"Dark" Support/Rituals (Dark Counterparts)

[VampireofDarkness]

Seeing as I made a Ritual Spell attempting to support DARKs and how I was participating in an Arc V RP where a Dark Counterpart user with Rituals was at play, I thought it would work to attempt to take a few steps forward. Your lower level monsters become quick combo pieces which tag off of either the effects of your Rituals or the amount of milling you are doing. From testing this Deck, you usually are trying to play a Control game while you assemble all your combo pieces for your winning play. When you have everything to "go off", you usually have enough protection to make those plays and maintain the rest of your field for your massive push. I'd compare it to Lightsworn a few formats before they got the Structure Deck.
CnC is well appreciated, as I attempted to keep these in check the best I could.
NOTE: Grandmaster of the Darkness and Darkness Invitation were done by -Noel- from a 1v1 a few months ago. However, they have been a big factor in the cards I've made and fit into the set too well, so they are included with their permission.

[Spoiler Effect Monsters]


[Spoiler Dark Senju]
4/DARK/Fairy
1400/1000
When this card is Summoned: you can add 1 DARK Ritual Monster from your Deck to your hand. During the End Phase, if this card was Tributed for the Ritual Summon of a DARK monster or if this card was discarded or banished by or to activate the effect of a DARK monster this turn, you can target 1 DARK monster in you Graveyard; Add 1 DARK monster from your Deck to your hand with the same level, but a different name. You can only activate this effect of "Dark Senju" once per turn.
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[Spoiler Sonic Dark Bird]
4/DARK/Winged Beast
1400/1000
While this card is in the Graveyard, it is also treated as a WIND monster in addition to its original Attribute. When this card is Summoned, you can add 1 Ritual Spell Card that Ritual Summons a DARK or "Dark" monster from your Deck to your hand. During the End Phase, if this card is used for the Ritual Summon of a DARK monster or if this card was discarded or banished by or to activate the effect of a DARK monster, you can target 1 banished DARK monster you control whose Level is equal to or lower than that of the Ritual monster or monster whose effect was activated using this card, except "Sonic Dark Bird"; Add that target to your hand. You can only activate this effect of "Sonic Dark Bird" once per turn.
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[Spoiler Dark Manju]
4/DARK/Fairy
1400/1000
When this card is summoned, you can activate one of the following effects:
- Reveal 1 DARK Ritual Monster in your hand. Add 1 Ritual Spell Card listed on that monster from your Deck to your hand
- Reveal 1 "Dark" or "Darkness" Ritual Spell Card. Add 1 Ritual Monster that lists that Spell Card from your Deck to your hand.
During the End Phase, if this card was Tributed for the Ritual Summon of a DARK monster or if this card was discarded or banished by or to activate the effect of a DARK monster this turn, you can target 1 DARK Ritual Monster or 1 "Dark" or "Darkness" Ritual Spell Card sent to the Graveyard this turn; Add that target to your hand. You can only use this effect of "Dark Manju" once per turn.
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[Spoiler Spiritual Dark Whisper]
4/DARK/Winged Beast
200/2000
You can Special Summon this card (from your hand) by discard 1 Ritual Monster or Ritual Spell Card. Once per turn, this card cannot be destroyed by battle. Once per turn, you can activate one of the following effects:
- Discard 1 "Dark" Ritual Monster to add 1 Ritual Spell card listed on that monster from your Deck to your hand.
- Discard 1 "Dark" or "Darkness" Ritual Spell Card to add 1 Ritual Monster that lists that Spell Card from your Deck to your hand.
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[Spoiler Dark Mambo]
4/DARK/Fish
1700/1000
You can Special Summon this card (from your hand) by discard 1 Level 4 or lower DARK monster. Once per turn, you can discard 1 DARK monster from your hand to target 1 DARK monster in your Graveyard, except the discarded monster; Banish that target.
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[Spoiler Ritual Monsters]


[Spoiler Grandmaster of the Darkness]
Can be Ritual Summoned with "Darkness Invitation". When this card is Ritual Summoned: You can send 1 monster from your hand or Deck to the Graveyard; add 1 "Dark" monster with the same Type, ATK and DEF than that monster from your Deck or Graveyard to your hand. If this card is discarded or banished to activate a DARK monster's effect: You can draw 1 card.
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[Spoiler Dark Ghoulungulate]
5/DARK/Zombie
2500/1700
You can Ritual Summon this card with "Dark Ceremony". When a DARK monster you control would be destroyed (by battle or by card effect) or targeted by a card effect, you can discard this card instead. If this card is in your Graveyard and a DARK monster you control would be destroyed (by battle or by card effect) or targeted by a card effect, you can banish this card instead. Once per turn, during either player's turn, when a DARK monster you control would be destroyed (by battle or by card effect) or targeted by a card effect, you can banish 1 DARK monster instead.
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[Spoiler Alector, the Dark Sovereign]
6/DARK/Winged Beast
2400/2000
You can Ritual Summon this card with "Dark Ceremony". You can discard this card and 1 "Dark" or "Darkness" monster, then target 1 monster on the field; add 1 "Dark" or "Darkness" monster of the same type from your Deck to your hand. Once per turn, during your Main Phase, you can target up to 2 monsters your opponent controls with the same Attribute; their effects are negated until the end of the turn. Once per turn, during your opponent's Main Phase, you can target 1 monster your opponent controls; It cannot attack and its effects are negated until the end of the turn.
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[Spoiler Abyssleed of the Dark]
7/DARK/Sea Serpent
2700/1000
You can Ritual Summon this card with "Dark Ceremony". You can discard this card and 1 "Dark" or "Darkness" monster; add 1 "Dark" or "Darkness" Spell/Trap Card from your Deck to your hand. You can tribute 1 face-up Attack Position DARK monster; Select and activate one of the following effects:
- This card can make a second attack each Battle Phase this turn
- Send one random card from your opponent's hand to the Graveyard
Each effect of "Abyssleed of the Dark" can only be activated once per turn
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[Spoiler Felgrand Dark Dragon]
8/DARK/Dragon
2800/2800
You can Ritual Summon this card with "Dark Ceremony". You can discard this card, target 1 DARK monster you control and banish 1 DARK monster in your Graveyard. The targeted monster on the field gains the effect of the banished monster until the end of the turn. You can only use this effect of "Felgrand Dark Dragon" once per Duel. You can banish 1 DARK monster from your Graveyard and if you do, this card gains that monster's effects until the end of the turn. This effect can only be activated once while this card is face-up on the field.
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[Spoiler Infernal Dark Emperor]
9/DARK/Pyro
2700/1600
You can Ritual Summon this card with "Dark Ceremony". At the start of your Battle Phase. you can discard this card; All "Dark" monsters you control are changed to face-up Attack Position and must attack, if able, and if they do, your opponent cannot activate cards and effects until the end of the Battle Phase. When this card is Ritual Summoned, you can banish up to 5 DARK monsters in your Graveyard, and if you do, destroy a number of Spell/Trap Cards on the field equal to the number of monsters banish for this effect.
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[Spoiler Kaokuma, the Absolute of Darkness]
10/DARK/Fiend
3250/2550
You can Ritual Summon this card with "Dark Ceremony". When your opponent activates a card or effect that would negate the effect(s) of a DARK monster(s) you control, you can discard this card; negate the activation and effect of the card and destroy it. While all face-up monsters you control are DARK monsters and all monsters in your Graveyard are DARK monsters, Spell and Trap Cards cannot negate the effects of DARK monsters you control. This effect cannot be negated by the effects of Spell or Trap Cards. You can only control 1 "Kaokuma, the Absolute of Darkness".
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[Spoiler Ritual Spell Cards]


[Spoiler Dark Ceremony]
Ritual Spell Card
This card is used to Ritual Summon any DARK monster. You must also Tribute DARK monsters from your field, hand, or exactly 1 DARK monster from your deck whose Levels exactly equal the Level of the Ritual Monster you Ritual Summon.
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[Spoiler Dark Ceremony 2]
Ritual Spell Card
This card is used to Ritual Summon any DARK monster. You must also Tribute DARK monsters from your field, hand, or banish "Dark" monsters from your Graveyard whose Levels exactly equal the Level of the Ritual Monster you Ritual Summon.
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[Spoiler Darkness Invitation]
This card is used to Ritual Summon any "Dark" or "Darkness" monster. You must also Tribute monsters from your hand or field whose total Levels equal the Level of the Ritual Monster you Ritual Summon or more. When a DARK monster is sent to your Graveyard: You can banish this card and another monster from your Graveyard; add 1 "Dark" monster with the same Type, ATK and DEF than that banished monster from your Deck or Graveyard to your hand.
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[Spoiler Spell/Trap Support]
Ally of Darkness
Normal Spell Card
You can only activate this card if your opponent controls a monster whose Level/Rank is higher than the Level/Rank of a "Dark" monster you control. Special Summon a "Dark" monster from your hand with the same Level as that monster. (If it is a Rank, treat its Rank as a Level) It cannot declare an attack nor be used as a Synchro or Xyz material, and is returned to your hand during the End Phase.



[Spoiler Returning From Darkness]
Normal Spell
Return 1 DARK monster from your Graveyard to your hand, then banish 1 DARK monster of the same card type (Normal, Effect, Ritual)
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[Spoiler Dark Crystal Sealing]
Continuous Trap
Activate only when your opponent activates a Spell or Trap and you control a "Dark" or "Darkness" monster. Negate it's activation and Set the Spell or Trap, then target 1 "Dark" or "Darkness" monster you control. Your opponent cannot activate the Set card. Destroy this card when the targeted monster is removed from the field.
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[Spoiler Extra Deck Monsters]


[Spoiler Fiendish Joker]
6/DARK/Fiend
2500/2100
1 DARK Tuner + 1 or more Non-Tuner DARK monsters
(This card is always treated as a "Dark" monster)
When this card is Synchro Summoned, each player discards 1 card from their hand. Cards discarded by this card's effect(s) are negated. Each time a player draws a card(s) or adds a card(s) from their Deck to their hand, that player must discard 1 card. During each of your End Phases, banish 1 monster from your Graveyard that was used to Synchro Summon this card. If you cannot, banish this card. When this card is removed from the field, return the monster(s) banished by this card's effect to your Graveyard.
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[Spoiler Dark Dragunity Assailant - Trident]
7/DARK/Dragon
2400/1700

1 DARK Tuner + 1 or more Non-Tuner "Dark" or "Darkness" monsters
Once per turn, you can banish 1 "Dark" monster from your Graveyard to look at your opponent's Extra Deck; Send 1 card with an equal Level/Rank as the Level/Rank of the banished monster to the Graveyard.
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[Spoiler Chevalier de Fluer Sombres]
8/DARK/Warrior
2700/2300
1 DARK Tuner + 1 or more Non-Tuner "Dark" or "Darkness" monsters
(This card is always treated as a "Dark" monster)
Once per turn, during your turn, when your opponent activates a Spell or Trap Card, you can banish 1 "Dark" monster from your Graveyard to negate the activation and destroy that card.
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[Spoiler Dracension the Dragon of the Dark Sky]
10/DARK/Dragon
?/3000
1 DARK Tuner + 1 or more Non-Tuner "Dark" or "Darkness" monsters
Cannot be Special Summoned except by Synchro Summon. When this card is Synchro Summoned, you can activate one of the following effects:
If this card is Synchro Summoned: It gains 800 ATK for each "Dark" monster in your Graveyard with a different name. (max 4000 ATK) When this card you control is destroyed by your opponent's card (by battle or by card effect) and sent to your Graveyard, if this card had 4000 ATK, you can Special Summon "Dark" monsters from your Graveyard whose total levels equal 10 or lower, but they are banished when they leave the field. You can only use this effect of "Drascension the Dragon of the Dark Sky" once per turn.
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[Spoiler Additional Support & Non-Archetype Support]
Dark Grepher (Your main combo piece alongside Grandmaster. If Grandmaster is the Infernity Archfiend of this Deck, Dark Grepher is the Infernity Necromancer)
Dark Armed Dragon (Not the best card for this Deck ironically, but hey, it's still Dark Armed)
Dark Simorgh
Lich Lord, King of the Underworld (Send him for Alector, you get him back in your hand)
Shadolls, most notably Shadoll Beast
Tragoedia/Gorz
Plaguespreader Zombie (Probably the easiest way to make Trident)
Preparation of Rites
Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon
Number 66: Master Key Beetle
Poker Joker Yarliqueen (Probably the best card in the Deck)
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[Sir Yamiegg]

These are potentially good with Dark Creator and even Strike Ninja (!) 

 

Just a little PSCT fix:

 

When this card is Summoned: you can add 1 DARK Ritual Monster from your Deck to your hand. During the End Phase, if this card was Tributed for the Ritual Summon of a DARK monster or if this card was discarded or banished to activate the effect of a DARK monster this turn, you can target 1 DARK monster in you Graveyard; Add 1 DARK monster from your Deck to your hand with the same level, but a different name. You can only activate this effect of "Dark Senju" once per turn.

 

Otherwise good support - I would definitely try and find a way to use these well!

[VampireofDarkness]

These are potentially good with Dark Creator and even Strike Ninja (!)

Just a little PSCT fix:

When this card is Summoned: you can add 1 DARK Ritual Monster from your Deck to your hand. During the End Phase, if this card was Tributed for the Ritual Summon of a DARK monster or if this card was discarded or banished to activate the effect of a DARK monster this turn, you can target 1 DARK monster in you Graveyard; Add 1 DARK monster from your Deck to your hand with the same level, but a different name. You can only activate this effect of "Dark Senju" once per turn.

Otherwise good support - I would definitely try and find a way to use these well!

That's interesting. I never thought about it being useful with Strike Ninja. I actually was thinking about comboing it off with Dark Grepher and with the Level 4 Ritual ~Noel~ made that I used for the RP, (That basically was a Stratos for
"Dark" monsters Ex. Dark Grepher, Dark Horus, Dark Nephytys) you would be able to maintain a hand on top of your probably mighty field presence. In essence, it makes decently leveled Rituals less Glass Cannon-Esque without being Nekroz crazy

[VampireofDarkness]

Updated the set and the overall goal since we got an updated CC now!

[VampireofDarkness]

Bump. Completed the Monster set, though will be working on images for the Effect Monsters.

[VampireofDarkness]

Bump. Set is complete, at least until the DP tournament is done.

[VampireofDarkness]

Bump. CnC anyone?

[VampireofDarkness]

I'm gonna be relaunching this as a whole other archetype as a result of the DP Tournament results, and either way the last post is like a month old, so lock if someone would please?