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Spell Shattering Rituals to the Max!
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Welcome back for another Creative Deck Profile, and this time I’m returning to the Black Chaos Ritual strategy with a Metalmorph twist, originally inspired by a featured match that someone pointed out to me from a prior YCS. This one isn’t quite as heavy on the side engines as my recent RoLaD/Mitsurugi profile, but you should definitely check that profile out too: https://youtu.be/-5Nt93inQ-M .
Now that you’re back, I’m going to start off by covering the two new BETB support cards, and first up is Spell Shattering Sword (YGOrg Translation). This Quick-Play Spell offers two effects, one to destroy all of your opponent’s face-up Spells, and the second to negate the effects of an opponents monster. Similar to Chaos Mystic Box, this also has an effect when destroyed by an opponent’s card, to synergize that much better with Chaos Magical Hats. This is just another great tool in the RoLaD toolkit, as is Black Skull Dragon the Archfiend Dragon of Unity (YGOrg Translation), their new Level 9 monster. This new Main Deck option can Special Summon itself from the hand via Quick Effect by discarding a Quick-Play or Ritual Spell, then whenever it is Special Summoned, it sets any S/T that mentions Light and Darkness Ritual. This is a great way to kick off the duel when going first, but it also is a repeatable trigger you can leverage multiple times in a turn via Mind Shuffle as your opponent continues to activate effects.
Now for the second half, we turn over to the Max Metalmorph theme, mainly because Incoming Machine! is an extremely solid Spell Card you can recover and activate multiple times in a single turn. Sure, at face value it simply grabs a monster that mentions Max Metalmorph, but if you start by grabbing Metal Illusionist, that turns into a full Fiendmsith combo to send Skull Archfiend of Chaos to the GY via Aerial Eater. Once you Ritual Summon, this combo also adds a Red-Eyes Black Fullmetal Dragon or Metalflame Swordsman to your endboard, in addition to the Magician of Dark Chaos – Black Chaos and your D/D/D Wave High King Caesar. This is typically not enough to win the duel on its own, but combine this with Anti-Spell Fragrance tutored off of Pharaonic Advent, and you have all the tools you need to win duels from the jump. Don’t count out this more controlling take on the Black Chaos Ritual strategy, and let me know if you have better ideas as to how to optimize this even further!
Provided Decklist:
Monsters:
2 Black Skull Dragon the Archfiend Dragon of Unity
1 Red-Eyes Black Fullmetal Dragon
1 Black Chaos
1 Metalzoa X
1 Pharaonic Advent
1 Zoa the Fiendish Beast
1 Red-Eyes Metal Claws Dragon
2 Metalflame Swordsman
2 Skull Archfiend of Chaos
3 Fiendsmith Engraver
1 Lacrima the Crimson Tears
3 Griffoh
1 Fabled Lurrie
1 Metal Illusionist
1 Magicians’ Souls
1 Black Luster Soldier – Soldier of Light and Darkness
1 Magician of Dark Chaos – Black ChaosSpells:
3 Ragged Records of Rites
3 Incoming Machine!
1 Fiendsmith’s Tract
2 Light and Darkness Ritual
1 Chaos Magical Hats
1 The Gaze of Timaeus
1 Called by the Grave
1 Chaos Mystic Box
1 Spell Shattering SwordTraps:
2 Max Metalmorph
1 Flame Coating Metalmorph
2 Mind Shuffle
1 Anti-Spell FragranceExtra Deck:
1 Fiendsmith’s Desirae
1 Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon
1 Master of Chaos
1 Dark Magician of Destruction
1 Aerial Eater
1 Chaos Angel
1 Super Starslayer TY-PHON – Sky Crisis
1 D/D/D Wave High King Caesar
1 Charmer Quartet in Bloom
1 Selene, Queen of the Master Magicians
1 Fiendsmith’s Agnumday
1 S:P Little Knight
1 Fiendsmith’s Sequence
1 I:P Masquerena
1 Fiendsmith’s Requiem
Note: This is continuing the style of Creative Deck Profile articles, designed to showcase a build through replays and an attached summary. If you wish to see a CDP for an archetype, theme, or strategy you love, feel free to message me on the YGOrg Discord server in Decklists-Garage or the comments section of any of my YouTube video with your ideas for me to keep under consideration! On most YGO-related communities my username is Quincymccoy, so feel free to reach out. Current pending requested profiles include: Suship, Amazoness, Toon, Unchained, Lunalight, Speedroid, Odd-Eyes, Dragon Ruler,
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