Secret Six Samurai Deck #767624 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 57 / Extra 14 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro, Fusion and Link Six Samurai boss monsters (Shi En, Rihan, Arcana Extra Joker, Angel of Zera) pressured through Six Samurai board pressure and Bushido Counter spells; Recursion-driven Six Samurai Special Summons from the GY (Double-Edged Sword Technique, Return of the Six Samurai, Cunning of the Six Samurai)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Six Samurai searcher or Anarchist Monk / Tactical Trainer hand Special Summon, chain Shien's Smoke Signal or Secret Six Samurai searchers, and go to a Synchro or Fusion boss while holding Ash Blossom and Effect Veiler
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler, Solemn Judgment, Dark Bribe or Divine Wrath to answer the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Six Samurai GY Special Summons and Extra Deck bosses
• Recovery: Recover the GY Six Samurai monsters with Secret Six Samurai - Hatsume, Legendary Secret of the Six Samurai and Double-Edged Sword Technique, and refill the hand with Gateway of the Six and Shien's Smoke Signal
• After siding: None: the side deck is empty, so there is no post-side plan (Inferred)

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a functional Six Samurai plan: the archetype core group gives an estimated 98% chance of at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand and searchers have about 86% odds (Inferred hypergeometric estimates). Its strength as a system comes from the interlocking Six Samurai and Secret Six Samurai Special Summon chain, the Synchro and Fusion bosses it can reach, and a dense set of hand traps and negations (Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler, Solemn Judgment, Dark Bribe, Divine Wrath) that answer the opponent's first board, especially going second. Median output and floor are unmeasured because no recorded boards exist, so these are structural reads only. The deck is capped low because it is illegal as submitted (three copies of Ash Blossom and Joyous Spring against a limit of two), and it has an empty side deck, so it has no post-side adaptation. Popularity of the archetype was not credited, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 58.9, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: Illegal copy limit (banlist exposure) (-8); No side deck / no post-side plan (-4). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 56.7 - 12 = 44.7, then capped at 35 because the deck is Illegal (Meta Provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.98 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.02 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense Six Samurai searcher and Special Summon chain with about 98% core access in openers
• Layered hand-trap and negation suite (Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler, Solemn Judgment, Dark Bribe, Divine Wrath)
• Multiple Synchro, Link and Fusion bosses at 2400 to 2800 ATK

Weaknesses

• Illegal as submitted: Ash Blossom and Joyous Spring over the copy limit
• Empty side deck, no post-side adaptation
• No recorded boards, so floor and median output are unmeasured

Critical choke points

• Ash Blossom copy count must drop to two before the list can be played
• Most Extra Deck bosses need specific Six Samurai monsters on the field, so early disruption of the engine ends the turn

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main Deck 57 cards, Extra Deck 14 cards, Side 0 cards; Main within the 40 to 60 size rule; Ash Blossom and Joyous Spring: 3 copies, OCG Semi-Limited limit 2 (over limit); Other restricted cards are at their Limited copy counts (Gateway of the Six, Reinforcement of the Army, Solemn Judgment, Terraforming)
• Inferred: Archetype core presence about 98% in opening hands from the hypergeometric proxy; Going-first and going-second estimates from card text and the interaction density; Dimension scores D1 to D14 and the structural weights
• Provisional: Meta Power null; no dated metagame sample; D13 matchup and format fit is a neutral 50 placeholder
• Data gaps: No recorded combos, so combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link, so archetype meta-share and pilot records are absent No win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchups, brick or starter rates Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Deck title is null; the side deck is empty