Ritual Support

Stardust Overdrive is going to bring a bunch of Ritual support cards. No big deal, right? But wait... these cards are actually GOOD?

Ritual Fiend Presider and Ritual Fiend Releaser are a couple of monsters that can act as Ritual Matieral Monsters while in the Graveyard. That's pretty good by itself, since it reduces the amount of cards it "costs" to perform a Ritual Summon. However, both of those monsters also have other effects.

When either is used as a Ritual Material, then the Ritual Monster that was Ritual Summoned gets an extra effect. When Presider is used, you draw a card when the Ritual Monster kills a monster in battle. That's pretty good, seeing as how many Ritual Monsters have decent ATK. When Releaser is used, then the Ritual Monster gains an effect similar to Fossil Dyna Pachycephalo or Vanity's Fiend. That's just... wow.

The Ritual Monster being released in Stardust Overdrive, Norsewemko, also has a pretty good effect. However, when its and Releaser's effects are combined (which is basically what it was designed for...), then it becomes a force to be reckoned with. A Ritual Monster that is tough to destroy, prevents Special Summoning, and can be protected by Honest is one that has the potential to tear apart the meta.

The Ritual Spell used to summon Norsewemko is good by itself, since it was given an additional effect. Not to mention that Rituals will get yet another +1 search card in Preparations for the Ritual.

However, if Norsewemko combined with Ritual Fiend Releaser had the potential to become a new anti-meta deck, then why hasn't it sprung up in the OCG...? Probably because Rituals are inconsistent? I still think it has potential, it would just be a little slow.

By the way, the reason that I didn't post something about Yu-Gi-Oh 5D's yesterday was because it was just a "clip show" where they just have a bunch of flashbacks because the animators are too lazy to animate, but they're desperate enough to make the episode.