Top 10 Best Ritual Monsters of All Time

[@Hempujonsito]

Putting Hungry Burger at the number 1 spot was kind of a bold choice to be honest, ever more before it gets new support

[@Ergeniz]

Why is Performance of Sword only spot 3 on this list

[@julianchrobak-prince1915]

Just wait for the OCG to print Nouvelles, friend

[@brutalikyd]

@@julianchrobak-prince1915 Holy shit, Nouvelles not only is ritual/food theme, It also has 6 stars on its uniform. HUNGRY BURGER SUPPORT CONFIRMED

[@Lyn_Lapislauli]

@@brutalikyd The best part is that it really is Hungry Burger support.

[@constantanxietyattacks6878]

​@@Lyn_Lapislauli literally had to look it up to make sure, holy shit the madmen really made Hungry Burger support

[@ironwolf3427]

Top 10 synchro monsters that require more than two materials.

[@megamanpwn3dmario]

wouldn't that just be 50% red dragon archfiend monsters?

[@apthegoat1]

Lets get it

[@DarkSymphony777]

Trish: WHAT MAN SENDS BABY TO FIGHT MEH

[@ValunarTonix]

Definitely Trishula and Crystron Quariongandrax for me

[@awildsylveon9896]

Trishula gets spots 1-5 and her own video

[@willcampbell8997]

I would give an Honorable Mention to Demise, King of Armageddon. The Demise OTK strategy was quite powerful in late 2006/early 2007 with Demise basically being a new form of Chaos Emperor Dragon, without the hand destruction or the massive burn effect. But a board wipe with priority (that still existed then0 was not very easy to get around.

[@owesyoumoney3912]

Love demise, would bring the smack down raw with his accomplice the Doom Dozer

[@scarfchomp7203]

The first good ritual monster

[@monumentalsin3552]

Fortress whale too just cause.

[@ryhi5]

@@scarfchomp7203 I would say that Relinquished was the first good ritual monster. In old school Yugioh it was the ONLY ritual monster with an effect. Its Level 1 meant you could summon it with any single material, and Relinquished was a major threat in Goat Control Format

[@invencible373875559]

i love someone mention it also include relinquished, the 2 good rituals monsters from old school yugioh, well the 2 that didn't get mentioned

[@fugax_vulpes1797]

Rituals and Synchros are my favorite summoning mechanics, love seeing rituals in specific getting some shine. I also love that because the mechanic was so flawed at the beginning, they had to get very creative in how to make rituals work and made so many unique decks like nekroz, dogmatika, megaliths etc., which just makes me love them even more

[@tdarkhorse4]

even occasional DM era stuff. including a new bls in maze of memories coming out in march.

[@dudono1744]

Yeah rituals have likely the most weird archetypes (and i'd say synchros are second)

[@RTU130]

True

[@alexanderrobins7497]

Rituals should have been relegated to the extra deck or allow the monster(s) to be summoned from the deck. Ironically the power creep no longer allows that to be a solution, excluding maybe non-effect ritual monsters.

[@kolinaspronok]

Drytron and Ursarctic

[@ryhi5]

There's a reason why I loved Gishkis so much back when they first came out. My favorite summoning mechanic is Synchro Summoning, but if a Ritual Archetype ever comes out that ACTUALLY WORKS, I get very excited. Although I find it hilarious that usually the reason a ritual archetype works is because it breaks the conventional rules of Ritual Summoning.

[@qwertygutierrez1293]

I can't wait to play gishki spright

[@lilsunny7399]

gishki doesn't though aside from having monsters that fill the whole tribute requirements, It's gimmick was being super consistent with 2 discards to grab your ritual monster/spells, both of which were Salvage targets, and the ritual spell could recycle itself.

[@ryhi5]

@@lilsunny7399 you literally just explained why Gishki does work. Lol

[@MasterArchfiend]

Still my favorite mechanic next to Synchro summoning. I know it isn’t the best deck most of the time, but I get more excited seeing a new Ritual monster than any Fusion, Xyz or Link deck. It just feels so satisfying when I win with a Ritual deck.

[@kechitiabderrahmane6357]

the next deck building pack will have a ritual food archetype just so you know

[@michel0dy]

Same! Cyber Angels and Nekroz have become favourites of mine in Duel Links for this

[@tdarkhorse4]

get ready for maze of memories. we get a new BLS ritual that turns off opponent's effects during the battle phase, and if it had a vanilla as part of its material upon one successful attack your opponent's entire field just gets spun.

[@eggmug562]

​@@kechitiabderrahmane6357gonna need a SOURCE PLEASE. cause that sounds amazing if true

[@dudono1744]

@@kechitiabderrahmane6357 hungry burger support ?

[@Hugelag]

I like how Rituals were so bad that their best cards straight up ignore the regular ritual summoning procedure or make it way easier to summon them.

[@alicepbg2042]

tbf... that's true for some of the other summoning methods aswell. except link and synchro, we have yet to cheat those, I think.

[@akiraishin7141]

@@alicepbg2042 Tri-brigade cheats out link monsters by banishing cards from the GY and Harpies were the first to not use tuners for the mechanic. The new Chaos Synchro will be able to skip the use of tuners as well

[@alicepbg2042]

@@akiraishin7141 well. There we go.

[@Merilirem]

@@akiraishin7141 I consider the chaos Synchro closer to an ED chaos monster than a normal synchro so it makes sense. Otherwise they would need to add a bunch of crazy chaos tuners. This way chaos decks can just make him with existing cards.

[@nadiacarrel3932]

@@akiraishin7141 Nirvana High Paladin predates Cyber Slash Harpie by several years.

[@OgreRam]

Thanks for releasing another longer video. I like to put these in in the background to relax and although Im sure you've probably been splitting the videos to game youtubes monitization algorithm (and I don't blame you for that), it's much much nicer to just be able to listen to the whole episode, or watch in segments of my own choosing. When the partial lists are only slightly above 10mins long it can be very jarring to get to #5 and have a totally different topic start autoplaying. Love your content though, just wanted to give a little bit of feedback as a long time subscriber (Edit- added word "probably" to appear less rude/ hostile, as that wasn't my intent)

[@IndexInvestingWithCole]

So I get your point, and I completely agree with it. I only had an issue with your wording. “Duel logs is gaming KZbin’s monetization algorithm” is way more sinister and technical sounding than what’s actually happening.

[@OgreRam]

@@IndexInvestingWithCole Google /KZbin makes a ton and barely pays out to the people responsible for its success, so I'm totally ok with a content creator playing the song and dance needed to maximize their own revenue. SethEverman actually posted a really interesting video about this a few weeks ago where he shared his actual earnings numbers and how payments are determined, would definitely recommend to anyone interested in that

[@gatocochino5594]

''Im sure you've been splitting the videos to game youtubes monitization algorithm (and I don't blame you for that)'' Long videos pay better, actually. I imagine he's splitting the videos to make longer videos while still keeping a decent viewer retention.

[@IndexInvestingWithCole]

@@gatocochino5594 “long videos pay better” has a lot of asterisks on it

[@gatocochino5594]

@@IndexInvestingWithCole Not really. Assuming the same RPM, more watch time = bigger payout.

[@TheShimmy12]

Benton can also search archlord Kriatya as an added spit in the face. And Kristya will just re add it to the hand when it special summons itself from hand

[@thatman666]

Given the fact if you have exactly 4 fairies in the grave, but yeah it’s Vanity

[@mr_D3LTA]

It can search Scythe, Lancea and Vanity's Ruler too

[@broono2985]

This is one of my favorite videos so far. The ritual summoning mechanic is my favorite and it's great to watch good video about it.

[@tdarkhorse4]

you gotta love that something that was debuted towards the end of gx season 1 as kinda a throwaway boss monster of the episode from alexis rhodes became the greatest ritual monster ever.

[@marcjimenez4116]

Ritual Monsters need to either be hyper-broken and easy to summon with a consistent engine, or that just flat-out ignore the usual Ritual mechanics to be good

[@LD-tl1iv]

Cyber Angel is my secondary deck in Duel Links. It's prone to bricking due to all the spell cards and the lower deck size. But when it works, it is an incredibly fun deck to use, especially when you manage to pull off the benten-idaten-dakini combo.

[@uuh4yj43]

how far did u go in the ladder with cyber angel, i only got to plat 3 if i recall b4 its inconsistency became a big problem, specially going 1st

[@owesyoumoney3912]

Wish my boy Demise was on here. First ritual monster to strike fear into the hearts of duelists when he dropped with his bud tbe doom dozer.

[@ryhi5]

I agree with Demise! Relinquished deserves an honorable mention too! Being the ONLY good ritual monster in very old school Yugioh and a major threat in Goat Control Format

[@owesyoumoney3912]

@@ryhi5 yeah relinquished is def the first playable ritual, with small cost, good effect, good attribute for chaos, and good level for metamorphosis. I have a soft spot for dark master zorc in goat being kinda a board wipe if you get lucky.

[@Hugelag]

List ideas: Top 10 cards that could come off the banlist. Top 10 cards that see play outside of their archetype Top 10 cards that don't fit in their archetypes Top 10 extra deck monsters that require other extra deck monsters Top 10 splashable extra deck monsters for each type Top 10 worst mill cards Top 10 cards that show actual cards Top 10 stall cards. Top 10 generic pendulum cards. Top 10 special conditions in the games. More Rescue Rabbit, please.

[@EflowNivek]

Kinda sad demise OTK didn't even get a mention. It was a flash in the pan but that format was ridiculous.

[@PerfectChaos7]

Illusion of Chaos can only add non-Ritual monsters that mentions Dark Magician (or Dark Magician itself), not ANY card that mentions it.

[@carlosgermanmorenomontero6114]

You can still have access to the spells and traps by searching magicians rod , not that it matters because the reason illusion is on this list is that magician 's soul it's one of it's targets

[@dualbringer9032]

Fortunately a certain ritual monster and a fusion monster does count itself as "dark magician" in gy

[@xolomonvazquez8204]

My personal favorite ritual was Saffira, Queen of Dragons. She had 2 peaks. One where demolisher and releaser of rituals would combine with honest, effect veiler, and her ritual spell to make her the ultimate boss monster during nekroz format. Then there was the peak during blue eyes format with cyber Angels where she was used as an incredible engine for herald of perfection. Such a cool and versatile card. People even mixed her up with hieratic and dolls to make crazy decks there too.

[@zerym8184]

Demise and Ruin are my favorite old ritual monsters. Really hope they got new support than can search Supreme version of themself and non-convoluted ritual spell, and also quick effect for Demise effect. Right now I only used them as board breaker with Impcantation engine.

[@mfznal-hafidz8592]

yeah, I don't understand why they made "renewal of the world" when none of boss monsters have trigger or quick effect. The only I can think is "young demise" that is level 4 can destroy any face-up card on summon.

[@Merilirem]

@@mfznal-hafidz8592 I don't understand why they felt the need to make the Supreme versions Lv10 when the ritual spells are all specific. You literally HAVE to use the annoying field spell to summon them because no combination of 4s and 8s gets you to 10. Not working with your own cards is bad. They should be Lv12s so you can pitch three 4s or one 4 and one 8 when you don't have the field spell gimmick ready. I mean just getting a ritual monster on the field takes so many resources for virtually no payoff. Then you gotta field spell it into a lv10 to summon the bosses? I want new support for this archetype but the kind that makes it actually function. Either new ritual cards that don't need specific numbers so we can overpay or a new field spell that lets us treat other copies of demise and ruin as the entire tribute for demise and ruin cards. Currently the Lv10s just make the deck worse and are better of it a deck designed to summon them specifically without the rest of their archetype. ANYWAY, the renewal card is mostly just a convoluted search card. Wouldn't be bad as a spell but for some reason its a trap. I guess to use on the opponents turn to pop a card using "young demise."

[@Merilirem]

Honestly they never gave ruin enough power. Her gimmick was double attacks but only works with conditions while Demise gets to wipe the board with a minor cost of 2k lifepoints. Demise isn't even once per turn! Ruin should just be able to double attack. These two cards were pretty much envoy replacements anyway so why doesn't ruin have a second effect? BLS wasn't amazing because he could attack twice, he was amazing because he had two good effects. One that let him beat stuff up and another that could be used when attacking wasn't an option. They should release Lv12 Godmode versions with updated effects. Give ruin some sort of inbuilt protection maybe. Hell have her cheat out Demise if she dies!

[@alialluaibi3008]

You should have included Amorphactor Pain, the Imagination Dracoverlord as well, it is quite good !

[@ratioed1438]

I don't know why they just don't ban Herald of Perfection and Ultimateness. They're not future proofed, and if we ever get another Eva, we'll be right back to where we started.

[@davidrendon1411]

Great video, definitely ritual monsters are my favorite

[@Ether_Liner_Ado_Edem]

Can't wait for Zoa to come to masterduel. Love playing dogmatika

[@Ragnarok540]

The deck still need nadir servant unlimited to be viable, anyway.

[@Ether_Liner_Ado_Edem]

@@Ragnarok540 true. I'm still kinda mad it's at 1. Such a good card

[@lankeysob]

Excited for when we can play Zoa and the new synchro 12 from CYAC. Can send that and then In the end phase can special an ecclesia, fleur, or iris swordsoul for follow up the following turn.

[@RedJoker9000]

Been waiting for this. I remember if you summoned a Ritual during a duel in my era... it was a "OMG you summoned ___ what can I do now!", kinda how like Pegasus acted to Yugi/Atem/Pharaoh when he summon Magician of Black Chaos.

[@iisanulquiorrahara8]

Seeing Illusion of Chaos' impact on the Dark Magician archetype has been quite nice, especially when paired with Timaeus the United Dragon from the same set. I hope one day to see the pair (alongside Magikuriboh and Master of Chaos, as much as I don't care for the latter) in Master Duel, but for now, utilizing them in real life has been fun.

[@juhovuolinko6446]

Aye, as a DM player who managed to top4 in a Finnish WCQ with DM last year I agree. The sheer amount of consistency buff alone made IoC the strongest main deck card in the deck. It made the disgusting Dark Dragoon + draw3 combo go from possible but not reliable into a 3 card combo that you'd get in 8/10 opening hands, which for obvious reasons was nuts. Still have the whole deck sleeved and prepped in a binder, in case one day it gains it returns to meta relevance :D (unlikely, but one can always dream xD)

[@DragoRidley17]

Honestly, your nice comment is the only reason I'm watching past number 9 on this list. After seeing the card (fantastic card art) and having him list off the effects that give great DM support and uses the otherwise underutilized Chaos Form I got excited. Only to then be immediately disappointed to hear that basically the only decks to use it were Spyrals and Endymions, some already really good archetypes that didn't need the support. Hearing a DM player used it consistently in their deck and it helped them place in the top 4? That put a smile on my face. Thanks

[@iisanulquiorrahara8]

@@juhovuolinko6446 Been practicing draws, myself, and I can definitely see the consistency in getting Dragoon out.

[@bismarckimperia8781]

You can literally divide Ritual cards to several types. 1) "Drytrons" 2)Yeah we cheat it out - Megaliths, Drytrons, etc. "Is this even Ritual Summoning? Archtype". 3) Easy Rituals - Nekroz, Impcantations, etc. "Modern Rituals". 4) "Good" Ritual cards - Relinquished, Gishki, any archtype Ritual cards. 5) "Bad" Ritual Cards - Ritual cards that has no archtype. 6) "Why would you play this?" - Literally all old school Ritual cards except Relinquished.

[@Merilirem]

To be fair Megaliths core premise is just being the ritual spell and the monster at the same time which is really cool and good since it fixes one of the main ritual problems.

[@zarc745]

Always been a fan of rituals since I was a kid. I was always hoping for one to appear in the Visas Starfrost lore.

[@julienponnusami1533]

Love these videos. I watch at least 1/day. Keep it up Man!

[@lankeysob]

Loving Libromancer right now. Been splashing it into Nekroz, Mikanko, and Dogmatika to good effect. Most recently tried splashing it into Agents and it’s really good. I might try playing it more competitively once the Bystials get hit because they hit the major choke points.

[@frohned7099]

Other great ways to play Libromancer are PUNK, Megalith, & Pure surprisingly. Been playing Pure with Ishizu cards as a combo variant to great success recently in competitive events. Easily one of my favorite decks of all time.

[@lankeysob]

@@frohned7099 I could see a pure heat soul variant with lots of handtraps being pretty decent if we ever enter a handtrap heavy meta again.

[@tinypokemon6655]

Have to give a shout out to Odd-Eyes pendulumgraph dragon being able to negate a spell and cheat out odd-eyes vortex is amazing

[@shadowguy6737]

Cant wait for mikanko to be in this in the next 5 years

[@sammeyphammey349]

Good job bro, I’m glad you didn’t kill off the non parter videos

[@sagacious03]

Neat analysis video! Thanks for uploading!

[@papa_woody]

Cyber Angel Natasha needs to be added, she is straight up broken.

[@videakias3000]

I have got a theory about ritual monsters but I don't have any proof for this: I believe that before the game hit the market they were originally meant to be placece on the extra deck but then konami thought"wait, if we do that then the fusion monsters will be completely overshadowed" or at least something across these lines.

[@asdf852asdf]

Master Duel having almost every DM card besides Illusion of Chaos until like 2 weeks ago is hilarious since you really cannot consistently play that deck without i

[@totallyshorts4920]

What about Sauravis?! It’s searchable with Starry Knight Balefire & It’s hand effect to negate a monster being targeted is Not OPT. You didn’t even put it as an honorable mention 😢

[@user-yq3bv9rf9b]

Because of the unspoken rule to determine how good a ritual monster is. If said monster has a even number level or it has 2000 or less atk then it has the potential to be good.

[@totallyshorts4920]

@@user-yq3bv9rf9b if they gave it it’s own rogue level archetype I could see Starry Knights be used as an engine for it

[@user-yq3bv9rf9b]

@@totallyshorts4920 Probably. But i wouldnt hold my breath on in since lvl 7 is bad because it misses out of alot of benefits from the unspoken rule. Best use of it is just a one of for starry knights anyways.

[@totallyshorts4920]

@@user-yq3bv9rf9b Do you think Starry Knights have the potential to be a decent rogue deck?

[@fadeddragon123]

Wasn’t Demise banned/limited at some point? Honorable mention for history

[@tristian2000]

Now that we finally have good rituals you can do this list. If this came out in 2016 it would just be nekroz cards.

[@brightpowder_cena]

8. The Drytron boss monster 2. The *real* Drytron boss monster

[@rhysdyson7280]

i seriously feel like cyber angel natasha should be on this list, its a free special summon and monster steal if you have another cyber angel in the grave and have ritual summoned natasha before, all not once per turn

[@bismarckimperia8781]

"Cyber Angels" is your answer why it isnt in the list.

[@totalwartimelapses6359]

@@bismarckimperia8781 It can still be abused a lot by Drytrons (who are the reason why Benten is #1) In fact a lot of lists play it precisely because it's a nasty 3rd turn strategy

[@santiagogalf]

@@totalwartimelapses6359 yeah but natasha isnt even on all drytron decks. its the same as idaten. they are both combo extenders and solutions to certain matchups that standard drytrons may struggle with, but they arent a core part of drytron. thats why they arent on the list.

[@DigiTism]

I love rituals!!! Ever since the first time I saw Black Chaos being summoned I was hooked! Demise, Supreme King of Armageddon is also one of my favorite cards. But geez, the only way to make rituals viable is to make them completely busted.

[@arbington]

My favorite Ritual cards are the Ruin and Demise series. I love Ritual summoning and I love big fat field nukes, they let me do both!

[@Billy_Wyatt]

If only Dokurorider, Skull Guardian and other OG ritual monsters get retrains down the line with busted effects...that would be pretty neat.

[@dudono1744]

Voiceless be like

[@lunaitor-uq9hz]

Herald of Ultimateness is, ironically enough, the ultimate middle finger for basically anything It pretty much just says"no" to your opponent and procceds to blow up their card

[@Teixas666]

Rapid fire Solemn judgements on legs

[@panterelmateracker2887]

Oh wow I can't wait for the new duel logs video "Ritual monsters are monsters-" TRUE!! That was a good video, it answered all of my questions in 1 second and I don't even need to watch the rest, I think I'll just leave now.

[@kennydarmawan13]

You know Benten's good when it became limited.

[@Bigd2k]

I’ve always wondered if Paladin of White Dragon was a good card or not. I’ve used it so much in my old Blue eyes deck on the old PS2 Yu Gi Oh game.

[@MrEntinen]

It was pretty bad. You give up the ritual, the spell and a cost just to get out a blue eyes white dragon. Something like The flute of summoning dragon or kaibaman was available at the same time and could get you a blue eyes with less effort.

[@Bigd2k]

@@MrEntinen true but Paladin let you search your deck. Those other two you had to have blues eyes in your hand.

[@Bigd2k]

@@MrEntinen also Paladin was also good against flip effect monsters.

[@MrEntinen]

@@Bigd2k with stuff summoning blue eyes from hand you jeed a blue eyes in hand yes but with the paladin you need both the ritual spell and the monster so thats just twise the stuff you need to have. And as for the face down monsters effect, its a very niche effect to spent 3 cards from hand on when you could just use sasuke's samurai

[@DemoSin]

I expected Herald Of Perfection to be #1 but i inernally screamed my agreement with your choice

[@diegodankquixote-wry3242]

I'm trying to learn the rules of yugioh via youtube videos that aren't just audio books for the most recent version of the rules and now I finally get to learn what a ritual summon actually is Edit 😂

[@dudono1744]

basically it's a synchro with polymerization 😂 (unless you use a good ritual deck, those screw the rules)

[@ianr.navahuber2195]

It says a lot abouth the Nekroz archetype that 3 of their members are in the list 2:17 Add 1 "Non-Ritual Monsters"

[@nacl4988]

RIP Dogmatika rituals. You tried. You did alright. But not because of the rituals. (It was because non-once-per-turn ArcLight)

[@reirei_tk]

I love ritual monsters. They're my favorite, by far.

[@Sydrad426]

Ah yes. Force, Pact, and Fierce Guardianship. The trio of counters that everyone in EDH hates the most.

[@frohned7099]

I'm honestly really surprised that Chalislime isn't here as it can enable most ritual strategies.

[@ob5784]

If we trained an AI by feeding it duel logs scripts, I'd like to see it build a deck

[@xuanucho3483]

White relic of dogmatika is also good though, boost atk non opt, give high chance to otk

[@zerasparkcrew1044]

Lets not forget about White Zoa of Dogmatika, Lv. 12 Ritual Monster what could effect the Extra Deck and monsters from that said deck.

[@nintendolife25]

Ritual Summoning is probably the most difficult summoning method. So the monsters have to have a really good effect in order to make it worth the effort.

[@axelmuller7946]

Yeah, that's true. But thanks to Drytron they at least start getting more consistent. I really hope Konami doesn't let Ritual fall again now that they at least have a good Ritual Spell Card. Really like the Ritual Summoning methode, just sucks that they always were so difficult to perform mainly because they were main deck Monster. :( With Libromancer seeming to work, I hope Konami doesn't give up on them again.

[@nintendolife25]

@@axelmuller7946 I have to agree. Maybe if the effects were really damn good or not a hassle to summon like Dytron, I’m sure it wouldn’t be just that one summon method that we know that exists

[@Merilirem]

Being main deck monsters you need in hand but also can't do anything with alone really hurts rituals. I mean Blue Eyes can atleast summon its cards with tributes or cheat them out in various ways like discard then monster reborn. Rituals are worse than normal monsters until you actually summon them. Rituals spells should just be able to summon the ritual monster from anywhere. Deck, grave, banished whatever. That would atleast make them playable.

[@axelmuller7946]

@@nintendolife25 I guess it could also help if they get Nekrozlike effects that let them discard itself for a search or something else, so something like Pendulum, just as a separate effect. Would at least help to prevent the Player from bricking too much and getting some consistency. Don't know if that would make them too strong, but I mean they had, besides Nekroz, never really a prime.

[@roshango125ab]

I mostly play casual with friends but Illusion of Chaos is amazing in Dark Magician decks because it's not once per turn. You can basically use it as a magical mallet that gives you any DM monster you want and doesn't make you go minus. Turn any hand into timaeus and DM and make a dragoon

[@iateitguy903]

Gonna throw my 2 cents in here. I play a straight Cyber Angel deck sometimes, and started throwing in a couple Megaliths when some of the people I play with started using Barrier Statue of the Drought(?), so I can pretty much confirm you can throw them into about any ritual deck with searching power. Also while I'm on the topic, I use Benten in-archetype as tribute for Idaten (who brings a ritual spell to hand on summon) to basically summon any ritual monster in the deck with a slight boost, and between the main deck lvl 2s, Ritual Sanctuary, and Dakini's ability to bring gv back to my hand, it's not very hard for me to pull off surprisingly consistently.

[@davidgale9309]

Top 10 most used card combos for 1 archetype. Maybe for each generation of yugioh anime. Or, top 10 decks that counter each other 2010-2023... anyways... keep them coming. Much needed master duel ideas.

[@berserkingtheburgerking9805]

If I may give some honorable mentions, Black Luster Soldier-Super Soldier is extremely powerful and has great set up ritual spells that can let you use one of the tributes from the deck. If set up right you have a hell of a monster with effects like double banish, sacrifice a banish to attack twice and/or banish a card from your opponent’s hand, and when it kills a monster it deals the original attack of that monster to your opponent And a shout out to White Relic of Dogmatika, who is hilarious when you set her up. Using Dogmatikathurgy you can ritual summon her during your opponent’s turn, in which she can then gain the ATK (or have someone else gain it) of one other monster on the field. This can be done just before an attack too.

[@Merilirem]

The clear problem with Super Solider IMO is that he has no protection. For all those formidable abilities you pretty much lose if they have any removal. They should give him something that can keep him on the field or let him go for those attacks without being knocked around by anything decent.

[@nanonkay5669]

This needs an update and include Dogmatika Alba Zoa. Easy to search, easy to bring out, the best extra deck protection for monsters in it's archetype and has 2 devastating effects for extra-deck reliant strategies, which is damn near all of them

[@Rhino-n-Chips]

The Dark Magician support really shows that Konami wings it with their card design, every time they try to provide overpowered ways to make DM viable, it does next to nothing and makes OTHER decks better instead. Dragoon was just splashed as a proto-DPE, Spyral abused Magician Souls, and Illusion of Chaos just became an engine, those last two didn't even need DM in the deck. DM, Blue-eyes and Red-Eyes all have this problem, when they should be giving a benefit to having 2-3 mandatory bricks in your hand.

[@RTU130]

True

[@Mimiyan_or_Pikapikafan]

I read the title as "top 10 ritual monsters of all time" in the sense that relinquished is a ritual monster of all time lol

[@Christopher-tz3mr]

I was insanely attached to using Dark Master Zorc. Ritual fiend lv 7 and 2500 ATK. The effect he has of roll a die and depending on the result u could destroy different number of monsters depending on the roll of the die. The key note is that it can attack after its effect. There is a chance it can backfire and wipe its owner's field and should die land on 6. Also, I was a fan of the Relinquish. In my relinquish deck, I filled it with backlash burn monsters (reflect bounder, Amazon sword women, etc) and stack attack stopper traps (nightmare wheel, Kuni with chain, etc). Demise, King of Armageddon is also nice as u could wipe field and then attack directly. Due to Demise requiring 2000 life points to use its effect would hurt me if I wasn't prepared.....hello megamorph......goodbye life points

[@cerromeceo]

Crab Turtle 🐢 is the GOAT of ritual monsters 😅

[@jonathanorlandos601]

I used to use a pair of shinato's comboed with BLS envoy pre errata. Id use the BLS as material for one shinato then resummon BLS and use it for the second one THEN resummon BLS again to have all 3 on the field. It was awesome

[@Absol125]

A video which explains the changes in "master rules" over the years until present day.

[@shapesnatch1341]

I really would have chosen Gustkraken over Mind Augus as the best Gishki Ritual. One wrong step for your opponent's hand goes bye bye. It's actually crazy to me that Gustkraken exists with no HOPT and it doesn't see much play

[@TwoToneShoes]

Due to Gustkraken not being released with original wave of gishki stuff, TCG never really got to abuse it when gishki was a good deck. Instead they figured out the Mind Augus FTK which was much more significant deck. If I was doing this list based on OCG results then Gustkraken would've been above Mind Augus.

[@crappyusername69]

Hot take. Ritual monsters should have originally been extra deck monsters, and synchro and xyz monsters should have been main deck. Stupid early "fusion deck" dragged rituals into the mud by making them main deck early on, and the modern equivalents look nothing like a ritual monster.

[@charleslindita8635]

Drytron + light fairy synergy is incredible. The whole deck is so coherent.

[@oceanviolets1306]

As someone who's been using the username Heraldofultimateness since 2017, and I have such mixed feelings. The card has been called a joke literally until Drytrons, at which point it became ridiculously oppressive. My decks have always been fair. I didn't have eva, or even Benten. I had to work for every fairy in my hand. Do you know how excited I was when Diviner of the Heralds came out was? I was a struggling low tier deck having her favorite card being thrust into the spotlight of toxic tier 1 strategies. How many people see my username and think I play that obnoxious trash? I wanted support to make Heralds more viable, but not like this

[@JoseSilva-rk9ur]

I'm having so much fun with nouvelles and the burger 😂😂😂

[@zdelrod829]

You forgot Nekroz of Clausolus! It was the payoff for the Djinn lock.

[@chrisshorten4406]

I've recently taken up Libromancer on Master Duel, and I will say, Doom Broker is the best Ritual monster in the archetype.

[@Retro_Mage]

What about Blue-Eyes Chaos MAX Dragon?

[@animeking1357]

Why does Mind Augus have, "Cannot be normal summoned or set" in its text? You can never normal summon Ritual monsters as far as I know.

[@akmalfakhruddin7285]

Its the first errata it got back then. the current one is its second errata

[@animeking1357]

@@akmalfakhruddin7285 So it doesn't have that now? I feel that Yugioh videos should always have the newest version of cards in the video unless specifically talking about an older version. You can easily find them on Yugipedia.

[@tomcurl8034]

One of my ways that I play ritual monsters is that I have multiple copies of the same ritual monster in my deck, so that I can use one to ritual some of the other because they’re the same level

[@burningfox4974]

Honorable mention to another Libromancer Ritual. FireBurst. If summoned with LibroBonded with FireStarter on field as tribute, it can’t be destroyed or Banished by card effects (and battle). can atk 2 monsters, and no matter what does double Damage with starting 2.8k atk with +200 for banishing Rit monsters in GY. Meaning a direct atk does 5.6k+ Also, both Burst and Starter are targets with Pre-Prep rights for Bonded. Also a cyberse so you can cynet mining it along with basic ritual and Libromancer support.

[@MegaMetal96]

Change my mind: every single negation effect should be a hard once per turn.

[@honxiu]

most negates have a cost anyway

[@MegaMetal96]

@@honxiu cost doesn’t matter when cards like the heralds and the adamancipator synchros can get like 5 negates out of a single card

[@honxiu]

@@MegaMetal96 Dragite , Borreload Savage Dragon and Baronne’s negates are hard once per turn

[@MegaMetal96]

@@honxiu ok

[@xerael4659]

I mean, it was pretty obvious Benten would be number 1. She can turn into 10 different aliens.

[@hozimina]

I'm kinda sad to see Nephtys Conductor didn't make it, even though it might as well be a custom card

[@TheGlockDookie]

Top 10 TheDuelLogs’s cards of 2022 and Why. Love the videos though :))))))

[@carvajalethandonovanl.4510]

This vid really tempts me to build Nekroz in Master Duel. I find it cool they are also basically handtraps as well as a solid monster on the field. Makes me wonder why they aren’t as played as past tier 0 strats atleast just for fun like Zoodiacs and presemi-limit quickfix Spyrals?

[@vishmaster09]

The description says #2 is herald of perfection, but in the video it's herald of ultimateness?

[@A1D3NA1D3N]

What about the Shinobird archetype?

[@zuberiuthth7833]

Another great one is Archfiend's Awakening! 😊✨

[@DarkusFireBlaze3582]

Sometimes I wonder how Ritual decks would have fared if they were an extra deck mechanic rather than forced into the main deck.

[@noukan42]

As they are right now, cancer as hell. If someone ask that question i assume they don't know many ritual cards.

[@DarkusFireBlaze3582]

@@noukan42 Oh yeah, as they are right now, definitely. But if they were an ED mechanic from the get-go, maybe they would've been a better version of fusion.

[@SwoleTommyPickles]

They definitely would’ve been better fusions since their materials are more generic and the early rituals were better than the early fusions. Imagine summoning Sonic bird, searching “End of the World”, tributing Sonic Bird & another level 4, then summoning Demise, King of Armageddon from the extra deck in early yugioh. That’s an extra deck Judgment Dragon and all it took was Sonic Bird & a level 4.

[@noukan42]

@@DarkusFireBlaze3582 then there woukd be no problem for two separate mechanichs. The only differe.ce i can think off is that fusions would have been stayed "speciphic monster + speciohic monsters" because the generic ones would have been printed as rituals from the get go. And most of the somewhat modern ritual decks wouldn't be lrinted in the first place because they are obviously either op or unfun to play againist if they were in the ED. I'd bs interested in how fusion woukd have turned out. Probably would have been a self contained playstyle like rituals are right now. Archetyoes woukd probably be things like "minster A, Band C, then AB,AC,BC and ABC are all aviable so you can always fuse something. Future support will probably have an effect that make them count as either A,B or C under certain situations."

[@noukan42]

@@SwoleTommyPickles or just turboing it running advanced art and bewd, while also being able to run any other level 8 ritual just in case because it's not like you can use the ED for anything else.

[@hehehenyxnyxnyx]

Suggestion: Top 10 Longest Normal monster card description (OCG and TCG version if not same). (including pendulum normal cards, but excluding the pendulum spell effect text)

[@DAxBatres]

“But wait, there’s more!” Did not see that Benten reveal coming

[@shinykrishna8169]

Before even watching the video I knew Benten was gonna be number 1. Benten is my favorite card of all time lol I love her so much ❤

[@keanimations]

What about pendulum graph, it searches out any ritual spell in deck or grave, it burns 300 for every extradeck special summon that your aponent makes, and can special summon an odd-eyes monster from the extra deck with its omni negage that is a quick but once per turn and you have to have an open pendulum zone, but I think it atleast deserves a mention

[@ButFirstHeLitItOnFire]

This gives me an idea for a new ritual spell card: _Prime Ritual_ Ritual Spell Card _This card can be used to ritual summon any number of Ritual Monsters from your hand, deck or GY. You must also Tribute Ritual, Extra Deck or Pendulum monsters from your hand or field (including pendulum zones) who’s total level/rank/link-rating equals or exceeds the combined levels of the ritual monsters you would summon, and if you do monsters summoned by this card gain these effects:_ _You can tribute 1 card from your hand or field to activate 1 of the following effects (Quick effect). Is this card is used as cost/material for the summon of a monster, that summoned monster gains this cards effects._ ⚪️ Declare the name of 1 monster on your field: It’s treated as 2 tributes for the summon of a monster. ⚪️ You can tribute 1 monster from your hand or field to ritual summon a monster from your hand who’s level equals the level/rank/link-rating of the tributed monster. ⚪️ Fusion Summon 1 Fusion Monster from your Extra Deck, using monsters from your hand or field as Fusion Material. ⚪️ Target 1 non-tuner on your field: It is treated as a tuner while on the field, OR target 1 tuner on your field: it is treated as a non-Tuner. ⚪️ Target 2 or more cards on your field, and change their levels to the level of a monster from your hand or field. ⚪️ Target 1 Pendulum Monster from your hand, GY or Extra deck; place it in the pendulum zone. ⚪️ When you would LINK summon a monster, you can first move monsters on your field to any other monster zone on your field.

[@theonlyafropuff]

Good luck fitting that essay on one car.

[@christianespiritu1159]

@@theonlyafropuff just put it 4 font or something, it'll work out somehow.

[@ButFirstHeLitItOnFire]

@@theonlyafropuff I used the Yu-Gi-Oh CC app and it fit just fine there on a card.

[@tacticalyugo5357]

That would card would break the game in so many ways and would launch us into a tier 0 format the likes of which we have never seen.

[@ButFirstHeLitItOnFire]

@@tacticalyugo5357 What if I were to change the requirements to use that card to _You must also banish facedown Ritual, Extra Deck or Pendulum monsters from your field (including pendulum zones) who’s total level/rank/link-rating equals or exceeds the combined levels of the ritual monsters you would summon…_ THAT way the cost and restrictions of the card would shoot up to the point where they would warrant its effects without being TOO busted?

[@stardustvideo]

The djinn lock can come back. It won't do anything in the current state

[@Megidramon]

Okay, but hear me out. An honorable mention on this list would be Amorphactor Pain, the Imagination Dracoverlord. He is the reason that a ritual based strategy to skip your opponent's ENTIRE TURN exists. Unfortunately, the strategy is very inconsistent. That being said, when it does happen, it basically wins you the game on its own. It's usually run as a tech option in Drytron decks.

[@nahuelcosta5609]

Amorphactor Skip turn is extremely consistent in master duel you just need alpha or zeta in your hand + one of their 306 searchers

[@Megidramon]

@nahuelcosta5609 emphasis on the words "master" and "duel"

[@quaidmoore7997]

I believe that Illusion of Chaos has risen higher on the list as being the best chaos target for summoning Magia with Ultimate Fusion.

[@blackjetplane1606]

As a Cyber Angel player, I am glad that Benten got to the first in the list

[@FGj-xj7rd]

Benten may be a modern card because it came out in 2016, but it feels like an old school card with a lack of "once per turn".

[@jerfuhrer2581]

That's because she's from GX.