I can't imagine how mad I would be sitting there for about 30 minutes playing solitaire and then your opponent activates a single card that destroys your entire field and your hand after playing through half of your deck for 30 minutes
True honestly it shouldn't have been negated no matter what monster it was summoning a main Deck monster from your graveyard during your opponent's turn doesn't really matter
Resolving Witch's Strike is one of the most chad and respectable move in Yu-Gi-Oh! Always want to play that card, if the card was Counter Trap or have more flexible activation window, it would be much better.
Same, I like the card and I like the activation condition for such a strong card, but it’s not a counter trap which bumps it down to all other trap that isn’t archetype support specific.
@@nutkicker12 that deck literally makes the worse trap cards (aka normal traps) seem busted and the boss makes it so monsters can’t respond to them activating 🥲 so good.
This card in shinobaron transonic bird is so good, non-targeting removal, if they negate it, destroy all monsters you returned last turn. It’s my favourite deck this year I would recommend
@@guywithglasses5309 Theres hardly any unfortunately. I’ve spent a lot of time creating mine and seeing how it fares up against meta decks, it works pretty well. The main staples are the shinobaron rituals, two transonic bird and two of its ritual spell cards. An impcantation line up is also needed, aswell as cards to shuffle back ritual spell cards from the GY (like jar of avarice) to create a loop of shuffling your entire opponents board. Other than that do want you want with it (I recommend trap trick and a bunch of traps)
@@guywithglasses5309 There is approximately 4 people that play Shinobirds. So there isn't a real decklist that's considered to be standard. Right now the most standard would be something like 3 each of Baron, Baroness, Transonic Bird, and Herald of the Diviner. Other than that it's been kind of whatever.
I mean what deck do you run ? If it's not somethin with multiple effects and you're only hoping to pop it off after one card gets negated then running it is retarded. Like me, I run weather painters, I'm popping off like 20 chains per turn, per standbyphase, multiple times to get witch's strike to activate, so I'm able to run multiple copies cause its live often with my deck
Bro, Ousama Ranking is fucking amazing. Bocchi is my son. That 15 minute turn is a perfect example of why I just won't bother against some decks if I don't have Maxx C or Nibiru in my hand.
@@xCorvus7x or a summon is negated. Yes hand traps don’t trigger it, but the plethora of boss monsters and the Solemn brigade that Witch’s Strike was made for anyway certainly do
@@Shadow8332 aha, so handtraps are more of an intervention while boss monsters through their supressive presence don't allow you to even start resolving the effect
@@Harrowing999 I didn't mean to exclude the negation of a summon as a trigger for Witch's Strike; the issue at hand was the negation of effects, which is where I wanted to point out a crucial distinction.
It's too hard to activate and dependent on your opponent. It's a shame that most of the good negate cards are high rarity otherwise it would make a great inclusion in n/r event.
I've been labbing a pure invoked deck (it's the 9 card invoked engine, some draw power/going second cards and like 20 handtraps) and I added in a couple of witches strikes because Alistair is negate bait. I've gotten it off a few times and it's *very* funny
Just getting back into the game. Was looking through cards for a deck and saw this card. I was like "damn, how is this even normal rarity.". I get it may be kinda slow but what it does is crazy lol
It's the tiny detail that witch's strike triggers on "negates activation" when most negates are "negate effect" Cards like that specific Borrelsword and Appolousa are actually weak to Witch's strike, but since it's in response to negation it has to be the very last negate your opponent has or Witch's Strike pops. Because Witch's Strike is played in a new chain then it can only respond to specifically activation negates or special summon negates and not generic "negate effect" like say an Ash Blossom.
@@bigpolk4219 it's a very fun card. It's just not reliable. You typically activate the most on your own turn so it needs to be set for 2 whole turns to be most effective. There's a lot of other weaker but far more reliable cards like kaijus to remove pieces from your opponents board. Dzeef has a good video if you wanna see some situations where it does and doesn't work
The fact that someone can fill an entire board with boss monsters twice over and then some in a single turn shows how far powercreep has gone in Yugioh.
@@SoulHero7 Literally Torrential Tribute would have worked too, since it would have triggered from Reborn summoning Levieneer. However, with Torrential he'd keep his hand and backrow.
Funnily enough, I actually survived a witch strike with a FULL BOARD (all zones filled) wipe with Dragonmaids. 3 Welcomes, 1 Tidy and 1 Downtime back row, and my hand full of monsters and necessary spells. It was satisfying to watch it all go.
Man the other day my opponent was negating my summon with solemn strike which I chain into witch's strike but damn I didn't expect solemn judgment from him after that.
If the card was easier to resolve, it'd be awesome... But it's effect only resolves when opponent negates activation, which isn't as common as normal effect negation...
Summons get negated all the time and most things that negate, negate the activation. The only card I can think of that sees widespread play that only negates the effect is Ash Blossom
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have you ever tried defense OTK? So playing monsters with really high defense and chucking a bunch of traps that increase their defense and decrease the oppoents atk. Just threw the deck together but it's far from optimal since i don't wanna craft cards of demise and pot of extravagence/prosperity for a deck like this. I somehow just won against a tri-brigade/zoodiac deck. He obviously didn't play the deck optimally but what won me the game was a random yang zing trap that forces all opponents monsters to attack
I'm still confused on how to activate Witch's Strike, I've been trying for a long time now. Does it have to come from a "negate the activation" especially, or can "negate the effect" work too?
Witch’s Strike can only be activated AFTER your opponent successfully negates the activation of a spell/trap card or negates a summon. “Negate the effect” cards will not work.
@@Harrowing999 Dang, so that means, when you actually get to activate Witch's Strike, you'd better hope they have nothing else left to negate Witch's Strike since it's already hard to use. :/
I run 2 of these in Eldlich. Mancipator brought out borreload savage, I torrentialed, he negated, I chained trap trick, putting witch's strike face down. The game froze for a solid 30 seconds and he stopped mid combo and quit. LOL
