The Megalith archetype is a unique EARTH Rock Ritual strategy that revolutionizes Ritual Summoning by foregoing traditional Ritual Spells. Instead, the monsters themselves act as the catalysts for their summons. This creates a self-contained engine where every monster is either a starter, an extender, or a powerful boss monster. The core gameplay revolves around a loop of summoning, searching, and recycling resources to control the board. With the release of support in Doom of Dimensions, the deck has overcome its historical issues with resource management and fragility, transforming into a resilient and powerful combo-control strategy.
Megalith monsters have built-in effects to perform Ritual Summons. The Level 8 monsters can be discarded from the hand to initiate a summon, while the Level 4 monsters can perform a Ritual Summon from the field, creating a chain of summons.
Through their support cards like Megalith Portal and the new Megalith Phuloch, the deck excels at recycling its monsters from the Graveyard, enabling a relentless, long-term grind game.
The new heart of the deck. This Continuous Spell is a 1-card starter that discards 1 to search 2 Megaliths. It also provides a free "Draw 2, Discard 1" or a non-targeting Tribute of an opponent's monster when you Ritual Summon.
The new boss monster. From the hand, it protects your Megalith monster effects from being responded to for the turn. On the field, it's a powerful omni-negate that can also Tribute an opponent's monster.
The new recursion engine. On summon, it adds any Megalith card from the GY to the hand. As a Quick Effect, it can Ritual Summon a Megalith from the GY, enabling a devastating "double Bethor" loop.
Still the keystone. This Level 2 monster can summon any Megalith Ritual monster from the Deck as a Quick Effect, enabling powerful interruptions on the opponent's turn, now protected by Plura and recurred by Phuloch.
The primary disruption tool. When Ritual Summoned, Bethor destroys cards your opponent controls. The new support allows you to trigger this effect multiple times per turn, from both the Deck and GY.
The deck's primary OTK enabler. Phaleg grants a massive ATK boost to all your monsters, turning your board into a game-ending threat after you've dismantled the opponent's field.
The main searchers. Ophiel searches monsters, while Hagith searches Spells/Traps. They are now even better, as they can be searched by Anastasis and help build your board.
The Field Spell that fuels the recursion engine. Each time a Megalith is summoned, it allows you to add a Ritual Monster from your Graveyard back to your hand. Works perfectly with Phuloch.
A flexible Quick-Play Spell that can Ritual Summon any Megalith from the hand or Deck. Can be added back from the GY by Phuloch to be used again.
The new support completely changes the deck's combos. Megalith Anastasis is now the deck's premier 1-card starter, creating a resilient, resource-positive board from a single card.
Activate Megalith Anastasis. Discard 1 card (e.g., a Bethor or other Ritual Monster) to add Megalith Notrah Plura (Level 12) and Megalith Phul (Level 2) from your Deck to your hand.
Reveal Notrah Plura from your hand. Its effect makes your opponent unable to respond to your Megalith monster effect activations this turn. This makes your Phul "Ash-proof" and your entire combo "Nibiru-proof".
Ritual Summon Megalith Phul (e.g., by discarding a Level 8 Megalith). This triggers Anastasis, allowing you to "Draw 2, discard 1," making your combo resource-positive.
Activate Phul's (protected) effect to Ritual Summon Megalith Phuloch from your Deck. Phuloch's effect then activates, adding a key card (like Unformed) from your GY to your hand. You can then proceed to summon Notrah Plura to complete your board.
The old end board of "Phul, pass" is gone. The new optimal board is a multi-layered fortress of interruptions that is difficult for any opponent to break.
Plura
Phul
Phuloch
(In GY/Deck)
The Megalith archetype, with its Megalith is a Ritual archetype that uses its monsters to Ritual Summon, creating a self-contained engine for swarming and control., operates at full power with no restrictions on the current TCG banlist.
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Banlist Status Summary
Core cards checked:
• Megalith Anastasis
• Megalith Aratron
• Megalith Bethor
• Megalith Emergence
• Megalith Hagith
• Megalith Notrah Plura
• Megalith Och
• Megalith Ophiel
• Megalith Phaleg
• Megalith Phul
• Megalith Phuloch
• Megalith Portal
• Megalith Unformed
+ Related cards checked:
• Cyber Angel Benten
• Diviner of the Herald
• Drytron Alpha Thuban
• Impcantation Candoll
• Impcantation Talismandra analyzed •
0 restrictions found •
All cards legal at 3 copies
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