Oh, what noble and glorious Kami awakens from its slumber in the ancient Jinja of the Land.
SUDA-EN090 Mitsurugi no Mikoto, Kusanagi
Level 4 DARK Reptile Effect Monster
ATK 1600
DEF 400
If this card is Normal or Special Summoned, or if this card is Tributed: You can target 1 “Mitsurugi” card in your GY or banishment, except “Mitsurugi no Mikoto, Kusanagi”; add it to the hand. If another Reptile monster(s) you control would be destroyed by battle or card effect, you can Tribute this card instead. You can only use each effect of “Mitsurugi no Mikoto, Kusanagi” once per turn.
SUDA-EN091 Mitsurugi no Mikoto, Saji
Level 4 DARK Reptile Effect Monster
ATK 1000
DEF 1700
If this card is Normal or Special Summoned, or if this card is Tributed: You can add 1 “Mitsurugi” Spell/Trap from your Deck to your hand. If another Reptile monster(s) you control would be destroyed by battle or card effect, you can Tribute this card instead. You can only use each effect of “Mitsurugi no Mikoto, Saji” once per turn.
SUDA-EN092 Ame no Murakumo no Mitsurugi
Level 8 DARK Reptile Ritual Effect Monster
ATK 3200
DEF 800
You can Ritual Summon this card with “Mitsurugi Ritual”. If this card is Special Summoned: You can destroy all monsters your opponent controls. When your opponent activates a card or effect (Quick Effect): You can activate this effect; your opponent can discard 1 card, or that effect is negated. If this card is Tributed: You can add 1 “Mitsurugi” card from your Deck to your hand, except “Ame no Murakumo no Mitsurugi”, then you can Special Summon this card. You can only use each effect of “Ame no Murakumo no Mitsurugi” once per turn.
SUDA-EN093 Futsu no Mitama no Mitsurugi
Level 8 DARK Reptile Ritual Effect Monster
ATK 2000
DEF 3400
You can Ritual Summon this card with “Mitsurugi Ritual”. If your opponent Special Summons a monster(s) (except during the Damage Step): You can target 1 Reptile monster in your GY, except “Futsu no Mitama no Mitsurugi”; Special Summon it. You can only activate this effect of “Futsu no Mitama no Mitsurugi” once per Chain. If this card is Tributed: You can add 1 “Mitsurugi” card from your Deck to your hand, except “Futsu no Mitama no Mitsurugi”, then you can Special Summon this card. You can only use this effect of “Futsu no Mitama no Mitsurugi” once per turn.
SUDA-EN094 Mitsurugi Prayers
Quick-Play Spell Card
When you activate this card, you can also Tribute 1 Reptile monster in your hand or field; apply 1 of these effects, or if you Tributed a monster at activation, you can apply both effects in sequence.
• Add 1 “Mitsurugi” monster from your Deck to your hand.
• Take 800 damage, then you can Special Summon 1 “Mitsurugi” monster from your hand or GY, but it cannot attack directly.
You can only activate 1 “Mitsurugi Prayers” per turn.
SUDA-EN095 Mitsurugi Ritual
Ritual Spell Card
This card can be used to Ritual Summon any Reptile Ritual Monster. Activate 1 of these effects (but you can only use each effect of Mitsurugi Ritual” once per turn);
• Ritual Summon 1 Reptile Ritual monster from your Deck, by Tributing Reptile monsters from your hand or field whose total Levels equal the Level of the Ritual Monster.
• RItual Summon 1 Reptile Ritual Monster from your hand, by Tributing up to 2 Reptile monsters from your hand, Deck, or field, whose total Levels equal the Level of the Ritual Monster.
SUDA-EN096 Mitsurugi Great Purification
Normal Trap Card
When your opponent activates a card or effect: Tribute 1 Level 5 or higher Reptile monster; negate that effect, and if you do, destroy that card. You can banish this card from your GY, then target 1 Reptile monster in your GY; Special Summon it, and if you do, Tribute 1 other monster you control. You can only use 1 “Mitsurugi Great Purification” effect per turn, and only once that turn.
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61 Comments
Snekpile got Ritual AND Links. And an Xyz.
What,what xyz
@Gato
King of the Feral Imps is the only one I can think of
King of Feral Imps looks like a beast in the artwork. 2 legs, 2 arms, a tail and fur with a very wide stance.
All Feral Imps are actually Gremlins. And you know what those guys look like when you feed them after midnight.
YOOOO OGDOA SUPPORT LETS GOOOOO
> TCG world premiere
> most aggressively Japanese deck ever made
This is pretty funny
YAMATA NO OROCHI MY GOAT
TCG when localization name of OCG card: making the worst name as they can
TCG when naming their own card: making the rawest name as they can
They think they’re cool
Yeah, this and just using Japanese words instead of translating them as Konami US would do with localizations is so hilarious to me.
Like rituals from what im reading they look pretty playable and like how they work
did we read the same cards
Yeah, against a 2010 deck, this deck can maybe get a win lol
These are pretty good, but we know how this goes. A promising first half was squandered by a disappointing second half. Here’s coping this isn’t the case…
this deck will only be good when they get a level 4 ritual monster until then this deck is virtually unplayable in todays meta
This deck’s built for Ogdoadics, obviously—load up Level 8s in the GY, tribute your own monsters to special summon them, and trigger the effects of the tributed ones.
Finally… Venom Support
But now seriously… this is a TCG exclusive? how hypocrite from them… cuz when a Japanese card has some kind of Cultural reference they just censored but when they do it is fine?
US and west always hypocrite. How dumb you are not to realize it
sorry, what? when has that ever happened?
Oh yes please, I want venom support so badly.
I just hope they still stick to the venom counter theme, even if counters are kinda bad in yugioh, becuase if not the deck just looses 1 if its 2 interesting features (the other is vennomenaga which is a boss with highly conflicting effects/design xD)
Looking at this makes me upset how butchered the Ragnaraika names were in the TCG
Ok. Ogdoadic engine on line. Ragnaraika on reserve.
Oh look. Another DARK Ritual deck. It seems all we ever get now for new ritual decks are DARK and LIGHT. The other attributes just don’t exist at all. :/
Megalith Need I say more
Libromancers: [EXIST]
So, you had to go back to 2019 to find a Ritual deck to mention? That’s just as sad as I expected.
Okay. From the last 5 years, lets weigh all the new Ritual decks against the DARK/LIGHT attribute favoritism.
Multi (1)- Libromancer *Still includes 1 DARK and 1 LIGHT Ritual.
LIGHT (5)- Dogmatika, Drytron, Mikanko, Voiceless Voice, Ryu-Ge
DARK (2)- Nouvelles, Mitsurugi
DARK/LIGHT now make up 7 out of 8 of the Ritual decks introduced in the last 5 years. And that 1 deck, Libromancer still winds up having 2 DARK/LIGHT Rituals out of its 4 Rituals.
Magikey gets 1 EARTH Ritual and of course a DARK Ritual. The WIND attribute Sonic Bird was retrained into a Ritual but had its attribute switched to DARK even though WIND is the attribute that needed more Rituals. Sadly it was released exactly 1 set before the generic WIND ritual spell was released in the TCG.
Out of the 3 Ritual decks that TCG has introduced this is also the second DARK ritual deck.
WIND and even more so FIRE are almost completely ignored. The only reason WATER has as many Rituals as it does comes entirely from just the Gishki and Nekroz themes. Which means there hasn’t been a new WATER Ritual deck in 10 years.
*Transonic Bird was released 1 set before Breath of Acclamation was released in the OCG (not TCG). They had a year of knowing it was coming. They still retrained the first WIND monster that supports Rituals into a DARK Ritual monster just 2 months before they got Breath’.
this is literally the first reptile deck in history and that’s what you chose to focus on??
Futsu and Saji looking like FIRE monsters, but being slapped with DARK, is just Yu-Gi-Oh being Yu-Gi-Oh.
@morphine jar -no, I’m happy Reptiles got their first Ritual deck. But it didn’t necessarily have to be DARK, now did it? Even the monster artworks make it look like the whole deck could easily have been FIRE Reptiles.
@ScionStorm Because the Archetype’s based on Yamata No Orochi so them DARK Reptiles makes since if you know the myth
Well, yeah! Got keep them Bystial a reason to stay alive other than just because. Konami found the PERFECT counters to Rituals if they are kept Light/Dark.
@David You mean like how they already made Yamata Dragon a FIRE monster way back in 2001?
Wow, actually good. Can’t wait for the second wave now. Get your Snake Rain!
Meh, I’d rather have generic Reptile stuff instead of yet another Ritual Deck in a row.
…in a row?
Did bro forget about Mimighoul, Ashened, Tistina, Gold Pride, and Ghoti?
Blood…the last ritual the TCG released was Libromancer…almost 3 years ago.
Um…these work generically with Reptiles? Might want to reread the cards, they literally talk more about Retiles than rituals…so you got your wish.
Seems cool so far. Good designs and decent effects too. Can’t complain until we see the next wave
WTF this is TCG exclusives? Thought this was from ALIN.!! What a design man
the trap card negates and must be activated in response to what it’ll negate and yet it’s not a counter trap…
also remember when they had a card named after susanoo and the tcg localized it to susa soldier?
But then we got the TCG name Superheavy Samurai Warlord Susanowo.
Is the ritual spell the first card that can tribute from deck?
Okay, they have and in archetype Advanced and High Ritual art in one card. Pretty sick ngl
It occurs to me that Futsu no Mitama’s ‘you summoned something? I revive something’ effect is A) not level-limited, B) merely once per CHAIN, and C) NOT tied to the hard OPT clause at the end of the card. It’s been a while since I looked at what all could be done with that, but I’m curious to see if anyone comes up with something especially fun or rewarding to make use of that fact; combined with how the Ritual Spell is admittedly fairly unhinged for a Ritual Spell (either you’re spending mats you have because you didn’t draw the Ritual Monster, or you drew the Monster and the Spell is now two Foolish Burials in a trenchcoat), this looks like the start of something very interesting that mostly hinges on ‘what can I pair this with’ in the immediate and ‘is the next wave good’ in the future.
THANK YOU. At least, one person in this comments section has some sense Smh
For the people saying these cards are crap, months from now when they’re shown to be good, I better not hear any o’ y’all complaining that Konami should ban them. Because I don’t know how you can look at Ritual monsters that can a) Special Summon themselves BY being tributed for a ritual summon, b) be ritual summoned directly from the main deck or tribute FROM the main deck for their ritual summon, and c) once PER CHAIN Special summon ANY reptile monster from the GY, and say in good faith that they can only win against a 2010 deck. Like, seriously? Smh
Carefull. All of these effects are powerfull in a vacuum, but sadly yugioh rn has a lot of disruptions, and the goal is to lock your opponent out of the game, most of the time accomplished by spamming monsters onto your board during your turn to spam out powerfull generic disruptive monsters.
While this deck can grab stuff from the deck and all, its bosses dont produce an endboard nearly good enough, and the deck isnt spammy enough to get all the generic disruptions on the board.
This deck needs a way to get something really broken on the board, then it can act as a powerfull support option, but without that/those cards its entirely support and that doesnt do anything on its own.
Thats one hell of an overtuned deck… sadly it probably needs to be this way to have any chance these days
However I still think it wont do much… at least alone. Its negate if optional for the opponent, the infinite revive effect can pretty much only happen on the opponents turn, where they determine the speed of it, and it isnt fully clear if the self revive effect of the rituals can actually revive them before they have been correctly ritual summoned.
All in all a nice start, but sadly a slightly deceptive one. They arent a good monster spam deck (at least in your turn), and their endboard needs a lot of setup in the GY with speciffic floodgate/atb/negate effect monsters to have any impact.
All in all a interesting deck, with the best move in it being to be able to quick effect nuke the opponents board, however its missing just a little bit to be broken… rn its sadly only mid, with some style points. I really hope the potential second wave gives them something… something like a ritual which can multiple times per turn quick effect tribute your own monsters to destroy an opponents card or something.
Opening either ritual monster + the ritual spell means you end on 1 omni negate, a potential second or a forced discard and a raigeki that is super easy to trigger. Plus the end board is extremely gummy, Futsu summons back cards which can protect the rituals and the deck can dodge a lot of removal by tributing off your cards and it generates a lot of advantage whilst doing so. During your opponent’s turn you can search 4 cards and add back one from GY and the GY effect of the omni negate trap can really increase your damage output during your turn making it fairly easy to OTK.
I never said it couldnt otk xD
But pretty much every deck can do that these days.
The problem is it needs at least 2 card for its optimal combo, which can be a bit hard to force your deck to give you on turn 1, especially with interrups present. Also sadly neither prep nor preprep can be used in this deck.
If you can find a way to load up your GY in a way in which you have tons of defense effects reptile monsters, you may have a chance on turn 3. But rn most of the important effects suffer heavily from interruption, which makes turn 1 and 2 plays hard. However if you can make it to turn 3, the deck will outgrind the opponent.
Futsu and Saji look like they were designed during Year of Fire.
As Reptiles, though, they’ll be released in Year of Snake which is hopefully code for Year of Reptiles in ygo. Looking forward to Venom, Ogdoadic, Alien, Worm, Ananta, and Gagigo. Alligator support would be cool too but I’m not expecting that.
Maybe Reptilian too
Reptillianne has already had extra support waves. It has 3 Tuners and two Synchros that weren’t ever used in the anime. If we’re going for more Dark Signer support I’d rather have Rex as headliner for a set with Roman, Devak and Greiger also getting support waves.
I swear to god, people that says this deck is trash, y all stupid. With all the pre existing ritual and reptile support you can craft something stupid, it’s at least a tier 2
Drytron getting some new playthings, i see
I thought Kusanagi was giving a thumbs-up until I zoomed in on the card artwork
Whats meaning of Mitsurugi?