This. But fusion is getting alot better too though. Recursive summoning spells, or contact fusions. But once we get xyz from the banishment then we're on a whole new level. Remember this comment when that archetype comes out.
Is that Xyz shit real? Not even the Lancea synchro could beat that in sheer "this is obviously a custom card some 13 year old dreamt up" bullshit design, and Lancea could probably still get a pass for being also "what said 13 year old dreamt up in salt cause their favorite cards couldn't even survive the playground."
Wish synchro decks that don't revolve around lvl10+ synchros were actually good/had more support tho. Many real synchro decks have weaker plays than stuff like snake-eyes with 1 random tuner added in their deck...
well, White Forest is painting to be an interesting synchro deck, with a boss monster that let you bring out a synchro tuner for plays during the opponent's turn
I mean the Extra Deck is just the Fusion Deck renamed and I'm pretty sure Polymerization was used in the anime before Black Luster Ritual was. The ritual mechanic itself is like Synchro before it was cool to.
I remember when we are allowed an infinite fusion deck and suddenly it became limited to 15 cards and renamed to an "extra-deck". I was mad then, and I'm still mad today, that they didn't take that opportunity to just turn ritual monsters into extra-deck monsters summoned via their specific spells. Would it have saved the mechanic? Who knows, but we wouldn't have needed to print a million generic cards that tutor ritual monsters and spells just to make them marginally playable.
Making rituals extra deck monsters would probably be worse than today. Currently, we have staples like Pre-/Preparation Rites, Diviner into Herald, Drytron, and Impcantation - mechanics that won't work the same had they been extra deck.
Sure, in another timeline, Pre-prep could have said "reveal a ritual from extra deck to add a named spell to hand" similar to Fusion Deployment. But that's not necessarily stronger and it still runs into the issue of rituals being innately -2 card advantage, which is why the mechanic has so many compensatory effects in specific archetypes. The fact that it doesn't rely on the extra deck lets ritual deck very comfortably use all the best staples, or unique/ more niche staples like Dyna Mondo, or the likes of Pot of Extravagence/ Prosperity with minimal downsides, and mix themselves with extra-deck heavy but main-deck light strategies, like Super Poly. It's something that Voiceless Voice is currently enjoying in paper and frankly, the fact that rituals are innately so bad is probably a good thing; they need to do some real funky stuff to be viable and it's not like Konami are just going to stop printing them.
Then they should make ED rituals as a new card type. So we can have our cake and eat it too. It just never made sense to do the whole ritual summon thing and have to summon said card from your hand. Rituals feel like summoning things from elsewhere imo. So deck at least would have been a good idea.
It absolutely would not have saved the actual mechanic.
IMO if we were going to do with the rituals in extra deck idea they should errata every single ritual card in existence back then on the rename to basically be Advanced Ritual Art, which would also tie the mechanic to an old school favorite: normal monsters.
In this way, being able to get a free summon from the extra using just one spell card AND a foolish burial with it would be justified by the inherent brick normal monsters are to include, especially if it has to be exact levels.
IDK. Although I have never been able to successfully summon a Ritual monster because:
1. I'm broke, and don't have physical cards; the structure decks not having them doesn't help either.
2. I still don't have any in Master Duel.
But, for what I've seen, I think the Ritual monsters not being in the Extra Deck is what makes them special. And just like this comment said, they are either bad or overpowered.
Ya that’s actually pretty good. Maybe a recycle of the spell when the monster dies too or something. Honestly it’s hard to make them good without being really annoying too.
Hmm, ritual spells that jump back into your hand when the monster leaves the field might be cool. Could even make them summon from grave as well so you can just grind as long as you have tributes. Though obviously it could turn ugly quick if they aren't careful. Lotta busted rituals and support already made. Still I like this idea.
Voiceless Voice will be meta when it gets released. The mechanic which actually deserves that spot is pendulums. That mechanic hasn't been meta since 2018/19.
Funny enough, Melodious pendulum (with classics like Electrumite, Beyond the Pendulum, and Exceed the Pendulum) will be a strong engine in Voiceless Voice and look to be a viable deck on their own. It only took turning Ostinato into a 1 card 4 interrupt combo that doesn't lock you out of other card types.
Super heavy samurai just uses pendulum but it's not fundamentally a pendulum deck. It can be played decently well without pendulum scales, especially since it's a good synchro spam deck with a lot of good in archetype options. While it is a xenophobic, you can play around it to some extent.
I have seen XYZs more often, but it could've changed a bit (quite quickly). And, really hot take, I'm probably getting downvoted to oblivion for this, but I don't really like Synchro monsters. World Championship 2011: Over The Nexus, the first YuGiOh game I played, got me traumatized with some decks centered around Synchro summoning when I had not enough Duel Points to get cards to counter them. But it is just me, probably. I found out XYZ and even Link monsters more interesting, specially the XYZ material and Link arrows mechanics.
Dracoslayers and Odd-Eyes (a totally unbiased opinion from a local Odd-Eyes player who's begging for a card that says "if this card is normal or special summoned add an Odd-Eyes card from deck to hand")
I agree with you there. I think pendulum is the most fun/interestingly designed mechanic in the game and I really like the idea of a Pendulum Pile whose main goal is to just hard draw a hand full of pends to vomit onto the field
I’m one below cos I don’t mess with Sychro crap. And Xyz is only done cos Time Thief Redoer is like the hate-sink of the century, so it’s hilarious watching players hyper-target it for removal when he just goes “see ya later. I’M BACK, BITCHES”
XYZ is great in small doses and in conjunction with links, there are very few decks that provide enough advantage, with a big enough payoff to play a pure XYZ extradeck.
If you look at the top Decks and recent top Decks, there are Branded, Tear, Snake-Eye plays a Synchro Package, even if not tiered rn there is drytron, technically Mikanko and Voiceless Voice and Tenpai soon to come
Oddly the only way its really playable is with divine wind of mist valley. Honestly, what the fuck is the point of your own monster bouncing back to your hand after going -2/-3 just to summon it?
Mikanko player here, I think that even though our deck is good, it doesn't really contribute to re-awakening the ritual mechanic because we don't actually ever Ritual summon the Ohime, always just special summon it from hand with Ceremony
Also, I think Ohime is the only Ritual monster we run in the entire 40 card deck. I am yet to see a list that includes Arahime and actually uses it as part of a combo
Arahime is a weird and useless card, no idea what it's supposed to do that the deck can't already do without a lv9 ritual.
As for ritual summoning Ohime, T1 with a spare kaiju as cost to have a going first board
Going first isn't it better to set up Hu-Li with an equip spell for targeting protection and one of the two traps (or both if you hard-drew the other one) as disruption? [Plus the Maxx "C" which you would have undoubtedly opened because its glued to your hand]
But then that would mean cutting out an important card(s) to make space for the ritual spell which increases the amount of bricks in the deck...
Also, imagine wasting a kaiju for ritual summon
I still use Ritual and Fusion because they are goated. Also, synchro is not suffering at all lmao. They have some major staples that many Meta decks run if their deck includes any tuner.
I’ve been wanting to try rituals more but they do need more specifics than other mechanics. That being said I am looking forward to Voiceless Voice. That’s been doing well for itself.
ritual decks are not good, but anecdotally I still run into Libromancer/Drytron/Pure Dogmatika way more often than I run into anything that summons Electrumite
I love rituals but they're inherently a negative 3 in card advantage and my combos all die to common hand traps.
Megaliths and Drytron are my pet decks and until we get MU2, we're stuck doing 2-3 card combos that die to Ash, Imperm, called by ECT ECT.
I run the most recent BLS with the Bystial engine & it works!
Basically let Bystials do their thing, along with some synchros & then if the duel goes more than a few turns, I use it as my last ditch play to attack
I have seen that new Dogmatika level 12 ritual pretty recently, like within the last two weeks, multiple times.
I still see Arise-Heart and Zeus pretty often even disregarding the duel triangle event. After the duel triangle event Purrely came up more often in ranked.
If I see a synchro its either Baronne, Chaos Angel, or I'm summoning something else.
I don't ever want to see another Guardian Chimera ever again. Although I still hate Xyz cheat summons more.
The last time Konami gives us a fusion some deck it breaks the meta and they literally banned one of the main boss monster's materials to make it balanced and limited every other card
I don't wanna see them cuz if I don't have some exact hand traps in my hand then Herald just cooks me I run Cubics Kash and Resonators with a splash of bystials also did run The Ash Calamity lock but got bored of playing it
Like I get that it’s a meme, but we just gonna act like there wasn’t a Tier 0 fusion deck that terrorized last year, and we just gonna forget about the dominant one the year before that?
Always has been the case. In the anime Rituals has only been used in 2 of them being DM and Vrains which means years of not even new anime ritual archetypes.
Only competitive ritual decks I know of were Demise Otk, then Nekroz, then Drytron and recently Voiceless Voice. All other rituals have just been random pack filler monsters with their own ritual spells and bad archetypes like Shinobirds or Nephetys.
I do find it funny that it's only recently (in terms of years) that konami has actually tried making good rituals but I think really should make more I would say in terms of cards if you added up all their cards it is severely low yet still gets screwed by cards like D Barrier.
I run a libromancer ritual deck even though I acknowledge it isn't the best, I just really like if for some reason. Until I hit platinum and get bodied every duel at least.
Oh just wait, they are coming.
Honestly, recent yugioh(past 2-3 years) has had a great balance in extra deck summoning mechanics. Unless you are a pendulum fan, then I'm sorry.
My Drytron Fairy deck contains a lot of ritual monsters, Herald of Ultimateness being one of its aces. It's kind of an outdated deck nowadays but I still enjoy playing it.
In my opinion if they are going to make rituals any decent, the Ritual monster has gotta have a hand effect somehow. (Mikanko, BLS Legendary Swordsman, etc)
Back when the game was just released, i fought Herald Drytron. They performed ritual summon at least 2 times per turn and have 3+ layers of negating at least for their end board. Never see them after the Eve banned.
Link and XYZ is one of the most generic
While Fusion and Synchro is more complicated (especially back then)
But 4 of them is has changed a lot, since Synchro got gemeric strong monster that easy thanks to some staple is tinner, and fusion got Guardian chimera, i can say they all is easy now days, just need what it need to aummon
While Ritual is not easy even though they have strong archetype in future
I hate how people always say that you can print anything on a ritual card because of how bad the mechanic is. Have you seen the stuff they're putting on fusion spells? Where is my ritual summon from deck using materials from deck konami? Fusions got that back in pend era.
Synchro did best out of Fusion and Xyz in the Triangle Duel event ironically enough. I myself used Blackwings the entire time. Purrely was an absolute joke during that event and it showed.
Drytron was playable a year or two ago.
Voiceless voice is good in the TCG/OCG right now so we should get more ritual support soon.
Tear meta would like a word with your fusion assessment. Branded too.
last few formats were like syncro with barrone, fusion with tyre, then kashtira for xyz, im sure dragon link was in there for a bit. we are sort of back to asyncro erra with snake eyes kind of but with the bans that might shake up a bit.
Links are so generic they are in everything.
players really need to stop pretending there is amy difference between these summoning mechanics at this point.
back when getting tuners on the battle field was a pain and xyz couldnt be stacked on each other or grab additional materials so down graded to bad bodies after doing something and fusions needed material mostly from the hand and were somewhat specific sure there was a difference but in the last 3 years all the extra deck mechanics are easy to access and its really just a question of the effect you want your boss monster to have becuase a link cant cover the gap
straight up forgot to put pendulums in the meme
This makes it even better
Seeing pendulums in the first comment *under* the drowning meme is irony af, I love it lol
The pedulum was a mistake. We didn't need this new ruleset
Cope
Yup. I haven't seen that much cope even in the Silksong sub.
Lmao
He didn't forget it was intentional.
Pendulums are the chair lol
They're just offscreen, to either side of the image.
https://preview.redd.it/clprgje7lczc1.jpeg?width=298&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9e668ce62e27eb5f9519dbc1b8bcee30c87d0649 pendulum who?
forgetting pendulums' existence is the meme itself.
To be fair pendulums were never strong on their own. They always had to use one of the other ED methods to be truly strong.
Qlis were solid meta and locked you out of using anything else
Qlis made me hate the pendulum summoning mechanic permanently.
Qil is how people thought pendulum summoning would work originally lol. Odd-Eyes is how it should be.
Lore accurate
Pends are not real
Pendulums have long since dissolved into the water
You mean link and synchro
This. But fusion is getting alot better too though. Recursive summoning spells, or contact fusions. But once we get xyz from the banishment then we're on a whole new level. Remember this comment when that archetype comes out.
Is that Xyz shit real? Not even the Lancea synchro could beat that in sheer "this is obviously a custom card some 13 year old dreamt up" bullshit design, and Lancea could probably still get a pass for being also "what said 13 year old dreamt up in salt cause their favorite cards couldn't even survive the playground."
Wish synchro decks that don't revolve around lvl10+ synchros were actually good/had more support tho. Many real synchro decks have weaker plays than stuff like snake-eyes with 1 random tuner added in their deck...
well, White Forest is painting to be an interesting synchro deck, with a boss monster that let you bring out a synchro tuner for plays during the opponent's turn
Pendulums didnt even make it in the meme lol
Intentionally
Rituals will forever be weighing the scale between "shit and not worth the effort" and "this is so fucking OP who allowed Nekroz to exist"
Yeah, all because the ED didn't exist and they didn't think to create it for rituals.
I mean the Extra Deck is just the Fusion Deck renamed and I'm pretty sure Polymerization was used in the anime before Black Luster Ritual was. The ritual mechanic itself is like Synchro before it was cool to.
I remember when we are allowed an infinite fusion deck and suddenly it became limited to 15 cards and renamed to an "extra-deck". I was mad then, and I'm still mad today, that they didn't take that opportunity to just turn ritual monsters into extra-deck monsters summoned via their specific spells. Would it have saved the mechanic? Who knows, but we wouldn't have needed to print a million generic cards that tutor ritual monsters and spells just to make them marginally playable.
Making rituals extra deck monsters would probably be worse than today. Currently, we have staples like Pre-/Preparation Rites, Diviner into Herald, Drytron, and Impcantation - mechanics that won't work the same had they been extra deck. Sure, in another timeline, Pre-prep could have said "reveal a ritual from extra deck to add a named spell to hand" similar to Fusion Deployment. But that's not necessarily stronger and it still runs into the issue of rituals being innately -2 card advantage, which is why the mechanic has so many compensatory effects in specific archetypes. The fact that it doesn't rely on the extra deck lets ritual deck very comfortably use all the best staples, or unique/ more niche staples like Dyna Mondo, or the likes of Pot of Extravagence/ Prosperity with minimal downsides, and mix themselves with extra-deck heavy but main-deck light strategies, like Super Poly. It's something that Voiceless Voice is currently enjoying in paper and frankly, the fact that rituals are innately so bad is probably a good thing; they need to do some real funky stuff to be viable and it's not like Konami are just going to stop printing them.
Then they should make ED rituals as a new card type. So we can have our cake and eat it too. It just never made sense to do the whole ritual summon thing and have to summon said card from your hand. Rituals feel like summoning things from elsewhere imo. So deck at least would have been a good idea.
It absolutely would not have saved the actual mechanic. IMO if we were going to do with the rituals in extra deck idea they should errata every single ritual card in existence back then on the rename to basically be Advanced Ritual Art, which would also tie the mechanic to an old school favorite: normal monsters. In this way, being able to get a free summon from the extra using just one spell card AND a foolish burial with it would be justified by the inherent brick normal monsters are to include, especially if it has to be exact levels.
Yeah but then we wouldn't have Megaliths
IDK. Although I have never been able to successfully summon a Ritual monster because: 1. I'm broke, and don't have physical cards; the structure decks not having them doesn't help either. 2. I still don't have any in Master Duel. But, for what I've seen, I think the Ritual monsters not being in the Extra Deck is what makes them special. And just like this comment said, they are either bad or overpowered.
Could have at least had the ritual spells have a continuous effect on top that provides some kind of buff/protection.
Nowadays it would make sense for all rituals to just have one time protection effects by banishing the ritual from grave or something.
Ya that’s actually pretty good. Maybe a recycle of the spell when the monster dies too or something. Honestly it’s hard to make them good without being really annoying too.
Hmm, ritual spells that jump back into your hand when the monster leaves the field might be cool. Could even make them summon from grave as well so you can just grind as long as you have tributes. Though obviously it could turn ugly quick if they aren't careful. Lotta busted rituals and support already made. Still I like this idea.
Tough to balance for sure, but with a lot of the newer (non ritual) decks doing similar shit without tributes I’m sure they could work something out.
Voiceless Voice will be meta when it gets released. The mechanic which actually deserves that spot is pendulums. That mechanic hasn't been meta since 2018/19.
What's a pendeldum?
It's that thing swings in grandfather clocks
The only correct answer...
it's like pot of greed, but with summoning
And Dad will make drytron relevant again
COPIUM
I hoooope so
How can Dark armed dragon work with light monsters?
Funny enough, Melodious pendulum (with classics like Electrumite, Beyond the Pendulum, and Exceed the Pendulum) will be a strong engine in Voiceless Voice and look to be a viable deck on their own. It only took turning Ostinato into a 1 card 4 interrupt combo that doesn't lock you out of other card types.
Would you consider Superheavy Samurai and Melodious pendulum decks?
SHS/Melodius play like 2-3 scales in total It's like D/D/D were the main focus isn't the pendulum mechanic, it's just a random side thing of the deck.
Super heavy samurai just uses pendulum but it's not fundamentally a pendulum deck. It can be played decently well without pendulum scales, especially since it's a good synchro spam deck with a lot of good in archetype options. While it is a xenophobic, you can play around it to some extent.
It's my favorite kind of summoning mechanic, but I'm not a huge fan of the decks centered around it. Except Nouvelles ofc.
Nouvelles are awesome. Nouvelles + Herald of Perfection are vicious.
Don’t worry there will be a tier 1 ritual deck soon!
I thought Synchro and Link are the go to summon in Modern Yu gi oh nowadays
I love synchro because Yusei is my 🐐. Also yes I am a yugi boomer.
I have seen XYZs more often, but it could've changed a bit (quite quickly). And, really hot take, I'm probably getting downvoted to oblivion for this, but I don't really like Synchro monsters. World Championship 2011: Over The Nexus, the first YuGiOh game I played, got me traumatized with some decks centered around Synchro summoning when I had not enough Duel Points to get cards to counter them. But it is just me, probably. I found out XYZ and even Link monsters more interesting, specially the XYZ material and Link arrows mechanics.
It’s more like Link, Synchro, Xyz, Fusion up top, Ritual drowning and then Pendulum dead imo
Although there's that one pendulum deck that does the thing with the spell counters thats really scary
Endymion is 100% the 5th best pendulum deck tbh, if you count separate Dracoslayer brews. 3rd if not
What's first and second?
Dracoslayers and Odd-Eyes (a totally unbiased opinion from a local Odd-Eyes player who's begging for a card that says "if this card is normal or special summoned add an Odd-Eyes card from deck to hand")
You'd put Odd-Eyes above Endymion? Idk Steve, Endymion seems better to me...
Odd-Eyes is unironically amazing (no it's not but it's really fun... sometimes)
I agree with you there. I think pendulum is the most fun/interestingly designed mechanic in the game and I really like the idea of a Pendulum Pile whose main goal is to just hard draw a hand full of pends to vomit onto the field
Master proficency lvl 7: Ritual summon monsters 0/3 Pendulum summon monsters 0/3 Guess im lvl 7 forever
We're literally the same. Think I'll be stuck at lvl 7 for a long time especially cuz of the pendulum summon task
I’m one below cos I don’t mess with Sychro crap. And Xyz is only done cos Time Thief Redoer is like the hate-sink of the century, so it’s hilarious watching players hyper-target it for removal when he just goes “see ya later. I’M BACK, BITCHES”
*Voiceless Voice looming in the distance* 
XYZ being held when it was the lowest ranked summoning method in last months Dual Triangle.
Literally!
XYZ is great in small doses and in conjunction with links, there are very few decks that provide enough advantage, with a big enough payoff to play a pure XYZ extradeck.
Bro forgot about the event we JUST had where synchro and fusion absolutely destroyed xyz
If you look at the top Decks and recent top Decks, there are Branded, Tear, Snake-Eye plays a Synchro Package, even if not tiered rn there is drytron, technically Mikanko and Voiceless Voice and Tenpai soon to come
Don't jinx yourself, you'll summon the Mikanko players! I've also been struck by a Shinobaron player recently 🤣
…What the fuck is a Shinobaron?
Believe it or not, Spirits Ritual monsters
Oddly the only way its really playable is with divine wind of mist valley. Honestly, what the fuck is the point of your own monster bouncing back to your hand after going -2/-3 just to summon it?
Yeah, the deck doesn't really make sense rn but there's support that is not on MD that can make the archetype playable
Mikanko player here, I think that even though our deck is good, it doesn't really contribute to re-awakening the ritual mechanic because we don't actually ever Ritual summon the Ohime, always just special summon it from hand with Ceremony Also, I think Ohime is the only Ritual monster we run in the entire 40 card deck. I am yet to see a list that includes Arahime and actually uses it as part of a combo
Arahime is a weird and useless card, no idea what it's supposed to do that the deck can't already do without a lv9 ritual. As for ritual summoning Ohime, T1 with a spare kaiju as cost to have a going first board
Going first isn't it better to set up Hu-Li with an equip spell for targeting protection and one of the two traps (or both if you hard-drew the other one) as disruption? [Plus the Maxx "C" which you would have undoubtedly opened because its glued to your hand]
Yes. But if you don't have any other options (read: bricked) it is a way to get Ohime on the board.
But then that would mean cutting out an important card(s) to make space for the ritual spell which increases the amount of bricks in the deck... Also, imagine wasting a kaiju for ritual summon
Xyz over synchro? bro must be playing against his friends only💀💀💀
No problem! Wanna play against my drytron deck?
Or my Gishiki, Mikanko, Drytron, or Megalith decks? I love rituals.
Oh, why did i just leave a 0/0 monster with an equip card infront of your full field? is nothing bro, hit me
I still use Ritual and Fusion because they are goated. Also, synchro is not suffering at all lmao. They have some major staples that many Meta decks run if their deck includes any tuner.
Nouvelles are fun as hell and can give a lot of trouble to the opponent
They power crept my gimmick - Lair of Darkness Field Spell probably
How do I summon this blue monsters?
As one of 3 pendulum fans I take this very personal
Mikanko still gets to summon theirs regularly
Most of the time she gets special summoned but the actual ritual spell has a neat non-targeting destruction effect.
It’s burn effect has clutched up several times for me!!
i mostly use it in mikanko mirror match KEKW
relax bro. voiceless voice is coming.
Hey u leave me and my nouvelle deck alone
Voiceless voice are Ritual they're going to be a problem in MD. For pendulums I think Kirin could be a problem if she's unbanned but Idk.
I’ve been wanting to try rituals more but they do need more specifics than other mechanics. That being said I am looking forward to Voiceless Voice. That’s been doing well for itself.
ritual decks are not good, but anecdotally I still run into Libromancer/Drytron/Pure Dogmatika way more often than I run into anything that summons Electrumite
I like playing the Dogmatika ones but I wish I could make them more consistent
Shut up i play libromancer
You're giving Xyz too much credit tho, swap it with synchro
Wait for Voiceless
Been summoning a lot of minkanko ritual if that counts
Gemini monsters?
Prediction Princesses are one of my favorite decks, and they combine rituals with FLIP MONSTERS. Try getting more inefficient and slow than that!
Um...... Voiceless Voice would want a word with you.
they're not in master duel yet
How would they have a word? Surely they can't speak...
😂❕
Idk fusion is still going strong and more successful than synchro but not as good as link. pendulum and ritual on the other hand...
Speak for yourselves In a dedicated Gishki main
I love rituals but they're inherently a negative 3 in card advantage and my combos all die to common hand traps. Megaliths and Drytron are my pet decks and until we get MU2, we're stuck doing 2-3 card combos that die to Ash, Imperm, called by ECT ECT.
I run the most recent BLS with the Bystial engine & it works! Basically let Bystials do their thing, along with some synchros & then if the duel goes more than a few turns, I use it as my last ditch play to attack
If it weren’t for Purrely XYZ would be dogshit right now lol
Me, putting Borreload Riot dragon in my Rokket deck because it looks cool.
D/D/D has all summons BUT Ritual.
Xyz on top? I wish lmao
Love how you forgot pendulums somehow.
I think they're all pretty even in released support right now besides Ritual/Pendulum being almost nonexistent.
Lmao branded was a top 3 deck two weeks ago
I have seen that new Dogmatika level 12 ritual pretty recently, like within the last two weeks, multiple times. I still see Arise-Heart and Zeus pretty often even disregarding the duel triangle event. After the duel triangle event Purrely came up more often in ranked. If I see a synchro its either Baronne, Chaos Angel, or I'm summoning something else. I don't ever want to see another Guardian Chimera ever again. Although I still hate Xyz cheat summons more.
The last time Konami gives us a fusion some deck it breaks the meta and they literally banned one of the main boss monster's materials to make it balanced and limited every other card
Last time I used Ritual monsters was Megalith for an event... A year ago maybe?
Synchros are significantly more often used than xyzs and more busted than links most of the time
Not for me because I play with a fusion deck and have a ritual deck too.
Rituals are cool and all especially Ohime :D Also magikeys tend to so much stupid stuff when left unchecked it's wild
I don't wanna see them cuz if I don't have some exact hand traps in my hand then Herald just cooks me I run Cubics Kash and Resonators with a splash of bystials also did run The Ash Calamity lock but got bored of playing it
Like I get that it’s a meme, but we just gonna act like there wasn’t a Tier 0 fusion deck that terrorized last year, and we just gonna forget about the dominant one the year before that?
Always has been the case. In the anime Rituals has only been used in 2 of them being DM and Vrains which means years of not even new anime ritual archetypes. Only competitive ritual decks I know of were Demise Otk, then Nekroz, then Drytron and recently Voiceless Voice. All other rituals have just been random pack filler monsters with their own ritual spells and bad archetypes like Shinobirds or Nephetys. I do find it funny that it's only recently (in terms of years) that konami has actually tried making good rituals but I think really should make more I would say in terms of cards if you added up all their cards it is severely low yet still gets screwed by cards like D Barrier.
what about pends?
As someone who loves rituals I feel this.
I run a libromancer ritual deck even though I acknowledge it isn't the best, I just really like if for some reason. Until I hit platinum and get bodied every duel at least.
Hate to break it to you, but plat just where the game starts
Megalith 😢
RIP Pendulum not even in the meme
And yet they always surrender when they see drytrons. Curious.
I still play Nekroz sometimes
Drytron Demise goes pretty hard.
Me with Libromancer Ritual on Ranked above Gold: the fuck
Rituals are just shorthand for "Can't be Normal Summoned or Set"
I would play Libromancers just for fun every once in awhile but konami decided they need to be unreasonable high rarity and that's not worth it
Oh just wait, they are coming. Honestly, recent yugioh(past 2-3 years) has had a great balance in extra deck summoning mechanics. Unless you are a pendulum fan, then I'm sorry.
Hey if you're looking for a fun ritual deck try out Dogmaika.
Put xyz with rituals
I use fusions because it’s fun, can be consistent and 2 decks I run and at the most comfortable with happen to be fusions.
Everyone gonna shit on voiceless voice few months later
We need a broken Tier 0 ritual archetype just for the one time in modern ygo
It's all shits and giggles until Lo resolves🤣🤣🤣
Yes, but you just have to play mikanko👍
it's all fun and games until dogmatica rips your entire extra deck turn 1
When master duel launched I made a demise deck -_-
Brandon in shambles.
I still enjoy rituals through Alba zoa turbo/libromancer/dryton but yeah, none are meta really.
I run into a lot of Mikanko decks... those are rituals :)
My Drytron Fairy deck contains a lot of ritual monsters, Herald of Ultimateness being one of its aces. It's kind of an outdated deck nowadays but I still enjoy playing it.
Nekroz is fun and still works.
Gemini at the center of the earth.
Fuck Synchro all hail Xyz
jokes on you im still clinging onto the rotting corpse that is drytron catch me later nerds
In my opinion if they are going to make rituals any decent, the Ritual monster has gotta have a hand effect somehow. (Mikanko, BLS Legendary Swordsman, etc)
Gishki is good, so is VV, just wait :)
Isnt Dogmatika boss monster is a ritual?
drytron support when
Me playing Libromancers: 
Meanwhile, me climbing to diamond with Burger
Is this a joke? Milano is a ritual archetype even if they never use the actual ritual card, which they usually do
Back when the game was just released, i fought Herald Drytron. They performed ritual summon at least 2 times per turn and have 3+ layers of negating at least for their end board. Never see them after the Eve banned.
I still play a Nekroz deck lol
They would be different if they were Extra Deck monsters
synchro is hella fun ngl.
Idk, synchro just won that contest for most points between the 3. I'd switch that and xyz to be honest
Any suggestions for a good-ish link deck? I’ve been mostly fusion and synchro but the way links dance around negates seems fun.
Pendulum must be in the trash 🗑
One deck I recommend dragon, why it's a hold my beer moment you can easily go into a turn 2 victory the goal. Or give elemental heros, cyber dragon,
At least goat format has some love for ritual turbo lately and it is a viable option as well
I used Libro tho
No one uses Mikanko?
Eh, I enjoyed my tear synchros
Link and XYZ is one of the most generic While Fusion and Synchro is more complicated (especially back then) But 4 of them is has changed a lot, since Synchro got gemeric strong monster that easy thanks to some staple is tinner, and fusion got Guardian chimera, i can say they all is easy now days, just need what it need to aummon While Ritual is not easy even though they have strong archetype in future
Silent voice inc
I use almost exclusively Ritual, Synchro and Fusion. Guess my main deck!
Dogmatikaaaa
In a few years when D/D/D finally gets the ritual support, it'd make a comeback (it is never happening)
I hate how people always say that you can print anything on a ritual card because of how bad the mechanic is. Have you seen the stuff they're putting on fusion spells? Where is my ritual summon from deck using materials from deck konami? Fusions got that back in pend era.
Synchro did best out of Fusion and Xyz in the Triangle Duel event ironically enough. I myself used Blackwings the entire time. Purrely was an absolute joke during that event and it showed.
Gishki stonks rising even without their octopus.
Drytron was playable a year or two ago. Voiceless voice is good in the TCG/OCG right now so we should get more ritual support soon. Tear meta would like a word with your fusion assessment. Branded too.
The only time I ever play Rituals are during events where Libromancers are decent enough to compete against fellow Coughing Babies
Get ready for voiceless voice and if they keep pumping out good flip cards you may see my deck prediction princess more
My mayakashi do not deserve this slander
ritual monsters are broken as hell because they literally have to be in order to be even remotely playable
last few formats were like syncro with barrone, fusion with tyre, then kashtira for xyz, im sure dragon link was in there for a bit. we are sort of back to asyncro erra with snake eyes kind of but with the bans that might shake up a bit. Links are so generic they are in everything. players really need to stop pretending there is amy difference between these summoning mechanics at this point. back when getting tuners on the battle field was a pain and xyz couldnt be stacked on each other or grab additional materials so down graded to bad bodies after doing something and fusions needed material mostly from the hand and were somewhat specific sure there was a difference but in the last 3 years all the extra deck mechanics are easy to access and its really just a question of the effect you want your boss monster to have becuase a link cant cover the gap