deck operates, but also understands every other deck he was going to play against and had multiple plays built into his deck that could contest any other deck in the format. This isn't an accident. He likes the deck, because the deck is fun. It has a bunch of non-linear combos, niche interaction points, and an impressive recycling engine.
I really have to say the cool part of this deck is how everything ties together perfectly. Especially looking at the extra deck and side deck. They feel not like toolboxes but extensions of the actual gameplan & main Deck.
This is the second time this year that Joshua has caused a card to spike in price everywhere, which isn't a lot, but it's weird how it happened twice :)
You are an absolute legend. After all your testing, you decided there was no definitive Best Deck that was likely to spike the event, so you literally played a deck you liked that felt on par with the rest of the field. You put in little innovations that made you happy but also gave you strong gameplans against problematic opponents. You are simultaneously the "Respect the metagame. Cards and decks are popular for a reason" and ALSO the "play what you like, play what YOU are good at" and then won the whole thing. Inspiring, wholesome, and completely badass. Thank you for sharing your experiences with the YGO community. My hero!!!
Oh my god yes I love Quem I would die for Guiding Quem The Virtuous. This support card is going to win me a YCS and it's going to be the most expensive card ever.
I've been labbing this concept for the last 6 months, super gratifying to see the theory was actually solid enough to win a ycs. Great win from the world champ.
Literally just wanted to play a deck that made him feel good. Thank you Joshua for reminding us that enjoying the game comes first, winning is just a byproduct.
Duality is one of those cards that no one expects despite how useful it can be when you know what you're doing. And Regained is just stupidly good, not just for recurring your self-banishes, but for occasionally shuffling back an opponent's things that have better utility in both the GY AND banished than the deck(where worst case you can Ash to prevent it from coming out again).
What are you talking about? Duality was very much hyped and expected to be a meta card when it was first revealed. If anything it's kind of a flop relative to how much meta relevance it ended up having.
Usually YCS are won by the strongest decks in their specific format. I think in this case the player really won the tournament and really made the difference. Huge congratulations to you Joshua you absolutely deserved that win
like the comment about Branded Regained. I realised it's actually a card that goes kinda crazy even outside of the bystial synergy since some costs/engines require you to remove some of your engine pieces and such but this can help you recycle them and get you a draw, then you add the synergy with bystials and the card is insane.
I think everybody is surprised to see this deck win even after seeing the matches. It can brick and the powercap is not very high, but it has a great grindgame.
I was there when you won the second match with dogwood after the opponent was thinking about a way tu burn damage you at time and you with dogwood in hand said "try"😂. Then he proceeded to activate turbulence effect and resigned after you chained dogwood, absolutely FANTASTIC
congrats on winning YCS, this deck was super enjoyable to watch.. well deserved, another trophy for ur background 😂 obviously some cards got stonks on c-market, but maybe i can try out this deck in MD also thanks for sharing ur deck profile with us
Genius. Shoutout to everyone cooking this deck and ofc Josh masterfully piloting it. I learned to love Bystial, regained, sp synergies with my new Tele Dad Hero Bystial 2023 deck. So many cross synergies and so mich fun. May even take some things out of here into consideration.
It’s so bitter sweet for me having built this deck 2 formats ago thought it was such an awesome concept but not the right format I had since quit the game and come to see my idea was the right one Congrats!
I don’t like Runick, but I love Josh’s philosophy of deck building, especially in leaning further into the strengths of the deck with more engine rather than try to fix a problem with the deck that you’re not going to fix with non-engine.
Oh 📭 my 🍗 god, 🙏 yes, 👍 I ⭐👏 love 💖 Raye. I 👹 would 🌳 die 💀 for 😘 Sky ☁ Striker Ace Raye. This support 👍 card 💳 is going 👉 to change 🔄 my ⭐🔋 life 😛 and it's going 🥥 to be 👏 the best 🥇 card 💳💳 ever. 😠
It's so amazing how a good player can make a difference and how this deck was build just with engines that are really well by themselves that can be together in a deck. Also the extradeck is so full of good cards that can be used thanks to duality and full of level 8 synchros. I think it's insane and is an example of a really good player with a really well build deck.
As a bystial enjoyer I approve of this message. And I love that Josh came to my preferred bystial ratio even if it’s just because he had one extra deck slot 🤣
I frown when he starts the video discussing about how open the format is in a negative way after tear and Kash format BUT actually thinking outside the box and playing something like this is why I respect Josh as a player. I hope he continues to play interesting decks to get his wins instead of simply the meta. It’s refreshing to see.
Amazing games on stream, super fun and well thought deck, admirable focus and execution. Nothing accidental here!! Also, the nibiru in the 3rd game of the finals was like an anime moment.... 🎉🎉🎉
Congratulations Joshua, Been following your channel for a while, and God you inspire people to play the game out there. Would you mind giving me some advice for my Vanquish Soul deck? Since the deck loses to Evenly, would you reccomend siding solemn judgment? Or crossout designator to cover Droll? Thank you and keep up the good work
This winning for me is the representation of what yugioh should be. You pick up the deck that you like, turn it the most competitive as possible showing your skills of deckbuilding, after that, knowing the deck weakness and strongs, play conscious demostrating your skills of playing the game. But i know that this is not for anyone, if this kind of format really devalue skill, why the best players were in the top? For me Joshua demonstrate that he is one of the best players in the world with no doubt.
Proof you can play what you enjoy and if you know the ins and outs and what youre getting into you CAN do well. And the world champ difference of course.
I love runick cuz it prevents the modern yugioh snowball effect of decks and makes the opponent really think about any other plays aside from their standard combos. Feels like old school yugioh even for a little bit.
I don't think it is a fluke that you won a YCS with that Deck. Throughout this entire video you could explain reasonings for all match-ups and how their Deck plays versus yours. You even said how your choices (Unicore + Duality) affected other people's gameplay (not firing off imperm) in important moments. Also your comfort with the Deck made you able to approach your games with a more casual mindset, which helps in Marathon settings like a YCS. I play a lot of Warhammer 40K and those choices win major tournaments with 2nd tier or 3rd Tier factions. "You won't win a tournament being the 3rd best of the best."
Nice, congrats josh. Lately format so diverse its great. U see bunch of decks topping here and there, especially with fireking lately despite pre phantom nightmare. Its nice to see fabled unicore again after so many years. in the end u see usual top names adapting and ended up topping anyway, despite complaining about diversity xD. They are top players for reason.
Accidentally winning a YCS is the world champion difference.
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This isn’t WolfeyVGC 😡
@@jordanshultz6242Now I wanna see a Wolfey Vs Joshua Pokémon TCG match.
@@eclipse_zeta no, there needs to be a something like the PChal collab. Josh enters the Pokemon VGC scene, Wolfey enters the Yugioh TCG
True true
Farfa recording this deck profile feels like a throwback to when Josh won YCS Prague with Paleo Frog
Watching Josh play is just beautiful. The concentration, the composure he regains (pun intended) right after a missplay or a match loss, the souless stare, the precision and mental strength is just kind of art. Bravo.
Josh is the only mf who could "accidentally" win a YCS
Congratulations Joshua even though you call it accidental I saw you play and you were killing it keep up the good work bro.
the stare he gave his opponent when he dropped a duality to his imperm was peak
Josh is absolutely playing out of his mind but he isn't being sarcastic calling it "accidentally". I count his unfavorable matchup because he post all of it in his twitter and for 18 of all match that ycs he genuinely just got 6 bad match and he lost 2 and draw 1 out of it. In top cut he only have to face 1 R-Ace and fortunately lucky to draw the out basically.
He 100% deserve the win but he can't just replicate this in any format and any day because of how random the variance is. That's why he's right about just play what he like so even if the luck isn't in his favor at least he have fun.
Something about Josh winning with Runick makes me so happy.
Always nice to see someone pilot a deck just because they like to play it and get the W
Hello there
@@hunterbachelder3480General Kenobi, you are a bold one
deckout players when someone validates their horribly persecuted playstyle(they get mad when you insult them and stay mad for days)
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There was nothing accidental about this win. Dude absolutely destroyed people with clever interactions and smart play. Deserved.
josh out here proving mbt's argument of "meta is a social construct"
Tbh it is not true.
I am not saying that Bystial Runick is not a good deck because it definitly is.
But you have to keep in mind that josh is just a different breed.
@@LahakJakaayeah actually being good at yugioh also helps 😂
Very true, the "top decks" like unchaine, lab and r-ace didn't win it, and the supposed new threat deck fire king didn't even make it to top 16
i dont think fire king will be really good until it gets more support@@MrGshinobi
@@MrGshinobifire king made top 16 what do you mean?
That "shout-out to S:P" was hilarious ! Josh will never forget her summoning conditions.
Did he get game loss or he surrender after that?
They did a replay, but he ended up losing that one duel
@@zawarudogaming3961he got a warning, which the standard procedure for missplay.
Ah, thanks for the clarification
Incredible deck! Incredible performance! Reshaping the year end meta!! Congratulations Josh!
This man not only managed to win a YCS with a deck he simply enjoyed, but also finally got to use phantazmay, congrats!
Accidentally winning a YCS. That's the GOAT difference.
Lil bro showed up with his favourite for fun deck and won a ycs
Josh continues his campaign to show the world Runick can be based, when is not just a shell to play floodgates. Congrats!
OMG yes I love Quem! I would die for Guiding Quem, the Virtuous. This support card is going to change my life and is going to be the best card ever!
What would you do if Guiding Quem, the Virtuous and your girl were drowning, with you only able to save one of them?
@@afeathereddinosaurI dumping my other girl, to grave, then bringing her back to sync or fuse all night long (emojis omitted due to lazy)
Where did this meme come from. I've been seeing it everywhere
@_kenemon_ one day on stream, Josh was checking out new sky striker support and said that the only people who get excited about new sky strikers are the ones who see this and go "Oh my God I love Raye I will die for sky striker ace Raye this card is going to change my life .." etc etc. Obviously he was joking around but it became a meme and now that he won with quem people are replacing Raye with her in his copypasta
@@nevod. Thank you, i appreciate it
Me: struggles to win at locals
Josh: accidentally wins YCS
Josh is a true "professional" in every sense. He understands completely how his deck operates, but also understands every other deck he was going to play against and had multiple plays built into his deck that could contest any other deck in the format.
This isn't an accident. He likes the deck, because the deck is fun. It has a bunch of non-linear combos, niche interaction points, and an impressive recycling engine.
I really have to say the cool part of this deck is how everything ties together perfectly.
Especially looking at the extra deck and side deck. They feel not like toolboxes but extensions of the actual gameplan & main Deck.
This is the second time this year that Joshua has caused a card to spike in price everywhere, which isn't a lot, but it's weird how it happened twice :)
Facts,duality is now $30 from $10 🤣🤣
What was the first?
@@shapular I assume Kurikara
The next step is konami limiting it to 1 😂
lmao
Funny that farfa is recording this because the look of pure joy on farfas face when Josh won was very wholesome.
You are an absolute legend. After all your testing, you decided there was no definitive Best Deck that was likely to spike the event, so you literally played a deck you liked that felt on par with the rest of the field. You put in little innovations that made you happy but also gave you strong gameplans against problematic opponents. You are simultaneously the "Respect the metagame. Cards and decks are popular for a reason" and ALSO the "play what you like, play what YOU are good at" and then won the whole thing. Inspiring, wholesome, and completely badass. Thank you for sharing your experiences with the YGO community. My hero!!!
winning a ycs is such a nice feeling. winning a ycs with a feel good Deck is the best feeling. Congrats champ
Oh my god yes I love Quem I would die for Guiding Quem The Virtuous. This support card is going to win me a YCS and it's going to be the most expensive card ever.
$80 🥶
OMG Yes! I love Josh. I would die for Joshua Schimdt. His new video is going to change my life and it’s going to be the best thing ever.
What a dumb guy. Find a new life instead of blindly following someone.
😅
I've been labbing this concept for the last 6 months, super gratifying to see the theory was actually solid enough to win a ycs. Great win from the world champ.
Literally just wanted to play a deck that made him feel good. Thank you Joshua for reminding us that enjoying the game comes first, winning is just a byproduct.
Duality is one of those cards that no one expects despite how useful it can be when you know what you're doing. And Regained is just stupidly good, not just for recurring your self-banishes, but for occasionally shuffling back an opponent's things that have better utility in both the GY AND banished than the deck(where worst case you can Ash to prevent it from coming out again).
What are you talking about? Duality was very much hyped and expected to be a meta card when it was first revealed. If anything it's kind of a flop relative to how much meta relevance it ended up having.
Usually YCS are won by the strongest decks in their specific format. I think in this case the player really won the tournament and really made the difference. Huge congratulations to you Joshua you absolutely deserved that win
A Big Concratulation for this YCS Win! It was an amazing Feeling to see you play :)
like the comment about Branded Regained. I realised it's actually a card that goes kinda crazy even outside of the bystial synergy since some costs/engines require you to remove some of your engine pieces and such but this can help you recycle them and get you a draw, then you add the synergy with bystials and the card is insane.
So this is the power of a World Champion. Accidentally winning a YCS.
I just watched a plunder runic on team wunax channel and this is more my vibe. Runick is back baby!
I think everybody is surprised to see this deck win even after seeing the matches.
It can brick and the powercap is not very high, but it has a great grindgame.
Yeah the pilot really matters for this deck since knowing when to hand trap are what won him bad matchups
There's something wholesome about simply playing a deck you enjoy and know well at a competitive level.
I was there when you won the second match with dogwood after the opponent was thinking about a way tu burn damage you at time and you with dogwood in hand said "try"😂. Then he proceeded to activate turbulence effect and resigned after you chained dogwood, absolutely FANTASTIC
SGRANAPEPATO HARD
congrats on winning YCS, this deck was super enjoyable to watch.. well deserved, another trophy for ur background 😂
obviously some cards got stonks on c-market, but maybe i can try out this deck in MD also thanks for sharing ur deck profile with us
Genius. Shoutout to everyone cooking this deck and ofc Josh masterfully piloting it. I learned to love Bystial, regained, sp synergies with my new Tele Dad Hero Bystial 2023 deck. So many cross synergies and so mich fun. May even take some things out of here into consideration.
Congratulations 4th Victory in YCS is incredible and bystyal runick atypical deck very stronger level player
Picking the deck you enjoy and are most comfortable with is always solid advice. You can see the plays and lines better and you make fewer mistakes.
It’s so bitter sweet for me having built this deck 2 formats ago thought it was such an awesome concept but not the right format
I had since quit the game and come to see my idea was the right one
Congrats!
The GOAT himself, congrats man!
Really enjoyed spectating this weekend! was a cracking tournament and grats on the win!
Josh understands Yu-Gi-Oh better than anyone, congrats man you deserved it!
Amazing editing, congrats Josh. You are such a intelligent player, happy for you
"yeah im not really prepared for bologna, haven't put much time into it" just to win with a funsies deck pick
Congrats to Josh! Amazing win and the strategies coming forth, careful game plays and wise decisions helped paved your way for the win!
this deck looks so incredibly fun, i cant put it into words
0:49 Thats a funny way of saying I was this close to allowing myself to get dusted by round 6.
I don’t like Runick, but I love Josh’s philosophy of deck building, especially in leaning further into the strengths of the deck with more engine rather than try to fix a problem with the deck that you’re not going to fix with non-engine.
Oh 📭 my 🍗 god, 🙏 yes, 👍 I ⭐👏 love 💖 Raye.
I 👹 would 🌳 die 💀 for 😘 Sky ☁ Striker Ace Raye.
This support 👍 card 💳 is going 👉 to change 🔄 my ⭐🔋 life 😛 and it's going 🥥 to be 👏 the best 🥇 card 💳💳 ever. 😠
Love this! Can’t wait to get a vlog on the whole tourney congrats again Joshua 4 ycs is amazing
Congratulations!!!! Incredible plays
Saw Josh's channel this morning with 20k subs and now it's at where it's at. Great job man!
It's so amazing how a good player can make a difference and how this deck was build just with engines that are really well by themselves that can be together in a deck. Also the extradeck is so full of good cards that can be used thanks to duality and full of level 8 synchros. I think it's insane and is an example of a really good player with a really well build deck.
He was ready for blood but luckily for you, the mannadium god aka pend god aka triff the mathmatician, overslept.
You explained the declist perfectly, good job and congratulations 🎊
It always feels great to see someone win with a deck they actually enjoy, especially someone as accomplished as Joshua!!
Congratz, big smile, I am happy for you Josh. Keep up the runick thingy...
This guy is awesome! Very well spoken, good at explaining, and was very rational and objective. Great review!
Congrats!!! U deserved it 🎉
That deck looks so sweet, I love duality its an awesome card. Im glad to see some Runick decks that arent stun, MD has given me a bad impression
Guy who prepared that YCS for several 'welp, I definitely only won by accident"
As a bystial enjoyer I approve of this message. And I love that Josh came to my preferred bystial ratio even if it’s just because he had one extra deck slot 🤣
Duality has literally doubled in price overnight lmao thanks Josh
Josh is bringing back the heart of the cards in 2024
OUR CHAMPION!!!! Love seeing this man.
I frown when he starts the video discussing about how open the format is in a negative way after tear and Kash format BUT actually thinking outside the box and playing something like this is why I respect Josh as a player. I hope he continues to play interesting decks to get his wins instead of simply the meta. It’s refreshing to see.
9:05 Fabled mentioned!
LETS GO JOSH! Congratulations on your YCS win!👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼✊🏼🥳
I love Josh's decks. they're always filled with so many alternative lines and tricks.
Joshua entered the dark side after losing a YCS final to Billy Brake summoning denko vs Paleo
Amazing games on stream, super fun and well thought deck, admirable focus and execution. Nothing accidental here!! Also, the nibiru in the 3rd game of the finals was like an anime moment....
🎉🎉🎉
He Nibiru'd Pak too in round 7
1st round I asked you “josh how many lp do you have?”. Answer was “about 22k” I had to remain serious in that situation, but it was honestly difficult
the fact that he won with a deck he enjoyed, shows you how good he is
Wow what a great profile. Great reasoning and explanations. Deck looks insane! Congrats
Accidentally winning another YCS but never accidentally the GOAT!! Congratulations!!
Gratz josh.
World champs truly built different
Congrats my brother proud of you 💪🏻
Congratulations Joshua, Been following your channel for a while, and God you inspire people to play the game out there. Would you mind giving me some advice for my Vanquish Soul deck? Since the deck loses to Evenly, would you reccomend siding solemn judgment? Or crossout designator to cover Droll? Thank you and keep up the good work
1 cool thing you can do with the Grang package is also play Dragoon because of Duality
congratulations!! winning with favorite deck is amazing feel
That’s awesome. Congratulations man.
Heads up!!! You cannot reborn The Bystial Aluber with Regained!!!
Why not
@@jamestarpley6799 Aluber is treated as Fallen of Albaz in the GY and is no longer a Bystial monster
JOSH! I'm so proud of you! Congrats!!
Congratulations :) one of the best ygo players out there :)
Congrats to winning at YCS one my favorite cards its the fabled unicore.
The Regained / S:P interaction is unreal, spin your opp and draw off of it, every turn.
This winning for me is the representation of what yugioh should be. You pick up the deck that you like, turn it the most competitive as possible showing your skills of deckbuilding, after that, knowing the deck weakness and strongs, play conscious demostrating your skills of playing the game. But i know that this is not for anyone, if this kind of format really devalue skill, why the best players were in the top? For me Joshua demonstrate that he is one of the best players in the world with no doubt.
Definitely want to try this out. Sad there’s only one fountain in MD now but this looks like most of the list is still there.
*Runick Bystial is a wholesome fun rogue deck.*
Everyone in the comments must be in on the joke, this is some form of advanced sarcasm.
Proof you can play what you enjoy and if you know the ins and outs and what youre getting into you CAN do well.
And the world champ difference of course.
Insane player,and an huge inspiration for everyone,humble and so good at game!!❤
Congrats
I was so hyped seeing the deck!
Keeping the runic dream alive!! Been thinking about selling my deck so I appreciate the bump lolol
I love runick cuz it prevents the modern yugioh snowball effect of decks and makes the opponent really think about any other plays aside from their standard combos. Feels like old school yugioh even for a little bit.
CONGRATULAZIONI!!! ITALIA LOVES YOU!! Tnx again for The pic
Insane!! Congrats Josh
I don't think it is a fluke that you won a YCS with that Deck. Throughout this entire video you could explain reasonings for all match-ups and how their Deck plays versus yours. You even said how your choices (Unicore + Duality) affected other people's gameplay (not firing off imperm) in important moments. Also your comfort with the Deck made you able to approach your games with a more casual mindset, which helps in Marathon settings like a YCS.
I play a lot of Warhammer 40K and those choices win major tournaments with 2nd tier or 3rd Tier factions. "You won't win a tournament being the 3rd best of the best."
Nice, congrats josh. Lately format so diverse its great. U see bunch of decks topping here and there, especially with fireking lately despite pre phantom nightmare. Its nice to see fabled unicore again after so many years.
in the end u see usual top names adapting and ended up topping anyway, despite complaining about diversity xD. They are top players for reason.
Josh A True Runick lover, thank you so much for your hard work. Now I have an other awsome funny variant of runick to enjoy