X-Saber Deck #767212 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Six Samurai and Radiant Typhoon summon chains into Synchro, Link and Xyz boards (Legendary Lord Shi En, Enishi, Fonix, Varuroon, Great Shogun Shien); Radiant Typhoon Mystical Space Typhoon loops that recycle Quick-Play Spells and draw cards
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Six Samurai starter (Kizan, Kageki, Anarchist Monk, Tactical Trainer) or a Radiant Typhoon searcher, use Shien's Smoke Signal or Swen/Eldam to reach a Synchro or Link boss, and hold Mystical Space Typhoon or Enemy Controller for the opponent's answer
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, D.D. Crow, Effect Veiler, Droll & Lock Bird, Nibiru) to break the opponent's first combo, then rebuild through Six Samurai summons
• Recovery: Recover from GY through Cunning of the Six Samurai, Secret Six Samurai - Hatsume, Radiant Typhoon Chant and Manifestation, which add or summon cards back from the Deck or GY
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan. Best-of-3 play is unsupported as built

Why it scores here

The deck's structural read is about 59 under the Midrange profile. Its main strength is access: 23 searcher effects give a 0.92 chance of at least one searcher in a going-first opening hand, and several Six Samurai starters can be summoned from hand. Interaction is a second strength, with 12 hand traps and 7 negation effects that work on the opponent's first turn. Floor and median output are unmeasured because the export has no recorded boards, so those scores are Inferred and capped. Popularity did not earn points, since the archetype is X-Saber but only one card (M-X-Saber Invoker) shares the archetype name and that card is absent. The score was not built by averaging individual card scores. The deck is Illegal (Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring at 3 copies against a limit of 2), so the 51 contextual value was capped to 35 and this result is structural only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 59, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 66, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-3); No side deck (-3). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(59.4) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(50) = 57.5; context modifiers -6 gives 51.5; Illegal cap applied (copy-limit violation) gives 35. Theoretical/structural-only.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.23 · 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 (23 effects) gives a 0.92 chance of at least one searcher in a going-first opening hand
• Strong interaction package: 12 hand traps and 7 negation effects, with a 0.75 chance of at least one hand trap in a going-second six-card hand
• Two independent engines (Six Samurai summons and Radiant Typhoon MST loops) reduce single-starter dependence
• Extra Deck spread of 9 Synchro, 5 Link and 1 Xyz gives multiple boss routes

Weaknesses

• Illegal: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring at 3 copies against a Semi-Limited limit of 2
• No side deck, so no post-side plan
• Archetype label X-Saber does not match the list: 1 of 75 cards carries that name, and the core M-X-Saber Invoker (66.7% usage inclusion) is absent
• No recorded boards, so the combo floor and median cannot be measured
• Many Quick-Play and level-0 cards risk dead draws in the opening hand

Critical choke points

• Single copy of Ash Blossom at 3 copies is illegal and must be cut to 2 before the deck is playable
• Radiant Typhoon MST loop depends on Mystical Space Typhoon in the GY
• Six Samurai summon conditions need a second Six Samurai monster on the field

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring at 3 copies, legal limit 2, Semi-Limited in OCG; Main 60 and Extra 15 are within size rules; Side 0 is within the 0-15 range; Banlist status of Droll & Lock Bird, Gateway of the Six, Radiant Typhoon Chant and Reinforcement of the Army (Limited, 1 copy each); M-X-Saber Invoker usage inclusion 66.7% and absent from this deck; Archetype spread: 30 Six Samurai, 13 Radiant Typhoon, 1 X-Saber, 74 off-archetype copies
• Inferred: Hypergeometric starter, searcher and hand-trap probabilities (estimates from the resolved list); Midrange strategy classification from composition and interaction density; Dimension scores D1 through D14 built from card text and composition; Going-first 58 and going-second 66 estimates
• Provisional: Meta Power is null: no dated metagame sample supplied; D13 matchup fit held at a neutral 50
• 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 in YGOVN for going-first, going-second, matchup or brick rates Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Deck title is null in the export