Ritual Beast Deck #773320 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck Ritual Beast fusion, link and Ulti monsters (Ulti-Gaiapelio, Ulti-Apelio, Ulti-Nochiudrago) that swing the board after banishing Ritual Beast Tamer and Spiritual Beast material; Link and Xyz pressure (Perfectron Hydradrive Dragon, Ulti-Reirautari, Number 101) once the board is established
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with a Tamer or Spiritual Beast starter (Tamer Elder, Lara, Cannahawk, Rampengu, Winda) and an Emergency Teleport or Normal Summon line to reach a fusion, then protect the field with Ash Blossom and Droll & Lock Bird
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit, Droll & Lock Bird and Maxx C to disrupt the opponent's engine, then rebuild through Ritual Beast recursion (Kimunfalcos, Reirautari, Cannahawk)
• Recovery: Recover through Cannahawk banish-and-add, Winda's destruction summon, Wen's banished-monster summon and Ulti-Kimunfalcos GY-banish Normal Summon
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has 0 Side Deck cards, so there is no post-side plan in the list

Why it scores here

The deck's Ritual Beast core is dense (24 archetype-core copies, P(at least one open in a 5-card hand) of 0.993), so the engine is usually reachable on turn 1 or 2 through Tamer and Spiritual Beast starters. Its real strength is the system: Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Ghost Ogre, Maxx C and Crossout Designator give layered interaction, and Cannahawk, Kimunfalcos and Reirautari let the deck rebuild from the banished zone. The Extra Deck (Ulti-Gaiapelio, Ulti-Apelio, Perfectron) gives a real closing ceiling. Those points are scored on the system, not by averaging card scores. Scoring is capped because three Forbidden cards (Triple Tactics Talent, Charmer Quartet in Bloom, Cross-Sheep) make the list illegal, and the score is also held down by the absence of a side deck, recorded combos and any tournament or meta sample. Archetype popularity was not credited.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 54.5, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 42. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12); no side deck (0); illegal cap (0). Final formula: Theoretical only (Illegal list): 0.80*54.5 + 0.20*42 = 52.0; banlist modifier -12 gives 40; illegal cap lowers the reported score to 35. No normal Final Contextual score is issued.

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 makes the engine reachable in almost every opening hand
• Layered hand traps and negates (Ash Blossom, Droll, Ghost Ogre, Maxx C, Crossout Designator) give resilience on both turns
• Strong Extra Deck closers (Ulti-Gaiapelio, Ulti-Apelio, Perfectron) give a real offensive ceiling
• Recursion through Cannahawk, Kimunfalcos and Reirautari allows rebuilding from the banished zone

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: three Forbidden cards must be removed before the deck can be played in OCG
• No side deck at all, so no best-of-3 adaptation
• Exact-name purity is only 40%, with many off-archetype and generic cards diluting the engine
• Starters are single-card dependent; each 3-copy starter has only about 34% chance to appear in the opening 5

Critical choke points

• Tamer or Spiritual Beast starter in the opening hand, since all Fusion and Link lines route through it
• Forbidden cards must be removed, which changes the Extra Deck slot count and the Main Deck engine

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 satisfy OCG size rules; Three Forbidden cards run at 1 copy each, legal copies 0; Archetype core P(≥1 in opening 5) = 0.9934 from hypergeometric calc; Extra Deck breakdown: 6 Fusion, 2 Xyz, 7 Link (including 2 Ulti-Cannahawk)
• Inferred: Starter consistency ≈ 0.34 per 3-copy card in 5-card hand; Interaction density from hand-trap and negate text; Ritual Beast recursion and Extra-Deck ceiling read from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (D13)
• 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 side deck: post-side plan cannot be evaluated no win-rate telemetry: going-first, going-second and matchup signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied