Mitsurugi Deck #765296 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox
• Format: tcg

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ritual Summon Mitsurugi Reptile monsters (Ame no Murakumo, Futsu no Mitama, Ame no Habakiri) and convert the board with their on-summon and negation effects; Link and Xyz boards built from the Extra Deck (Galaxy-Eyes, Divine Arsenal, TY-PHON) after the Ritual boss lands
• Turn 1 (going first): Search a Mitsurugi Reptile with Aramasa, Saji, Kusanagi or Prayers, then Ritual Summon through Mitsurugi Ritual or Mirror
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird and Solemn cards to break the opponent's board, then Ritual Summon a boss from the GY or hand
• Recovery: Searchers and Mitsurugi Ritual or Mirror rebuild the Ritual boss from the Deck or GY after a single interruption
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so no post-side plan is available

Why it scores here

The deck's consistency comes from its searcher density: about 30 copies of the Mitsurugi core have a 98% chance of at least one in an opening 5, and 17 searcher-text cards give roughly 86% odds of at least one in hand. Its interaction suite (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Solemn cards, Called by the Grave, Crossout Designator) earns the endboard and going-second scores. Ritual boss pressure and the Murakumo on-summon wipe lift the closing score. No recorded boards, tournament data or side deck exist, so the combo ceiling and median are text-only inference and the side and matchup scores stay low. The score reflects the system, not the popularity of Mitsurugi and not an average of card scores. The list is illegal, with four cards over their copy limits and one Forbidden card, so the structural score is capped and labelled theoretical only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 58, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) = 56.4, less 12 banlist/copy-limit modifier = 44, then capped at 30 because the list is Illegal (theoretical/structural only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.98 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.02 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense searcher suite (17 searcher-text cards) makes the Mitsurugi core reliably available
• Layered interaction: hand traps, Solemn cards, Called by the Grave and Crossout Designator
• Strong Ritual boss options with on-summon and negation effects

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: four copy-limit violations and one Forbidden card
• No side deck, so no post-side plan
• Ritual chain requires many steps and decision points
• Splash and tech density (20 tech cards) dilutes archetype purity to 28.6%

Critical choke points

• Mitsurugi Ritual or Mirror is required to bring out the Ritual boss; losing both leaves the engine weak
• Forbidden and over-limit cards mean the deck cannot be played as built in any sanctioned format

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: four copy-limit violations and one Forbidden card; Main 55 and Extra 15 are within size limits; Card text and banlist status for every card in the list; Composition counts and archetype purity
• Inferred: Opening-hand hypergeometric estimates (≈0.98 core, ≈0.86 searcher); Interaction density and going-second board-breaking read; Ritual boss closing power from card text; Pilotability and brick estimates
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament link); Going-first and going-second splits (no recorded boards)
• Data gaps: No recorded boards: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent No side deck registered: post-side plan cannot be scored No win-rate telemetry in YGOVN; going-first, going-second and matchup signals are Inferred Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied