Hello! This guide is provided by our amazing Helper Team on the Duel Links Meta Discord. This guide will present you different competitive decks that you can easily build as a Free to Play Player (F2P). This guide will be updated with new recommendations, build or banlist hits when the time comes.

Thanks to our Helper Team for their amazing work and their dedication in helping all our users in our community, big shout outs to them!

WARNING This deck requires a lot of mechanical actions (you will be given a lot of options), so, it’s very likely you will time out a lot when you first pick up this deck. If this doesn’t discourage you, deck is very rewarding when mastered.

Here is a sample F2P deck list. For this list to be made do you only need to go through the Mini Box Spirit of the Beast 2 times. The rest of the cards are obtanaible in-game. Whenever you have spare gems go back into this box for a 3rd Spiritual Beast Tamer Winda, Spiritual Beast Cannahawk and Ritual Beast Ulti-Apelio.

Sample Deck

The best way to learn Ritual Beasts is to practise the combo on the Duel Links Meta Deck Tester. Here is turn 1 combo from the Ritual Beast Guide. The guide also containts 7 differents combos and other tips.

Sample Combo

1. Elder + Cannahawk: (turn 1 combo)

Ritual Beasts bread and butter turn 1 combo:

• Normal summon Elder to then normal summon Cannahawk
• Use Cannahawk to banish Apelio then contact fuse into any Extra deck monster
• Immediately tag-out into Elder+Cannahawk and use Cannahawk to banish Winda
• Contact fuse into Ulti-Cannahawk and search, targeting Apelio and Cannahawk,
• Chain Ulti-Cannahawk’s tag-out to the search effect and tag-out into Apelio+Winda, searching any future combo piece necessary (Your own judgement will be necessary here in deciding what to search for future plays),
• Use Apelio to banish the Cannahawk sent to the grave by Ulti-Cannahawk’s search effect and contact fuse into Ulti-Pettlephin.
• This turn 1 play allows you to have 2 Tamers and 2 Spiritual Beasts in the banished pile whilst sitting on a high defense monster immune to effect destruction, establishing a solid defensive wall that allows you to tag-out into Winda+Cannahawk on the opponent’s turn. If destroyed Winda may float back into Ulti-Pettlephin for another tag-out during the opponent’s end phase, you may then use Apelio to banish your destroyed monsters once during the opponent’s end phase, and once more at the start of your turn, negating any resource loss you may have potentially incurred.

Ritual Beasts has gained additional hype from the newly added and updated guide, and it’s resilience from a common disruptions such as Floodgate Trap Hole and Paleozoic Canadia.

The Helper Team has decided to reccomend Ritual Beasts as a good new Player friendly deck, especcially when the deck won the MCS XXX, piloted by Grucius. We in the helper team recommend that you watch his gameplay in the tournament in the Grand Finals as a player. It can be watched in the following video:

• Most of the cards you will be looking for are tied directly to the Card Trader, either in his rotating sales pool or in the “Regular Inventory” found to the direct left of the skill token exchange.

• The Main Box to invest in for this deck is Fortress of Gears. You should be looking to reset once you pull Humid Winds.
• Solemn Scolding can be found in SR Tickets that you can get as part of the 3rd Anniversary.
• As for Extra Deck, Aromaseraphy Rosemary is found in the Card Trader, the Splendid Rose is found in the Fortress of Gears BOX, Samurai Destroyer is found in the Dark Dimension BOX, PSY-Framelord Zeta is found in the Future Horizon BOX, and Mist Bird Clausolas in the Tornado of Phantoms BOX.

Sample Deck

How to Invest Gems/Tickets/Jewels & Gold

• Gems

You should first focus on the Mini BOX Fortress of Gears, as it contains most of the necessary Aroma cards needed to run the deck. If you’re only going for the Aroma deck and are not interested in the other cards, ALWAYS reset once you get Humid Winds as SR’s are one-offs in mini boxes. Once you get 2 Humid Winds, you should have all of the other cards you need (if not, continue to pull until you get the needed card/cards). You should use remaining gems to finish off the extra deck in the following order: Samurai Destroyer, Mist Bird Clausolas, PSY-Framelord Zeta.

• Tickets
  • UR Tickets
    • No UR tickets are need to make the deck. Recommended to save all UR Tickets (Especially the Dream UR Tickets).
  • SR Tickets
    • Use the 2 NON-DREAM SR Tickets (From either the 3rd Anniversary or the KC Grand Tournament rewards) on Solemn Scoldings. Recommended to save the Dream SR tickets and any remaining SR tickets.
• Jewels & Gold
  • Save these ONLY for the necessary Aroma cards.
    • DON’T convert any event cards to get jewels, unless you already have 3 of said card. Then convert ONLY the extra card/cards (Meaning if you have 5 copies of a card only convert 2 so you end up with 3)
• How to Play the Deck
  • For the combos/matchups, please refer to the DLM Aroma Guide written by our Helper Blacky.

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