Secret Six Samurai Deck #756140 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Six Samurai board built through Special Summons (Kizan, Grandmaster, Enishi, Kageki) that pressures with 2000+ ATK monsters and Synchro boss monsters; Synchro beatdown from Stardust Dragon, Black Rose Dragon and Shi En, backed by Number 39: Utopia
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon Kageki or Elder and search or summon into the Six Samurai core; protect the board with Solemn Judgment and Mirror Force if it is live
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Maxx "C", Effect Veiler, Solemn Warning and Debunk to answer the opponent's first summon or activation, then rebuild through Gateway of the Six and Six Samurai United
• Recovery: Recover through Shien's Smoke Signal, Reinforcement of the Army and Monster Reborn from the GY; the deck has no reliable recursion beyond Enishi's bounce and Shien's Dojo
• After siding: Not evaluable: the export carries an empty side deck, so no post-side plan exists

Why it scores here

The score comes from the deck as a system, not from its cards. The Six Samurai core (Kizan, Grandmaster, Enishi, Kageki and their search and summon support) reaches a usable board only about half the time on the opening hand, so engine access is middling (P(at least one core card in a 5-card hand) ≈ 0.56, Inferred). Interaction is the deck's strongest area: 9 negation-text cards, 20 removal-text cards, and hand traps including Maxx "C", Effect Veiler and Solemn Judgment give it real end-board and going-second answers. Its ceiling and median output are unmeasured because no recorded boards exist, so both combo scores are text-only inferences. The list is illegal: two copy-limit overages, Naturia Beast and Trishula are Forbidden in OCG, and the empty side deck leaves no post-side answer. The illegal status caps the final score, and popularity or archetype share earned no points.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 44, Going First ≈ 47, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-8); Illegal list cap (-4). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers(-12); illegal-list cap applied, score kept low

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.56 · 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

• Interaction density is high for a non-control deck: 9 negation-text cards, 20 removal-text cards and layered hand traps
• Core Six Samurai engine has multiple summon routes (hand, GY, Dojo) and a searcher suite
• Extra Deck covers Synchro, Xyz and Fusion breakpoints with several 2000+ ATK bosses

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: two copy-limit violations and two Forbidden cards
• Empty side deck, so no post-side plan and no best-of-3 adaptation
• High brick risk from 34 level-0 spell and trap slots and 15 singletons
• No recorded combo boards, so ceiling and median output are unmeasured

Critical choke points

• Archetype-core starters are 8 copies; one opening-hand miss stalls the Six Samurai engine (P ≈ 0.44 of no core card in hand5, Inferred)
• Forbidden synchros removed, so Synchro boss access depends on Shi En, Stardust and Black Rose only

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Maxx "C" and Rivalry of Warlords over copy limit; Naturia Beast and Trishula Forbidden (OCG BanList); Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 composition; Archetype purity 0% exact-name; 29 Six Samurai copies
• Inferred: Engine access ≈ 0.56 at hand5 from hypergeometric estimate; Interaction quality from negation and removal text reads; Brick risk from level-0 spell and trap density
• Provisional: Matchup and meta fit (no dated meta sample)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN (going-first/second, matchup, game-level, brick/starter/OTK rates) — those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Side deck is empty; no post-side evidence