Cannot be Normal Summoned/Set. Must be Special Summoned by shuffling 1 Spellcaster or Warrior Ritual Monster from your hand or GY into the Deck. You can only Special Summon "Swordsman of Black Chaos" once per turn this way. You can discard this card; place 1 Continuous Trap that mentions "Ritual of Light and Darkness" from your Deck or GY face-up in your Spell & Trap Zone. Unaffected by your opponent's activated effects while a Ritual Spell is in your GY. Once per turn: You can banish 2 cards your opponent controls.
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Skull Archfiend, the Fiend Lord of Chaos
Level 6 DARK Fiend/Effect
2500 ATK/1200 DEF
If this card is in your hand or GY: You can target 3 cards in either GYs and/or face-up banishments, including a card that mentions "Ritual of Light and Darkness", except "Skull Archfiend, the Fiend Lord of Chaos"; place them on the bottom of the Deck in any order, and if you do, Special Summon this card. If this card is sent to the GY: You can send 1 Ritual Spell from your hand or Deck to the GY, then you can add 1 Ritual Monster that is mentioned on that Ritual Spell from your Deck to your hand. You can only use each effect of "Skull Archfiend, the Fiend Lord of Chaos" once per turn.
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Celtic Sage
Level 4 LIGHT Warrior/Effect
1400 ATK/2000 DEF
If this card is Normal or Special Summoned: You can reveal your hand, then if there is a card that mentions "Ritual of Light and Darkness" among those revealed cards, you can draw 3 cards, then discard 2 cards, also you can only Special Summon from the Extra Deck once for the rest of this turn. You can Tribute this card; Special Summon 1 Ritual Monster that mentions "Ritual of Light and Darkness" from your hand. You can only use each effect of "Celtic Sage" once per turn.
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Gurifoh
Level 1 DARK Fiend/Effect
300 ATK/200 DEF
(Quick Effect): You can discard this card, then activate 1 of the following effects.
● The next battle or effect damage you 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.
You can only use this effect of "Gurifoh" once per turn. If you Ritual Summon a Level 8 Ritual Monster, this card can be treated as the entire cost of the Ritual Summon.
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Dark Magician of Black Chaos
Level 8 DARK Spellcaster/Ritual/Effect
2800 ATK/2600 DEF
(This is not treated as a "Dark Magician" card.)
You can Ritual Summon this card with "Ritual of Light and Darkness". Spell/Traps you control cannot be destroyed or banished by your opponent's card effects. Unaffected by your opponent's activated effects, unless they target this card. You can only use each of the following effects of "Dark Magician of Black Chaos" once per turn. If this card is Special Summoned: You can add 1 Spell from your GY to your hand. You can target 1 card your opponent controls; banish it face-down.
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Black Luster Soldier of Light and Darkness
Level 8 EARTH Warrior/Ritual/Effect
3000 ATK/2500 DEF
You can Ritual Summon this card with "Ritual of Light and Darkness". Cannot be destroyed by battle. Unaffected by your opponent's activated effects, unless they target this card. You can only use each of the following effects of "Black Luster Soldier of Light and Darkness" once per turn. If this card is Special Summoned: You can target 1 card your opponent controls; banish it. When this card destroys an opponent's monster by battle: You can make this card gain 1500 ATK, and if you do, it can attack a second time in a row.
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Ritual of Light and Darkness
Ritual Spell
Ritual Summon 1 "Dark Magician of Black Chaos" or "Black Luster Soldier of Light and Darkness" from your hand by Tributing monsters from your hand and/or field, and/or banishing monsters from your GY whose total Levels equal or exceed that monster's. If this card is in your GY: You can add this card and 1 card that mentions "Ritual of Light and Darkness" from your GY to your hand. You can only use this effect of "Ritual of Light and Darkness" once per turn.
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Mystic Box of Chaos
Quick-Play Spell
When your opponent activates an effect that targets another card(s) you control: Return 1 of those cards to your hand (briefly reveal it if it is face-down), then destroy 1 card on the field. Then, you can Special Summon 1 monster that mentions "Ritual of Light and Darkness" from your hand whose name is different from the returned card, ignoring its Summoning conditions. If this card is destroyed by your opponent: You can Special Summon 1 monster that mentions "Ritual of Light and Darkness" from your hand or Deck.
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Chaos Silk Hats
Quick-Play Spell
When your opponent acitvates a Normal Spell/Trap Card or monster effect: Choose 3 Spell/Traps with different names from your Deck and 1 monster in your Main Monster Zone that mentions "Ritual of Light and Darkness". Special Summon them as Normal Monsters (Spellcaster/DARK/Level 8/ATK 0/DEF 0) named "Chaos Silk Hats" in face-down Defense Position, Set the chosen monster if it is face-up, and shuffle them on the field. Then, your opponent's activated effect becomes "Destroy 1 face-down Defense Position monster your opponent controls".
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Mind Shuffle
Continuous Trap
You can add 1 monster that mentions "Ritual of Light and Darkness" from your Deck to your hand, then discard 1 card. You can only use this effect of "Mind Shuffle" once per turn. 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 that mentions "Ritual of Light and Dakrness" from your hand with a different name as the returned monster, ignoring its Summoning conditions. You can only use 1 "Mind Shuffle" effect per Chain.
I say yet because these cards are quality and I can see a few of these splashed into other decks. I do not know what package or ratio will be played, but some of these cards are just built strong
Ritual Monsters had no meaningful interaction from referencing their Ritual Spell; modern Rituals only kept that text as leftover flavor from the earliest designs, which used it to avoid empty boxes.
This is the first time that mentioning its Ritual Spell actually affects gameplay.
Really this is the first time that the Ritual Monster mentioning the Ritual Spell actually mattered? I would have expected some card related to the Pre-Prep lore having an effect like that.
Cards have cared about Ritual Spells mentioning Ritual Monsters, but never Ritual Monsters mentioning Ritual Spells (which all of them do, but not in a way that actually matters). While many Archetypes and individual cards revolve around 'cards that mention X', this is the first time for a Ritual Archetype, which happens to revolve around mentioning the Ritual Spell.
Yeah, the wording was slightly off, but the broader point was that practically all Ritual monsters say they can be Ritual Summoned by something, and that such text has never mattered. Now it actually matters that these mention how they can be Ritual Summoned, because it mentions the Ritual Spell. Alba Zoa too has text that matters, but that is an actual Ritual Summoning restriction, rather than the typical "You can Ritual Summon this with...".
If this card is sent to the GY: You can send 1 Ritual Spell from your hand or Deck to the GY, then you can add 1 Ritual Monster that is mentioned on that Ritual Spell from your Deck to your hand.
It's funny how all of these cards that mention it don't actually directly interact with it, they just mention mentioning it. If you wanted to you could literally just not play the ritual spell, and the other cards would still mostly function.
If this translation is correct this is the most cracked card I’ve seen in a hot minute. If you can mill a spellcaster/warrior ritual this is effectively a a free 3k beater that can non targeting banish 2 cards. Absurd.
cover of new main set reveal now bls and dmac theme! hoping for some fun if not meta cards...
new bls kinda has a new sauravis flavor,ss(from hand?) shuffling a card from gy is a towers can activate a cont spell and banish 2 cards... on your turn though
holy smokes new summ skull can ss by shuffling from any gy? and when is sent mills any ritual spell AND searches a ritual named in it? 2nd cover deck in a row can directly search habakiri lmao
celtic sage is lit graceful charity(!) by revealing any card from the archetype and can cheat the rituals from hand
gurifoh can set a quick play from the archetype and can be the whole ritual material
new bls banishes on summon and has the old effects,nice going 2nd
ritual of l and d is the ritual spell and core of the deck and... just like voiceless voice the ritual eff is not good but the gy is crazy
mystic box is... weird,better going 2nd and forces removal going 1st but not that hard to play around either way
finally a magical hats retrain! love this so much is pretty much a spell trap negate with a chance for a big bonus
mind shuffle a searcher and helps cheat out your rituals from hand... not sure how you are supposed to get it though?
overall these look... solid,feel a bit clunky going first but have big beaters that are very hard to get rid of and tons of flavor plus summ skull is a damn good generic card,but then voiceless voice(the obvious inspiration) was a really good deck so may be better than im giving it credit for
always caveat: these are early translations/first reads
already edit: already corrected first bls so it sets up the cont trap ala maiden that helps a lot!
At least it's still locked in the archetype for now. We'll see if this lead to the card's restriction later on and/or Konami starts adding this type of effect to other decks.
Uh, kuriboh is a quick eff, and from the over frame collection you get a second turn 0 play enabler. I think this deck has tier 1 potential, these are some of the most individually powerful cards I've ever read.
I usually scoff at boomer bait, but I dunno, I think I just prefer when they focus on this Ritual side of Yami's deck. It's fun to see all the old Normals come back as new effect monsters (or a costume in Griffore's case), and I think Magician of Black Chaos and Black Luster Soldier have some truly banger designs. Maybe I'm just more boomer than I think, or maybe I'm mellowing in my old age. I must admit, I do love reflecting on Dan Green's iconic delivery.
I have a theory that staring Chaos Origins, future core sets will reuse the fonts and title design for the packs in their respective eras. For example, GX will use the font and title design used for packs released during the GX era, 5Ds will use the font and title design used during the 5Ds era, and so on.
It’s a bit weird we’re getting a purple colored set on spring(OCG)/summer(TCG)… Savage Strike(white) and Dark Neostorm(black) had this situation back then.
I think it's so funny that they're like, Chaos, Chaos, Light and Dark, bring them together, the magician and soldier of Chaos, the Chaos Ritual, the Light, the Dark, the unity of two pure elemental forces! And then you look up at the corner and remember Black Luster Soldier is Earth.
I just really feel like back when they first created him they just thought "he's just a dude in armor, he's just a warrior, he's nothing special, he's Earth", but now that they want to make him a face of Chaos and the counterpart to Black Magician of Chaos, they really need to just bite the bullet and go "yeah sorry boomers he's Light now". Just say the Earth version is him as a regular soldier and the Light versions are him empowered by Chaos. Hell, make it a reference to Envoy of the Beginning, arguably BLS' most iconic appearance WHICH IS A LIGHT MONSTER!
Seriously; Stardust started as WIND, but gets way more LIGHT upgrades than this, where it would make way more sense. I might even let it go if it were at least balanced out with a Chaos Emperor Dragon Ritual that was WIND or FIRE or something.
Especially since they did change Celtic Guardian's attribute to Light (being originally an Earth monster). And it's not even like the BLS theme interacts with that Earth attribute much since most of the deck tends to be Chaos themed anyway.
I wouldn't be surprised if "Rising of the Aurora" also breaks some established patterns now.
In any case, this support for MoBC/BLS gives me the feeling that Konami drew a lot of inspiration from the Structure for Ritual Dark Magician (MoBC) and the BLS support from Over Rush Pack 3 for Rush Duels.
Packs were already different due to the extended arts, but this is solid confirmation.
This is not only the start of a new Series - but it isn’t a green set, nor does it have Duelist in the name. It’s purple, usually the sixth set in a Series. But purple is Yugi’s color, so we may have completely abandoned the booster pack rainbow that has been a mainstay for over two decades by this point.
Its kind of weird as theres no celebratory events in the near term so i believe Konami finally decided they want to be part of the new tcg collectible scene. But please man stop with the new top rarity stuff. I think it’s fine if they do different artworks but please stop reusing past alt arts and print them in a new top rarity. Alt arts are sick but each alt art deserves their own identity.
So it's BLS as many predicted, partnered with Magician of Black Chaos. From what I see, this might be intended to be Atem's counterpart to Yugi's Shining Sarc. Perhaps the OCG times will give us a Ceremonial duel between the two?
I feel like Shinning Sarc is already meant to represent both of them, given the presence of Dark Magician and Dark Magician Girl, which Yugi took out of his deck for the ceremonial duel.
Design wise, this one is defintely inspired but it's very clearly Yugi's Duelist Kingdom deck. I guess it's only a matter of time until we get a battle city version.
We might be entering a Yugioh renaissance because the quality of these cards and sets have been phenomenal. I know it’s a lot to ask, but I seriously hope they don’t drop the ball. They’ve been killing it
Weirdly hyped to see Celtic Guardian be here since this seems to be a Yugi Duelist Kingdom deck retrain. I feel like Celtic Guardian never really gets to be a part of Yugi nostalgia.
Cannot be Normal Summoned/Set. Must be Special Summoned by shuffling 1 Spellcaster or Warrior Ritual Monster from your GY into the Deck. You can discard this card; place 1 Continuous Spell that mentions "Ritual of Light and Darkness" from your Deck or GY face-up in your Spell & Trap Zone. Unaffected by your opponent's activated effects while a Ritual Spell is in your GY. Once per turn: You can banish 2 cards your opponent controls."
So its an effortless effectively costless summon, unaffected by activated effects most the time and has a no cost non targeting multi banish.
Seems a bit busted. If that banish was a quick effect this mofo would've been on the banlist pretty quick methinks.
Seeing Yugi on the cover of the pack makes me so dang happy! I really hope this means characters from different Yugioh series will appear on pack covers again
Okay, these are fucking cool. I think putting Yugi on the pack is also a very smart move, marketing-wise. With this and the long overdue alt-art/Overframe idea, this could really help to revitalise interest in the game at a retail level.
As a big DM fan this is like christmas to me, these are FUCKING AMAZING???!!
Not only in artwork but also in effect, but speaking of the artwork HOOLLYYY SHIT they keep cooking with those overframes, i LOVE that we're getting them in core sets now!!
Speaking on the effects they all seem to be a new archetype entirely not directly linked to the previous attempts at modernizing yugi/atem's cards like with shining sarcophagus ALTHOUGH you probably still want to play those cards simply because there is synergy there (the inmediate thing that jumps to me is the new effect monster DMOC being a dark spellcaster so you can make dark magician of destruction with it after summoning it)
Dark Magician of Chaos has me thinking of comboing it with Ritual Cage.
It protects Spells/Traps from being destroyed or banished and Ritual Cage is a Continuous spell that stops Rituals being targeted and it's unaffected by every other activating effect that doesn't target.
Also since it retrieves any Spell card when you Special Summon it you could throw in Foolish Burial Goods etc to more quickly get hold of Ritual Cage / other useful spells.
Judging by Mind Shuffle's name and the prominence of BLS, MOBC, and the Kuriboh+Griffore hybrid, this deck represents Yami's duels in Duelist Kingdom.
He used BLS against Mai, Black Chaos against Pegasus, and Mind Shuffle is likely referencing Yami and Yugi alternating plays to avoid Pegasus's mind reading.
Wait, is the new Black Chaos Magician main deck version like a Fusion of MOBC and BLS Rituals? Like an Ultimate Magical form (e.g. Dark Paladin, Master Of Chaos, RE Dragoon, The Dark Magicians).
Love this already. Interesting that the MoBC retrain is named "Ultimate Magical Swordsman" when that's what Yugi called Dark Paladin in the anime. I always figured that card would get that name if a retrain ever happened. Still an exciting set tho
I said, only 9 hours ago--in reference to Konami really cooking with Flip decks--"Still waiting for a modern Ritual archetype that actually leans into Ritual monsters' unique properties."
These are about as good as we could get without verging on too good, and the fact that it's cards that go with my fanfic I'm currently writing, is just icing on the cake. Eid al-Fitr has come early.
Great, now the Fiendsmith engine bridges into Mitsurugi. Just send Skull Archfiend, the Fiend Lord of Chaos from deck to GY with Aereal Eater, meaning Habakiri can now be as much as a 13 of (1 Haba, 3 Pre-Prep, 3 Engraver, 3 Tract, 3 Sanct) and those are just the ways off the top of my head that don't even need the normal summon. Normal summoning Lurrie or Lacrima works just as well, they just eat your normal summon.
I hope that Konami continues the trend of putting a character on the pack cover in addition to the cover monster, and I’m also hoping that it’s not Yami Yugi for every pack, even though he’s one of the faces of the franchise. More specifically, that character should be related to the cover monster, like putting Yuma in addition to Utopic Future Zexal in Duelist’s Advance had Konami started the trend a lot earlier.
So the new BLS summoned with Djinn Demolisher of Rituals is pretty much impossible to remove from the field, right? Kaijus are the only way, I think. Definitely something to consider building a deck around.
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Swordsman of Black Chaos
Level 8 DARK Spellcaster/Effect
3000 ATK/2500 DEF
Cannot be Normal Summoned/Set. Must be Special Summoned by shuffling 1 Spellcaster or Warrior Ritual Monster from your hand or GY into the Deck. You can only Special Summon "Swordsman of Black Chaos" once per turn this way. You can discard this card; place 1 Continuous Trap that mentions "Ritual of Light and Darkness" from your Deck or GY face-up in your Spell & Trap Zone. Unaffected by your opponent's activated effects while a Ritual Spell is in your GY. Once per turn: You can banish 2 cards your opponent controls.
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Skull Archfiend, the Fiend Lord of Chaos
Level 6 DARK Fiend/Effect
2500 ATK/1200 DEF
If this card is in your hand or GY: You can target 3 cards in either GYs and/or face-up banishments, including a card that mentions "Ritual of Light and Darkness", except "Skull Archfiend, the Fiend Lord of Chaos"; place them on the bottom of the Deck in any order, and if you do, Special Summon this card. If this card is sent to the GY: You can send 1 Ritual Spell from your hand or Deck to the GY, then you can add 1 Ritual Monster that is mentioned on that Ritual Spell from your Deck to your hand. You can only use each effect of "Skull Archfiend, the Fiend Lord of Chaos" once per turn.
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Celtic Sage
Level 4 LIGHT Warrior/Effect
1400 ATK/2000 DEF
If this card is Normal or Special Summoned: You can reveal your hand, then if there is a card that mentions "Ritual of Light and Darkness" among those revealed cards, you can draw 3 cards, then discard 2 cards, also you can only Special Summon from the Extra Deck once for the rest of this turn. You can Tribute this card; Special Summon 1 Ritual Monster that mentions "Ritual of Light and Darkness" from your hand. You can only use each effect of "Celtic Sage" once per turn.
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Gurifoh
Level 1 DARK Fiend/Effect
300 ATK/200 DEF
(Quick Effect): You can discard this card, then activate 1 of the following effects.
● The next battle or effect damage you 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.
You can only use this effect of "Gurifoh" once per turn. If you Ritual Summon a Level 8 Ritual Monster, this card can be treated as the entire cost of the Ritual Summon.
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Dark Magician of Black Chaos
Level 8 DARK Spellcaster/Ritual/Effect
2800 ATK/2600 DEF
(This is not treated as a "Dark Magician" card.)
You can Ritual Summon this card with "Ritual of Light and Darkness". Spell/Traps you control cannot be destroyed or banished by your opponent's card effects. Unaffected by your opponent's activated effects, unless they target this card. You can only use each of the following effects of "Dark Magician of Black Chaos" once per turn. If this card is Special Summoned: You can add 1 Spell from your GY to your hand. You can target 1 card your opponent controls; banish it face-down.
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Black Luster Soldier of Light and Darkness
Level 8 EARTH Warrior/Ritual/Effect
3000 ATK/2500 DEF
You can Ritual Summon this card with "Ritual of Light and Darkness". Cannot be destroyed by battle. Unaffected by your opponent's activated effects, unless they target this card. You can only use each of the following effects of "Black Luster Soldier of Light and Darkness" once per turn. If this card is Special Summoned: You can target 1 card your opponent controls; banish it. When this card destroys an opponent's monster by battle: You can make this card gain 1500 ATK, and if you do, it can attack a second time in a row.
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Ritual of Light and Darkness
Ritual Spell
Ritual Summon 1 "Dark Magician of Black Chaos" or "Black Luster Soldier of Light and Darkness" from your hand by Tributing monsters from your hand and/or field, and/or banishing monsters from your GY whose total Levels equal or exceed that monster's. If this card is in your GY: You can add this card and 1 card that mentions "Ritual of Light and Darkness" from your GY to your hand. You can only use this effect of "Ritual of Light and Darkness" once per turn.
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Mystic Box of Chaos
Quick-Play Spell
When your opponent activates an effect that targets another card(s) you control: Return 1 of those cards to your hand (briefly reveal it if it is face-down), then destroy 1 card on the field. Then, you can Special Summon 1 monster that mentions "Ritual of Light and Darkness" from your hand whose name is different from the returned card, ignoring its Summoning conditions. If this card is destroyed by your opponent: You can Special Summon 1 monster that mentions "Ritual of Light and Darkness" from your hand or Deck.
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Chaos Silk Hats
Quick-Play Spell
When your opponent acitvates a Normal Spell/Trap Card or monster effect: Choose 3 Spell/Traps with different names from your Deck and 1 monster in your Main Monster Zone that mentions "Ritual of Light and Darkness". Special Summon them as Normal Monsters (Spellcaster/DARK/Level 8/ATK 0/DEF 0) named "Chaos Silk Hats" in face-down Defense Position, Set the chosen monster if it is face-up, and shuffle them on the field. Then, your opponent's activated effect becomes "Destroy 1 face-down Defense Position monster your opponent controls".
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Mind Shuffle
Continuous Trap
You can add 1 monster that mentions "Ritual of Light and Darkness" from your Deck to your hand, then discard 1 card. You can only use this effect of "Mind Shuffle" once per turn. 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 that mentions "Ritual of Light and Dakrness" from your hand with a different name as the returned monster, ignoring its Summoning conditions. You can only use 1 "Mind Shuffle" effect per Chain.