Mitsurugi Deck #762478 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 12 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ritual and Link board presence through Mitsurugi Ritual and Mitsurugi Mirror, closing with Ame no Murakumo no Mitsurugi (3200 ATK) and Ruler of the End of the World (Verified text; no combo corpus).; Mulcharmy draw pressure and Extra Deck Link/Fusion boards (Inferred from text).
• Turn 1 (going first): Opening Mitsurugi monsters and searchers (Mitsurugi no Mikoto, Saji / Aramasa / Kusanagi) into Mitsurugi Ritual or Mitsurugi Prayers to reach a Ritual Summon (Inferred from card text).
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Ash Blossom, Droll and Lock Bird, Nibiru) and Solemn Judgment to stop the opponent's board, then Ritual Summon through the opponent's field (Inferred from card text).
• Recovery: Recursion from the GY through Futsu no Mitama no Mitsurugi and Mitsurugi Great Purification (Inferred from card text).
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan (Verified).

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Mitsurugi starter: the archetype core group has an estimated 0.959 chance of at least one copy in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred), and searcher text covers 18 Main Deck cards (0.875 for one in hand). Conversion depends on Ritual Summons through Mitsurugi Ritual and Mitsurugi Mirror, which the text supports, but there are no recorded boards, so the ceiling and median are text-only reads. Interaction is dense: 6 hand traps and 13 negation-text cards give the deck a solid end-board answer on paper (Inferred). The score is capped low because the list is Illegal: seven Forbidden cards and five over-limit cards were run, and the rubric does not allow a normal score for an illegal deck. Popularity and archetype usage stats did not earn points, and the card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, Toolbox secondary (Midrange profile used for the structural score). Structural ≈ 52.5, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); engine compactness (-2). Final formula: Pre-cap: 0.80*Structural(52.5) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(35) + Modifiers(-10) = 39.0; Illegal cap applied, final 25. Meta Power provisional (null).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.96 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.04 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• High archetype core access (0.959 for one core card in 5 cards, Inferred).
• Layered interaction: 6 hand traps, 13 negation-text cards and 16 removal-text cards.
• Strong closing bosses via Ritual (Ame no Murakumo 3200 ATK, Ruler 3000 ATK).

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: 7 Forbidden cards and 5 over-limit cards.
• No Side Deck registered.
• Low archetype purity (24.3%), with 53 off-archetype copies.
• No recorded combos, so the ceiling and median are text-only.

Critical choke points

• Mitsurugi Ritual and Mitsurugi Mirror as the only Ritual enablers in the list.
• Reptile tribute requirements for the Ritual monsters.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main Deck 55 cards and Extra Deck 15 cards, within size rules.; Forbidden, Limited and Semi-Limited status and copy limits from the banlist.; Archetype purity 24.3% and copy histogram.
• Inferred: Archetype core access 0.959 for one copy in a 5-card hand.; Strategy is Midrange with Toolbox secondary, from card text.; Interaction density from role flags and card text.
• Provisional: Meta Power is null; no dated metagame sample.; Matchup fit is provisional without tournament data.
• Data gaps: No combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference. No tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent. No win-rate telemetry exists for going-first, going-second, matchup or brick rates. No Side Deck registered; the post-side score is limited.