Ninjitsu Art Deck #390715 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Fusion/Synchro/Xyz/Link
• Format: tcg

Legality

Main 52 / Extra 17 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 6 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ninja-engine board of Fusion, Link and Xyz monsters with 2500-3000 ATK (Yellow Dragon Ninja, Zombie Vampire, Borrelsword Dragon) pressuring a summon-heavy board; Attrition through Tobari, Hanzo and Jioh searches plus Ninjitsu Art Continuous Spell/Trap recursion
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon a Ninja-engine starter (Tobari, Noble Knight's Shield-Bearer, Imsety or Hanzo; ~27% to hold at least one copy in a 5-card hand), then search or recur through Ninja text
• Turn 2 (going second): Six-card hand with Ash Blossom or Evenly Matched (~31% for at least one hand trap in 6 cards) to interrupt the opponent, then summon through the board
• Recovery: Re-use the searcher text (14 cards, ~81% to hit at least one in 5 cards) and Ninjitsu Art recursion to rebuild after a single removal or hand trap
• After siding: Not evaluable: the Side Deck is empty (0 cards), so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The list is Illegal: five Forbidden cards are run at 1 copy each (Called by the Grave, Triple Tactics Talent, Amorphage Goliath, Abyss Dweller, Cross-Sheep) and the Extra Deck holds 17 cards against a 15-card cap, so the rubric caps the contextual score and this evaluation is structural-only. Structurally the deck has a real Ninja engine: three-copy starters (Tobari, Noble Knight's Shield-Bearer, Imsety, Hanzo) have about a 27% chance each of appearing in a 5-card opening hand, and 14 searcher-text cards give about an 81% chance of at least one search in 5 cards. The deck is not a coherent single-archetype build: exact Ninjitsu Art purity is 7.2% (64 off-archetype copies across Horus, Noble Knight, Destiny HERO, Amorphage, Greed, Egyptian God and others), which lowers consistency and brick scores. No combos, guides, tournament results, or side cards exist, so floor, median, ceiling, post-side and matchup scores are inferred from card text only and are set low. The score was not produced by averaging card scores or by the archetype's popularity; it reflects the system-level structure, capped for legality.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 42, Going First ≈ 40, Going Second ≈ 42, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 30. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-5); extra_deck_size (-2); archetype_incoherence (-1). Final formula: Uncapped: 0.80*Structural(42) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(30) + modifiers(-8) = about 31; capped at 25 because legality is Illegal. Meta Power is null (Provisional). Theoretical/structural-only.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.27 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ — (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Three-copy Ninja-engine starters with a high searcher density (14 cards, about 81% to hit one in 5 cards)
• Hand-trap and negation text (Ash Blossom, Evenly Matched x2, Ninja negation) gives some going-second interaction
• High-power boss monsters at 3000 ATK (Yellow Dragon Ninja, Zombie Vampire, Borrelsword Dragon, Imsety)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: five Forbidden cards and an over-size Extra Deck
• Low archetype purity (7.2%); engine spread across at least 6 unrelated archetypes
• No Side Deck, so there is no post-side adaptability
• No recorded boards, guides, or tournament data to confirm any line

Critical choke points

• The Forbidden cards are removed from the list, so the deck cannot be played as-is in a legal event
• Starter access depends on 3-copy starters at about 27% each in a 5-card hand; a single starter miss leaves the Ninja engine without a turn-1 play

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Status is Illegal: 5 Forbidden cards run at 1 copy each, 0 legal copies; Extra Deck is 17 against a 15-card maximum; Main Deck is 52 (within 40-60); Side Deck is empty; Exact archetype purity is 7.2% (5 exact copies of Ninjitsu Art, 64 off-archetype copies)
• Inferred: P(>=1 3-copy starter in a 5-card opening hand) about 0.27; searcher group about 0.81; Hand-trap access going second about 0.31; Structural score derived from text, composition and probabilities; Midrange weights
• Provisional: Meta Power is null; matchup fit (D13) cannot be measured without a dated meta sample; Going-first and going-second power values are derived estimates
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent No win-rate, brick-rate or matchup telemetry exists in YGOVN Side Deck is empty: no post-side plan can be assessed Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample