An Archetype Overview

The Nouvelles archetype presents a unique and flavorful approach to Ritual Summoning. Thematically centered around a demonic culinary competition, the deck seeks to dismantle an opponent's board by tributing monsters�including the opponent's own�to serve up its powerful boss monsters. Unlike typical combo decks, Nouvelles engages in a turn-by-turn resource exchange, leveraging its powerful removal and recursion to outlast the opposition through a unique mechanic of "Ritual Climbing".

The Menu: Core Cards

The Main Courses

The Ritual Monster ladder, each a stepping stone to the next.

Buerillabaisse: The starter, excavates for resources.

Poeltis: Mid-tier climber that provides card draw.

Balameuniere: A key searcher for any archetype card.

Baelgrill: The boss monster, providing a devastating board wipe.

The Kitchen Staff

Essential support monsters that initiate plays.

Poissonniere de Nouvelles: The premier one-card starter, searching your initial Ritual pieces.

Chef de Nouvelles: A versatile Pendulum monster for searching and interruption.

The Secret Recipes

The Spells & Traps that make the magic happen.

Recette de Poisson: The primary Ritual Spell that sets up your next play.

"At Table" Field Spell: A resource loop engine for the grind game.

Chef's Special Recipe: A searchable omni-negate Counter Trap.

Core Combo: The Concours de Cuisine (Culinary Confrontation) Opening

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This powerful one-card combo establishes your board and readies your Ritual climbing engine.

Concours de Cuisine (Culinary Confrontation)
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1. Activate Concours de Cuisine (Culinary Confrontation): Special Summon Poissonniere de Nouvelles to your field and Patissciel Couverture to your opponent's field in Attack Position.

Poissonniere de Nouvelles
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2. Search with Poissonniere: Use Poissonniere's effect to add Recette de Poisson (Fish Recipe) from your Deck to your hand.

Buerillabaisse de Nouvelles
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3. Ritual Summon: Activate the Recipe, Tributing Poissonniere to summon Buerillabaisse de Nouvelles. Its effect then lets you excavate to find another "Nouvelles" card.

The Final Presentation: Ideal End Board

The ideal Nouvelles end board is a multi-layered system of interaction, ready to dismantle the opponent's turn piece by piece.

Balameuniere de Nouvelles
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Proactive Removal

Tributes an opponent's monster to summon Baelgrill.

Baelgrill de Nouvelles
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Board Wipe

Negates and tributes all opponent's monsters upon summon.

Chef's Special Recipe
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Omni-Negate

A searchable Counter Trap to stop any key effect.

Competitive Analysis

Strengths

  • Potent Removal: The core mechanic of tributing an opponent's Attack Position monster is a powerful form of non-targeting, non-destruction removal that bypasses most forms of protection.
  • Resource Recursion: The Field Spell, "Nouvelles Restaurant 'At Table'", creates a sustainable resource loop, allowing you to recycle key cards like "Chef's Special Recipe" for a strong grind game.
  • High Skill Ceiling: The deck is non-linear with many decision paths, making it difficult for unprepared opponents to predict and counter your plays.
  • Resilient Board: An established board has multiple layers of interaction, including proactive monster removal and an omni-negate, making it tough to break.

Weaknesses

  • Hand Trap Vulnerability: Highly susceptible to cards like "Droll & Lock Bird" or a well-timed "Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring" on a key searcher.
  • Position Dependent: The core mechanic relies on the opponent having monsters in Attack Position. A savvy opponent playing entirely in defense can slow the deck down significantly.
  • Ritual Inconsistency: Like all Ritual decks, it can suffer from "bricky" hands by drawing the wrong ratio of monsters and spells.
  • Low Offensive Pressure: The archetype's monsters have relatively low ATK, meaning the deck often wins through control and attrition, giving opponents time to find an answer.

Live TCG Banlist Status

Banlist Impact

While the Nouvelles core remains untouched, the archetype's The deck can incorporate generic support like the Diviner engine for Extra Deck plays, though it functions well as a pure Ritual strategy. means restrictions on generic support cards do have an impact.

Affected Synergistic Cards

Forbidden

  • Baronne de Fleur

Limited

  • Herald of the Arc Light

Meta Implications: Despite restrictions on support cards, Nouvelles's All core Nouvelles cards remain unrestricted, allowing the archetype to operate at full power with flexible Recipe-based Ritual summoning. allows the deck to remain viable with alternative tech choices.

Banlist Status Summary

+ analyzed • 0 archetype restrictions • 2 synergistic cards restricted

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