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NormalWhite Dragon Ritual
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This card is used to Ritual Summon "Paladin of White Dragon". You must also Tribute monsters from your hand or field whose total Levels equal 4 or more.
White Dragon Ritual — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 33 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 33 · Deck: 35 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Combo enabler · Secondary: Utility
Why it scores here
White Dragon Ritual does exactly one narrow thing: it Ritual Summons "Paladin of White Dragon", and it lives or dies on having that Ritual Monster plus Level-4 tribute material in hand or on field. Its 48-deck sample is driven almost entirely by Blue-Eyes decks (58.3%) that use the card as the entry point to the Paladin -> Blue-Eyes White Dragon line, not by raw strength. It provides no card advantage, no disruption, and no protection, converting multiple cards into a single vanilla body at roughly a -2 cost. The Blue-Eyes payoff earns it nothing here; accessibility and deck cost dominate the score.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 48 | It requires the named Ritual Monster plus Level-4 tribute material, though Manju of the Ten Thousand Hands (66.7% co-decks) and Ritual-Spell searchers can fetch the pieces (observed). |
| Combo & Conversion | 30 | The best realistic line is Ritual Summon Paladin, then trade it for a Blue-Eyes White Dragon - a multi-card play into a vanilla beatstick, with no combo boards appearing in evidence (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 24 | Ritual Summoning spends a Spell plus tribute material to produce one monster, a roughly -2 exchange with no refuel or draw (inferred). |
| Effect & Interaction | 6 | The card text gives no removal, negation, or disruption - it only enables a Ritual Summon (verified). |
| Material Utility | 8 | As a Spell it provides no body or material itself; any material value comes only indirectly through the summoned Paladin (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 22 | A single negation or removal on the Spell ends the play, and it is a dead card whenever the Ritual Monster is missing (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 32 | It forces a Paladin package into the deck and is close to a garnet without its Ritual Monster, though it occupies only a small slot (inferred). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Combo enabler + 0.3 Utility. Intrinsic ≈ 33, Deck ≈ 35, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Narrow package requirement (-2). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Enables the Paladin of White Dragon -> Blue-Eyes White Dragon line, a known payoff of the Blue-Eyes archetype.
- Ritual support such as Manju of the Ten Thousand Hands is a common partner (66.7%), giving it real search routes.
- Simple, unambiguous text with no timing or once-per-turn complexity.
Weaknesses
- Requires multiple specific pieces at once: this Spell, the Ritual Monster, and tribute material of total Level 4 or more.
- Generates no card advantage; the Ritual Summon is roughly a -2 exchange.
- A dead card whenever Paladin of White Dragon is not available.
- Provides no disruption, negation, or protection on its own.
Counters / choke points
- Negating or removing White Dragon Ritual in response to the Ritual Summon (e.g. Spell/Trap negation).
- Hand traps that interrupt the search or summon line before the Ritual Summon resolves.
- Disrupting the summoned Paladin before it can be tributed.
Best use
Ritual Summon enabler for Paladin of White Dragon. Decks: Blue-Eyes, Paladin of White Dragon builds, Limit 1 / retro event formats. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: a Ritual Spell used to Ritual Summon 'Paladin of White Dragon' by tributing monsters whose total Levels equal 4 or more.; Formats list TCG, OCG, Master Duel, and Duel Links.
- Observed: 48 recent decks run the card, all in the main deck, averaging 1.65 copies.; Blue-Eyes White Dragon co-occurs in 97.9% of decks that run it and Paladin of White Dragon in 79.2%.; Blue-Eyes is the most common hosting archetype at 58.3%; Manju of the Ten Thousand Hands appears in 66.7%.
- Inferred: The card is a required Ritual Spell piece for the Paladin -> Blue-Eyes White Dragon line.; Generic Ritual support such as Manju can fetch the needed Ritual Monster/Spell pieces.; The Ritual Summon represents roughly a -2 card exchange.
- Data gaps: no combos supplied - combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no banlist token - assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no usage statistics (StatisticsCard) - archetype inclusion % inferred from deck sample only