DARK
1Miracle Raven
Archetype:
Rites
ATK:
300
DEF:
300
View:
587
[ Pendulum Effect ] Once per turn, during your Main Phase: You can Ritual Summon this card, by Tributing monsters from your hand or field whose total Levels equal or exceed 1. [ Monster Effect ] You can Ritual Summon this card with "Miracle Raven". Must be Ritual Summoned. This Ritual Summoned card is unaffected by your opponent's activated effects. If you Ritual Summon exactly 1 Ritual Monster with a card effect that requires use of monsters, this card you control can be used as the entire Tribute. If this card is Tributed for a Ritual Summon: You can add 1 Ritual Monster from your Deck to your hand. You can only use this effect of "Miracle Raven" once per turn.
Miracle Raven — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 57 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 56.8 · Deck: 56.8 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Searcher/Tutor · Secondary: Starter / Combo enabler, Material body
Why it scores here
Miracle Raven is a 1-Level, 300-ATK body whose value comes from its route: it is Ritual Summoned by tributing one monster of at least 1 Level, and when it is later tributed for a Ritual Summon it adds a Ritual Monster from the Deck to hand. That search on the tribute path is the card's main conversion, and it is confirmed by the deck data showing it in 298 recent decks across 54 archetypes, usually alongside Ash Blossom, Droll and Called by the Grave. The high frequency mainly confirms that the card is accessible and generic across homes, not that it is intrinsically strong (guardrail 3). The combo corpus is empty, so conversion is text-only inference, and the 300 ATK earns nothing.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 60 | Needs one monster of at least 1 Level to tribute and a Ritual Monster in the Deck to make the route pay off; recent decks run it in 298 of the sample at a 1.27 average (inferred from text and deck stats). |
| Combo & Conversion | 45 | No recorded combo boards; the conversion into a Ritual Monster plus search is inferred from text only (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 55 | Tributing a monster to summon it and then tributing it again while adding a Ritual Monster from the Deck is roughly card-neutral to slightly positive (inferred from text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 30 | Once Ritual Summoned it is unaffected by the opponent's activated effects, but it provides no negation or removal of its own (verified from text). |
| Material Utility | 50 | A DARK Fiend at Level 1 is a narrow material, though it can serve as the entire Tribute for a Ritual Summon of a monster requiring tributes (verified from text, with the level fit as inference). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 55 | The unaffected-by-activated-effects clause after Ritual Summon helps it survive interaction, and it spans hand, field and Graveyard routes (verified from text, with resilience as inference). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 70 | Typically run as a single copy (avg 1.27 copies across 298 decks, 238 with one copy) with no garnet or lock restriction (observed from deck stats). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Searcher/Tutor + 0.3 Starter / Combo enabler. Intrinsic ≈ 56.8, Deck ≈ 56.8, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Hand-sourced Ritual Summon route that converts one tributed monster into a 300-ATK body
- Adds a Ritual Monster from the Deck to hand when tributed, a search on the tribute path
- Unaffected by the opponent's activated effects once Ritual Summoned
- Runs in 298 recent decks across 54 archetypes with very low copy cost
Weaknesses
- Needs a monster of at least 1 Level to tribute, so the Ritual Summon is not free
- Only as strong as the Ritual Monsters in the Deck it searches
- 300 ATK / 300 DEF body with no direct board impact
- Once-per-turn and tribute-usage wording makes timing fiddly
Counters / choke points
- Negation of its activated effects before it resolves (not directly stated in text, inferred)
- Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring style hand-trap interaction on the search or summon route (observed partner, inferred)
Best use
Searcher/Tutor on the Ritual tribute path, with starter-level access to a Ritual Monster. Decks: Ritual-based decks such as Rites, Nekroz, Fiendsmith and Nouvelles lines (observed archetype spread). Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Ritual Summoned by tributing monsters from hand or field with total Levels of at least 1 (card text); When tributed for a Ritual Summon it adds 1 Ritual Monster from the Deck to hand, once per turn (card text); Unaffected by the opponent's activated effects once Ritual Summoned (card text); 298 of the recent decks run it, 78.9% in gameplay type 7 (deck stats)
- Observed: Average 1.27 copies per deck, 238 decks running one copy (deck stats); Top partners include Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring at 76.8% and Droll & Lock Bird at 70.1% co-occurrence (deck stats); Megalith usage statistic shows 100% inclusion at 1 copy in one archetype (usage statistics)
- Inferred: Search on the tribute path is the card's main conversion, so Searcher/Tutor is the primary role; Generic portability is capped at 65 because the text only works with Ritual Monsters; Resource economy is roughly neutral because one monster is spent to make one body and the tribute search adds one card
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no banlist token, assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no ritual-monster reference set supplied, so search quality depends on the Deck contents, which are unknown guide evidence is a single Clown Crew mention and says nothing about Miracle Raven's power