Spell
NormalBlack Illusion Ritual
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This card is used to Ritual Summon "Relinquished". You must also Tribute a monster from your hand or field whose Level is 1 or more.
Black Illusion Ritual — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 37 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 36 · Deck: 43 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Starter / Combo enabler
Why it scores here
Black Illusion Ritual is a Ritual Spell whose only printed function is to Ritual Summon Relinquished while tributing a monster of Level 1 or more. It converts into one Ritual body and nothing more, and it spends itself plus a tribute to do it, so resource economy stays low. Its high deck count (400 of 400 sampled decks, 87.5% in one gameplay type, 87% co-occurrence with Relinquished) reflects that it is the required enabler of the Relinquished line, not generic strength, and the evidence does not support a higher score. The score is held down by the Relinquished-only dependency, the absence of any searcher or combo records, and zero interaction.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 40 | No searcher or draw route is listed in the evidence and the card is only reachable by drawing it, though it is present in 400 of 400 decks at 1.59 copies on average (observed, inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 40 | Text converts into one Ritual Summon of Relinquished with no recorded combo boards (combo data total 0), so conversion is text-only inference (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 30 | The spell consumes itself and requires a tribute, so it is a net card cost before the Ritual body returns value; no refuel or draw is printed (verified). |
| Effect & Interaction | 5 | The card has no negation, removal, or disruption text, so it provides no opponent interaction (verified). |
| Material Utility | 5 | As a spell it is never material and it does not add a monster body to the field beyond the Ritual Summon it enables (verified). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 35 | Being a spell it can be targeted by spell-responding interaction and has no redundancy in the evidence, but it is in the deck at 1 to 3 copies (observed, inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 25 | It is dead without a Relinquished target and is present with Relinquished in 87% of decks, which locks the deck into that archetype line (observed, inferred). |
Calculation
Weight profile: Starter / Combo enabler primary role, no secondary blend. Intrinsic ≈ 36, Deck ≈ 43, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Relinquished dependency (-3). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Reliably included in the Relinquished deck line, with 400 of 400 sampled decks running it
- Enables a Ritual Summon of Relinquished from a single spell with no extra setup cost beyond a tribute
- Inclusion is consistent at 1 to 3 copies, so the copy requirement is low
Weaknesses
- Requires a Relinquished target, so it is dead outside that line
- Spends itself and a tribute for one body, giving no card advantage
- No searcher, combo, or interaction is recorded in the evidence
- Being a spell, it is exposed to spell-responding interaction
Counters / choke points
- Spell-responding negations and spell-stopping effects, since it is a spell that must resolve
Best use
Ritual enabler for Relinquished. Decks: Relinquished. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: Ritual Summon Relinquished and tribute a monster of Level 1 or more from hand or field; Card type is a Ritual Spell with no negation or removal text; Present in 400 of 400 sampled decks, 1.59 copies on average
- Observed: Relinquished co-occurs in 87% of decks; 87.5% of decks use one gameplay type; 43% of decks are in the Relinquished archetype; Single guide mention of the card in the Relinquished line
- Inferred: The card is the enabling spell of the Relinquished line rather than a generic staple; Accessibility depends on draws because no searcher is recorded; Spell-responding interaction can stop it because it must resolve
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no searcher or draw routes recorded for the card no banlist token, assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no usage statistics (StatisticsCard), so archetype inclusion is inferred from the deck sample only no rulings supplied, so timing and negation interactions are unverified