Evolution of Rituals | Yugioh TCG

A retrospective look back over the evolution of Ritual Summoning across the 20 year history of the game.
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Video Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
0:45 - Humble Beginnings
2:45 - The First Real Impact
5:34 - The 5Ds Era
8:29 - Evolving the Mechanic
12:28 - Breaking the Mechanic
16:31 - In the Wake of Nekroz
20:31 - Rise of the Machines

[@WraithThorns]

I wish Rituals got a season of the anime fully focused on it like the other summoing mechanics did. (GX with Fusion, 5Ds with Synchro etc)

[@therealduelist8397]

They should make it the series after seven that way we don't need to have another major summoning mechanic too

[@WraithThorns]

@@therealduelist8397 I'd like a soft reboot of duel monsters, but more ritual focused, and more up to date cards.

[@danielramsey6141]

@Slifer, The Sky Dragon There actually were a couple of Ritual monsters in Arc-V. The problem was that is/has Constantly plagued the series, is that the female characters chosen to pilot these decks got Zero focus Afterwards! The Prediction Princess Deck, and Cyber Athlete/Angels. It was great to see these decks, but not only were they both Fairy Focused, but they became be completely useless during the First and the last Arc respectively! They did both Aura Sentai and Asuka from GX dirty by The hands behind Arc-V!

[@blxzt]

Duel monsters was supposed to have been that but not really lol

[@Magna_Dragon]

@@danielramsey6141 her VA is expensive from what I've heard of

[@jaernihiltheus7817]

Rituals, my beloved. How i wish you can be given the same credence extra deck mechanics are.

[@thatman666]

Could’ve been worse like how Tribute Summon is a Relic of the Past to an extent.

[@alfian4653]

@@thatman666 I mean, Flundereeze is still really strong

[@suezuccati304]

Hot take: Metamorphosis is basically Ritual Summoning from the Extra-Deck.

[@TheLawYGO]

How could you say something so controversial yet so brave?

[@bernarduswyattgianci7533]

Thats kinda make sense, then with how easy nowaday to ritual summon, ist unbaning metamorphosis would not break the game as much as before? It can be just erata and make it tribute monster (except token)

[@suezuccati304]

@@bernarduswyattgianci7533 I think the Metamorphosys concept is actually really cool, maybe we could have an archetype focused on "Ritual Summonning" monsters from Extra-Deck. Also, not allowing for tokens is not really enough imo, because decks can synchro summon pretty easily, and trishula into mechaba is shit I don't want in the game period. Metamorphosys is too much of a no future proof card to come back imo

[@ValunarTonix]

@@suezuccati304 I got the perfect fix, since it was released in a era where fusions in the extra deck had no effects except for a select few; Tribute one monster that has a level, except a token; special summon one monster from the extra deck with a level equal to that tributed monster's, but it's effects are negated, and cannot be activated. If it leaves the field, banish it face down. Aside of names, it wouldn't do a lot of stuff.

[@suezuccati304]

@@ValunarTonix you could theoretically book of moon it then flip it face up

[@spacewizardpip1111]

Something that Drytrons were doing with triple Benten, was easily establishing not only Herald of Ultimateness but was also summoning Vanity’s Ruler next to it.

[@delgande]

Dark ruler no more is a godsend along with droplet

[@josea.ruizquinones9262]

Sad for the ritual archetypes not mentioned, even if they amounted to nothing to the meta. Rest in peace Shinobird and Nepthys.

[@bocodamondo]

love to see your yugioh videos expanding beyond duel links content keep it up!

[@TheLawYGO]

honestly it feels great, I've been playing TCG since 2002, I'm so happy I can talk about a game I enjoy like this

[@frankwest5388]

How about a video on the evolution of “protection effects” or “boss monsters” There are very clear eras for experimentation and change that one could look at

[@annedrieck7316]

Everyone becomes rhongo

[@moisesbernal1749]

12:38 Secrets of Eternity was released in January 2015

[@thevintagevaluesexperience4302]

The reason Demise OTK died was because Metamorphosis got banned and Megamorph got limited.

[@skyslasher2297]

17:13 interesting note is that it has to mention the name anywhere on the effect so if there is a specific monster interaction on an otherwise generic ritual spell pre prep can search it for example Vendread Origins can summon any vendread ritual monster but it also has an effect in the graveyard of banishing it to protect a Revendread Slayer specifically you control from being destroyed thus searchable by pre prep

[@ozzyrockin]

Funniest part is that a new Vendread Ritual Monster/Spell pair was revealed recently and are searchable with pre-prep... because the new spell specifies you CAN'T summon the new monster with it.

[@williamdrum9899]

I'd get a laugh if they had a ritual spell that just had the words "Blue-Eyes Chaos MAX Dragon" and didn't actually do anything

[@NICOCLASH]

@@williamdrum9899 like, you can ritual summon any chaos monster by tributing monster from your hand or field that has the level bla bla bla, and once per turn (quick effect) you can target 1 "Blue Eyes Chaos MAX Dragon" and if you do, equip this card as an equip card that gaves the following effect: -Neither player can target this card with card effect I would see this as the next april's fools card

[@snowboundwhale6860]

Another example of this would be with Nephthys, where the ritual spell is generic for the archetype, but has a bonus effect to pop a card if either of the 2 ritual monsters that the archetype had at the time, Cerulean Sacred Phoenix of Nephthys & Devotee of Nephthys, were used as tributes and thus lists both of their names in that part of it's text; Meanwhile the (relatively) new & best of their ritual monsters, Connector of Nephthys, is not searchable off pre-prep because it didn't exist at the time.

[@faradaybed7805]

@@NICOCLASH That would extra funny considering Chaos MAX can't be targeted already lmao

[@nuttysboythatoneguy6566]

I find it funny that among the new ritual archetypes, you didn’t mention Dogmatika. Because no one has ever read the Dogmatika ritual monsters

[@huh8458]

wait, dogmatika have actually a ritual monster?!

[@themonoloco8245]

Its actually pretty good u get to chose what extra deck monster gets sent to the graveyard ive sent peoples boss monster for them to just scoop after.

[@nuttysboythatoneguy6566]

@@themonoloco8245 Oh I know, I’m building the deck, it’s just funny how many people don’t know they have rituals

[@maunabesanika]

The ritual monsters is used when u really commit extradeck murder lol

[@Ramsey276one]

There's only one of n Master Duel right now! And where are your other Magikey cards!! DX

[@yusheitslv100]

I can see this being a series about the other 4 mechanics that haven't been covered. (Synchro, Xyz, Pendulum, and Link.)

[@NightFuryLover31]

My favorite Ritual archetype is Nephthys. With being able to revive themselves from the graveyard and I’m taking advantage of the needed destruction of the other chards in the archetype, it is handy to use, at least for me. And with Conductor, you can bring out another Ritual Nephthys.

[@floridaman6982]

My Favorite deck found them in duel links, they aren’t the strongest but have tons of great combos

[@Ramsey276one]

The Link 3 Using three ritual XD

[@newbiesama]

I always loved rituals. And Love how good the libromancers work on it's own, with a fieldcard that acts as a ritual card and monsters that (like vandread) get's effects when monsters are used on field. + the cont. spell card that can generate a token to use as the full material for a summon! Because who doesn't love a lv6 with 2500 ATk that can attack directly and then bounce a face-up monster back into the deck AND set's a trap from deck to board.

[@hyperdimensionbliss]

Drytron is one of the coolest archetypes in the game in terms of design and theming. It's an absolute shame Heralds and fairies had to be made with literally no semblance of futureproofing and thus have dragged Drytron's name through the mud permanently.

[@raisp6073]

Yeah now whenever you say Drytron people automatically think you mean it’s herald variant

[@bruhbro4101]

I agree. Love the art and effects. Great on their own too with that much recovery. It just pisses me off that they had to PERFECTLY synergise with that nasty disco ball. Dunno if Konami intended it.

[@lyfed2566]

As someone who literally fell in love on first sight and played drytron since the day they are revealed i completely agree with this lmao

[@hyperdimensionbliss]

@@raisp6073 True chads play Zielgigas turbo Drytron.

[@ryanager8029]

I mean, they CHOSE to make Meteonis completely generic

[@sirknightjcb9310]

Not sure if this would be interesting; I'd like to see a video of how the banished pile / zone no longer became the zone that is cpermanent" removal, as cards benefit from being banished and even can be returned, like Gizmek for example.

[@thatman666]

At least Pokemon Lost Zone didn’t involve returning banished cards.

[@luigifan4585]

I find it funny how Konami tried to workaround that by having certain banish effects place the cards face-down to ensure they stayed dead, but then decided to print Kashtira...

[@gigakuma]

So much nostalgia I had completely forgotten how fun that demise otk deck was. Plus you had the forbidden memories music.😁

[@marioruiz1530]

I would actually like for there to be a ritual focused archetype with spell and traps that have the additional effect of being treated as ritual spells when on the hand, deck or graveyard for additional searchability and different effects in addition to being able to special summon ritual monsters, kinda like what Nekroz did with the monsters, but for backrow on top of having good monsters.

[@TheGloryXros]

Honestly, if anyone from 5Ds to use Ritual Summoning, I think LUNA would've been an interesting choice to use it! Too bad 5Ds just completely ignored it as a mechanic....

[@Elvirgelion]

I thought there was a period where herald of perfection was used with advanced ritual art to dump normal monster and then Dark Factory of Mass Production was used to add back the normal fairy monster pieces?

[@RatManSteetS]

I don't know why, but something about Ritual summoning just clicks with me. It's always been my favorite summoning method, and seeing the history of the whole mechanic laid out like this was fascinating. Good job!

[@blazetherwbyfan4467]

I loved your duel links videos and this are an amazing follow up keep it up i love it

[@battlingandballing]

Nekroz Of Ultimateness

[@totallyshorts4920]

Rituals are EASILY my FAV Mechanic!

[@julianchrobak-prince1915]

I play Drytron in the TCG. I play Nekroz in Duel Links. I play Cyber Angel in Speed Duel. I love Ritual Monsters, and I will always run them as my primary deck strategy.

[@octopuscat1279]

Master duel ptsd moment

[@ObeliskTGS]

This is an interesting rewatch now that we’ve had Dogmatika expand into a Ritual Archetype, Mikanko get released (and it is a Ritual Archetype despite what the people will imply) and the upcoming Silenforcer Archetyoe in 2024. Konami’s still finding different ways to make the mechanic work.

[@deltagray2335]

I've been saying this for years and with the release of the new odd-eyes monster it seems likely to happen: pendulum ritual archetype where it basically combines the megaliths and the vendred together. Basically you can place any rit-pend monster in the pend zone and use it as a rit spell by sending it to the extra deck and rit summoning a monster from hand by using the materials from hand, field, or face-up extra deck. To explain further what I'm looking for: all the monsters have an on-summon effect, a sent to grave for rit summon effect, AND a send from extra-deck to grave for rit summon effect. Basically no matter what you always have some way to rit summon and you will almost always have extra deck fuel for the summon. The only restriction to the effect is that the monster being used as the rit spell cannot be used for that specific rit summon. I have been wanting an archetype like this for years and I believe that it wouldn't be too op unless konami does the classic "too op boss monster that just so happens to also be too easy to summon"

[@dudono1744]

I also imagined that once, also ritual summoning with scales instead of levels

[@rafaelbrites3607]

but i can´t believe that cyber angels were only released in 2016. eight years before the end of the gx anime.

[@fortello7219]

It's really unfortunate that there have only basically been 2 Archetypes that had good ritual monsters in the whole lifespan

[@leoornstein3963]

My opponent: summon Herald of ultimateness. *Astel, Natural born of the void theme start playing.*

[@NICOCLASH]

23:25 I'm hugely disappointed that you haven't talked about the short period of experimentation that drytron got to summon beatrice as an alternative to benten to use her for later parts of the combo in some silly, dubious techs in destiny hero malicious and soul of purity and light, by far the most egregious tech choice since shock troops of the ice barrier during djinn necroz and dark witch in 2016 monarchs

[@fernandotorrero779]

I bet you saw a certain mbt video!

[@NICOCLASH]

@@fernandotorrero779 of course i did

[@eavyeavy2864]

It is extender, not tech.

[@NICOCLASH]

@@eavyeavy2864 Given the situation it is, Soul of purity and light is a 4 decade old card that no one has ever played, if we exclude of course the "legendary clown with set rotation" type of player that also happen to be a fairy lv6 monster that has a inherent special summoning condition making him excellent material for beatrice in fairy decks/strategy. It's like every tech when the stars perfectly allineates for make... STATUE OF EASTERN ISLAND playable in adamancipator

[@JennyBlaze253]

This was a really fun video and very informative! Thank you for making it! I'm curious, do you plan on making a video talking about the evolution of the other summoning styles? I mean, some of them there wouldn't be too much to talk about (I mean, how exactly do we talk about the progression of links?) but I'd love to watch more going over the different style histories.

[@scrubbyasuka5044]

This is exactly the kinda content I wanna see! Top quality video man keep up the good work

[@Toby-Wan_Kenobi]

I love your videos Law. Thanks for being awesome 👍

[@prince_azande7073]

Love your vids bro The fact there’s still a guy making yugioh content still is amazing For People like us who love the show and the card game

[@tyranitararmaldo]

Love the use of Forbidden Memories music for the old-school feel :D

[@e.t.1947]

Oh yeah nekroz time

[@Isaias9114]

really good video I would love to see more videos similar to this one.

[@esoteric7990]

The Demise otk later became infused with Dark Gaia otk then Dark Strike Fighter otk before finally falling out of relevance

[@GwynoftheMist]

A new TheLawYGO video essay to watch and neglect my sleep? HELL YEAH

[@knd-tcg4868]

Loved this video fantastic job!!!!

[@moleyswag1311]

Let's gooo, I love these uploads. Keep up the great work, TheLawYGO!

[@eliasmendes2198]

This was nice, I use a Chaos max dragon deck and I can say I appreciate the video

[@GogetaEiyuuYamcha]

These videos are so good, keep it up.

[@chrismiller3548]

In goat format relinquished is strong enough to build a deck around. It requires an immediate answer, is ridiculously easy to summon with sheep tokens/sinister serpent, and has its own chaos engine with relinquished and manju

[@thedom2753]

Ultimateness not even being once per chain is still so stupid

[@supernova9453]

Ultimateness was never intended to be used in Drytrons. It just happened by chance that they synergised so well. Ultimateness is incredibly difficult to summon or utilize without Drytrons which is why it was not once per turn.

[@renaldyhaen]

@@supernova9453 Drytron Ultimateness is just okay. The main problem is EVA, because it can give more ammo to Ultimateness.

[@cerromeceo]

I remember Crab Turtle 🐢 They were a low budget ritual card

[@iBenjamin1000]

interestingly, to me, a number of types have still yet to see any ritual monsters. drytron and megalith were the first for machine and rock. the remaining types are plant, pyro, dinosaur, psychic, reptile, sea serpent, thunder and wyrm. looking forward to seeing what archetype design we get for those remaining types.

[@scattatle]

Smh my head, didnt include the new vendread support that got reviewed a day and a half ago :)

[@Sh1ranu1]

Review it here then, right now

[@otterfire4712]

I see my comment from two weeks about the history of rituals ago bore fruit. Good stuff, subbed. It'd be funny to see the progression of structure decks. Like how Blaze of Destruction being a horrid structure deck who's only redeeming qualities was the staples within being Snatch Steal, Heavy Storm and Pot of Greed, while later sets created solid cards that you could have playable decks with just 2 or 3 decks. Like Zombie World, Dark World, or Machine Mayhem. Then later on you got Dinosmashers and ABC dragon or Endymion retrains seeing hits on the banlist.

[@TheREALTheRealAdam]

Great vid, would have liked a shoutout to Magikey's Ritual Tuner/Ritual spell that doubles as a fusion spell.

[@Bisalina5]

Secrets of Eternity was released in January 2015. This set introduced the Infernoids, a series of monsters that can Special Summon themselves to the field by banishing other Infernoids from either the hand or graveyard. Notable cards in set include Farfa, Malebranche of the Burning Abyss, Qliphort Monolith, Uni-Zombie, Nephe Shaddoll Fusion, and a card that would bolster Satellarknight to combat the Burning Abyss Shaddoll meta, Stellarknight Constellar Diamond. In this series, both Nyhmnim and myself will be opening 24 booster packs or 1 box of a core Yu-Gi-Oh! booster set. We will build a deck and play a best 2 out of 3, and the winner will receive a small prize to upgrade their deck. HOWEVER! Each episode, we will open another box of the next set that was released moving in chronological order, constantly upgrading our decks before dueling each other at the end of each episode. This is the Yu-Gi-Oh! Progression Series.

[@cloudchaser8650]

Hungry hamburger is the best ritual card ever made. Fight me.

[@wren5413]

Great video, very small yet pretty important correction tho, Gustkraken was not limited in the Tcg to prevent it from becoming a problem, it was limited because it was a problem in the Ocg and the banlist had not been seperated yet.

[@clemdelaclem]

you should make a patreon, your viewcount and sub count is completely below how amazing this content is. It's just a matter of time before you go viral (hopefully, you already deserve it right now but the social media gods are fickle)

[@dimastoding9441]

Nice vid bro

[@Closer2Zero]

Honestly i love Rituals form a theme POV because theyre the best for being able to show stories in the art, like evigishki and nekroz

[@jinxtheunluckypony]

Ritual summoning feels really thematic for Yugioh. I’m glad the mechanic is still getting support, even if it’s not currently topping.

[@ThermiteKitty]

It's always been weirdly under the radar until Nekroz/Drytrons. Like, for one of the oldest summoning mechanics, it had way less support than Fusions for ages, barely got representation in ARC-V and the only protagonists to ever Ritual Summon are Dark Yugi and Yusaku from VRAINS.

[@suezuccati304]

Drytron and Nekroz on their prime were absurdly oppressive meta decks At least

[@toniyami]

@@ThermiteKitty Michiru from Arc V used prediction princess

[@keanumolina_]

Love the cyber angels!

[@CosmicDogoran]

Nekroz of Burger

[@FranciscoJG]

I loved Gishkis (as most of DT archetypes actually). You could have highlighted Forbidden Arts of Gishki, the ritual card that allowed we to tribute opponent's monsters for the Ritual Summon (but crippling the monster it summoned).

[@amazighygo4077]

GG 10K Btw waiting for Next dl progression series épisode here 🤨

[@acehighbase]

I love ritual monsters however the condition that they are placed in the main deck is stupid given the fact that we now have link monsters. I know, the mechanic was introduced at the initial stage of the game, basically to make them relatively as hard to summon as fusions. Initially you needed specific monsters and polymerization (which can be used to summon any fusion monster) however you got the fusion monster in the extra deck. For Rituals you needed specific ritual card (that can only be use to summon specific ritual monster) but you didn't have to use specific monsters, only level requirement however for that convenience rituals are not in the extra deck. How I would redesign the mechanic: rituals are placed in the extra deck, however each monsters require a specific ritual spell (as initially was planned, so if you want 5 different ritual monsters, you have to run 5 different ritual spells in your main deck) and monsters can be tributed only from the field (also if there is a boss ritual monster, the tributed monsters shall be of specific type, attribute etc. so that they wouldn't be so easy to summon).

[@KermitTheFrogman]

Herald of Perfection is still my favorite card after all of these years.

[@robertocasco2967]

Best summoning mechanic ngl

[@AceBountyHunterRex]

Were all the currently existing nekroz cards around when the deck was at its best or were some released afterwards? Curious since only a few were mentioned which leads me to believe that they either weren't worth playing or didn't exist at the time.

[@reecenaidu6020]

Ah damn. I was expecting to hear how you thought Dogmatika matched up, but I suppose I should have noted the '1 year ago', lol

[@johnpenn]

great vid, yet again. I didn't see Impcantations in here. Did I miss that?

[@akmalfakhruddin7285]

19:28

[@Chad_Bane]

Relinquished and Demise King of Armageddon were my og favorite boss monsters when i started ygo

[@antofikboyz5554]

you missed one. new odd eyes ritual pendulum. it is first ritual pendulum

[@chrismiller3548]

Remember hungry burger?

[@habeshalad1728]

Bruh am dying waiting for the progression series 😭 when is the next episode

[@coyl8155]

Still waiting for hungry burger turbo to be meta one day

[@weelzneal4768]

It had its time during early yugioh duel links, hungry burger plus that equip card that gives ritual monsters 1500 more attack

[@gameinsane4718]

18:12 I’ve never seen Ben transform into “Cyber Angel” before

[@scottphillips7795]

was that the dark hole activation animation

[@Ramsey276one]

I find myself liking the Archetypes with a card that Ritual OR Fusion Summons!

[@Haradeas]

great vid! I am surprised there is no ritual summon with opponents creature yet. There are for tribute and synchro : /

[@kstanni87]

One thing is for certain, Relinquished will always be creepy

[@rajkanishu]

I thought the Magic/Spell Ruler set name was a joke on how they changed Magic Cards' name to Spell Cards, I didn't expect it to be real lol

[@Rewwgh]

I like Ritual as a concept a lot more than post-Synchro gimmicks. Relinquished is probably my favourite of the archetype. I would have loved a full line of occult horrors from the beyond. Nekroz look nice and all but I would have preferred them to be like a priestly order to facilitate the ritual summonings of these hypothetical horrors I'd want.

[@destroydavi1700]

In my opinion, a way to use more Ritual monsters will be to make Pendulum Ritual monsters so they could be more easy to summon

[@MarcosPaulo-ep9km]

I wish that someday I can see a ritual turner hahaha, rituals are so cool to play with.

[@TheLawYGO]

Batosbuster is already a ritual tuner

[@MarcosPaulo-ep9km]

@@TheLawYGO didn't know ty :3

[@XmortoxX1990]

Watching this after the announcement of new Gishki support

[@axmang0]

when is next episode of fusing from deck

[@sleepinthemorningcalm]

Rituals peaked with Humgry Burger

[@Ramsey276one]

Prep & Pre-Prep Dealings & Hand Destruction ALL the Djinns Let's see what we Ritual this time...

[@thomasbitmail7937]

13:00 Heeey!! Any Spell AND TRAP!! xDDD Where is my Nekroz Trap Konami???? Honestly, i just still can't believe that Nekroz is a rogue dack right now, and not even the fat djinn could save it, if it were to come back. From all the DT archetypes, this is the most unsupported one.... I wonder what new the new Libromancer support will bring, but as a mechanic, Konami really just sleeps on it. They should release more Rituals, that are actually viable, maybe just as powerful as Dragoon and/or DPE. Every summoning method is getting big love, except Rituals...

[@Ramsey276one]

My fanfic OC Archetype Ritual Summons FROM THE DECK. But only the non-Effect ones because BALANCE . XD

[@farmamedic]

It rather obvious Ritual and Fusion are not like the different type of monster and summon mechanics that came later in the game. They are clearly made to be narrative climatic moment in the duels of the manga and anime. Of course when they got added to the actual real life TCG they were pretty much identical to how they worked in the series, and that's why they are so clunky and inconsistent, they were meant to be climax of a duel in the story first and actually usable cards in the game second. Later mechanics were made thinking first in the TCG and secon in the anime, and it shows.

[@loggaming9438]

Nice

[@IsseiL]

I'd love a History of Fusion monsters since they were also kinda crappy at the beginning, with a development similar to Rituals

[@chad6120]

Anyone know the theme used at 2:45?

[@jamesturner6979]

Perhaps the mechanic wouldn’t have been as clunky if a Ritual Summon would have summoned the intended card either from the Extra Deck or the Main Deck without you needing the Monster in your hand. 🤔

[@graylienz8317]

I hadn't played for a decade until I downloaded 'Master duel' two weeks ago... EVERYTHING seems to be good. Whatever ban/limited list they're using for Master Duel ranked, I like it. I assume the TCG, in real life, just has a smaller variety of decks at the top and is way more expensive to play. I honestly have no clue though. 🙃

[@wanted1995sully]

3:50 priority IS still a rule, and is arguably the single most crucial rule to the flow of gameplay. Trigger and Trigger-Like effects specifically are now just not able to activate mid chain/sequence. It has to be successfully summoned and the game must be in a neutral state but priority in general is literally how and why chains work.

[@BLSoldier00]

He likely meant ignition effect priority, which went away in the TCG on April 2012.

[@wanted1995sully]

@@BLSoldier00which is the type of thing you probably wanna double check before you commit it to video.

[@BLSoldier00]

@@wanted1995sully Bruh, I watched the whole thing a few times. TheLawYGO said "Priority was still a rule" when talking about Demise, King of Armageddon, who's only effect is an ignition effect. So I am certain he meant Ignition Effect Priority. Also, "commit it to video?" Think before you speak.

[@TheGlactic]

These are such cool videos mam

[@dudono1744]

I'm surprised they didn't do Drytron (or something similar) earlier, always using levels is boring. I expect rituals to be unique (and somewhat clunky) ways to summon monsters, not always synchro with extra steps.

[@TheFeri]

Still my favorite summoning mechanic... Too bad there won't be good ritual decks that aren't disgusting... Like yeah dryatron is meta and all but but I'm not a fan... Just give me more nepthys support or relinquished support, or demise support... I don't want new rituals I want my old rituals to be good again... BLS could do it... Also... I wouldn't mind a pendulum ritual deck. They could use the pendulum effect as ritual spell to tribute themselves and when the ritual dies it doesn't go to the extra deck first but to an available pendulum scale so you could ritual again.

[@omegon2540]

3:26 just curios for any overlord fans but is it just me or do the monarch of the apocalypse look like ainze and abledo