Ryzeal Deck #680956 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±5 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Stun
• Format: tcg

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ryzeal Detonator (Limited, 3000 ATK) and Ryzeal Duo Drive-style Xyz boards built from Ryzeal Xyz and Mitsurugi Ritual payoffs; not verifiable as a stable win con because the Extra Deck is only partly Ryzeal (purity 12.9%).; Mitsurugi ritual boss (Ame no Murakumo no Mitsurugi, Futsu no Mitama no Mitsurugi) and Ecclesia and the Dark Dragon as a Synchro/Fusion-adjacent finisher.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Ash Blossom / Ghost Belle / Mulcharmy starters, search with Mitsurugi or Ryzeal monsters, and build one Xyz; Dimension Shifter and Called by the Grave are not playable under current banlist.
• Turn 2 (going second): Six-card hand, lead with Droll & Lock Bird, Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit, Ash Blossom and Solemn Judgment as hand interaction, then go to the Xyz or Ritual line.
• Recovery: Mulcharmy Fuwalos/Purulia draw engines and Ryzeal Cross plus GY Ryzeal recursion to rebuild after a hand trap.
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no Side Deck (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The deck is Illegal in the TCG format: five Forbidden cards and several over-limit Limited and Semi-Limited cards are present, so under the rubric it is capped at a low theoretical score and cannot earn a normal Final Contextual score. Structurally it has a reasonable engine core: 17 copies of the Ryzeal/Mitsurugi core have a 0.86 chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand, and 19 searcher-text cards and 13 hand traps give it real access and interaction. Those strengths are offset by weak archetype purity (12.9% exact-name Ryzeal, with 61 off-archetype copies across Mitsurugi, Mulcharmy, Branded, Egyptian God and others), which fragments the engine. No combos were supplied, so the combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inferences and are kept low. No Side Deck and no tournament or win-rate data mean the post-side and matchup dimensions are scored as provisional. Popularity and usage stats were not credited, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Balanced. Structural ≈ 48, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 45, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-8); engine_conflicts (-4). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(48) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(35) = 45.4; modifiers -12 gives 33.4; Illegal cap applied per Step 2 gives 25

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.86 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.14 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Core Ryzeal engine is well represented: 17 core copies give about 86% at least one in a 5-card opening hand
• 13 hand traps and 15 negation-text cards give broad hand-trap and continuous interaction
• 19 searcher-text cards support consistent access to starters

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: five Forbidden cards and multiple over-limit Limited and Semi-Limited copies
• Poor archetype purity (12.9%); the engine is spread over Mitsurugi, Mulcharmy, Branded and others
• No Side Deck, so there is no post-side adaptation
• No combo or win-rate data, so output and matchup claims are unsupported

Critical choke points

• Forbidden cards and over-limit Limited copies must be removed before any normal score can apply
• The Ryzeal Xyz line depends on a small set of Extra Deck monsters (Ryzeal Detonator, Ext Ryzeal, Node Ryzeal)
• Hand-trap density means a single hand trap played by the opponent can end a turn with no alternative line

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Illegal (five Forbidden cards and multiple copy-limit violations); Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0 (size rules satisfied for Main and Extra; no Side Deck); Archetype purity 12.9% and 13 hand traps / 19 searcher-text cards from composition; Archetype core 17 copies, P(>=1 in opening 5) = 0.8557 from probabilities
• Inferred: Consistency and brick estimates from the hypergeometric draw table; Engine fragmentation impact from archetype spread; Interaction quality from negation and hand-trap text
• Provisional: Matchup fit and Meta Power (no dated metagame); Post-side plan (no Side Deck); Tournament reliability (no tournament link)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick and starter rates) Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No Side Deck, so D12 has no performance evidence