Trap
NormalVendread Reunion
Archetype:
Vendread
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Reveal 1 "Vendread" Ritual Monster in your hand, Special Summon any number of your banished "Vendread" monsters with different names, in face-down Defense Position, whose total Levels exactly equal the Level of the revealed Ritual Monster, Tribute all those face-down Defense Position monsters, then Ritual Summon that Ritual Monster from your hand. You must be able to Ritual Summon to activate and to resolve this effect.
Vendread Reunion — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 50 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 48 · Deck: 50 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Combo enabler · Secondary: Recovery/Recursion
Why it scores here
Vendread Reunion is a Vendread-locked Ritual enabler: it reveals a Vendread Ritual monster from hand, Special Summons banished Vendread monsters as face-down Defense material whose Levels total the Ritual monster's Level, then Ritual Summons that monster. The text converts banished, otherwise dead, Vendread monsters and a revealed (not discarded) Ritual monster into board presence, which earns the combo and recursion axes. It has no interaction text, and the card is not itself a material body, so those axes stay low despite its 79-of-79 deck presence, which confirms the role is real and not a Frequency-based score boost.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 55 | Needs a Vendread Ritual monster in hand plus matching banished Vendread monsters, and the deck sample shows it in all 79 main decks (observed, plus inferred conditions from text). |
| Combo & Conversion | 65 | Text converts banished monsters and a revealed Ritual monster into a Ritual Summon board; no recorded boards exist to confirm it (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 60 | The Ritual monster is revealed, not spent, and the banished monsters are recycled as material, giving board value with no card cost in text (verified text, inferred value). |
| Effect & Interaction | 5 | No negation, removal or disruption is stated in the text; the guide only says the board is easy to pass since few omni-negates exist (verified absence, speculation from guide). |
| Material Utility | 25 | The card is a Trap and never becomes material itself, so this axis reflects only its enabling role (verified from card type). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 40 | The sample shows one copy per deck, and no text describes redundancy or recovery if the activation is negated (inferred, data gap). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 55 | One copy per deck across 79 decks shows low slot cost, but it needs Vendread Ritual and banished-monster setup, which adds restriction (observed deck count plus inferred restriction). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Combo enabler + 0.3 Recovery/Recursion. Intrinsic ≈ 48, Deck ≈ 50, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Conditional setup restriction (-2). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Present in all 79 sampled decks at one copy each, confirming real use across 10 archetypes
- Converts banished Vendread monsters and a revealed Ritual monster into board presence
- Co-occurs at 100% with core Vendread partners such as Vendread Houndhorde and Revendread Slayer
Weaknesses
- Vendread-only text, so portability is limited to Vendread homes (63% of sampled decks use the two main Vendread archetypes)
- Ritual setup and Level matching are fiddly and reduce consistency
- No combo records were supplied, so the combo claims rest on text alone
Counters / choke points
- No specific counter cards are named in the supplied evidence; interaction against the trap or the Ritual Summon is unverified (data gap)
Best use
Ritual enabler that converts banished Vendread monsters into a Ritual Summon board. Decks: Vendread (archetype 873), Vendread (archetype 1141), Shiranui, Eldlich. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card type is Trap Card, race Normal, archetype Vendread (card text); Ritual Summon requirement and banished-monster Special Summon are stated in the description; Appears in 79 of 79 sampled decks, always as a main-deck single copy (deck stats)
- Observed: Top partners co-occur in 100% of sampled decks, which reflects archetype packaging rather than card strength; 63.3% of decks come from the two Vendread archetypes; 12.7% each from Shiranui and Eldlich
- Inferred: The card is a Ritual enabler with recursion value from banish-based material; Low accessibility because the revealed Ritual monster and matching Levels are required
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no banlist token, assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no usage statistics (StatisticsCard), so archetype inclusion is inferred from the deck sample only no trap activation timing or negation rulings in evidence