𝚁 𝙴 𝚃 𝚄 𝙽 𝙾 𝙵 𝚃 𝙷 𝙴 𝙼 𝙰 𝙲 𝙺, complete with extended arts for both of Yugi’s iconic Rituals.
Packs have gone through a redesign, now seeming to feature the anime character highlighted in the set with new art!
Extended Arts of the new Boss monsters!
CORI-JP001 Chou Makenshi Black Chaos / Black Chaos the Ultimate Magical Swordsman
DARK Spellcaster / Special Summon / Effect
LV8 3000/2500
Cannot be Normal Summoned/Set. Must be Special Summoned (from your hand) by shuffling 1 Spellcaster or Warrior Ritual Monster from your hand or GY into the Deck. You can only Special Summon “Black Chaos the Ultimate Magical Swordsman” once per turn this way.
(1) You can discard this card; place 1 Continuous Trap that mentions “Ritual of Light and Darkness” from your Deck or GY on your field face-up.
(2) Unaffected by your opponent’s activated card effects while you have a Ritual Spell in your GY.
(3) Once per turn: You can banish 2 cards your opponent controls.
DARK Fiend / Effect
LV6 2500/1200
You can only use the 1st and 2nd effect of this card’s name each once per turn.
(1) If this card is in your hand or GY: You can target 3 cards in the GYs and/or face-up banishment, including a card that mentions “Ritual of Light and Darkness” other than “Skull Archfiend of Chaos”; place them on the bottom of the Deck in any order, and if you do, Special Summon this card.
(2) If this card is sent to the GY: You can send 1 Ritual Spell from your hand or Deck to the GY; add 1 Ritual Monster mentioned on it from your Deck to your hand.
CORI-JP003 Elf no Seikenja / Mystical Celtic Sage
LIGHT Warrior / Effect
LV4 1400/2000
You can only use the 1st and 2nd effect of this card’s name each once per turn.
(1) If this card is Normal or Special Summoned: You can activate this effect; you can only Special Summon from the Extra Deck once for the rest of this turn, also reveal your entire hand, and if there is a card that mentions “Ritual of Light and Darkness” in it, you can draw 3 cards, then discard 2 cards.
(2) You can Tribute this card; Special Summon 1 Ritual Monster that mentions “Ritual of Light and Darkness” from your hand.
CORI-JP004 Gurifoh
DARK Fiend / Effect
LV1 300/200
You can only use the 1st effect of this card’s name once per turn.
(1) (Quick Effect): You can discard this card, then activate 1 of these effects;
● The next battle or effect damage you would take this turn becomes 0.
● Set 1 Quick-Play Spell or Trap that mentions “Ritual of Light and Darkness” from your Deck. It can be activated this turn.
(2) For the Ritual Summon of exactly 1 Level 8 monster with a card effect that requires use of monsters, this card can be used as the entire Tribute.
CORI-JP027 Kuroki Konton no Majutsushi Black Chaos (Black Chaos the Dark Chaos Magician)
Level 8 DARK Spellcaster Ritual Effect Monster
ATK 2800 DEF 2600
You can Ritual Summon this card with “Ritual of Light and Darkness”
You can only use the 1st and 3rd effect of this card’s name each once per turn.
(1) If this card is Special Summoned: You can add 1 Spell from your GY to your hand.
(2) Unaffected by your opponent’s activated effects, unless they target this card. Spells/Traps you control cannot be destroyed, or banished, by your opponent’s card effects.
(3) You can target 1 card your opponent controls; banish it face-down.
CORI-JP028 Hikari to Yami no Senshi Chaos Soldier [Black Luster Soldier – Soldier of Light and Darkness]
Level 8 EARTH Warrior Ritual Effect Monster
ATK 3000 DEF 2500
You can Ritual Summon this card with “Ritual of Light and Darkness”
You can only use the 1st and 3rd effect of this card’s name each once per turn.
(1) If this card is Special Summoned: You can target 1 card your opponent controls; banish it.
(2) Cannot be destroyed by battle. Unaffected by your opponent’s activated effects, unless they target this card.
(2) When this card destroys an opponent’s monster by battle: You can make it gain 1500 ATK, and if you do, it can make a second attack in a row.
CORI-JP044 Hikari to Yami no Gishiki (Ritual of Light and Darkness)
Ritual Spell
You can only use the 2nd effect of this card’s name once per turn.
(1) Ritual Summon 1 “Black Chaos the Dark Chaos Magician” or “Black Luster Soldier – Soldier of Light and Darkness” from your hand, by Tributing monsters from your hand or field and/or banishing monsters from your GY, whose total Levels equal or exceed its Level.
(2) If this card is in your GY: You can add it and 1 card that mentions “Ritual of Light and Darkness” from your GY to your hand.
CORI-JP045 Konton no Magic Box / Mystic Box of Chaos
Quick-Play Spell
(1) When your opponent activates a card or effect that targets another card(s) you control: Return 1 of those cards you control to the hand (if Set, reveal it), and if you do, destroy 1 card on the field, then you can Special Summon 1 monster that mentions “Ritual of Light and Darkness” from your hand, with a different name from the returned card, ignoring its Summoning conditions.
(2) If this card is destroyed by your opponent: You can Special Summon 1 Ritual Monster that mentions “Ritual of Light and Darkness” from your hand or Deck.
CORI-JP046 Chaos Silk Hat (Chaos Hats)
Quick-Play Spell
(1) When your opponent activates a Normal Spell/Trap Card, or monster effect: Choose 3 Spells/Traps with different names from each other from your Deck and 1 monster in your Main Monster Zone that mentions “Ritual of Light and Darkness”, and if you do, Special Summon the chosen Spells/Traps as Normal Monsters (Spellcaster/DARK/Level 8/ATK 0/DEF 0) whose name is “Chaos Hats” in face-down Defense Position, Set the chosen monster, and shuffle them on the field, then your opponent’s activated effect becomes “destroy 1 opponent’s Set monster”.
Continuous Trap
You can only use the 1st effect of this card’s name once per turn. You cannot activate this card’s 1st and 2nd effect in the same Chain.
(1) During either player’s turn: You can add 1 monster that mentions “Ritual of Light and Darkness” from your Deck to your hand, then discard 1 card.
(2) When your opponent activates a card or effect: You can return 1 Level 7 or higher monster you control to the hand; Special Summon 1 monster with a different name from your hand that mentions “Ritual of Light and Darkness”, ignoring its Summoning conditions.
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46 Comments
That Ritual Spell can add 2 of itself btw, the GY effect names itself
We just need that Dark Magic Curtains retrain reveal!!! So we can play with it on EdoPro
Definitely liking this stuff personally.
LETS GOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Trash era
Brilliant, just f*ckin Brilliant, just as Saturn😈 enters Aries♈️ again ~
Coolest looking Overframes so far. Pog.
Dark Magician can use this I believe. But we need that LOCH reveal of the new DM Curtains! I hope it get revealed today or tomorrow!
nah im here waiting to see if orichalcos gets the arcana force treatment and gets support in here
This shows a real chaos during Battle Phase. Lots of shuffle and ignore Special Summons
my jaw dropped
this is actually wholesome and seems strong
the hat can set ANY S/T not the ones that mentions true and light thingy … WOW
THAT’S WHAT YOU NOTICED? The cards don’t go back like the og hats they stay and because they’re spell/traps I suppose you can flip them when it’s back to your turn either Xyz with them or link with them
Some of these cards are actually useful in core DM and MoBC will be super strong due to numerous ways to summon it and constantly recover Spells (any)
Deck doesn’t even lock aside from Celtic
Which archetype could be mixed with the new cards? DM itself?
DM mainly if you wanted to be different could probobly use the old BLS stuff
So… Does this make Dark Magician/BLS Tier 0 or is it just Nostalgia Bait?
It’s bizarre to see a Ritual Spell card in the OCG/TCG that can only Ritual Summon specific Monsters in 2026.
Some of these cards can definitely be used in DM, but this looks like a pretty damn good going 2nd otk deck from all of these dodging and banish and shuffles
Nostalgia bait. Currently the deck’s only good option is to resolve the silk hats quick play and pray u hit mystic box of chaos with the pop so u can do the bare minimum.
Even with a full gold sarc engine/ dark magician build (which both become hella bricky with those, even more than normal) u end on 3 to 4 interactions if u are lucky. Deck aint worth it
Yugi on the cover? They haven’t done that since the Stone age.
>Spells start at 044
>Traps start at 065
Are they now putting reprints in core sets? There’s no way they can shove 16 Traps here.
There is a chance that a trap archetype is either introduced or gets a bigger wave of support, which could explain the abnormally high number of traps.
Thats not how numbering works in sets.
Till we know where the last traps are its very unlikely.
Also reprints in core sets happen only in highest rarities (like assault mode stardust in starlight reprint in BPRO) or as a common.
Also ocg only numbers new releases,
Reprints are in the extra packs so no numbering.
Since we alway have a Toon BLS I’m almost certain that we’re getting a Toon Magician of Black Chaos. And since BLS is getting new support hopefully that means Harpies will be getting new support soon since BLS debuted in the Mai duel from Duelist Kingdom.
Konami REALLY wants an anime deck to be at worlds this year.
Just like Blue-Eyes was in 2016.
Did not expect new Chaos Magicians considering we got “Dark Magician of Destruction” not long ago… But I am not complaining! Magician of Black Chaos is among my all time fave monsters! I am also happy they made a new Chaos Solider, I actually been hoping on it for a long time, it’s own deck has been struggling badly. I do wish Soldier of Light & Darkness was Light attribute however… would make for a better companion to the new Ritual Magician along with the fact Chaos decks don’t want to run earth mons.
Anyways, these cards are amazing! I can not wait to use them both online & collect the real cards too!
these cards are truly unplayable
Celtic Guardian of the Graceful Charity!
Gurifoh is funny because they basically just moved the two dots that turns ‘f’ into ‘b’ onto the ‘k’ to make it a ‘g’
クリボー
グリホー(it uses フォ which is ‘fo’, rather than ‘ho’, but fo isn’t naturally part of the traditional Japanese letters)
I like the design of the Ritual Monsters. They have simple effects that are self contained. BLS is pretty crazy. Can’t be destroyed by battle and basically can only be affected by targeting cards. They’re trying to promote battle it seems like with the amount of unaffected by opponent’s activated card effects.
Mystic Box and Magical Hat is a pretty cool combo. You can also use other cards that activate if destroyed by the opponent like Waking the Dragon for some extra fun. I hope there’s a Chaos Gaia as well.
Black Chaos Swordsman can be splashed into Dark Magician decks since they have easy access to Illusion of Chaos.
While the art is good on most of these new cards… I do wish at least Skull Archfiend & Mystical Celtic had new clothes or something, I am just so very bored of getting the default look with them 2 mons. xD
DM again…. I don’t say this normally but: Boring!
If you don’t like the franchise that invented this game then leave. Also Wdym again? We cycled through every other show before this set. Actual monkey
So, the new Archfiend makes Fiendsmith now bridge into Habakiri by dumping the Archfiend with Aerial Eater… Yeah, it’s about time Habakiri gets the axe I think.
If only we had this pack art style since series 11 then we could see the same handful of character over and over again! Welp, MobC is forced to share the spotlight even though Chaos Soldier already has 10x more variants. “Soldier of Light and Darkness” – Still no DARK chaos soldier, sigh. Weird to see neo new Mystic Box and Magical Silk Hats (that are more lore accurate in some ways) not mention/work with DM. Yes, there’s already been a glut of DM variants as of late but if this is the route konami wants then it feels incomplete without adding DM and Gaia. Not even the first time this has happened, dark magic mirror force can’t even be used if you JUST control regular DM! Unlike soldier, elf swordsman WAS allowed to get an attribute change, must have been trained by neo the magic swordsman and I’m sticking to that theory.
Good to see more answers to arbitrary non-targeting thought I’d rather not have the arbitrariness to begin with. I still think about how Magical Hats and tcg naming is the reason some cyberdark support specifies effect monsters. No need to repeat my ritual spiel from the MobC rush posts.
Sorry that happened to you.
We are never getting red-eyes support again are we?
As God Allmighty intended.
Shout out to Heraldic Beasts for ushering in a new era of Yu-Gi-Oh cards that reference card names that don’t exist. “Unknown”, “Fairy Prince”, and now “Chaos Hats”. I for one welcome all the weird jank that this opens the door for.
Starting to think I have a better chance winning the lottery than red-eyes getting support.
I just hope we get some new “Ancient Gear” cards in this set.
Since Black Chaos MAX will never get a reprint or show up in video games this is the first ritual effect variant of MobC that will have widespread availability. Would’ve been funny if Mind Shuffle negated all opponent’s card effects that included looking at your opponent’s hand, a missed opportunity.
“(if Set, reveal it)”
Infernity cheaters in shambles.
So, this is Shining Sarc but for big Yugi, so cooool, I love it!
I wish they were built-in with Dark Magician. Even if not fully integrated, just having them have a passing mention of “Dark Magician” would’ve done wonders for this archetype. Would’ve allowed for better consistency of plays, but now it’s kinda weird because you have to play it standalone and make due with just the usual generic ritual support.
Celtic Guardian got the Graceful Charity effect and Kuriboh is cosplaying as Griffore 😀
Besides that really cool to see all the other retrains Chaos Soldier, BLS, Summoned Skull Demon, Dark Magician of Chaos including classics like Mystic/Mystical Box and Magical Silk / Magical Hats.
The ritual looks like when Yugi fused Dark Magician with Joeys/Jounounchis Flame Swordsman against Big Five or Speed Fusion artwork from 5ds, gives me that vibe.
Mind Scan is funny cause Yami uses Mind Shuffle on Peagusus too.
How many times are we going to make a Yugi deck?
The usual Yugiboomer slop. I sleep. (unless it’s DMG or Silent Magician)
The Celtic Sage card will be used in Exodia decks though. Draw 3 every turn, including your opponent’s turn, and the effect isn’t once per Duel. They are going to regret that lol
this honestly would have made a great 25th Anniversary set to release for DM. all of these cards are retrains themed around monsters used during Duelist Kingdom with Yugi’s strongest monsters being his rituals having some pretty neat retrains and Over Art designs.
Also love the homage to Dark Paladin with Chaos Magician and BLS having a card that looks like a fusion of them.
honestly with these cards plus the other Dark Magician support that ties it to BLS and Chaos cards, I’m curious to see how a deck would be made from them.