Mitsurugi Deck #765727 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 61/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Combo, Toolbox
• Format: master-duel

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ritual Summon Mitsurugi Reptile monsters (Murakumo 3200 ATK, Habakiri 2400 ATK, Futsu no Mitama) and close with Xyz boss monsters (Ryzeal Detonator 3000, Ryzeal Duo Drive 2500, Dragluxion) after Ryzeal Xyz setups; Ryzeal Xyz plays (Ext/Sword/Node Ryzeal) feeding Xyz Summons from Level 4 monsters, with Mitsurugi recursion through Aramasa, Saji and Kusanagi
• Turn 1 (going first): T1 Normal Summon Mitsurugi no Mikoto (Aramasa/Saji/Kusanagi) to search a Mitsurugi or Spell/Trap, Pre-Preparation of Rites or Seventh Tachyon for the Ritual route, and keep Ash Blossom or Maxx "C" up for interaction
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Droll & Lock Bird, Ash Blossom and Maxx "C" as hand traps against the opponent's first summon or search, then rebuild through Mitsurugi searchers and Ritual Summon the Murakumo
• Recovery: Mitsurugi Prayers and Mitsurugi Mirror recover Reptile monsters from the GY, Aramasa/Saji/Kusanagi recur as searchers when Tributed, and Ryzeal Duo Drive and Detonator recycle Ryzeal monsters from the GY
• After siding: No side deck is registered (Side Deck size 0); post-side adjustments are not represented in the evidence and are assumed unavailable for this list

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a functional Mitsurugi or Ryzeal starter: the archetype core group (23 copies) has a 0.99 chance of at least one copy in a 5-card opening hand, and 22 searcher-text cards push that further, so the engine is live on T1-T2 in most hands. Conversion runs through Ritual Summons of Murakumo and Habakiri and through Ryzeal Xyz boss monsters, and the eight hand-trap and negation-text cards (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird x2, Maxx "C", Mitsurugi Great Purification, Crossout Designator) give it real interaction on both turn orders. Scores were built on the system (consistency, interaction, and closing power together), not by averaging card strength, and the deck's popularity (the Mitsurugi core is in 100% of stat rows) was not credited as strength. The score is held back by the absence of recorded boards (combo floor and median are text-only inference), a missing side deck with no post-side plan, and no meta or matchup data, so Meta Power stays provisional.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 64, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 66, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 62. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.99 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.01 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Near-certain starter access from a 23-copy core and 22 searcher-text cards
• Six hand traps plus negation-text cards give interaction on both turn orders
• Murakumo and Habakiri give strong Ritual closing ATK

Weaknesses

• No recorded boards, so combo floor and median are unverified
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adjustment
• Off-archetype Xyz dilutes the engine and adds Extra-slot clutter

Critical choke points

• Mitsurugi Ritual and Pre-Preparation of Rites as the Ritual route: losing them leaves Ritual monsters stranded in hand
• Droll & Lock Bird as a common-interruption dependency for the going-second plan

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is legal: 40 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side within the size rules; all restricted cards at or under legal copy limits; Core card text and ATK/DEF values for the Ritual, Xyz and hand-trap cards; Archetype core and searcher counts from the probabilities block
• Observed: Mitsurugi core cards appear in 100% of archetype usage rows (usage statistics)
• Inferred: Starter hypergeometric estimates (0.99 core, 0.987 searcher) and brick proxy 0.0094; Going-first and going-second plans, interaction layering and closing estimates from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and matchup fit (D13) lacking a dated metagame sample; Post-side plan, since no side deck is registered
• 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 no Side Deck registered; post-side adaptability cannot be assessed