Ryzeal Deck #750706 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 57/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Combo, Stun
• Format: master-duel

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ritual-summon Mitsurugi bodies (Ame no Murakumo no Mitsurugi 3200 ATK, Ame no Habakiri no Mitsurugi 2400 ATK) and Ryzeal Xyz beats, with Murakumo's on-summon board wipe as the closer; Ryzeal Detonator / Ryzeal Duo Drive ATK pressure after Xyz Summons
• Turn 1 (going first): Pre-Preparation of Rites or a Normal-Summoned Mitsurugi searcher (Saji, Aramasa, Kusanagi) to fetch Mitsurugi Ritual, then ritual-summon a Mitsurugi monster; Ice Ryzeal or Mulcharmy Fuwalos provide a body. No hand trap is available on the first turn.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the six-card hand's hand traps (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C, Infinite Impermanence, Dominus Impulse) to interrupt the opponent's first Summon or search, then rebuild the Mitsurugi ritual line.
• Recovery: Search and recursion through 17 searcher cards: Mitsurugi monsters and spells re-add each other from the Deck, and Mitsurugi Ritual and Mitsurugi Great Purification can be recovered from the GY.
• After siding: No side deck is registered (side_count 0), so the deck has no post-side plan. Best-of-3 play has no adaptation.

Why it scores here

The deck opens a functional plan reliably because 17 searcher cards and triple-copy Pre-Preparation of Rites, Ice Ryzeal, Mulcharmy Fuwalos and Ash Blossom put a starter in hand often. The hypergeometric odds for at least one searcher in an opening five are about 0.95, and at least one Mitsurugi Ritual in five is only about 0.24, so the ritual conversion is the weak point (Inferred). Its ceiling comes from the Mitsurugi ritual bodies and Murakumo's on-summon wipe, and its interaction is layered across nine hand traps, Dominus Impulse, Infinite Impermanence and Mitsurugi Great Purification. Popularity did not earn points: the archetype core-card usage stats are internally inconsistent and were not scored. No combo data exists, so the scores come from consistency, interaction and resource reasoning on the system, not from averaging the individual card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: 0.7 Midrange / 0.3 Combo. Structural ≈ 65, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 68, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 56. Modifiers: engine conflicts (-3); no side deck (-2); single choke point (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); context modifiers -6

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.95 · key two-card combo ≈ 0.24 · 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

• 17 searchers and triple-copy starters give a high rate of live hands
• Nine hand traps plus Dominus Impulse and Infinite Impermanence give layered interaction
• Murakumo and Habakiri give a board-wiping or lock-style closer
• Mitsurugi recursion keeps resources alive after disruption

Weaknesses

• Mitsurugi Ritual at 2 copies is a single choke point for the ritual engine
• Extra Deck mixes four or more sub-archetypes, so engine coherence is weak
• Empty side deck means no post-side plan
• Archetype purity is 14.5%, with 47 off-archetype copies

Critical choke points

• Mitsurugi Ritual (2 copies): about 0.24 chance of at least one in an opening five

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality (Master Duel size and copy limits, all restricted copies within limit); Deck composition: 40 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side; Card text excerpts and banlist statuses
• Inferred: Starter and searcher probabilities (hypergeometric); Interaction and resilience reads from card text; Ceiling and going-second reasoning
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); D13 matchup fit placeholder
• 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 usage_statistics in_this_deck flags conflict with the cards list for King of the Feral Imps, Number 104, Number 60, Eclipse Twins, Ryzeal Detonator, Vallon, Ryzeal Duo Drive and Mereologic Aggregator; core_present_pct 64 is unreliable and was not scored no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied