{"id":16813,"date":"2016-06-27T08:00:32","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T08:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ygorganization.com\/?p=16813"},"modified":"2016-06-27T00:23:06","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T00:23:06","slug":"dracoritual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ygorganization.com\/staging\/?p=16813","title":{"rendered":"Casual Deck Strategy: Advent Ritual"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to the next installment of the CDS articles, this time focused on combining Pendulum monsters with Ritual Summoning! Ritual monsters have always been the odd man out, requiring a large commitment in order to bring them to the field, so what better way to compensate for this hefty investment than to use Pendulum monsters to serve as the material? Just wait until\u00a0you realize the other potential benefits!<\/p>\n

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As always, a sidebare before I begin. This deck will be using many cards that are easily seen as being ‘meta’; however, I hope that you can look past that. The\u00a0strategy I will be introducing you to today is more focused on\u00a0the true power of the whole\u00a0Dracoslayer\u00a0theme, rather than only a shade of its potential to support the insane\u00a0Performapals. Now that this caution is out of the way, let’s begin!<\/p>\n

\"\"Ritual monsters have always been powerful cards, and the fact is that they boast some of the most powerful monster effects in the game. From the downright invincibility of\u00a0Blue-Eyes Chaos MAX Dragon\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0the unparalleled disruption of\u00a0Herald of Perfection\u00a0<\/strong>or\u00a0Herald of Ultimateness,\u00a0<\/strong>to the one-sided Giant Trunade<\/strong> and Chain Energy<\/strong>\u00a0combined into\u00a0Odd-Eyes Gravity Dragon\u00a0<\/strong>and the entire phase skipping of\u00a0Amorphactor Pain, the Imagination Dracoverlord,\u00a0<\/strong>these Ritual monsters are very powerful, yet require considerable setup to achieve and summon. Trust me, I can continue listing extremely powerful Rituals, but I think you get the point. Despite releasing more and more support cards for our blue monsters, they really have only had time to shine thus far as the Nekroz archetype and through certain degenerate Gishki combos.\u00a0But what if I told you that there is Ritual support beyond your wildest dreams once you combine Rituals and Pendulum monsters? Would you believe that there already exists a generic Ritual Spell that allows you to Ritual Summon a monster from your Graveyard (that isn’t named Nekroz Cycle<\/strong>)? How about that there are alternative options to searching out any Ritual Spell or Ritual monster beside\u00a0Manju of the Ten Thousand Hands?\u00a0<\/strong>If you haven’t heard of any cards like those, I’m sure you have at least heard about the one Ritual Spell card that is the only Ritual Spell\u00a0to have ever been included on the TCG Forbidden\/Limited List,\u00a0Advanced Ritual Art,\u00a0<\/strong>but have you ever considered what would happen when you used that alongside a couple of Normal Pendulums? The deck I’m presenting today will be using these cards to great effect and more, so let’s start talking about our key players.<\/p>\n

\"\"First up, let’s discuss the Ritual Spells that you will be relying upon. In one corner, we have\u00a0Advanced Ritual Art,\u00a0<\/strong>the Spell with which you want to open. By sending a\u00a0combination of Normal monsters from your deck to the Graveyard, you can Ritual Summon any Ritual monster from your hand. If you happen to send multiple Normal Pendulum monsters, let’s say at least two of them, then you could just return those back to the hand with\u00a0Dark Factory of Mass Production<\/strong>\u00a0at a later point.\u00a0<\/strong>So instead of just getting a Ritual Summon, you also setup both\u00a0Pendulum scales. That’s great and all, but I know\u00a0we can do even better than just that, which is where our secondary Ritual Spell for the mid-game comes into play:\u00a0Odd-Eyes Advent.\u00a0<\/strong>This Ritual Spell can Ritual Summon any<\/span>\u00a0Dragon-type Ritual Monster from the hand or Graveyard, just as long as you tribute Pendulum monsters. The best part? This Ritual Spell is also searchable by a Field Spell, specifically\u00a0Sky Iris,\u00a0<\/strong>which can also search out additional Pendulum monsters on demand. If you haven’t gotten the picture yet, every piece of the Ritual and Pendulum engine in this sort of strategy serves a dual purpose, and that is what makes this deck so powerful.<\/p>\n

Onto our Ritual monsters of choice, we have quite the array of options. Once you limit it down to Dragon-type Ritual monsters, you are left with 9 options, but not all of these are good options. So i’m going to narrow it down to the following, outlined in the table below with each’s benefits:<\/p>\n