Nekroz Deck #760449 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 58 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 6 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ritual-summoned Nekroz and Mitsurugi boards converting into Extra Deck beatdown, with the Mitsurugi negation and destruction effects as the closing layer; Xyz and Link pressure from the Extra Deck (Dragluxion, Ragnazero, S:P Little Knight) if the ritual line is interrupted
• Turn 1 (going first): Pre-Preparation of Rites or Mitsurugi Ritual to fetch a Ritual Monster and Ritual Spell, then a Nekroz or Mitsurugi Ritual Summon with Mitsurugi searchers feeding follow-up; the plan depends on Forbidden cards that cannot be run in this format
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Maxx C, Droll and Lock Bird, Red Reboot) to interrupt the opponent's first board, then a Nekroz Ritual Summon from a single starter; the 6-card hand carries a higher hand-trap density
• Recovery: Searchers (Mitsurugi no Mikoto monsters, Emilia, Avance, Nekroz of Brionac) rebuild the hand; Ritual Spells and GY ritual monsters are recursive through Nekroz of Unicore and Mitsurugi Mirror
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan; the deck cannot adapt between games of a best-of-3 match

Why it scores here

The deck is Illegal in OCG: five Forbidden cards are run (Ame no Habakiri no Mitsurugi x3, Bahamut Shark, King of the Feral Imps, Number 60: Dugares the Timeless, Albion the Branded Dragon), and the score is capped at 25 under the legality rule, so this is a structural-only read. Its engine is a Nekroz and Mitsurugi ritual core with 14 negation-text cards and 8 hand traps, which gives it real interaction density on paper. Only 9.6% of cards carry the exact Nekroz name (66 off-archetype copies across 16 sub-archetypes), so the engine coherence is weak and the ritual line depends on a few cards in a 58-card main. No combo boards were recorded, so the ceiling and median are text-only inferences and were not averaged from card scores. Popularity of the Nekroz archetype did not earn points; the lack of any side deck and the Forbidden cards lower the score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary with a Toolbox tilt (structural score only). Structural ≈ 45, Going First ≈ 42, Going Second ≈ 40, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 30. Modifiers: banlist exposure (Forbidden cards over limit) (-10); illegal-status cap (-7); no side deck (0). Final formula: Illegal deck: structural-only, capped at 25 (0.80*45 + 0.20*30 = 42, minus banlist and illegal-cap modifiers)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ — · 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

• Dense searchers (21 text hits) make the hand consistent for finding ritual starters
• 14 negation-text cards and 8 hand traps give layered interaction
• Recursion via Nekroz of Unicore and Mitsurugi Mirror supports grind

Weaknesses

• Five Forbidden cards make the list illegal in OCG
• Only 9.6% exact archetype purity; the deck mixes Mitsurugi, Mulcharmy, Greed, Branded and other sub-archetypes
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptation
• No combo boards recorded, so the ceiling is unverified

Critical choke points

• The ritual monster and matching ritual spell must both be in hand; a missing ritual spell stalls the opening turn
• Forbidden Mitsurugi and Albion cards are removed by legality, which breaks the intended ritual route

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Five Forbidden cards are run and the list is Illegal; Main 58 and Extra 15 are within OCG size rules; Copy histogram and archetype purity figures are present; Usage stats show 3 of 11 core Nekroz cards present
• Inferred: Consistency estimates from the hypergeometric draw table; Interaction density from negation and hand-trap text; Going-first and going-second estimates from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power is null; no dated metagame sample exists; D13 matchup fit is provisional
• Data gaps: no combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent no win-rate telemetry; going-first, going-second and matchup rates unknown Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied no Side Deck registered