DARK
7Vendread Battlelord
Archetype:
Vendread
ATK:
2700
DEF:
0
View:
3550
You can Ritual Summon this card with any "Vendread" Ritual Spell. You can banish 1 "Vendread" card from your GY and declare 1 type of card (Monster, Spell, or Trap); for the rest of this turn, your opponent cannot activate cards or effects of that type. If this Ritual Summoned card is sent to the GY: You can add 1 Ritual Monster from your Deck to your hand, and if you do, send 1 "Vendread" monster from your Deck to the GY. You can only use each effect of "Vendread Battlelord" once per turn.
Vendread Battlelord — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 61 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 58 · Deck: 63 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Searcher/Tutor · Secondary: Floodgate/Control
Why it scores here
Vendread Battlelord scores on what it converts from the graveyard and its Ritual Summon route, not on its 2700 ATK, which earns nothing. Its on-GY trigger adds a Ritual Monster from the Deck and mills a Vendread monster, a net card-advantage search that is the main reason it scores, and its once-per-turn one-turn type lock adds moderate interaction. The strong deck adoption (273 decks, 100% inclusion in two archetype stat rows) confirms the role is practical, but it is not treated as proof of raw power, and the missing combo data keeps the combo axis text-only.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 72 | Ritual Summon needs a Vendread Ritual Spell in hand, but it is run in 273 of the sampled decks at about 1.66 copies per deck, so access is practical (observed, with the ritual spell requirement from verified text). |
| Combo & Conversion | 60 | Guides describe a one-card OTK body and disruption, but no combo boards were supplied, so conversion is text-only inference (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 70 | Banishing a Vendread from the GY to set up the effect is paid back by adding a Ritual Monster and milling a Vendread, a net search with mill (verified text, supported by guide mentions of search and mill). |
| Effect & Interaction | 45 | The one-turn lock on one card type is soft, once-per-turn interaction rather than a hard negate (verified text). |
| Material Utility | 40 | A Level 7 DARK Zombie Ritual body with no combo or material evidence supplied, so its material value is only modest and inferred from its level and attribute. |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 50 | The GY trigger survives on the graveyard and multiple per-turn effects give some redundancy, but a single banish cost and the Ritual Summon requirement limit recovery (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 55 | Requires an archetype-specific Ritual Spell, a real brick risk noted in guides, but the Vendread archetype is heavily supported across the sampled decks (observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Searcher/Tutor + 0.3 Floodgate/Control. Intrinsic ≈ 58, Deck ≈ 63, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Ritual-summoned body converts a Vendread Ritual Spell into a board presence
- GY trigger yields a net search of a Ritual Monster with a Vendread mill
- Practical inclusion across several Vendread homes and gameplay types
- Once-per-turn type lock provides soft interaction
Weaknesses
- Ritual Summon requirement creates a brick risk without the Ritual Spell
- Archetype-locked text limits portability outside Vendread
- Mostly soft interaction; no hard negate or hand trap reach
- No combo evidence supplied, so the card's board-level conversion is unverified
Counters / choke points
- Generic negation of the GY trigger or the Ritual Summon (inference; not evidenced in the supplied data)
- Graveyard hate that removes the Vendread banish fuel (inference)
Best use
Ritual-summoned searcher with a GY trigger and one-turn type lock within the Vendread deck. Decks: Vendread (archetype 873), Vendread (archetype 132), Vendread (archetype 1141). Suggested copies: 2.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Ritual Summon requires a Vendread Ritual Spell; Banish one Vendread from the GY to declare a card type and lock the opponent for the turn; On GY send, add one Ritual Monster from the Deck and mill one Vendread monster if you do; Each effect is once per turn
- Observed: 273 sampled decks run the card at an average of 1.66 copies; Usage stats show 100% inclusion in archetypes 132 and 1141; Top partner Revendread Evolution appears alongside it in 91.6% of decks
- Inferred: Effective as a Searcher/Tutor primary role with Floodgate secondary; Material value is modest given Level 7 Ritual body with no combo data; Soft interaction only; no hard negate
- Data gaps: no combos supplied - combo conversion is text-only inference no banlist token - assumed 3 copies (unlimited) legal copies is empty for all formats no rulings or ruling source supplied for the once-per-turn and type-lock interactions