How To Build Rescue Ace- The Impulse Dilemma! 

I just love the fact that we’re calling impulse a “non-engine that gets to fire engine to get your engine started”

Impulse is such a crazy card when you figure out how to use it, but idk if its necessary to play at 3 after the diab engine.

Ive been playing around with impulse at 1, and added 2 kurikaras since theyre searchable off of snake eye. Adds much more board breaking potential

I think going over 40 is now more possible than ever due to the added consistency via the Diabellestar engine. And you also have quite a few bricks (3-6, depending on the exact build and preferences). So it doesn't hurt that bad to go over 40. If you are playing Fire Attacker or Heatsoul you also get added Draw Power, which profits from having more variety in handtraps due to HOPTs. Impulse is imo pretty worth it for Game 1. It eats through boards pretty well, which helps when you lose the dice roll, and when you go first it can be a pretty flexible "handtrap", by getting you Hydrant if your opponent removed it from the field early, it can get you Preventer for added interruption, and it can get you Fire Engine for more follow-up. But it could be sided out/to 1, if you know you are going first

I love running 3 impulse with hop squadron teched in, which gives you a turn 0 line of attacker potential draw, then synchro into an Accel Synchro Dragon play which can easily be a pop 2 through Satellite Warrior or a negate with Baronne too. Good value out of 2 cards.

I feel like the actual value of impulse is when playing into boards, diabellstar engine means you can now most of the time afford your normal summon on it to use its first effect. And the second effect is obviously very good when playing playing into boards

I am really uncertain about this. Pre agov I always defended 3x Impuls. I like the card design and I think its first effect can be really helpful in a lot of match ups. Expurrely Noir is one example, but another example would be Caesar. I don't think that R-Ace has another in-engine way to play through an Unchained Board in Game 1 because being able to negate two summons eats up a lot of resources. Rescue ace does not have more than two starters. But I really dislike the non-engine count post agov … For the combo he is not necessary so I see why one would want to play only one. You can go through your combo and if you hard drew preventer you can add it as follow up. That's nice and maybe that's good enough, idk. It probably really depends on the meta and how often his first effect would come up. The second effect is for de-bricking your hand. That's fine but no longer as necessary, which is why I wouldn't really use it as an argument either way.

The thing about Impulse is that it's at its strongest when going second, so any copies you don't play for the blind are probably better off in the side deck for when you know you're going second. Though Tearlaments had basically the same kind of utility option in Havnis, and they were fine with maining as many copies as legal, and that "only" contributed random mills(which could potentially be more setup, but also potentially less). Impluse can also bait out (up to 2) interactions from boards before they're ready to use them, so it's arguably useful even as a Normal Summon, but only if you already have HQ on the field so you can bring out something else afterwards if necessary, so the count on HQ might be a consideration for whether you want multiple Impulses(reminder that its effect to return GY/Banished to draw is a once per COPY, so if you somehow get 7 R-ACE cards in there, the first HQ can acts as your 8th to draw another card and reset the loop if you wind up with the second HQ again later). The real issue though is the punishes for activating monster effects on the opponent's turn, Thrust and Talents are cards that are going to be everywhere now, especially if people decide to experiment with the new TCG monsters designed for enabling them(while keeping Evenly Matched usable). If there's a lot of that going around, it might be better to focus exclusively on making sure Turbulence resolves every turn, in which case you'd cut the Impulses AND potentially run an extra HQ, 3rd Hydrant and Forbidden Lance(s).

If you haven't tried ken and gen as normal summons, they actually feel good when you draw the r-ace cards that they will trigger or the tactics cards.

Impulse is important at 3 and you need to draw it even going 1st and should be kept in your hand to summon hydrant in the opponent turn IMO

Isn't the big attraction of Impulse that it gives you turn zero Preventer interruptions when you open Impulse plus Fire engine/Fire attacker/Air Lifter and another name?

I feel like if you get to do more rescue ace stuff in-engine you’re kinda differentiating the deck from standard “one card combo + a bunch of good staples”. There’s already a bunch of decks like that. Whether that’s a good thing or not i cant tell yet the games I’ve seen rescue ace perform the best have normally been the ones they finagle their plays and get their engine going. Sure it’s nice to open 4 handtraps and airlifter going second but im not sure if thats the way to go. Maybe an approach of 3 thrust 3 talents like in unchained is better. Lots of room to explore still.

I would like your insight on Tistina. I know for a lot of people, the deck is pretty much very unorthodox when it comes to their functionality in the current format. After testing it a fair amount I found a lot of interesting concepts that could work, but seeing it from others perspective always helps. Keep up the content!

The classical music in the background is awesome. Jesse is the rare cultured yugioh player.

I was 100% no doubt 3 before AGoV, but now I'm not so sure....I feel like 2 may be better as it can be useful when going first or second. First: if you can get it back to your hand or not use it you can get more bodies on the field during the opponent's turn to either draw into interruption or act as fodder for I:P (If you don't go the S:P route). Second: good because if you do brick he can help rebuild your hand into something a bit more playable....But then you can't summon Fenrir which sucks.

Smaller engine IMO. 3 lifter, 2 hydrant, 2 preventer, 2 turb, 1 impulse. 3 emergency, 1 alert, 1 rescue, 1 contain, 1 extinguish, 2 HQ. 2 HQ is weird - but it allows game 1 to grind out so much better, and is an easy side out if you dont need the extra grind. 19 Rescue cards. Then the consistency stuff : 1 diabellstar, 3 wanted, 1 snake eye, 3 prosp, 1 rota. 9 cards. Then space for 12 non engine : mix and match - ash, crow, imperm, book, fenrir, talents, kurikara, small world(+fire kaiju), jet synchron (for baron) : personally its 3 ash, 3 fenrir, 2 small world, 1 kaiju, and the last 3 are always flexing around.

I very much agree with MBT agreeing with someone else on impulse, if I could play 5 I'd complain I can't play 6.

impulse feels like good follow up and a card you play into boards, unless you run some degen stuff like ken and gen and you play into the board of your own making turning off imperms and ash or forcing it out, for a free turbulence. those cards are crazy. you can literally go into turbulence without a starter if they don't stop you it just triggers impulse

Impulse should be at 0(at most 1) for now. It doesnt start your engine turn 1, its a mediocre normal summon except into purrely going second, and you dont want your opponent to trigger thrust or talents off it, so you wont use it on their turn. Fire engine is only really good vs purrely, attacker is nice in flunder and labrynth mattchups, but your not playing loads of handtraps so its not advancing your game state when its summoned most of the time. Maximize cards that do somehting in the deck, like witch, wanted and air lifter. I've got an example build here where I play 1 impulse, but I even cut that one after more testing ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9nzggVU9ND0.htmlsi=zG8zbAaxERsGf1V5

You need to make more videos Jesse, you and Joshua Schmidt are the "best" content creators in a sense, I think you need to make more out of it. I do not think, that you have to be always analytical and do content from a professional perspective, you just need to make fun content, play jank decks, cook a deck up and play it or sth alike. You are doing a pretty good job as far, but I believe, that you could do much more. Maybe do a collaboration with Josh for a series of videos, both of you are pretty nice people as far as I can tell, so it would be a natural fit, that both of you do some content together. Just a thought, if you read this, just think of it, it will be worth a try! Anyways, you are a chill dude my mate!

The problem with impulse is that it requires a monster effect to be activated on the field , it'd be much better if it could be triggered by a hand trap like Ash blossom

I found playing too much non-engine shuts down cards like emergency, where if you open emergency, or if you have access to emergency, you would prefer to see a name on field or in hand to use as fodder (like impulse) more than seeing a fenrir.

Impulse is kinda the same as havnis in tear it doesnt do thattt much in your turn in ur hand but it can go to crazy lenghts in ur opp turn

Is this a format that everyone is going to be playing nib in now?

Been playing Impulse at 1 with 2 Small World. I both like and dislike Small World because its a neg 1, but being able to essentially rota for anything by bridging with Ash is really really good.

I think there is another point to consider are outside factors like talents. Is it worth dropping an impulse? Does the card generate enough value to compensate a talents looking at your hand

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if jesse kotton was the king of yugioh, you make a good pendulum deck

People playing 0 impulse haven’t been hit by evenly enough

Did you encounter any issues with Prosperity and Diabelestar engine conflicting with each other? The secondary effect, I mean.

Jesse tryna gaslight the community into not playing 3 Impulse. I see what you're up to Mr. Kotton.....I see you...

Why the clara and rushka the link 1?

they way I've been seeing it for a while is impulse has had less merit lately cause it plays so badly into thrust and talents, I expect people to trim it to 1 and maybe even cut fire engine if you are going to so rarely summon it now in fear of talents and thrust this lest you fit in a lot more non engine cutting 2 impulse and engine

Gulp... I hope I don't get smoked when I play Yu-Gi-Oh!. Gulp... The competition is a little spicy 😂

why 2 turb?

3, 1 just doesn't give you enough names

I say 0 in the main because you want to go first

Let's talk tear next

Sorry but how he does Lingkuriboh without Cyberse monster ?

Cut the jet

Going second rescue ace is low-key 🔥 🔥 🔥.

1 or none with so much thrust and talents out there, its not worth it to main and fire off on opponents turn

Definitivly 3

Get rid of one of the Nibiru and put another impulse. There are so many players who know how to play around Nibiru

this guy think he's good?

first

Insane how jessy plays being dumb to manipulate the public. As if he would give us his deck for indianapolis 🤣🤣

Always 3.