Dominus Deck #766936 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 51/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ritual-summoned Mitsurugi boards: Ame no Murakumo no Mitsurugi (ATK 3200, destroys all opponent monsters on its Special Summon) and Ame no Habakiri no Mitsurugi (ATK 2400), backed by Futsu no Mitama no Mitsurugi and Mitsurugi no Miko, Wousu.; Extra Deck link and Xyz pressure (Galaxy-Eyes Photon Lord, Number 38, Dingirsu, Underworld Goddess) once the Main Deck engine has reached the field.
• Turn 1 (going first): Pre-Preparation of Rites or Lamia to search the Reptile Level 8 ritual monster, Mitsurugi Ritual or Mitsurugi Mirror to Ritual Summon it by tributing Reptiles, with Ash Blossom and Maxx C held back as interaction.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Maxx C, Dominus Impulse and Dominus Spark to answer the opponent's first Special Summon or key effect, then convert into a Murakumo or Habakiri Ritual Summon.
• Recovery: Mulcharmy Fuwalos and Mulcharmy Purulia draw cards when the opponent Summons; Mitsurugi Great Purification and Futsu no Mitama no Mitsurugi can be used from the GY; Mitsurugi Mirror can Ritual Summon from the GY.
• After siding: No side deck is registered (side_count 0), so no post-side plan can be scored; this is a gap, not a neutral result.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens its engine: Pre-Preparation of Rites, Lamia and the Mitsurugi searchers (Saji, Aramasa, Kusanagi, Wousu) are present in volume, and the evidence gives roughly an 85 percent chance of at least one archetype core card in a 5-card opening hand. Conversion into a board comes through four Ritual spells and six Ritual monsters, with Ame no Murakumo as the main board-clearing payoff, but no recorded boards exist, so the conversion rating is inferred from card text only. Interaction is the strongest part of the list: Ash Blossom, Maxx C, Dominus Impulse, Dominus Spark, Forbidden Droplet and Magatama provide layered answers on both turns. Weaknesses are a 15-card Extra Deck that is roughly half off-engine staples, a declared Dominus archetype that does not match the Mitsurugi-heavy card mix, and an empty side deck that leaves no post-side adaptation. Score comes from consistency, interaction and system coherence, not from the popularity of Mitsurugi or Dominus, and it is not an average of individual card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: primary Midrange; Toolbox used as secondary context only, no weight shift. Structural ≈ 60, Going First ≈ 65, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: No side deck (-3); Off-engine Extra Deck slots (-2); Engine conflict with declared archetype (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers(-7) = 58.3 - 7 -> 51

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.85 · 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 searcher suite (17 searchers) with high P(>=1) for an engine piece in hand
• Four Ritual spells and six Ritual monsters give redundant engine access
• Layered interaction on both turns: Ash Blossom, Maxx C, Dominus Impulse, Dominus Spark, Droplet, Great Purification
• Murakumo gives a board-clearing finisher that breaks a going-second board

Weaknesses

• No side deck, so no best-of-3 adaptation
• Half of the Extra Deck has no connection to the Reptile or Mitsurugi engine
• Declared archetype (Dominus) diverges from the Mitsurugi-heavy card mix
• Ritual sequencing requires Reptile tributes, which can conflict with interaction and summons

Critical choke points

• Reptile tribute availability for every Ritual Summon (Mitsurugi Ritual, Mirror, Magatama)
• Ritual Summon requires a live Ritual spell in hand or GY; loss of the spells removes the main payoff
• Dominus Impulse and Dominus Spark require an opponent-side action to be playable

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 40 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side; all Limited and Semi-Limited copies within limit; Card text for the Mitsurugi, Dominus, Mulcharmy and hand-trap cards; Composition: 17 Mitsurugi copies, 6 Ritual monsters, 4 Ritual spells, 4 hand traps; Archetype core probability and searcher group from hypergeometric evidence
• Inferred: Consistency estimates from hypergeometric draws; Interaction and board-breaking weight from card text; Going-first and going-second power; Pilotability from sequencing complexity
• Provisional: Meta Power (null); Matchup and format fit (D13); Post-side plan and side deck quality
• Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent no win-rate telemetry: going-first, going-second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown no side deck registered: D12 cannot be measured Meta Power provisional without a dated metagame sample deck title is null; archetype label Dominus diverges from card mix