This is Insane Support

[@Matthias-pj6th]

I think the Tribute-blocking effect on the Link is intended as a little Lore tidbit: The Ritual Beasts were (Alongside the Zefra) the biggest enemies of the Infernoids (Who all have effects that require Tributes to activate).

[@yuseifudo6075]

He said it

[@abdurachmanromzy4778]

Most ppl might ignore it and just straight to meta relevancy ussge in the end (which mean its still big w for this community)

[@canyouwavedash3298]

Rikkas when they are foiled yet again: 🤯🤯🤯🥺🥺🥺😭😭😭

[@edsylan2275]

It's funny how Ritual beast still has the reputation of having an extremely long combo even when in this day even salamangreat turn 1 takes more steps than it.

[@tefa8927]

Right? Spyral took like 4x longer

[@FlameEcho]

Don't they have literal infinite loops?

[@edsylan2275]

@@FlameEcho you can only special summon each Ritual beast main deck monster once per turn.

[@geiseric222]

I think the biggest problem is the turn took so long and you were effectively just doing the same loop over and over again. It’s honestly a parody of some modern combo decks but it somehow released in 2015

[@RawrItsJuul]

​@@FlameEchoall main deck monsters have a once per turn special summon restriction. So if you have access to multiple names you can keep the combo going for a bit, but because of the restrictions you can't repeat it infinitely.

[@nightknight498]

It's exactly the kind of support the deck needed. It furthers and supports the existing gameplan without making it inherently broken. Ritual Beasts always had a competent end board going first, but the lack of a going 2nd gameplan and folding to any kind of interruption really held them back. We now have more plays, extensions, consistency and protection. Turns will still take a lot of time, but honestly, so does every combo deck nowadays.

[@Linkiscool115]

They are riding Yang Zing monsters on the fusion and link. I hope this means we are getting Yang Zing support.

[@abcrx32j]

Plus Denglong is legal now

[@Linkiscool115]

​@@abcrx32jexactly, that's my hope since they're my favorite archetype.

[@ObeliskTGS]

**Swordsoul.

[@Linkiscool115]

@@ObeliskTGS swordsoul is for babies. Yang Zing is for real men.

[@beegyoshi1685]

​@@Linkiscool115they were joking about how every yang zing card is better in swoswo

[@nyxnicks]

For those you don't get why the new link 4 is good, you can summon it with Ritual Beast's Bonds for only 2 material (a card you can search with ulii-cannahawk) and it continues the combo as you get a free normal summon from your banished ritual beasts. All that on top of being a stopping tribute effects (think lonefire blossom) and being a quick play banish. I could see people even holding off on summoning it with Bonds to keep a interruption that can't be stopped by dark ruler or to dodge a destruction effect (ritual beast really clown on targeted removal already lol). I'm just in love with the new support, it makes the deck not just playable but honestly good. Its also the best deck to play shifter and other macros in, as the deck benefits from them rather than just being okay with it. It'll probably take a while to finish your first combo, but you are gonna have strong board and far more consistent plays than before. (Also the new Lara combos with younger Lara to make a rank 1 if you want to play zeus for a cute play)

[@blankazure217]

Don't forget that the new fusion also helps against their greatest weakness, ash. As long as you have a way to get any of the spiritual beasts in the gy, you'll at least have something better than elder pass.

[@monkeylemur]

I did not realize the rank 1 angle. Fairly sure nothing in RB locks you to anything except uhh... ambush? Yes, ambush, which is generally played on the opp turn anyways, locks you. Not a big deal. This deck might have some serious spice, and it's what every RB players have ever wanted I think. I mean sure, if we got a big floodgate monster that was summonable with Bonds or something silly, I suppose maybe it would be a hated rogue deck. Nah, this RB is still Steeds + swarm, but now you get a bunch of bonus out of swarming. What the deck currently needs is S/T protection. Josh kinda glossed over the fact that you can swarm AND protect them so stuff like Steeds pop off bigly

[@Swamphlosion]

Agree with the Zeus angle, though extra seems like it's gonna be suuuuper tight now

[@freezingcicada6852]

@@blankazure217 Ash blossom is pretty weak against the deck, Unless they Ash'd Rampengu. But they are ashing one search. You still end on Pettlephin fusion or if you have tamer in hand you still go through the whole combo.

[@siwski666]

in practically every turn 1 play, however, Reiratuari can and should be summoned without bond (canna, pengu, elder + canna, elder + pengu, etele + canna, etele + pengu, etele + elder, new lara + any rb.. all of these lines do that) because the end board is not in any way weaker than if you had used Bond, and at the same time you gain the benefit of being able to Revive Reirautari on turn 3, which is absolutely huge

[@NAAAAAIL]

jesus christ idk how yugioh streamers do it. chat just listing off everything involving tributes not understanding the effect of that link would drive me insane. idk how Josh stays so calm I would snap lol.

[@chrisdavis245]

Josh's chat is absolutely abysmal

[@sparkdshark9159]

he treats em like kids, I can see how that'd help haha

[@anonymouseicecube91]

Idk what value filthy casuals find in the very good Josh stream

[@vin101cruz8]

Cannahawk looping 🗣️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️LETS GOOOO‼️‼️‼️‼️

[@mingus2439]

THIS SHIT GAS

[@devonmackey4244]

You can chain the link 4 effect to steads targeting steads instead of one of your beasts for an additional banish on top of at least one pop! 🔥 It also says FUCK you to Rikka / Infernoid and annoying tribute cost effs 🔥 (Also stays within theme with recursion from banish zone ⭐️ 8.5/10 for me. Would be dope if it had more atk but I’m ok with this 💯😭

[@FlameEcho]

You can also target either of the new cards for your banish to either plus off new tamer summon effect or dodge the Banish with new fusion and it's tag out effect.

[@tame1773]

Europe finally has an out to rikka

[@neroknight1234]

The ritual beast leo and the new continuous Rota makes them crazy beaters I wouldn’t worry abt atks.

[@Unknown-qj9sm]

Sees archetype called ritual beast Look inside No rituals

[@rocketlawnchair7186]

And only 1 beast.

[@drakey2000]

RitualBeast specials in defence, so Inheritage is tehre for the battle phase to apply more kill pressure, Its not alot but its honest work

[@sucioization]

my favorite deck of all time is actually more playable I cannot be more excited. I still have my 2016 deck in it’s sleeves (from that era) with like 5+ banned cards that I never took out lmao

[@ericprint3576]

Back in the day a dude gave me a bunch of ritual beast cards and said next week he'd give the other half to me I never saw that dude again but still own the ritual beast cards he gave up.

[@julienfrey6808]

Crossout designator looks pretty nice to use in this deck, both to deal with handtraps and to extend (although you won't want to ban monsters with useful effect, pretty useful with the tamers, notably winda)

[@Fabysmally]

Dusting off my deck from half a decade ago.

[@CosmicDogoran]

Ritual beasts were 9 years ago that's more than half a decade

[@Fabysmally]

@@CosmicDogoran are you calling me old?

[@CosmicDogoran]

@@Fabysmally I guarantee I'm older

[@Fabysmally]

@@CosmicDogoran guarantee! Respec

[@bidoof5922]

Damnnn cant wait for ritual beasts to combo for 40 minutes instead of 30

[@beegyoshi1685]

37

[@Shemegory]

The only long part about the combo was trying to explain to the opponent, and the judge call about cannahawk only needing to return 1 monster to get the effect.

[@ky...]

Konami made an anti-Rikka deck JUST for EU

[@NolenJacobson]

Konami has recently been printing more cards which ss from deck that require a tribute to active so maybe that floodgate effect will be better than expected.

[@user-lc3on9fd9m]

My favorite deck, Waifu Fusions- I mean Ritual Beasts!

[@TheNaughtyDog13]

Honestly, the Link-4 should be a Link-3. It kinda makes you feel worse summoning it instead of Ulti-Kimunfalcos for extension, for example... But I'm glad seeing new support for Ritual Beasts, lore and artwork-wise they are a very neat archetype, IMO.

[@chrisdavis245]

Look at the absolute degeneracy when he reviews Tamer Lara.

[@fn2025]

I mean... She kinda bad... Ngl

[@hillhank3070]

One thing you missed is that Nochiudrago special summons a "ritual beast monster" and doesn't specify whether it has to be beast, tamer, etc. So assuming you summoned them properly and have a way to banish them, you can get your ritual beast link monsters back for free.

[@bayar_]

every time the forest temple theme is used i watch the vid even tho idc good job editor

[@colinbrown74]

I think this makes the deck playable, not meta dominant. If they wanted to make it dominant, they would have made the 3rd effect of the Continuous Spell not once per turn, they would have the Fusion target protection apply to itself, and they would have made both of the effects of the Link Quick Effects. Then it’d be pretty great. But I think with just this, its just ok UNLESS some new archetype splash now works with these new cards involved that does something really wacky.

[@tomdoetsch8603]

Just want to point out that noble knights shield bearer can search out Rampengu.

[@sinzodium8421]

Plants may never recover from this

[@esrohm6460]

i like how the card that says your opponents monsters should have most times not enough attack to get over your stuff having a swap battle position mode

[@kaitoygo]

can't you play this deck with shifter really good

[@rockthahouse1]

Indeed you can. Shifter is great in the deck

[@donjuan6996]

Qliphort and Shaddoll support when?

[@gtrgrgth]

I want to drop the OG towers

[@philwendisch4894]

and i thought they forgot about time thief

[@kelvinle8662]

Time to dust off my Ritual Beast deck.

[@Shione_Starlight]

the link 4 is actually pretty good, it would be alot better if you could use the 3rd effect on either players turn. It lets you recylce your stuff and gives you extension. Yes you 100% look at it as extention. ALL the tamers only get effect with normal summon NOT special summon. Also the banish effect you can ttag out the fusion you make or the steeds you activated so its almost NEVER a negative. Also the continous spell when you tag out with your fusions they put your monsters in def position so you can change the battle position to attack and attack for game easier. you can also end on the link 4 without bond fairly easily because they have a link 2 that you can rank up into it. Bond is there if you want aswell. these cards are pretty good. You have like 9-13 one card starters if you also play noble knight shield bearer and reinforcement of the army. E-tele was always kind of weird to use with this deck because all of them can only be specialed one time or it would create infinite looping and the new tamer gives you another body when its used to make a fusion so it helps with extension when you e-tele.

[@screamordie1000]

Running 3 double summon and 3 e tele is standard for them.

[@Shione_Starlight]

@@screamordie1000 running 3 double summon was ass. 3 etele yes but it had a problem before because you couldnt summon it back so it didnt really help that much in the grand scheme of things and the new level 1 lara does.

[@Kentanimationnnnnnnnn]

10:41 saryuja : am i a joke to you?

[@bobjones4469]

If it was so bad, why was Cannahawk hit on the ban list? Makes no sense.

[@SaltymanGaming]

Loops.deck I'm really hoping we get more Shaddoll and Zefra support soon. We're slowly getting updates to all the old duel terminal archetypes.

[@Desvaswarrior]

Lair of darkness is in shambles😂

[@obitoEsports]

All of rescue ace cards tribute. UH OH

[@verbalengine95]

Looks like my core is getting dusted off I don't know anything about how to play the deck

[@CaptainMarvel4Ever]

I like how after Power of the Elements kinda ruined the game Konami has been making new busted cards that don't feel unfair. I'm not sure how long this will last, but it feels like we finally hit the ceiling of power creep and new cards are more focused on giving older decks new fun tools rather than printing new decks that completely break the game around them. I am so looking forward to seeing many of the old decks become playable again. Who knows Josh, maybe Konami will finally make frogs not horribly broken or completely unplayable. You and your hoppy bois can sit on the throne again.

[@windchimes8764]

Frog the Yarn, Link 1

[@geiseric222]

Lol that you are calling a set that released some of the most popular archetypes the game has ever seen as ruining the game. I wish we still had POTE instead of the last six months

[@christianacosta4846]

Pote was a great set

[@shawnjavery]

​@@geiseric222i feel like the fact that they had to ban in archtype cards and out of arch type cards kinda shows that the decks were a bit too strongly designed than konami really intended. Feels like its usually just the out of archtype stuff that gets hit and then maybe a limit here and there.

[@beegyoshi1685]

​@@geiseric222most popular archetypes being the best ones is not surprising. That set was gigabroken and spright and tear kinda fucked up the meta for way longer than they should've

[@Dyleniz]

Time to brush up ulti cannahawk rulings

[@TommasoPoli-n1k]

I've been waiting 10 years, finally. even tho I always bring my ritual beast deck to locals these day

[@Kimoxdo]

based OOT soundtrack in the background

[@prestonmccoy7097]

Decent support. I would try it out if it were on Master Duel. Either pure Ritual Beast or Myutant Ritual Beast, maybe?

[@ertwert909]

If thats gets meta, how am i gonna play generaider with that link monster

[@leoornstein3963]

Boomer when a old decks gets support: *LETS GOOOOOOOO*

[@zakariaelhimer1325]

I love this deck since duel links

[@chibiraptor]

Ritual beasts have a good link 2, so you can go summon 2, link 2, ns tamer ss beast, link 4 pretty easily. I'm assuming you're "supposed" to have the link target a fusion, then CL 2 tag out, which is funny at maintaining the style.

[@PepperODellio-mj3nz]

I played ritual beasts for almost 2 years. From a glance, the new Lara's a 10/10, the link monster's a 9/10 (moderately situational), the field spell is meh and having new names is 10/10. It'll win for a bit.

[@JamFlexx]

used to love this deck. Wen is on my desk artwork was so cool

[@reirei_tk]

that link monster stops sky striker ace raye AKA joshua's favorite card

[@OneRockyBoi77]

I was waiting for chat to bring up bond XD

[@motutaressanressan8902]

The link 4 is fine because you can summons this card with easy

[@xRyoZIN]

Ritual beast was a counter to nekroz so that helped, however yeah BA could just outgrind ritual beast 60-70% of the time. If you didnt floodgate them out fast enough you couldnt win and most people were playing the deck with little traps at the time which the deck kinda needed to survive. Now I think the monster spell heavy builds might be the most optimal to play. I will however try and remain as true to the trap variant because I just enjoy how much fun I had in grind matches. Qli was your other hard matchup at the time due to pendulum summoning being insane.

[@OneRockyBoi77]

Now we just need gold sarcophagus at 3

[@earthteamjordan]

Great Support!

[@Nikolai-q7e]

i can't understand these people, who complaining about ritual beast everytime, because it takes so long. Today every sinlge tier 20 deck needs three times longer.

[@travcanti5508]

Like literally, mannadium and tear have longer turns and everyone loves them for some reason

[@gillesbelanger5213]

Where can we watch the centurion testing?

[@metalmariomega]

GEE FUSION DECKS, WHY DO YOU GET TO HAVE RITUAL AND XYZ MONSTERS? (Just talking about the names here, I know that there are Fusions that use monsters from all the other standard Special Summoning mechanics as materials, sometimes named like the Eyes-Restricts that use Relinquished, sometimes just specific types like the N'Tss Contact Fusion requirements that no one uses).

[@comicsansms8689]

5 months later we re-watch this, if anyone takes more than 15 minutes too do full combo in this they should be insta d'qued it is not that hard especially uninterrupted. Not sure what people were doing when it originally came out I played this after the link-2 came out is legit 5 minute combo max. Turn 3 you can go ham for ages tho if ya want.

[@mingus2439]

Boomers when old decks get support LETS GOOOOOOOOO

[@vincentbise5421]

Can I combine Ritual Beast with Myutant?

[@CC_Th1rst]

If only they gave EVERY deck solid support like this and not just the dog shit ones.

[@Leonardo.ohime.i]

i wish they added a card that let you recycle your ritual beast spell/traps

[@shawnmalia9765]

The link 4 technically does. U just have to banish the s/t with lv4 apelleo

[@sadowbeats7081]

Why did they have to do this. My ninja deck just completely died. 😭😭

[@tino1663]

Yesssssssss finally my dreams come ture

[@evilish7090]

Me,a new player,rItUaL wAt?

[@bobjones4469]

Oh boy did Lara grew up nicely.

[@Stav682]

Who else remembers ritual beast in duel links 😭

[@rileypittman1307]

Gold sarc

[@morateariel2686]

I'm just glad they didn't give it a skill drain like most legacy support

[@johnnyhall9154]

Rikka Sunavalon still gonna win in Euros

[@Wenzan3pm]

Ngl ritual beasts is a very strong deck

[@resir9807]

Ok let's be real it's still gonna be bad, but it got a lot better at comboing longer

[@Stylercom113]

Infinite loop again?

[@queenbrightwingthe3890]

Still waiting for pen support to hit MD.

[@setantasque]

farfa support

[@luminous3558]

I lowkey wish/expected there to be some random burn on one of the new cards to play into the time wincondition that this deck very clearly has.

[@whatthe6871]

What does ritual beasts even do? The deck kind of seems like it just spends a lot of time cycling through a huge nothing burger. :/

[@nolanb9466]

if it full combos, end on a lot of pops and basically a soul charge. new support gives access to easier lines to the same board but extremely consistent and with access to in archetype negation lines.

[@freezingcicada6852]

Generic link 4 stuff. Pick a couple you like. Though for most players if they can no brain Accesscode Talker for a Link 4 they stop giving a shit about a deck. Its a macro cosmo deck, most meta decks struggle playing with no GY effects.

[@summonstormx]

Soo, what is the best Ritual deck nowadays? It's prob still drytron or does this or Silenforce change anything?

[@bergkatze3186]

Ritual beast don't play rituals 😂

[@johangonzalez4894]

"Ritual" is just in name. They are more of a fusion Deck with a few (2) links thrown in.

[@mashfnch30]

BA was by far the best deck during the Nekroz format though it's just that everyone was bad and played it with traps

[@dominikb8273]

Josh let his inner Sam hang out for this video claiming the support to be INSANE. I mean it it pretty good but honestly it’s nothing all too crazy like new Lara and the new fusion have good synergy and are really good but the link 4 is as useful as the Ulti-Gaiapellio which is ass. The spell is solid imo but Josh hyping fckin ritual beasts if all things up feels kinda forced for content still a great vid.

[@chewdoom8415]

Well it is insane for the archetype itself, just not meta. Sam acts as if a deck or new cards will be the next big meta deck

[@donnelleraeburn9207]

this support is absolutely garbage, clickbait title ngl, what ritual beast needed was a link 1 that lets you do full ritual beast combo with 1 card, and they needed a easier way to cheat out ultigipaleo

[@chewdoom8415]

The new tamer does let you do insane combos with one card since it makes thr thunder monster a one card combo.

[@gamingsuperun]

The penguin and the falcon are both 1 card combos..

[@donnelleraeburn9207]

@@gamingsuperun is not enough, they needed a way to make ultigaipelo in 2 summons

[@gamingsuperun]

@@donnelleraeburn9207 the way the card is written its impossible unless they let you use banished or graveyard cards as fusion material since ultigiapellio requires 4 monsters to be summoned correctly lol..

[@squeaksqueakimaknight]

Ritual Beast, SNOOOORE. But seriously, Ritual Beast does not need support, archetypes like X-Sabers, Mist Valley, FUCKING Worms are more deserving of getting new support than Ritual Beast

[@Linkiscool115]

Yang Zing needs support too.

[@johnnickfanaccount3492]

Stop the cap

[@BealBega]

I think worms need way more to make them an even a functional deck. Maybe they do a TW2 set with another 4 decks in the future 👀

[@LLewliet-pz6ve]

cubic...

[@Xenonfuji]

Ritual Beasts needed support badly. Worms and Mist Valley support would make it so you no longer play the old cards, because the old cards are so dogshit

[@johnnickfanaccount3492]

Stop lying it's mid

[@ingemarmartin246]

BA sucked? Ist dir die Fame auf den Kopf gestiegen??????