Mitsurugi Deck #765650 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 20/100 (±5 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ritual or Fusion/Link boss (Ame no Murakumo no Mitsurugi, Dark Magician Gardna-line and Dark Magician of Destruction) converting a Dark Magician / Mitsurugi board into pressure; Diabellstar the Black Witch (2500 ATK) and Master of Chaos (3000 ATK) as Extra Deck pressure once the Main Deck engine is live
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Mitsurugi Prayers, Dark Magical Curtain or Magician's Rod to reach Dark Magician / Mitsurugi starters, then use Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence or Effect Veiler to protect the first Ritual or Fusion line
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Droll & Lock Bird, Ash Blossom and Effect Veiler (about 72% chance of at least one hand trap in a six-card hand) to break the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Dark Magician searchers
• Recovery: Searcher text is dense (30 cards), so recovery leans on Dark Magical Circle, Soul Servant and Magicians' Souls to rebuild a Dark Magician starter from the GY or Deck (Inferred)
• After siding: Not applicable: the deck has no Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan in the list as submitted

Why it scores here

This list would reliably open a Dark Magician or Mitsurugi starter: the 17 archetype-core copies give about 82% odds of at least one in a five-card opening hand, and searcher text is dense (30 cards, about 97% at least one in hand). Its conversion ceiling comes from Ame no Murakumo no Mitsurugi and the Extra Deck bosses, but no recorded boards exist, so the floor and median are text-only inference and are scored conservatively. Hand traps (11 cards, about 72% at least one in a six-card hand) and negation text give it real interaction on the opponent's first board. The deck is scored as a connected system, not from the average of its cards, and popularity was not rewarded: usage stats confirm the list is real, not that it is strong. The list is Illegal (three over-limit cards, all with copy limits of 1 or 2), so the final score is capped and labeled structural-only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 56.5, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: illegal_list_cap (-30); no_side_deck (-3); unverified_meta_fit (0). Final formula: Illegal cap applied: no normal Final Contextual score; reported 20 is a structural-only cap of the 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) result

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.82 · 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 Dark Magician and Mitsurugi starter access (about 82% core-in-hand, about 97% searcher text)
• Eleven hand traps and layered negation text give strong early interaction
• Extra Deck carries high-ATK bosses (Murakumo 3200, Master of Chaos 3000, Diabellstar 2500)

Weaknesses

• Illegal as submitted: three cards exceed their Semi-Limited or Limited copy caps
• No Side Deck, so no adaptation to a matchup
• Low archetype purity (14.7%) means many off-plan cards compete for slots
• No recorded boards, so combo output is text-only inference

Critical choke points

• Mitsurugi Ritual and Ame no Murakumo summon require Reptile tributes, so a single Reptile-light hand can stall the Ritual line
• Heavy reliance on Dark Magician and Magician-named searchers for the second line

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 60, Extra 15, Side 0 are within the TCG size rules; Ash Blossom, Mitsurugi Prayers and WANTED are over their copy caps; Archetype core inclusion and usage stats (Mitsurugi Prayers 89%, Ame no Habakiri 95%); Archetype purity 14.7% exact-name Mitsurugi
• Inferred: Starter probabilities 0.82 (core) and 0.97 (searcher text); Hand-trap probability 0.72 going second; Ritual and Fusion routes as conversion ceiling
• Provisional: Meta Power (null); Matchup fit (D13)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN, so going-first and going-second splits are Inferred Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied no Side Deck supplied