Secret Six Samurai Deck #769440 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Six Samurai boss monsters from the Extra Deck, chiefly Legendary Lord Six Samurai - Shi En (2500 ATK synchro with a negate on Spell/Trap activations) plus Super Starslayer TY-PHON - Sky Crisis (2900 ATK) and Mediclius (3000 ATK link); Legendary Six Samurai - Kizan and Legendary Lord Six Samurai - Enishi as recurring synchro and beatstick pressure through Tactical Trainer and Anarchist Monk summons
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon Legendary Six Samurai - Kageki or search with Shien's Smoke Signal, then Special Summon Tactical Trainer or Anarchist Monk from hand off the existing Six Samurai and build a Synchro or Link line; hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre and Infinite Impermanence for the opponent's responses
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre and Infinite Impermanence, about 81% to hold at least one in a six-card hand) strip the opponent's first setup, then rebuild the Six Samurai board from Gateway of the Six and the Extra Deck boss
• Recovery: Searchers (14 text hits) and Mulcharmy draw effects refill the hand; Gateway of the Six and Shien's Smoke Signal re-find Six Samurai monsters; Cunning of the Six Samurai and Asceticism of the Six Samurai reuse graveyard monsters
• After siding: Not defined: the deck runs a 0-card Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan at all

Why it scores here

The deck is illegal in OCG as built: three copies of Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring against a Semi-Limited limit of two, so under the legality rule it is capped at 35 and labelled structural-only. Structurally it reliably opens a Six Samurai starter (0.96 proxy for at least one core card in an opening five) and runs 9 hand traps plus Shien's Smoke Signal and Gateway of the Six for resilience and resource recovery. Its extra-deck bosses (Shi En, TY-PHON, Mediclius) give real closing power, but no recorded combos exist, so floor, median and ceiling are text-only inferences and kept near the middle of the scale. The deck runs zero Side Deck cards and none of its 22 usage-core cards beyond eight, and popularity or archetype label did not earn points: the list carries no exact Secret Six Samurai monsters, and the score was not an average of card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary; Stun weights not blended, hand-trap traits scored under D5 and D7. Structural ≈ 52.9, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-6); no_side_deck (-3); unverified_engine_core (-3). Final formula: Illegal cap: uncapped 0.80*52.9 + 0.20*45 = 51.3, minus modifiers totalling -12 = 39.3, then capped at 35 (theoretical/structural-only; Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.96 · 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

• Hand-summonable Six Samurai starters with strong searcher density (14 searcher-text cards)
• Nine hand traps and six negation-text cards give multi-layer going-second interaction
• Extra Deck bosses reach 2500 to 3000 ATK with Synchro, Link and Xyz routes

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring runs three copies against a limit of two
• No Side Deck at all, so no best-of-three adaptation
• Off-archetype density: 13 off-archetype main copies and 5 non-Six-Samurai Extra cards dilute the engine
• Missing 14 of 22 usage-core cards, including Grandmaster and all Secret Six Samurai monsters

Critical choke points

• Opening hand needs a Six Samurai starter; hand traps are dead without the right opponent action
• Legendary Six Samurai - Shi En and the Extra Deck bosses depend on Synchro material from a limited Tuner set

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is Illegal: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring at 3 copies against a Semi-Limited limit of 2; Main 40, Extra 15, Side 0 within OCG size rules; Extra Deck ATK values for Shi En, TY-PHON and Mediclius, and the 36.4% usage-core presence figure
• Observed: Usage stats show 8 of 22 archetype-core cards present
• Inferred: Opening-hand starter availability (0.96 proxy) and hand-trap hit rates; Interaction, resilience and resource scores from card text; Going-first and going-second estimates
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit, since no dated meta sample or tournament link exists
• Data gaps: No combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN for going-first, going-second, matchup or brick rates Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample Deck title is null and the Side Deck is empty