Ritual Beast Deck #771092 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 42/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck Ritual Beast boards (Ulti-Gaiapelio 3200 ATK, Ulti-Nochiudrago 2400 ATK, Ulti-Apelio 2600 ATK) summoned by banishing Tamer/Beast monsters, with Ulti-Reirautari and Ulti-Kimunfalcos as link enablers; Spiritual Beast Rampengu / Apelio pressure once a Tamer and Beast are on the field
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon a Tamer (Ritual Beast Tamer Elder or Spiritual Beast Tamer Lara) to extend, search or recycle a Ritual Beast via Inheritance, then link or fuse into a boss; the plan depends on the Normal Summon extension and the banish cost, which the evidence does not verify in play
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence or Droll & Lock Bird for the opponent's first search or summon, then rebuild through the Tamer Normal Summon chain; the three-copy Ash is illegal as built, so this plan is theoretical
• Recovery: Banished Ritual Beast monsters re-enter via Ritual Beast Tamer Wen, Nemeses Flag or Nemeses Corridor and the Ulti monsters' banish-to-return effects; the Gold Sarcophagus draw and Mulcharmy Fuwalos draw add refills
• After siding: No side deck (0 cards), so no post-side plan exists; the evidence does not show one

Why it scores here

The score comes from the deck as a system: a Normal-Summon Tamer engine (Tamer Elder, Spiritual Lara, Ritual Beast Tamer Lara) that feeds a 15-card Extra Deck of Ulti fusions and links, with Ritual Beast core copies in about 99.8% of opening hands and 7 hand traps for interaction. Floor and median are weak because no recorded boards exist, so the score rests on text reads and hypergeometric draws, not on observed output. The deck is Illegal as built (three copies of Ash Blossom against an OCG limit of two), so this is a theoretical, structural-only read capped low. Archetype popularity (usage stats show a core list) and card power were not averaged or credited; there is no side deck and no tournament or meta sample, so Meta Power is null and post-side is unscored.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, Combo secondary (profile used as is; no blend applied). Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 56, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); no Side Deck (-4). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(55) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(50) = 54, plus context modifiers (-12) = 42; illegal list, so treated as theoretical/structural-only and capped low

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.34 · key two-card combo ≈ — · 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 Ritual Beast core: Tamer and Beast monsters appear in most hands
• Seven hand traps and a Droll & Lock Bird give interaction on both turns
• Full Extra Deck with high-ATK bosses (3200, 2600, 2400)

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: three Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring against a limit of two
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation
• No recorded boards, so the floor and median are unmeasured
• Many one-copy staples make the list fragile to a single missed card

Critical choke points

• Normal Summon of a Tamer to start the engine; if the opening hand has no Tamer or Normal Summon extender, the Extra summon chain stalls
• Banish-cost Ulti summons depend on Beasts and Tamers being in the banish zone or hand, which the list supplies only through a few routes

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring 3 copies against an OCG legal limit of 2; Main 40, Extra 15, Side 0 counts; main and extra within size rules; Card text and banlist status for listed cards; Copy histogram and Extra Deck breakdown (7 fusion, 7 link, 1 Xyz)
• Inferred: Opening-hand starter and hand-trap probabilities (hypergeometric); Interaction density and negation quality from card text; Ulti summon routes and banish-cost reads from card text; Going-second hand-trap coverage (0.71)
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated sample); Tournament reliability and matchup fit (no tournament data); Median output (no recorded boards)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry; going-first and going-second splits and matchup results unknown Meta Power is Provisional until a dated metagame sample is supplied No side deck, so post-side performance cannot be assessed Deck is Illegal as built; the score is theoretical and structural-only