Venom Deck #720654 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 22/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Toolbox
• Secondary strategies: Midrange, Tempo
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 49 / Extra 21 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 7 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ritual-summoned Mitsurugi boss monsters (Ame no Murakumo no Mitsurugi at 3200 ATK) and Xyz/Link follow-ups, if the Forbidden cards are removed and the Extra Deck is trimmed to 15.; Ryzeal Duo Drive / Ryzeal Detonator and Number-series Xyz boards from the Extra Deck.
• Turn 1 (going first): Search with Mitsurugi/Ryzeal searchers (Mitsurugi no Mikoto, Pre-Preparation of Rites, Bonfire, Ragged Records of Rites) into a Ritual Spell and Ritual Monster; hand traps (Ash Blossom, Maxx C, Droll & Lock Bird) protect the first turn. Confirmed only as a text read, not from recorded boards.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird and Maxx C against the opponent's first Normal/Special Summon, then Ritual Summon through Mitsurugi Ritual or Mitsurugi Mirror. Inferred from card text; no going-second data exists.
• Recovery: Recurse Mitsurugi monsters from GY via Mitsurugi no Mikoto effects and Futsu no Mitama no Mitsurugi; Mulcharmy Fuwalos refills hand. Inferred.
• After siding: Not evaluable: Side Deck size is 0, so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

This list is Illegal: it runs 6 Forbidden copies, carries 21 Extra Deck cards against a 15-card OCG cap, and has 0 side deck, so it receives a low capped score and is evaluated as a structural read only. The Mitsurugi ritual engine (Mitsurugi Ritual, Mitsurugi Mirror, Ame no Murakumo) is coherent and backed by heavy search density (22 searcher-text cards, about 96% chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand), which earns credit for engine access. Interaction is real (Ash Blossom, Maxx C, Droll & Lock Bird, Harpie's Feather Duster, Crossout Designator, Bonfire-style searchers), but it is spread thinly across several plans, and the Mitsurugi/Ryzeal/Galaxy/Fiendsmith split limits consistency. The score comes from the system's engine access and interaction, not from averaging card scores or from the Venom label, which matches no exact-name copies in the list. Output is unmeasured because there are no recorded boards, so the floor, median, and ceiling are all inferred.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 42, Going First ≈ 40, Going Second ≈ 35, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 30. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); extra_deck_overflow (-4). Final formula: Illegal deck: 0.80*Structural(42) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(30) = 33.6, then context modifiers (-12) = 21.6, rounded to 22 and kept low because the list is Illegal (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.28 · 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

• Mitsurugi ritual engine with strong search density (22 searcher-text cards)
• Diverse interaction: 4 hand traps plus Harpie's Feather Duster, Crossout Designator and Mitsurugi Great Purification
• Multiple independent threat sources across Ritual, Xyz and Link

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: 6 Forbidden copies and a 21-card Extra Deck against a 15 cap
• Off-archetype dispersion (0% exact Venom purity) and 3 competing summoning engines
• No side deck and no recorded combos, so every consistency claim is inferred

Critical choke points

• Mitsurugi Ritual Spell (3 copies) gates the main engine, and a single hand-trap answer is often the only interaction

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is Illegal: 6 Forbidden copies and Extra Deck of 21 against a 15 OCG maximum; Main Deck is 49 cards (in the 40-60 range); Archetype purity is 0% exact-name; Mitsurugi Ritual P(>=1 in 5-card hand) = 0.2812
• Inferred: Engine consistency and brick rate estimates; Going-first and going-second plans from card text; Interaction quality from text hints
• Provisional: Meta power and archetype share (no dated metagame sample); Format fit (D13)
• Data gaps: No recorded combos: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and pilot match record are absent No win-rate telemetry: going-first/second, matchup, and brick/starter rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample Deck title is null No side deck, so post-side adaptability cannot be assessed