Ritual Beast Deck #769242 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck Ritual Beast Ulti-Gaiapelio / Ulti-Nochiudrago / Colossus pressure after a Ritual Beast engine line; Link and Xyz pressure from Ulti-Reirautari, Ulti-Kimunfalcos and Zeus
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon Ritual Beast Tamer Elder or Tamer Lara, search or recurse a Ritual Beast, then bridge into a banish-based Fusion or Link. Expect hand-trap interruption (Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence) on the first engine card.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Evenly Matched or Nibiru to answer the opponent's first board, then rebuild through GY and banish recursion (Tamer Wen, Tamer Lara, Winda).
• Recovery: Recover through Ritual Beast monsters in the GY and banish zone (Tamer Lara, Tamer Wen, Ulti-Reirautari, Ulti-Kimunfalcos) plus Inheritance and Nemeses searchers.
• After siding: No side deck is registered (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan. Scored as a [P] gap in D12.

Why it scores here

The deck's engine is a Ritual Beast core: the archetype core group has about a 0.91 chance of at least one copy in a 5-card opening hand, so the engine usually comes online by turn 2. Its ceiling comes from Extra Deck Fusion and Link bridges through banished Ritual Beasts, but no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling and median are text-based inferences only. Interaction is broad (Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Solemn Judgment, Skill Drain, Droll & Lock Bird, Evenly Matched) and gives the deck a real going-second plan. Off-archetype slots (Mulcharmy, Nemeses, Greed, Thunder Dragon) and an 41% exact-name purity hurt coherence and brick resistance. The deck is Illegal (2 copies of S:P Little Knight against a limit of 1), so the score is capped at 25 as a theoretical, structural-only read. Popularity and archetype usage did not earn points, and no card scores were averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 54, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 42. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-6); engine_conflicts (-3); illegal_cap (0). Final formula: Uncapped 0.80*Structural(54) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(42) + modifiers(-9) = 43; capped at 25 because the list is Illegal (theoretical/structural-only). Meta Power is provisional (null).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.91 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.09 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Core engine accessibility (about 0.91 for at least one archetype card in an opening hand)
• Layered interaction: Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Solemn Judgment, Skill Drain, Droll & Lock Bird, Evenly Matched
• Recursion through GY and banish zones (Tamer Lara, Tamer Wen, Winda, Ulti-Reirautari)
• Strong Extra Deck closers (Ulti-Gaiapelio, Ulti-Nochiudrago, Colossus)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: S:P Little Knight is over the copy limit
• Low archetype purity (41%) and off-archetype engine slots
• No side deck registered, so no post-side plan
• No recorded boards, so the combo floor and median are unobserved

Critical choke points

• Ritual Beast Tamer Elder or Tamer Lara as the first engine card, which is exposed to Ash Blossom and Infinite Impermanence
• Banished Ritual Beast monsters as the Fusion and Link material supply

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: S:P Little Knight over copy limit (2 vs 1, OCG); Card text and types for all 55 main and 15 extra entries; Archetype core group probability ≈ 0.91 (hypergeometric); Composition: 27 distinct main, 11 distinct extra, 41.4% exact-name purity
• Inferred: Starter reliability (D1) and brick proxy (D2); Interaction quality and going-second value (D7, D8); Closing power from Extra Deck bosses (D9); Pilotability and error tolerance (D14)
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); Format fit (D13) and matchup coverage; Post-side plan (D12, no side deck)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent No side deck registered (side_count 0) No win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchup, brick or OTK rates Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied