Charmer Deck #731920 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 58/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Ritual Combo, Control
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ritual Summon high-ATK Mitsurugi bosses (Ame no Murakumo, Futsu no Mitama, Ame no Habakiri) and generate hand advantage through searchers and draw engines to grind through the opponent.; Xyz beatdown via Rank 4/8 monsters or Fusion access through Super Polymerization for board disruption and resource conversion.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with searcher access (Pre-Preparation, Ragged Records) to assemble Ritual Spell + Ritual Monster; establish a live Mitsurugi boss with negation/disruption via Mitsurugi Great Purification or Dominus Impulse; control the board with hand traps (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock) and floodgates (Skill Drain, Anti-Spell Fragrance).
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps and board breakers (Lightning Storm, Forbidden Droplet, Harpie's Feather Duster) to clear opponent's board; rebuild via Mulcharmy draw effects or post-disruption Ritual Summon into Ame no Murakumo's board clear; access Xyz removal (Number 41: Bagooska, Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS).
• Recovery: Recursion via Mitsurugi Great Purification (banish from GY to Special Summon Reptile from GY); float effects on Mitsurugi monsters (Aramasa/Saji/Kusanagi add on destruction); Dyna Mondo Link recovery for Ritual recycling; Lamia tutors into Level 8 Ritual Monsters.
• After siding: Sideboard construction unavailable; assumed to tech additional hand traps, matchup-specific removal, or board-breaker density.

Why it scores here

This Mitsurugi-centric Ritual Charmer deck scores 58 for reliable ritual-engine accessibility, competent grind game, and layered interaction, but is held back by inconsistent combo floor, narrow winning lines, and heavy reliance on exact card sequencing. It opens a functional Ritual Summon roughly 45% of turns (P ≈ 0.45 for archetype-core overlap) and generates meaningful disruption through Mitsurugi bosses and floodgates; however, the lack of parseable combo evidence prevents calibration of ceiling vs. median output, and the deck's 55-card main (non-standard size) dilutes consistency. Going-second capability is fair through hand traps and removal, but the deck struggles with choke-point recovery if the opening Ritual line is interrupted. Popularity among Charmer pilots and OCG legality are confirmed, but do not inflate the structural score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 57, Going First ≈ 59, Going Second ≈ 57, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 57. Modifiers: Non-standard main deck size (55 cards) (-2); Missing core Charmer cards (S:P Little Knight, I:P Masquerena, Charmer Quartet in Bloom, Maxx C, Garura) (-3); No parsed combo data (-2); Ritual-centric single-engine design (-3); Solid grind game and recursion (2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural (57) + 0.20*TournamentReliability (57) (Meta provisional, no dated metagame sample supplied)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.75 · key two-card combo ≈ 0.45 · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.15 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Ritual engine accessibility: 8 Ritual Spells (Pre-Preparation×3, Ragged Records×3, Mitsurugi Ritual×3, Mitsurugi Mirror×2) ensure ~75% opening probability for core searcher.
• Layered interaction: Mitsurugi bosses (Ame no Murakumo negation/removal, Futsu no Mitama recursion, Ame no Habakiri ATK reduction) + floodgates (Skill Drain, Anti-Spell Fragrance, Dimension Shifter) create multiple disruption angles.
• Grind game: 21 searcher-text copies + Lamia tutoring + recursion via Mitsurugi Great Purification support long games and recovery after interruption.
• Hand-trap density: 6 hand traps (Ash Blossom×3, Droll & Lock×2, Dimension Shifter×1) enable going-second interaction.
• Going-second board-breaker suite: Lightning Storm×2, Forbidden Droplet×3, Harpie's Feather Duster×1, plus Xyz tech for secondary removal.

Weaknesses

• Inconsistent combo floor: Median output constrained to single Ritual boss + 1–2 interactions; lacks independent secondary engine or redundant starter lines.
• Ritual-engine choke point: Loss of opening Ritual Spell blocks primary win condition; recovery relies on Dyna Mondo (1 copy, requires Link Summon materials) or Lamia (tutors only Level 8, no Ritual Spell acceleration).
• Non-standard 55-card main deck: Dilutes hypergeometric draw odds vs. optimal 40-card cores; reduces overall consistency by ~5–8% per draw.
• Missing archetype staples: Deck lacks S:P Little Knight (87% Charmer inclusion), I:P Masquerena (67% inclusion), Charmer Quartet in Bloom (60%), Maxx "C" (60%)—reduces synergy and format credibility.
• Weak offensive closing: Ritual bosses are defensive (Murakumo 3200 ATK, Futsu 2000 ATK, Habakiri 2400 ATK, no piercing); lacks beatdown pressure; relies on resource advantage to close, not tempo.
• Limited Extra Deck synergy: 5 Link monsters do not include I:P Masquerena (most flexible); Xyz toolbox is generic (Bagooska, Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS, Number 68); integration with Ritual lines is tangential.

Critical choke points

• Opening Ritual Spell searcher access: If neither Pre-Preparation of Rites nor Ragged Records resolves T1, the deck has no Ritual Spell and cannot execute primary win condition. Backup is Lamia (1 copy, tutors only Level 8) or Dyna Mondo Link recovery (requires prior board and materials).
• Ritual Monster assembly: Requires exact Ritual Spell + Ritual Monster pairing (e.g., Mitsurugi Ritual + Ame no Murakumo). Loss of either forces slower recursion via Mitsurugi Great Purification or Futsu no Mitama trigger.
• Dyna Mondo as sole Ritual recovery: Dyna Mondo (1 copy, Link-2) is the only dedicated Ritual recycler in the Extra Deck. If locked out of Link Summoning or Dyna Mondo is sent to GY early, recovery window collapses.
• Main Deck space vs. consistency: 55-card size introduces 10 redundant slots, reducing cumulative P(starter live) and increasing brick likelihood vs. tighter 40-card lists.
• Anti-Spell Fragrance weakness: If opponent negates/removes Anti-Spell Fragrance post-side, the deck loses one key floodgate; no direct replacement in the build.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 55 main / 15 extra / 0 side, all restricted cards within copy limits (Verified); Card text: all 44 distinct cards resolved and text excerpts confirmed (Verified); Banlist status: 9 restricted cards (1 Limited Ame no Habakiri, 8 Limited/Semi-Limited tech) confirmed Legal in OCG (Verified); Usage statistics: 10 archetype-core stats available; 3 of 9 core cards present (33%) (Verified)
• Observed: Archetype composition: Mitsurugi (19 copies) is dominant sub-engine; Mulcharmy (6 copies) + Dominus (3 copies) are secondary techs (Observed); Ritual Spell density: 8 Ritual Spells across 4 names (Pre-Preparation, Ragged Records, Mitsurugi Ritual, Mitsurugi Mirror) from deck list (Observed)
• Inferred: P(≥1 Ritual Spell T1 opener) ≈ 0.75 via hypergeometric on 8 Ritual Spell copies in 55-card main, hand 5 (Inferred); Archetype-core group (Ritual Spell + Ritual Monster overlap) P ≈ 0.45 based on 6 core monster copies vs. starter diversity (Inferred); Combo floor: single Ritual Monster + 1–2 hand-trap interactions, median, inferred from searcher density and lack of parsed boards (Inferred); Ritual-engine choke point: loss of opening Ritual Spell blocks primary line; recovery via Lamia (1 copy) or Dyna Mondo (1 copy) is limited (Inferred); Going-second power: 6 hand traps + 7 removal pieces enable board disruption; 4 floodgates provide post-interrupt resilience; estimated 57/100 (Inferred); Grind capacity: 21 searcher-text copies + recursion support enable 6–8 turn resource regeneration (Inferred)
• Provisional: Meta Power: no tournament link or dated metagame sample supplied; archetype meta-share unknown; deck's 33% archetype-core presence suggests niche/homebrew positioning (Provisional); Matchup outcomes: Combo-heavy (45–50%), Control (50–55%), Blind-Second (40–45%) estimates are structural only; no pilot data (Provisional); Post-side performance: no Side Deck provided; assumed to remain sub-50% on average due to limited flexibility (Provisional)
• Data gaps: No parsed combos: combo data.total combos = 0; best line, median power index, board per starter, and going_first/second split are all unmeasured. No tournament link: archetype meta-share, per-pilot match record, and format meta positioning unknown; Meta Power remains Provisional. No side deck: Side Deck size = 0; D12 (Side Deck adaptability) set to 0; post-side performance inference unavailable. No win-rate telemetry in YGOVN: going-first/second win rates, brick rate, matchup-specific outcomes, and game-level statistics do not exist; all performance claims are Inferred. Guides absence: no archetype strategy guide or human commentary on Charmer/Mitsurugi plays; pilotability inferred from card text and decision point estimation only. Missing archetype staples: 6 of 9 core Charmer cards absent (S:P Little Knight, I:P Masquerena, Charmer Quartet in Bloom, Maxx "C", Garura, Mudragon); unclear whether intentional homebrew or incomplete list.