Custom Archetype "Filmen Genus": Ritual Pendulums based on Film Genres
Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2021 12:14 pm
Hi, this will be the fourth custom archetype I've made, and it's a Ritual Pendulum archetype. Now, I'm sure this concept's been done to death, I still wanted to give my own take on it. I've spent the better part of five hours or so trying to work out how a Ritual Pendulum deck might work, but it got confusing after a while. It just kept bricking, until I added the Impcantation engine (which I realize all Ritual decks use nowadays), which boosted its consistency but not by very much, mostly due to a complete lack of Ritual Spells. As a result, only half of those cards are viable enough to be used in the deck (see Sample Deck below).
The Theme of the archetype came first when making it (I know, not a good sign but bear with me). It's based around the eight Film genres (hence the name, "Filmen Genus"). Oh, and the field spell as the Cinema and the quickplay spell as film Piracy. I tried having complete latin translation of the film genre names, but I scrapped that idea because they looked dumb, and ended up just making them sound like names
The archetype is very simple, as an idea, but became slightly complicated as I tried bringing it to light. A Ritual Pendulum monster activates as a scale (which follows the same inverse scale-to-level scheme that the Doremichord monsters have, as side-inspiration), which you can use as a ritual spell (hence why only half the Impcantation monsters work here, as there are only Ritual Monsters) to ritual summon any "Filmen Genus" Ritual Monster from your hand. In addition, if you had activated the field spell via Romancia, it becomes a free Ritual Summon (only once per turn).
Half the monsters have effects relating to being Pendulum Summoned and the other half need to be Ritual Summoned for their effects.
Ritual Summoning is good here because the field spell gives them all passive battle protection. However, all of them, if Ritual Summoned, destroy themselves by your next Standby Phase. This was intentionally done so that the player can choose to either Pendulum or Ritual Summon them. Due to how I've worded the effects on these monsters, you can only Ritual Summon if you haven't Pendulum Summoned yet. This isn't an issue on the first turn, but later in the duel, you'll have to make a conscious choice to Pendulum or Ritual Summon.
All in all, you set up Ritual Monsters on your first turn, and then Pendulum them back next turn, ideally.
Art Source: All the card art is from an artist on Deviantart who goes by the name of yuchenghong.
Cards: https://www.duelingbook.com/deck?id=7832401
Sample Deck: https://www.duelingbook.com/deck?id=7832364
Replays: https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=621063-27339971 (EDIT: Defunct due to me being a dum-dum and misunderstanding the Impcantations' eff activating by being Special Summoned from the Deck and not just being Special Summoned in general)
Possible Play (involving the Impcantation engine). Discard Romancia to activate Cinemato. Special Summon the two Impcantations (Talismandra and Pencilplume are the only ones that can viably work here) and add any "Filmen Genus" monster to your hand. Now you can what you added as a scale and use its scale eff to Ritual Summon any "Filmen Genus" Ritual Monster free of charge (due to Cinemato eff). You can use the remainder of your hand (which hopefully has at least 2 more ritual monsters, ideally the Level 8, Scale 1) to use the Impcantations on the field as tribute.
However, that's pretty much the best you can make with the Sample Deck, unless I'm tripping and miss a combo because of a hypothetical card I didn't know existed. I don't think the archetype is busted, but I've been wrong before. The deck is very minus on card advantage without the field spell.
The Theme of the archetype came first when making it (I know, not a good sign but bear with me). It's based around the eight Film genres (hence the name, "Filmen Genus"). Oh, and the field spell as the Cinema and the quickplay spell as film Piracy. I tried having complete latin translation of the film genre names, but I scrapped that idea because they looked dumb, and ended up just making them sound like names
The archetype is very simple, as an idea, but became slightly complicated as I tried bringing it to light. A Ritual Pendulum monster activates as a scale (which follows the same inverse scale-to-level scheme that the Doremichord monsters have, as side-inspiration), which you can use as a ritual spell (hence why only half the Impcantation monsters work here, as there are only Ritual Monsters) to ritual summon any "Filmen Genus" Ritual Monster from your hand. In addition, if you had activated the field spell via Romancia, it becomes a free Ritual Summon (only once per turn).
Half the monsters have effects relating to being Pendulum Summoned and the other half need to be Ritual Summoned for their effects.
Ritual Summoning is good here because the field spell gives them all passive battle protection. However, all of them, if Ritual Summoned, destroy themselves by your next Standby Phase. This was intentionally done so that the player can choose to either Pendulum or Ritual Summon them. Due to how I've worded the effects on these monsters, you can only Ritual Summon if you haven't Pendulum Summoned yet. This isn't an issue on the first turn, but later in the duel, you'll have to make a conscious choice to Pendulum or Ritual Summon.
All in all, you set up Ritual Monsters on your first turn, and then Pendulum them back next turn, ideally.
Art Source: All the card art is from an artist on Deviantart who goes by the name of yuchenghong.
Cards: https://www.duelingbook.com/deck?id=7832401
Sample Deck: https://www.duelingbook.com/deck?id=7832364
Replays: https://www.duelingbook.com/replay?id=621063-27339971 (EDIT: Defunct due to me being a dum-dum and misunderstanding the Impcantations' eff activating by being Special Summoned from the Deck and not just being Special Summoned in general)
Possible Play (involving the Impcantation engine). Discard Romancia to activate Cinemato. Special Summon the two Impcantations (Talismandra and Pencilplume are the only ones that can viably work here) and add any "Filmen Genus" monster to your hand. Now you can what you added as a scale and use its scale eff to Ritual Summon any "Filmen Genus" Ritual Monster free of charge (due to Cinemato eff). You can use the remainder of your hand (which hopefully has at least 2 more ritual monsters, ideally the Level 8, Scale 1) to use the Impcantations on the field as tribute.
However, that's pretty much the best you can make with the Sample Deck, unless I'm tripping and miss a combo because of a hypothetical card I didn't know existed. I don't think the archetype is busted, but I've been wrong before. The deck is very minus on card advantage without the field spell.
