Ritual Beast Deck #763377 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 51/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck Ritual Beast Ulti fusions (Ulti-Gaiapelio 3200 ATK, Thunder Dragon Colossus, Ulti-Apelio, Ulti-Nochiudrago) summoned by banishing Tamer + Spiritual Beast materials, backed by Link and Xyz closers; Ulti-Cannahawk / Ulti-Nochiudrago board pressure after Tamer Elder and Tamer Lara bring back Ritual Beasts
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon Tamer Elder or Tamer Lara, search or Special Summon a Spiritual Beast, then build toward a Ritual Beast Ulti fusion while holding Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre and Maxx C for disruption
• Turn 2 (going second): Open with Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Droll & Lock Bird or Maxx C to blank the opponent's first engine, then rebuild through Tamer and Spiritual Beast Extra Deck summons
• Recovery: Recur Tamers and Spiritual Beasts from the GY and banished zone with Tamer Lara, Apelio and Ritual Beast's Bond, then re-enter Ulti monsters
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan; the deck relies on its main-deck interaction suite

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens an engine most of the time: about 61% of opening five-card hands contain at least one of its nine Tamers and about 56% contain at least one of its eight Spiritual Beasts, and about 31% contain both, so the Ulti fusion route is live but not guaranteed on turn one (Inferred hypergeometric estimate). Its interaction suite is dense, with eight hand traps, Solemn Judgment, Solemn Warning, Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C, Harpie's Feather Duster, Raigeki and Lightning Storm, which earns the strongest dimension (D7 80). Conversion is credible on paper because the Extra Deck holds several large Ulti fusions, but the absence of recorded boards keeps the ceiling and median at text-only inference (D3 68, D4 50). The score is held down by brick risk and off-archetype dilution: 38 of 55 Main Deck copies are outside the exact Ritual Beast name, several tech cards are dead without a specific board, and Dimensional Fissure and Macro Cosmos conflict with the deck's own graveyard recursion. The deck has no Side Deck, so post-side adaptability scores very low. Popularity and usage stats confirm the list is the archetype-standard core, but that did not earn points; no card scores were averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 59.6, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 64, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: Engine conflict with graveyard recursion (-3); Off-archetype dilution and dead tech (-2); Banlist exposure (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers = 0.80*59.6 + 0.20*48 - 6 = 51.3

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.61 · key two-card combo ≈ 0.31 · full-brick estimate ≈ — (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense layered interaction across hand traps, spells and traps
• Extra Deck of large Ulti fusions with negation and removal effects
• Recursion through GY and banish zones that rebuilds after disruption
• Archetype-standard core confirmed by usage statistics

Weaknesses

• No side deck, so no post-side adaptability
• Large off-archetype and tech share creates brick and dead-card risk
• Dimensional Fissure and Macro Cosmos conflict with the GY-based engine
• No recorded boards, so combo ceiling and median cannot be measured

Critical choke points

• Both a Tamer and a Spiritual Beast must be present to summon the Ulti fusions; opening-hand probability of both is about 0.31
• Ghost Ogre, Ash Blossom and Droll are the main answers to the opponent's first disruption, so an early hand trap blockade can stall the turn

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status with all 10 restricted cards within legal copy limits; Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0 within OCG size rules; Card text and stats for Tamers, Spiritual Beasts, Ulti fusions and interaction cards; Usage statistics show core-card inclusion at 100%
• Inferred: Hypergeometric starter probabilities (Tamer, Spiritual Beast, both); Brick and dead-card rate from composition and card text; Interaction quality and closing power from card text; Going-first and going-second power estimates
• Provisional: Meta-share and matchup fit (no tournament link or dated metagame sample)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied, so combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick or starter rates) No side deck, so post-side performance cannot be assessed Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied