Spell
NormalRavenous Vendread
Archetype:
Vendread
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Special Summon 1 "Vendread" monster from your hand, Deck, or GY in face-down Defense Position, except "Vendread Scavenger", then apply the following effect. ● Ritual Summon any 1 "Vendread" Ritual Monster from your hand or GY by Tributing monsters you control, including the monster Special Summoned by this card, whose total Levels equal or exceed the Level of the Ritual Monster. You can only activate 1 "Ravenous Vendread" per turn.
Ravenous Vendread — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 54 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 54 · Deck: 54 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Starter / Combo enabler · Secondary: Extender
Why it scores here
Ravenous Vendread converts a Vendread monster from hand, Deck or GY into a face-down Defense body and then Ritual Summons a Vendread Ritual monster from hand or GY, so one spell turns a live Vendread hand into a board. Its score comes from access and conversion inside the Vendread shell, where it is run in 273 of the sampled decks at about 2 copies each and appears alongside its main partners in most of them. It earns little for interaction, since it has no opponent-facing effect, and nothing for ATK or stats, and it is held back by the once-per-turn limit and the Vendread-only restriction. The lack of recorded combo boards keeps the confidence at Medium.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 78 | Needs only one Vendread monster in hand, Deck or GY (not Scavenger), and the deck evidence shows 96% partner overlap with core Vendread support (verified deck stat; reliability is high within the archetype only). |
| Combo & Conversion | 70 | Text describes a Special Summon followed by a Ritual Summon of a Vendread Ritual monster, a two-step conversion from one card, but no combo boards are supplied to confirm the output size (inferred from text). |
| Resource Economy | 58 | Recovers a Ritual monster from the GY and gives a body, but the Ritual tributes are the player's own monsters, so the net is roughly even rather than card-positive (inferred from text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 15 | No opponent-facing effect; it only affects the player's own zones, so it contributes no removal, negation or hand-trap value (verified from text). |
| Material Utility | 8 | A Spell card cannot be used as material and it has no body to convert once resolved, so the material axis is near zero (verified from card type). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 35 | Can be negated as a spell and is limited to one activation per turn, so it is fragile against common spell interaction, with no multi-zone redundancy (inferred from text and the once-per-turn clause). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 55 | Typically 1 to 3 copies, with no garnet or brick, but the Vendread-only restriction locks the deck into one archetype (verified from text and copies distribution). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Starter/Combo enabler + 0.3 Extender. Intrinsic ≈ 54, Deck ≈ 54, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Self-locking archetype restriction (-3). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck (Decks present, meta unknown); Deck includes modifiers
Strengths
- Converts one card into a Ritual Summon of a Vendread Ritual monster from hand or GY
- Vendread monster access from hand, Deck or GY gives high reliability inside the archetype
- Used in 273 sampled decks with strong partner overlap, so the line is practical
- Low copy count (about 2) with no garnet cost
Weaknesses
- Once per turn activation limit
- Spell card, so it is fragile to spell negation and provides no body or material value
- Vendread-only restriction limits use outside the archetype
- No opponent-facing interaction
Counters / choke points
- Opponent spell negation and hand traps (inferred from text; no counter data supplied)
Best use
Starter / Extender for the Vendread Ritual line, used as the opening spell that Special Summons a Vendread body and then Ritual Summons from hand or GY. Decks: Vendread (archetype 873), Vendread (archetype 1141). Suggested copies: 2.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: Special Summons a Vendread monster from hand, Deck or GY in face-down Defense, except Vendread Scavenger, then Ritual Summons a Vendread Ritual monster from hand or GY by Tributing (verified); Once per turn activation clause (verified); Used in 273 sampled decks with 1.95 average copies; Vendread archetype at 39.9% and 19.0% (verified deck stat); Usage statistics: Vendread archetype inclusion 100% with typical copies 2 (verified)
- Observed: Partner overlap with core Vendread support (96.7% to 93.4%) across the sampled decks (observed); Gameplay split: 72.2% gameplay type 7 and 26.4% gameplay type 4 (observed)
- Inferred: Net card advantage is roughly even because the Ritual tributes are the player's own monsters (inferred from text); Two-step conversion from one card to a board, since no boards were supplied (inferred from text); Vendread-only restriction is a self-locking limitation for deck building (inferred from text)
- Data gaps: no combos supplied; combo conversion is text-only inference no banlist token; assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no counter or interaction data supplied; counters are inferred from text only no metagame sample; meta power is null