Mitsurugi Deck #770060 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 58 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ritual Summon Reptile/Mitsurugi ritual monsters (Ame no Murakumo no Mitsurugi, Black Chaos, Black Luster Soldier) and convert them into board pressure through the Mitsurugi and Light and Darkness Ritual engines; the 3-copy Forbidden Ame no Habakiri would be a second top-end ritual, which the format does not allow; Light and Darkness Ritual monsters (Magician of Dark Chaos - Black Chaos, Skull Archfiend of Chaos) recurred through Pre-Preparation and Mind Shuffle, plus a Chaos Angel / Xyz / Link extra-deck layer
• Turn 1 (going first): Opening with Mitsurugi Mirror, Mitsurugi Ritual and Ragged Records of Rites to reach a Reptile ritual; no combo boards are recorded, so this is a structural read only
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the hand-trap suite (Ash Blossom x2, Infinite Impermanence, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx "C", Nibiru) to answer the opponent's first summon, then ritual off the board; no board-breaker sequence is recorded
• Recovery: Recover through Mitsurugi searchers (Mitsurugi no Mikoto Saji/Kusanagi/Aramasa, Mitsurugi Prayers) and graveyard recursion via Light and Darkness Ritual searchers, if the Forbidden cards are removed from the list
• After siding: None: the deck runs an empty Side Deck (0 of 15 allowed), so no post-side plan exists in the evidence

Why it scores here

This list is Illegal: it runs 3 copies of Ame no Habakiri no Mitsurugi and 1 copy of Number 60: Dugares the Timeless, both Forbidden in OCG, so it does not receive a normal Final score and is capped as a structural-only read. Its 58-card Main Deck and 15-card Extra Deck are within the OCG size rules, and the Limited and Semi-Limited cards are run within their copy limits. Structurally, the deck is a Mitsurugi ritual shell with Light and Darkness Ritual support and a dense hand-trap and negation suite, which gives it a plausible going-second interaction layer. Its consistency is weak: only 14 of 58 cards are exact Mitsurugi names (19.2% purity), there are 18 singleton slots, and the Side Deck is empty, so the post-side and matchup reads are Provisional. The score is built from the system (engine access, interaction density, and the recorded absence of any combo boards), not from averaging individual card strengths, and popularity or usage stats did not add points.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary; Toolbox secondary disclosed in the strategy classification, profile weights used unchanged. Structural ≈ 47, Going First ≈ 45, Going Second ≈ 40, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-10); illegal-list cap (-4.6); empty side deck (0). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(47) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(35) = 44.6; banlist exposure modifier -10 → 34.6; Illegal cap applied → 30 (theoretical/structural-only; not a normal Final score)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.76 · 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 hand-trap and negation suite (11 hand-traps, 11 negation-text cards) gives layered interaction
• Strong ritual closing bodies (Murakumo 3200, Black Chaos 3000, Black Luster Soldier 3000)
• Good searcher density (21 searcher-text cards) and a 0.76 chance of an archetype-core card in the opening five
• Compliant Main (58) and Extra (15) sizes and all non-Forbidden copy limits

Weaknesses

• Illegal: 3 copies of Forbidden Ame no Habakiri and 1 copy of Forbidden Number 60
• Low archetype purity (19.2%) across 34 distinct Main Deck names
• Empty Side Deck (0 of 15), so no post-side plan
• Extra Deck spans several unrelated engines (Lswarm, Phantom Knights, Herald, Exosister, Sky Striker, P-Link, Chaos)
• No recorded combo boards, so the ceiling and median are text-only inferences

Critical choke points

• Ritual summon of the Mitsurugi top end depends on the Forbidden Ame no Habakiri and the Mitsurugi Ritual / Mirror line, and removing Habakiri leaves a shallower ritual engine
• Going-second plan depends on hand-trap coverage (≈0.73) with no board-breaker backup recorded

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 58 Main / 15 Extra / 0 Side; Ame no Habakiri x3 and Number 60 x1 are Forbidden (0 legal copies); Limited and Semi-Limited copy counts are within limits (Limited cards run 1 copy; Ash Blossom 2, Dominus Impulse 2, Pot of Extravagance 2); Composition: 19.2% exact-archetype purity; 11 hand-traps; 21 searcher-text cards; 15 Extra Deck cards split 5 Link / 6 Synchro / 4 Xyz; Usage stats: 13 core cards in the archetype list, 9 present in this deck
• Inferred: Ritual engine access (P(≥1 core in 5) ≈ 0.76) and going-second hand-trap coverage (≈ 0.73); Ceiling and median from card text only: no combo boards exist to measure them; Engine coherence across Mitsurugi, Light and Darkness Ritual, Lswarm, Phantom Knights and others
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit: no tournament link or dated metagame sample; Post-side and matchup quality: no Side Deck and no matchup data
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inferences No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick or starter rates) Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample Side Deck is empty, so post-side behaviour cannot be evaluated