Ritual Beast Deck List & Card Guide

Ritual Beast is a Control deck in Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel, and is one of the hardest Decks to pilot with the usage of Contact Fusion and different versions of Ritual Best monsters to build a powerful board. Check out the core deck list and key combos, as well as tips on how to play, alternative card options & counters against this specific Deck!

Ritual Beast Deck List

Main Deck: 40 cards
x3	x3	x3	x3	x3
x3	x2	x1	x1	x1
x1	x1	x1	x1	x1
x3	x2	x	x	x
x2	x1
Extra Deck: 15 cards
x2	x1	x2	x1	x1
x1	x1	x1	x1	x1
x2	x1

Ritual Beast Breakdown

Monsters

Spells

Traps

Extra

Rarity	Name	Qty
	Spiritual Beast Tamer Lara	3
	Maxx "C"	3
	Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring	3
	Dimension Shifter	2
	Archnemeses Protos	1
	Spiritual Beast Cannahawk	3
	Spiritual Beast Tamer Winda	1
	Nemeses Flag	1
	Ritual Beast Tamer Elder	3
	Spiritual Beast Rampengu	3
	Ritual Beast Tamer Lara	1
	Ritual Beast Tamer Wen	1
	Spiritual Beast Apelio	1
	Spiritual Beast Pettlephin	1
	Nemeses Corridor	1

Rarity	Name	Qty
	Called by the Grave	2
	Crossout Designator	1
	Emergency Teleport	2
	Pot of Prosperity	1
	Ritual Beast Inheritance	3

Rarity	Name	Qty
	Infinite Impermanence	2
	Ritual Beast Steeds	1

Rarity	Name	Qty
	Ritual Beast Ulti-Cannahawk	2
	Ritual Beast Ulti-Gaiapelio	1
	Ritual Beast Ulti-Reirautari	2
	Thunder Dragon Colossus	1
	Infernal Flame Banshee	1
	I:P Masquerena	1
	S:P Little Knight	1
	Apollousa, Bow of the Goddess	1
	Ritual Beast Ulti-Apelio	1
	Ritual Beast Ulti-Nochiudrago	2
	Number 41: Bagooska the Terribly Tired Tapir	1

Ritual Beast Deck Guide: How to Play

Playstyle and Win Condition

Core Combos and Interactions

Boss Monsters

	Ritual Beast Ulti-Nochiudrago
	The player can only Special Summon Ritual Beast Ulti-Nochiudrago once per turn, but it is well worth it. This monster provides a taunt towards all targeted card effects to protect others. It can also Special Summon a “Ritual Beast” monster by returning this card to the Extra Deck as a Quick Effect.
	Ritual Beast Ulti-Gaiapelio
	Ritual Beast Ulti-Gaiapelio has the hardest material requirements out of all the Ritual Beast Extra Deck monster, but its omni-negate effect outweighs the difficulty of its summoning condition. This effect does not have any once-per-turn clause either; so long as you have "Ritual Beast" monsters to banish from the hand, the player can negate effects as much as it can.
	Ritual Beast Ulti-Reirautari
	While Ritual Beast Ulti-Reirautari is on the field, this card will prevent both players from tributing cards to activate effects. This card also comes as a combo piece, with its ability to provide an additional Normal Summon by returning a banished "Ritual Beast" monster.
	Thunder Dragon Colossus
	With a little help from Nemeses Corridor, Thunder Dragon Colossus can be easily summoned from the Extra Deck. So long as this card is face-up and active on the field, the opponent cannot add any more cards to the hand except via drawing.

Ritual Beast Counters: How to Beat

Best Decks to Use Against Ritual Beast

Floowandereeze

As per usual, when it comes to going up against Extra Deck-centric Decks, there is no other Deck that does it better than Floowandereeze.It only gets harder for Ritual Beast once it manages to pull out Floowandereeze & Empen, which is especially strong against Special Summoned monsters in Attack Position.

Floowandereeze Deck List & Card Guide

Anti-Meta Stun

Even with some nerfs in the most recent Banlist Update with Jowgen getting banned and Pachycephalo now Limited, the Anti-Meta Stun Deck is still pretty valid, and has options on stopping any heavy play from happening.

Anti-Meta Stun Deck List & Card Guide

Altergeist

The Altergeist Deck can actually evade the Protos lock because of how varied the Attributes of all the archetype's monsters are. The most the player can do is lock down one Attribute, allowing the others to be freed up. This Deck is also a Control Deck as well, which can safely set up against Ritual Beast due to being unaffected by Trap Cards once their set-up is complete.

Altergeist Deck List & Card Guide

Mikanko

Yet another Deck that is safe from the Protos lock available in Ritual Beasts, Mikanko can reflect back battle damage once it has its monsters equipped with certain Equip Spell Cards crash onto any monster. Dangerous among which is Mikanko Water Arabesque, which can tribute away the monster equipped to, to summon a Mikanko monster and get the Equip Spell to boot.

Mikanko Deck List & Card Guide

Best Cards to Tech Against Ritual Beast

	Maxx "C"
	A regular combo from a Ritual Beast includes a ridiculous amount of Special Summons, inclusive of which are Contact Fusions from the Extra Deck. A well-timed, uninterrupted Maxx "C" can result in a massive card advantage that not even a full complete board can hold up against.
	Forbidden Droplet
	Currently powerful with the rise of the Tenpai Dragons, Forbidden Droplet is also just as powerful of a counter against the Ritual Beasts. It also halves that ATK of monsters as many as the number of cards discarded to activate this Quick-Play Spell.
	Imperial Iron Wall
	A lot of the combo pieces for this Deck require Ritual Beast monsters to be banished from various places--in the Deck, from the GY, even from the hand. While Imperial Iron Wall is active on the field, neither player can banish monsters, which effectively stops the combos that can be performed by this Deck.

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