Notes & Combos

This is basically just JuanSnowPro's KOG list from last month but with 2 Magnamhut as disruption and another way to search Timaeus when going 2nd. I don't have TY-PHON and I didn't pull any Rcleia spells to make DM unaffected, so I mostly stuck to good ol' Dragon Knight control.

You know it's bad for me as a Ritual player when I'm down to playing Dark Magician, a deck that doesn't actively summon its flagship Ritual monster (yes, I did try a version with Magician of Chaos but I wasn't able to find an optimal way to use it consistently, either). This was probably the 2nd worst climb I've had all year right in front of Red-Eyes, what with the Bystials obliterating my magic twinks from the GY, I got demoted several times and even tried playing a Branded-focused variant which ended up being even brickier lol. Incidentally, DM actually has an incredible going 1st matchup against Snake-Eyes if you add Magician's Combination to your setup because then they have no way to set monsters into your backrow.

So now I'm basically out of proven viable Ritual decks to play this year, which is hard for me in particular because I am aiming to KOG every month with a summonable Ritual monster in every deck. I am so deeply pertrubed and offended that the devs over at DL are just flat out ignoring an entire summoning mechanic for EIGHT WHOLE MONTHS! And don't tell me that they're not "viable" because any good Skill combined with missing TCG support can fix that, or that they're not "from the anime" when Cyber Angels, Archfiends, and Prediction Princess exist and have plenty of support to add, or that they're not "profitable" as if they couldn't just put all the good starters as main box URs like they do with any pushed strategy. In terms of what Ritual decks I really wish they would introduce or add new suppport for, I feel like Vendreads, Voiceless Voice, Gishki, Nekroz, Nepthys, Demise/Ruin, Nouvelle, and Mikanko could have every single printed card from their archetype added and not break the game, so why tf are they just deliberately neglecting Rituals like this when they've always existed as part of Yugioh's history? Could you imagine if they just flat-out stopped printing Synchros or Xyz for an entire year, people would notice! But apparently I'm the crazy one for suggesting that they add a couple of blue cards that don't have any arrows on them for once!

Soooooo what decks do I have left? Currently, I may be desperate enough to try something with Dogmatikaturgy (the ONLY ritual card printed since January, and no idgaf about that one Rokket card because it is explicitly used for Fusion summoning), maybe it'll work in either Bystials or Labrynth? I guess could also try Nekroz Icejade or one of the many FTKs that use White Relic, or try to reverse the space-time continuum enough to be able to play Darkfluid without losing to the timer...idk girl, it's rough out here for us Ritual girlies.