Spell
NormalSuper Soldier Ritual
Archetype:
Black Luster Soldier
View:
5090
This card can be used to Ritual Summon any "Black Luster Soldier" Ritual Monster. You must also Tribute monsters from your hand or field whose total Levels exactly equal 8. During your Main Phase, except the turn this card was sent to the Graveyard: You can banish this card, 1 LIGHT monster, and 1 DARK monster from your Graveyard; Special Summon 1 "Black Luster Soldier" Ritual Monster from your hand, ignoring its Summoning conditions. You can only use this effect of "Super Soldier Ritual" once per turn.
Super Soldier Ritual — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 56 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 52 · Deck: 58 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Starter / Combo enabler · Secondary: Recovery/Recursion, Material body
Why it scores here
The card converts a hand-held BLS Ritual monster into a board through a Tribute-8 Ritual Summon, and its Graveyard effect can revive a BLS Ritual monster from hand by banishing itself plus a LIGHT and a DARK monster from the GY. Its 227-deck presence and strong partner rates (Super Soldier Synthesis, Soldier of Chaos, Legendary Swordsman) confirm the role is real and practical, but that frequency is not used to inflate the score (guardrail 3). It has no interaction, is not a material body, and combo evidence is absent, so those axes stay low to middling, and the score is capped by the archetype-locked text.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 65 | Drawn in a 1-copy-heavy deck (avg 1.41 copies) with strong partner co-occurrence, but no searcher route is in the text and starter role/searched-for role data is absent (observed + inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 60 | The Ritual Summon of a BLS Ritual monster is verified from text, but no combo boards were supplied to measure what it builds (verified text, inferred conversion). |
| Resource Economy | 50 | The GY effect spends 3 GY cards (itself plus two) to return one monster to the board, a roughly even trade with some recursion value (verified text, inferred). |
| Effect & Interaction | 15 | The card has no negation, removal, or hand-trap reach (verified from text). |
| Material Utility | 20 | It is a Spell with no material body, so it adds nothing as material (verified from text). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 50 | The GY effect works from the graveyard and so survives some interaction, but it is once per turn and conditional on the turn it was sent to GY (verified text, inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 50 | It is a single-copy-friendly Ritual spell that requires a BLS Ritual monster in hand, a mild restriction with no garnet or lock (verified text, observed copy distribution). |
Calculation
Weight profile: Starter / Combo enabler primary, no secondary blend applied. Intrinsic ≈ 52, Deck ≈ 58, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Ritual Summons any BLS Ritual monster from hand, ignoring its summoning conditions via the GY effect (verified text)
- Live in 227 recent decks across 43 archetypes, with strong partner co-occurrence (observed)
Weaknesses
- Archetype-locked to BLS Ritual monsters, so it does nothing outside that pool (verified text)
- No opponent interaction, negation, or material value (verified text)
- No recorded combo boards, so combo conversion is text-only inference (data gap)
Counters / choke points
- Opponent hand traps and negation of the Ritual Summon or GY effect (inferred from rules; not in evidence)
Best use
Starter / Ritual enabler for BLS Ritual monsters. Decks: Black Luster Soldier (archetype 809, 1007, 1200). Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Ritual Summons any BLS Ritual monster with a Tribute of total Level 8 from hand or field; GY effect: once per turn, banish this card plus 1 LIGHT and 1 DARK monster from GY to Special Summon a BLS Ritual monster from hand, ignoring its conditions; Archetype is Black Luster Soldier, and the card has no search or negation text
- Observed: Present in 227 recent decks (19.8% in the largest BLS home), avg 1.41 copies, 43 distinct archetypes; Top partners co-occur in 75–88% of decks, including Super Soldier Synthesis (75.8%) and Soldier of Chaos (80.2%)
- Inferred: Graveyard recursion gives roughly even resource economy; Deckbuilding cost is mild: a single BLS Ritual monster must be in hand; Resilience is moderate because the GY effect survives some interaction but is once per turn
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no banlist token, so 3 copies (unlimited) is assumed no usage statistics (StatisticsCard), so archetype inclusion % is inferred from the deck sample only