Girsu, the Orcust Mekk-Knight – Yu-Gi-Oh! Review

King of
Lullaby

Hello Pojo Fans,

Girsu, the Orcust Mekk-Knight starts off the last week of July here on Pojo.

Orcust or World Legacy Armageddon Knight, though a wider reaching one, and better as it can also activate upon Special Summon. Going first makes the next effect useless, but going second you can easily line this up in a column and make Girsu a Tuner. Either turn if Girsu is your first monster on the field you get an instant Rank 2 or Level 5 Synchro if you make him a Tuner. The Armageddon Knight effect is why you play him though. Thinning the deck is good enough, but Girsu can be your combo starter on either turn. As a Tuner you can go for Halqifibrax off the token and Girsu, getting you to an authentic Tuner from your deck and then into a Synchro Tuner. Crescendo and Babel are top candidates to be sent to the grave if you’re not targeting monsters, Knightmare stands as the best monster in the Orcust archetype to send to the grave, which in turn will get a World Legacy into the grave. With Harp Horror not banned Girsu could take its place in any deck that plays any kind of combo of Orcust and World Legacy cards.

Advanced-4/5     Art-3/5

Until Next Time
KingofLullaby

Crunch$G

Now we look at more support cards in ETCO, only this time these cards are more designed for certain archetypes and we start with a new Orcust and Mekk-Knight card: Girsu, the Orcust Mekk-Knight.

Girsu is a Level 4 DARK Machine with 1800 ATK and 0 DEF. Good ATK stat on Level 4, a good Type and Attribute as well. Upon this card’s Normal or Special Summon, you can send an Orcust or World Legacy card from Deck to grave, then you can make this card a Tuner for the turn if there were 2 or more other cards in this card’s column. The first effect really helps Orcust by sending your Cymbal Skeleton or Brass Bombard directly to grave for some summons, World Legacy – “World Wand” to get your banished Orcust cards, Orcust Knightmare to send more DARK Machines like Orcusts or Gizmek Orochi, or send World Legacy – “World Armor” to later try and revive off World Legacy’s Succession for a set of a World Legacy card from Deck. The Tuner part helps Orcust get access to Crystron Halqifibrax without relying only on Brass Bombard, which is something I’m sure we all wanted Orcust to get access to. Obvious synergy there with Mekk-Knights as well, especially with that dump effect for World Legacy cards. The second effect is that if you control no other monsters, you can Special Summon a World Legacy Token (Machine/DARK/Level 1/ATK 0/DEF 0) to both player’s fields. Sure you give the opponent Link Material, but you now get another Link Material for something like Lib or Halqifibrax if you made this a Tuner, which should certainly help you make more plays in the Deck. Each effect is a hard once per turn, since it already enables a lot with the effects it has. It’s such a good card for an already strong archetype, even without Harp Horror in the format anymore. Orcust loved Scrap Recycler, so they’ll love one they can use with the archetypal monsters.

Advanced Rating: 4.5/5

Art: 4.5/5 Looks like a prototype Dingirsu, which is pretty cool.