Ryzeal Deck #765728 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 53/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ryzeal Xyz pressure (Ryzeal Detonator, Ryzeal Duo Drive) built from Level 4 Ryzeal monsters, with Mitsurugi ritual boss monsters (Ame no Murakumo, Ame no Habakiri) as a second threat; Mitsurugi Ritual Summon of Reptile bosses, backed by Mitsurugi Great Purification and Futsu no Mitama no Mitsurugi
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Level 4 Ryzeal monster (Ice Ryzeal, Node Ryzeal, Sword Ryzeal, Ext Ryzeal), use it to set up a Ryzeal Xyz, and keep Ash Blossom / Droll & Lock Bird / Maxx "C" up for interaction
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Droll & Lock Bird, Ash Blossom and Maxx "C" to slow the opponent's extra-deck or searching lines, then search a Mitsurugi monster and go into a Ritual Summon of a Reptile boss
• Recovery: Mitsurugi monsters (Aramasa, Saji, Kusanagi) add Mitsurugi cards from the Deck, and Ryzeal monsters recur from the GY through Ryzeal Duo Drive and Ext Ryzeal
• After siding: Not applicable: the format is best-of-1 and the deck runs no Side Deck

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system: it opens a live Level 4 Ryzeal monster in about 58% of going-first hands (6 copies, hypergeometric, Inferred), and about 65% going second. Two engines share the Main Deck, a Ryzeal Xyz line and a Mitsurugi ritual line, so one interrupted route still leaves the other. Six hand traps (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx "C") plus Mitsurugi Great Purification and Crossout Designator give the deck layered interaction, which is its strongest dimension. Its weaknesses are a low exact-archetype purity (20%, with 44 off-archetype copies), three Seventh Tachyon copies that have only one legal target (Number 104), and a 15-card Extra Deck where about ten slots are single-copy flex. No combo boards, tournament results or win rates are recorded, so the score is a structural read, not a measured one. Popularity and archetype usage confirm the list is real but did not add points, and card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, Toolbox secondary (not a computed blend; Midrange weights used directly). Structural ≈ 59, Going First ≈ 57, Going Second ≈ 63, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 52. Modifiers: Dead-card dependence on Seventh Tachyon (-2); Engine conflict across archetypes (-2). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 0.80*58.8 + 0.20*52 - 4 = 53.4 (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.58 · 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

• Layered interaction: six hand traps plus Mitsurugi Great Purification and Crossout Designator
• Two engines (Ryzeal Xyz and Mitsurugi ritual) give independent routes after disruption
• Strong finishing bodies: Ame no Murakumo 3200 ATK, Ryzeal Duo Drive, Ryzeal Detonator, Ame no Habakiri 2400 ATK

Weaknesses

• Seventh Tachyon (3 copies) has a single legal target, so it is often a dead card
• Exact-name Ryzeal purity is 20%; the deck runs 44 off-archetype copies
• About 9 of 15 Extra Deck slots are single-copy flex, which dilutes Extra-Deck consistency
• Vanity's Ruler is a Level 8 Normal Summon that competes for hand space

Critical choke points

• Ryzeal Level 4 monster access: 6 copies, about 58% going first in hand; one lost Level 4 Ryzeal in hand cuts the Xyz line
• Ryzeal Detonator and Duo Drive are the main Xyz payoffs and both need Xyz material

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 40, Extra 15, Side 0 within master-duel size rules [40,60], [0,15], [0,15]; All restricted cards run at or under legal copies (Limited cards at 1, Semi-Limited Droll & Lock Bird and Ame no Habakiri at 2); Card stats and text for all 39 distinct cards from the evidence pack; Exact-name purity 20% and archetype spread from composition
• Observed: Usage statistics show the Ryzeal core (Ice Ryzeal, Ext Ryzeal, Sword Ryzeal, Mulcharmy Fuwalos, Ash Blossom, Pre-Preparation of Rites) present at 100% inclusion
• Inferred: P(>=1 Level 4 Ryzeal monster) = 0.577 going first and 0.650 going second; Interaction quality (d7) and going-second strength (d8) from card text; Structural score 59 and final 53 using the Midrange profile
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit and tournament reliability (no tournament link); Side adaptability (no Side Deck; Bo1 format)
• 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, brick/starter/OTK rates): those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Data inconsistency: usage_statistics marks Ryzeal Detonator (34909328) and Ryzeal Duo Drive (7511613) as in_this_deck=false, but the cards list runs 3 and 2 copies of them in the Extra Deck; the Extra-Deck inventory was taken from the cards list Deck title is null; archetype is taken from the deck export (Ryzeal, archetype_id 2197)