Forbidden Deck #769407 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 14 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 5 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ritual Summon Reptile boss monsters (e.g. Ame no Murakumo no Mitsurugi, 3200 ATK) through Mitsurugi Ritual and Mitsurugi Mirror, using Mitsurugi searchers to find the enablers (Inferred from card text); Extra Deck Fusion, Link and XYZ bosses (e.g. Predaplant Triphyoverutum, Number 90, Mixousia) fed by Super Polymerization and Mulcharmy/Forbidden support (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Search a Mitsurugi monster or Mitsurugi Ritual, Ritual Summon a Reptile boss, and keep Ash Blossom or Droll & Lock Bird up as hand-trap protection (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Nibiru) to disrupt the opponent's first summon, then rebuild through Mitsurugi searchers and Ritual plays (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recover via Ragged Records of Rites and Pot of Prosperity searches and Mitsurugi Great Purification revival from the GY (Inferred; card text only)
• After siding: None: the deck runs 0 Side Deck cards, so there is no post-side plan. Legal side construction would be required to answer the illegal copy counts and any matchup.

Why it scores here

Scored as a system, not an average of card scores. The deck reliably opens searchers (20 searcher-text cards; P(at least one searcher in a 5-card hand) ≈ 0.91, Inferred), so the Mitsurugi engine is usually reachable. Its Ritual bosses and Extra Deck options give real closing power, and 15 negation and removal cards plus 5 hand traps give it interaction density. However, the list is Illegal under OCG copy limits (five cards run over their limit, including 3-copy Pre-Preparation of Rites and Mitsurugi Prayers, both Limited to 1), so the score is capped and structural only. There are no recorded boards, no tournament data and no Side Deck, so the floor and median are unmeasured and the meta fit is Provisional. Popularity of the Forbidden and Mitsurugi names did not earn points.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 49.8, Going First ≈ 48, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 38. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-8); no_combo_or_tournament_evidence (-4). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 0.80*49.8 + 0.20*38 - 12 ≈ 35; capped low because the list is Illegal, so this is a structural-only figure (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.91 · 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 text (20 cards) keeps the Mitsurugi engine reachable
• Layered negation and removal (15 removal, 16 negation text cards) across Spell, Trap and Monster slots
• High-ATK Ritual, Fusion, Link and XYZ bosses give a real closing option

Weaknesses

• Illegal under OCG copy limits: five cards run over the limit
• Zero Side Deck cards, so no post-side plan and no answer to matchups
• Low pure archetype purity (5.8%) with three sub-engines (Mitsurugi, Mulcharmy, Forbidden) competing for slots
• No combo evidence, so the ceiling and median cannot be verified

Critical choke points

• Mitsurugi Ritual and Mitsurugi searchers are required for most Ritual boss lines
• Hand-trap protection (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird) is the only early disruption answer for going second

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status with five over-limit copy violations (OCG BanList); Main 55 / Extra 14 / Side 0 counts within size rules; Copy histogram: 8 cards at 3 copies, 8 at 2, 15 at 1; Searcher text count 20; negation 16; removal 15; hand trap 5; Forbidden (exact-name) purity 5.8%; archetype spread Mitsurugi 17, Mulcharmy 5
• Observed: Core-card presence: 4 of 5 usage-core cards present; S:P Little Knight missing
• Inferred: Engine reachability via searcher density (P≈0.91); Ritual boss lines and going-first and going-second plans from card text; Interaction density and resilience from text read
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (D13) and tournament reliability
• Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry (going-first, going-second, matchup, brick, starter or OTK rates) Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample Deck has no title and no Side Deck cards