Ritual Beast Deck #747950 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Midrange
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ritual Beast Ulti Extra Deck summons (Ulti-Reirautari, Ulti-Apelio, Ulti-Nochiudrago, Ulti-Cannahawk) that are Special Summoned by banishing Ritual Beast Tamer and Spiritual Beast monsters, then attacking through 2400-2900 ATK bodies.; Shiina, Twin Tempests of Celestial Thunder (2900 ATK) and Bystial Magnamhut (2500 ATK) as single-copy boss monsters.
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon Ritual Beast Tamer Elder or Spiritual Beast Tamer Lara, use the Ritual Beast Inheritance searcher, then banish Tamer and Spiritual Beast monsters to Extra Deck summon an Ulti monster.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Ghost Belle or Droll for the opponent's first activation, then rebuild the same banish-into-Ulti line with the remaining hand.
• Recovery: Spiritual Beast Tamer Winda (after being destroyed by an opponent card) and Ritual Beast Tamer Wen (Normal Summon, banished Ritual Beast revival) re-enter Ritual Beast monsters from the banish zone.
• After siding: Not applicable: the deck has no Side Deck, so no post-side plan exists.

Why it scores here

The score is driven by the deck as a system, not by averaging its cards. The Ritual Beast core (24 copies in the archetype core group, about 99% chance of at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand per the proxy estimate) gives the deck a likely engine start, and the three-copy starters (Tamer Elder, Lara, Cannahawk) give redundant openings. Interaction is dense: three hand traps and several removal or negation texts give end-board and going-second resilience. The Extra Deck produces 2400-2900 ATK bodies through repeatable banish-based summons, which supports closing power. Popularity and archetype usage were not credited: the archetype usage statistics confirm the list is real, but no tournament or win-rate data exists. Because the list is Illegal (two Forbidden cards, two over-limit cards, no Side Deck), the Final score is capped at 30 and the evaluation is structural-only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 58, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 52. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-6); no Side Deck (-3). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 0.80*58 + 0.20*52 - 9 = 48 uncapped; Illegal cap applied, final score 30 (structural-only evaluation)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.99 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.01 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense archetype core with three-copy starters for consistent openings
• Redundant hand traps (Infinite Impermanence, Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Droll) for going second
• Extra Deck bosses at 2400-2900 ATK from repeatable banish-based summons

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: two Forbidden cards and two over-limit cards
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Off-archetype and non-core cards (Thunder Dragon Colossus missing, Bagooska and Dimension Shifter forbidden) weaken engine coherence

Critical choke points

• Ritual Beast Tamer or Spiritual Beast monster must survive to be banished for the Ulti summon
• Ash Blossom and Droll cannot both be run at legal counts without cutting a hand trap

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal: Dimension Shifter and Bagooska are Forbidden in OCG and run in the Main/Extra Deck; Ash Blossom run 3 vs legal 2; Droll run 2 vs legal 1; Main 40 and Extra 15 are within size rules; Side 0; Core usage: 11 of 24 archetype core cards present (45.8%)
• Inferred: Starter consistency (P at least one core card in 5 = 0.993); Interaction density from hand-trap and removal text; Ceiling and floor of the Extra Deck summon route (text-only, no recorded boards)
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated meta sample); Matchup fit (no tournament context)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied (combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference) No tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record are absent No win-rate telemetry (going-first, going-second, matchup, brick and starter rates) Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No Side Deck, so best-of-3 adaptation cannot be scored