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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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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DUEL MONSTERS (DM) THE BEST ERA CONFIRMED ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️
Trash era
@Burn_is_awesome: bro you did not play that era, it was played on the sidewalk curb, with friends from the neighborhood, we would print cards from anime episodes, stick them on top of fake yugioh cards.
Agree DM doesn’t age well.
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
What’s with the random obsession with Dark Magic Curtain? You’ve been banging on about that for like 6 months.
Nobody need dark magic curtain bro only you i rather get dark magician girl or dark paladin instead why another spell card in a heavily supported (with spell cards ) deck?
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
Regenesis could mix pretty well with it. It’s clear that these new cards don’t need the Extra Deck (neither does Regenesis, and they actively block you from it with one of their best cards) and most of them come with a statline that includes 2500. If you then consider that you get your Regenesis monsters back every turn and the Ritual spell also returns itself and any of the presented monsters you want every turn from GY, you can easily summon your bosses again every turn even if you’ve lost literally 100 % of your resources on your opponent’s turn and are on 0 cards in their End Phase.
I’ll have to test it out – Regenesis can already be somewhat bricky and this new deck includes several pretty big bricks as well. But I could imagine that it could run well together with some finetuning.
I think it doesn’t really matter much as it is okish cards not bad not too good but we can definetly plat season 1 yami yugi deck soon maybe a gaia the dragon champion terrain for this deck with contact fusion of any monsters mentioning dm or the new cards might be a fine addition to connect them personally more hyped for possibilities regarding battle city deck
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
You’d know what it makes the deck if you actually played the game, Bruno, instead of posturing on the internet as an expert in the game.
Nostalgia bait mostly but good regardless but definetly no tier 0 people throw this around without understanding what makes decks broken
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.
I hope we get some support from Odion, another playable apophis would be appreciated
We… don’t know, tbh.
Seems like Yu-gi-oh! is currently going through small rebranding and restructure.
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!
I was surprised to see him being an EARTH monster as well at first, but then I looked at his effects, type and potential LIGHT attribute again and saw quickly, why they didn’t go with LIGHT. Imagine him in Voiceless Voice. Would be waaay too easy to access and their Barrier would make it so his only weak spot for removal (targeting effects) would be gone, 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.
Super Soldier Shield protects against targeting, the problem is that the Super Soldier cards that aren’t Ritual Spells are unsearchable. I do hope another Gaia or BLS is made as follow-up support to grab Super Soldier Spells/Traps.
Poor Pegasus, how is he meant to steal these monsters with his cards now?
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.
MoBC was used in the same Deck BLS was and both were Rituals. It was a good thing to pair the two together as BLS needed the support while MoBC needed a home.
We are never getting red-eyes support again are we?
As God Allmighty intended.
Even worse, we are never getting GOOD red-eyes support again.
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.
Are you ever off? Even when Ancient Gear got support you were posting as if they got nothing. “Other deck got something?!?!?! I MUST TELL EVERYONE ABOUT HOW MUH PET DECK DESERVES SOMETHING TOO!”
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.
I wish for proper support for the legendary dragons and their knight versions
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.
Hell no. I’m so happy there is not a single direct mention of Dark Magician. MoBC deserved a chance to be its own thing as much as BLS. I welcome more of this for MoBC.
Little sad Griffirre retrain was relegated to Kuriboh in cosplay.
What do you mean? There’s plenty good engines that work in tandem with these cards. The new Kuriboh is a one card starter and can be searched by Crimson Call, which in turn can be searched by The Crimson King, who can easily be summoned by the new Albaz (and you even get a Fallen & Virtuous for free in the process). Soul Resonator can also search it. The Extra Deck disadvantages you get from these cards don’t matter to this deck since they don’t need the Extra Deck at all.
Fiendsmith and all the engines that can bridge into it works well with this deck, too. You can dump the new Archfiend with Aerial Eater to then dump the ritual and search for the Ritual monster that best fits your current needs. The Ritual can then return itself and the Archfiend to your hand to summon the newly searched Ritual monster.
And then there’s of course also generic ritual support, but you don’t have to rely on that.
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?
Still waiting on proper Summoned Skull.dek
But it’s interesting to note, Skull Archfiend of Chaos second effect searches out Matador Archfiend and Archfiend’s Emperor but can’t search out it’s own Ritual version, Archfiend’s Awakening because Contract with the Abyss predates it as a generic DARK Ritual so doesn’t mention its name.
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.
I wish for proper support for the legendary dragons and their knight versions
Mystical Celtic Sage is using Mystical Elf’s magic and obviously has her DEF stats.
Kuriboh is cosplaying as Griffore.
Thr big boss is combination of BLS and DMoC.
I cannot figure it out, but it would make sense for new Summon Skull to have connection to other monster used by Yugi? Seems like it’s a running theme here.
Black Chaos the Dark Chaos Magician + [Black Luster Soldier – Soldier of Light and Darkness] fusion monster card idea would’ve have me possibly beyond super excited. Perhaps maybe one day. 🎮
My question is… why does Mystic Elf now says “from the Extra Deck once” … are they going to give them a Fusion Monster?
Maybe next time Chaos Emperor Dragon can get a couple of WIND Rituals and Chaos support.
I wish Mystical Elf had gotten the new retrain over Celtic Guardian trying to poach her job. He’s had several retrains already and Mystical Elf only had one
I agree on the Mystical Elf comment, she deserves more attention!
This is the pack where i cope for Dartz cards…
Same haha
Put your hand up if you were expecting new Chaos Numbers monsters from ZEXAL to be the main focus of this pack (Or at least, support for currently existing Chaos Numbers)
Atem being in the rival line means this line of rivals are the one the MCs fought 1 final duel of a season of their series huh…
DDD – arc-V either season 1 or final season
Resonator-5d’s final season
Rokket-Vrains S1
and now DM-Final Season
so GX is Likely to have Cydra(S1) or Yubel(S3) as cover since chaos is obviously not a Jaden vs Yugi reference from the GX final season
and so maybe Zexal might either get Galaxy-eyes or Astral?
Regardless of meta, I love these cards for the concept alone. Though ideally there’d be some easy crossover with the existing BLS deck.
Ritual cage, Dimension Guardian, andSafe zone, that’s all I’m going to say.
Pardon me, Ritual cage, Dimension Guardian, Safe zone, Angel Ring, supreme magic sword of Rasputin, and Defence Zone, that’s all I’m going to say.
Pardon me, Ritual cage, Dimension Guardian, Safe zone, Angel Ring, supreme magic sword of Rasputin, and Defence Zone, that’s all I’m going to say.
I’m gonna be that guy and go on a rant… WHY MORE ATEM SLOP?
Invasion of Chaos, while hinting towards Atem, was a revolutionary set which designed monsters that marked generations of YGO players. Why are we still getting garbage nostalgia bait for the Japanese manga readers who for some reasons are obsessed with when Yugi played blue cards (soypog!!).
Why can’t we have A PROPER CHAOS ARCHETYPE, not scattered random chaos monsters and retrains that do nothing? Why not elevate Envoy of the Beginning and finally dare I say his name, Chaos Emperor Dragon, into a playable card? These monsters have shaped the actual YGO game IRL more than any scene from any of your show.
I was genuinely excited to think that at its brink of collapse, Konami will revive Invasion of Chaos, but no, its another unplayable garbage Yami Yugi deck with no identity based on a scene. Have a Summoned Skull that’s a slave for this one gimmick instead of a proper Summoned Skull standalone retrain. Have a Celtic Guardian that’s also a slave for this ONE GIMMICK instead of a proper Elf archetype. Have another soulless BLS ritual sludge like the other 1 million irrelevant supports we got. Can’t wait for 10 more months of Mitsurugi, Dracotail and Radiant Typhoon. Thank you Konami you deserve your downfall.
> Another “the game is dead/dying” post
See you for the next reveal, buddy.
The entire IP is called Yu-Gi-Oh! and the OG series is super iconic and Yugi was connected to the chaos archetype since the very beginning through BMoC and two of the Chaos monster from IoC you’re so mad about being a Chaos Sorcerer designed to fit with other Dark Magician-inspired Spellcasters and literal retrain of Black Luster Soldier.
Are you mad that there’s too much Spider-man in Spider-man? Or that Batman is wearing bat costume?
Not only that, but this IP for years is in kind of in questionable position in Japan (the only market that Konami is caring about, lmao) because no anime since 5D’s caught any attention of the Japanese kids. ZeXal ironically was a small bump in popularity, but everything else was just a failure after failure finished by soft reboot that survived two series.
Besides original series and arguably GX there’s nothing else to nostalgia milk in Yu-gi-oh!
Ritual of light and darkness, its EARTH and darkness actually ;D
Actually good DM support? Never thought I’d see the day.
Same