Introduction

The Ritual Beast is a contact fusion-based deck that has gained a lot of power with the new support it got from Spiritual Beast Tamer Lara, making it a very competitive deck in this format. Its main strength is its 1 card combos and a huge amount of flexibility.

Deck Type: Combo
Main Strategy: Summon lots of monsters and break the opponent's board or control.
Strengths:
- 1 card starters.
- Many of the monster effects are not once per turn.
- You can dodge targeting effects by tagging out the fusions.
- You can play through D-Shifter.
Weaknesses:
- All of the ritual beast monsters can only be special summoned once per turn.

Deck Composition

Core Monsters:

These two monsters are key for the deck and are run at 3 copies each.

Spiritual Beast Tamer Lara:
- You can discard itself to get an additional normal summon, which lets you trigger all your other Ritual Beast Tamer effects. You can banish itself to protect a ritual beast monster from destruction. You can summon an additional Ritual Beast monster from your deck when it is banished. Perfect 1 card combo with Spiritual Beast Cannahawk.

Spiritual Beast Cannahawk:
- You can banish any Ritual Beast monster from your deck to let you later summon them out by tagging out the Ritual Beast fusion. This effect is not a hard once-per-turn effect meaning that you can use its effect multiple times if you summon him again after he is banished or sent to the graveyard.

Support Monsters:

These are the important support monsters to play. Additional monsters can be hand traps and other Ritual Beast names.

Ritual Beast Tamer Elder:
- Gives you an additional normal summon for the turn when he is normal summoned.

Spiritual Beast Rampengu:
- Acts as a foolish burial to get any Ritual Beast monster from your deck to the graveyard by banishing a Ritual Beast monster of the same type from your extra deck.

Nemesis Flag:
- Lets you search for another Nemeses monster from your deck, either Nemeses Corridor or Archnemeses Protos. Nemesis Corridor lets you special summon out Thunder Dragon Colossus from the extra deck which does not let your opponent add cards from their deck to their hand.

Archnemeses Protos:
- Locks both players into only summoning monsters of a chosen attribute, great card for disrupting your opponent.

Ritual Beast Names:
- Ritual Beast Tamer Lara
- Ritual Beast Tamer Wen
- Ritual Beast Tamer Winda
- Spiritual Beast Apelio
- Spiritual Beast Pettlephin

These monsters are used mainly as extra names because all Ritual Beast monsters can only be special summoned once per turn.

Spells:

This deck only plays two important spells, any other spells can be added to combat the current format.

Ritual Beast Inheritance:
- Makes your opponent’s monsters lose 200 ATK for each different type among the Ritual Beast monsters you control. If have a Ritual Beast monster in your hand, you can add one that is a different type than the one in your hand.

Emergency Teleport:
- You can special summon a level 3 or lower psychic monster from your deck. Great for when you don’t have enough monsters.

Traps:

This deck only runs one trap card alongside either Infinite Impermanence or Evenely Matched depending on your play style or the current format.

Ritual Beast Steeds:
- Destroys monsters based on how many Ritual Beast monsters you control. You can chain any of your extra deck Ritual Beast monsters to return them to the extra deck to summon out more Ritual Beast monsters from your banished to destroy more cards on the field if needed.

Extra Deck

The Ritual Beast extra deck monsters can contact fusion summon themselves by banishing the required materials from your field. They can also dodge targeting effects by returning themselves to the extra deck to summon out a Ritual Beast Tamer and a Spiritual Beast that is banished.

Ritual Beast Ulto-Reirautari:
- This is the new Ritual Beast boss monster. While it is on the field neither player can tribute cards to activate an effect, making the opponent unable to destroy your field with Nibiru, The Primal Being. It can also banish a monster your opponent controls by banishing one of your Ritual Beast cards.

Ritual Beast Ulti-Kimunfalcos:
- This card lets you extend your plays by banishing a Ritual Beast monster from your graveyard to normal summon another Ritual Beast monster from your hand.

Ritual Beast Ulti-Nochiudrago:
- This is the only Ritual Beast monster that you can banish the material from the graveyard instead of the field to summon itself out. This is very useful as some of your Ritual Beast monsters will be in the graveyard instead of being banished. While it is on the field it protects all your other Ritual Beast monsters from being targeted too.

Ritual Beast Ulti-Cannahawk:
- You can target two of your banished Ritual Beast monsters and return them to the graveyard to search for a Ritual Beast card to add from your deck to your hand. A combo that you can do with Ritual Beast Ulti-Cannahawk, is to target two monsters to return to the graveyard, then chain its second effect to return itself to the extra deck to summon out those same Ritual Beast monsters that you would have returned to the graveyard while still being able to search for the Ritual Beast card. This gives you two more monsters on the field to summon another Ritual Beast monster.

Ritual Beast Ulti-Apelio:
- This is your main card used for attacking your opponent, as when it attacks your opponent can’t activate any card effects until the end of the damage step.

Ritual Beast Ulti-Gaiapelio:
- Can negate and destroy any card effect your opponent attempts to activate by banishing a Ritual Beast card from your hand.

Thunder Dragon Colossus:
- This card can be special summoned by tributing a thunder effect monster during the turn a Thunder monster’s effect was activated in the hand. While on the field your opponent can’t add cards from their deck to their hand except by drawing them and if it is destroyed you can banish a thunder monster from your graveyard instead.

Infernal Flame Banshee:
- By detaching a material from this card you can add a Pyro monster from your deck to your hand, you mainly want to add Nemeses Flag to your hand so you can either summon Thunder Dragon Colossus or Archnemeses Protos.

Combos & Synergies

Outline key combos that the deck aims to perform. Detail step-by-step instructions on executing these combos and explain why they're important.

Basic Cannahawk Combo
- Normal summon Spiritual Beast Cannahawk
- Banish Spiritual Beast Tamer Lara using Cannahawk’s effect.
- Trigger Spiritual Beast Tamer Lara effect to special summon Spiritual Beast Tamer Winda.
- Contact fuse Ritual Beast Ulti-Cannahawk using Spiritual Beast Cannahawk and Spiritual Beast Tamer Winda.
- Use the Ritual Beast Ulti-Cannahawk effect targeting Spiritual Beast Tamer Winda and Spiritual Beast Cannahawk to search for a Spiritual Beast card.
- Chain Ritual Beast Ulti-Cannahawk effect to return itself to the extra deck and special summon Spiritual Beast Tamer Lara and Spiritual Beast Cannahawk.
- Chain resolves, special summon Spiritual Beast Tamer Lara and Spiritual Beast Cannahawk, then return Spiritual Beast Tamer Winda to the graveyard and add a Ritual Beast card to your hand.

Tech Choices

You would want to switch up cards that are not part of your core with cards that can counter the current meta or play board breakers for going second.

Evenly Matched:
- This would replace Infinite Impermanence if you are going second.

Side Deck Options

Discuss potential side deck cards that can help in different matchups.

Nibiru The Primal Being:
- It's useful to nuke the field against combo decks.

Dimensional Fissure:
- Useful for banishing all your opponent's monsters that would go to the graveyard. Banishing is very useful against many meta decks and doesn’t affect Ritual Beasts.

Example Decklist

Monsters:

3x Spiritual Beast Tamer Lara

3x Spiritual Beast Cannahawk

3x Ritual Beast Elder

3x Spiritual Beast Rampengu

1x Ritual Beast Tamer Lara

1x Ritual Beast Wen

1x Spiritual Beast Tamer Winda

1x Spiritual Beast Pettlephin

1x Spiritual Beast Apelio

1x Archnemeses Protos

1x Nemeses Flag

1x Nemeses Corridor

3x Dimension Shifter

3x Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring

Spells:

3x Ritual Beast Inheritance

3x Emergency Teleport

3x Book of Eclipse

1x Pot of Prosperity

Traps:

3x Infinite Impermanence

1x Ritual Beast Steeds

Extra Deck:

1x Ritual Beast Ulti-Reirautari

1x Ritual Beast Ulti-Kimunfalcos

2x Ritual Beast Ulti-Nochiudrago

3x Ritual Beast Ulti-Cannahawk

1x Ritual Beast Ulti-Apelio

1x Ritual Beast Ulti-Gaiapelio

1x Thunder Dragon Colossus

1x Infernal Flame Banshee

1x Knightmare Unicorn

1x I:P Masquerena

1x Accesscode Talker

1x Link Spider

Conclusion

This deck is competitive meta right now and can easily break boards or set up monsters to stop you opponents cards. Its main strengths are the ability to contact fuse, dodge targeting effects, and very versatile in the combo’s you want to do.