X-Saber Deck #771524 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 55/100 (±7 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 59 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro and Link boards built from Six Samurai hand-summons (Shi En, Enishi, Kizan, Crimson Blader, Fonix, Varuroon) converting a board advantage into a 2500+ ATK end board; Radiant Typhoon Quick-Play recursion and Six Samurai GY revival (Cunning, Shien's Dojo) as a second route
• Turn 1 (going first): Search a Six Samurai or Radiant Typhoon starter with Smoke Signal, Swen, Eldam, Anarchist Monk or Tactical Trainer, hand-summon a second Six Samurai, then Synchro or Link for a board and hold hand traps (Ash, Crow, Veiler, Ghost Ogre) for the opponent's first line
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the six-card hand's 76% chance of a hand trap to interrupt the opponent's first board, then rebuild with a Six Samurai Synchro or Link line and Shi En negation on the End Phase
• Recovery: Grandmaster, Fuma and Kizaru recover Six Samurai from the GY, and Dojo or Gateway counters can reload a Level 4 or lower monster when a board is broken
• After siding: No side deck is registered (Side Deck size 0); no post-side plan can be assessed

Why it scores here

The deck opens reliably: about 94% of 5-card openers contain a searcher, and several Six Samurai monsters can be hand-summoned once another Six Samurai is on the field, so the engine goes live on turn 1 to 2 in most hands. Its strength is interaction: 12 hand traps, 3 Mystical Space Typhoon, and Shi En negation together keep the End Phase board contested, which is the main reason it scores well on interruption and end-board quality. Conversion is credible but untested: no combo boards exist in the evidence, so the ceiling and median are text-only inferences and the median is scored lower than the ceiling. The deck has no side deck, two engines that both lean on Mystical Space Typhoon, and no tournament or matchup data, so it is scored without a meta term. Popularity and archetype label played no role; the score reflects the system's consistency, interaction, and conversion, not an average of its card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary with a Toolbox secondary; D13 dropped and the remaining weights renormalised (divide by 95) because no meta sample exists. Structural ≈ 62.6, Going First ≈ 64, Going Second ≈ 69, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 52. Modifiers: No side deck (-3); Radiant Typhoon conditional on MST (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional); 0.80*62.6 + 0.20*52 = 60.5, then modifiers -5 = 55.5, rounded to 55

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.94 · 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

• Searcher density gives about 94% opening-hand access to an engine piece
• 12 hand traps plus 3 MST and negation Synchros give layered interaction for the End Phase
• Two conditional-summon routes per Six Samurai starter (hand-summon and GY revival) provide several independent lines

Weaknesses

• No side deck: no post-side plan and no way to adapt
• Two engines (Six Samurai and Radiant Typhoon) both lean on Mystical Space Typhoon
• Going first, hand traps are often dead without an opposing activation
• Archetype label X-Saber covers only one card; the list is really a Six Samurai and Radiant Typhoon hybrid

Critical choke points

• Mystical Space Typhoon (3 copies) gates Radiant Typhoon summons and recursion
• A single Six Samurai monster in hand is needed for the hand-summon chain of most Synchro lines

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal under OCG BanList: Droll & Lock Bird, Gateway of the Six, Radiant Typhoon Chant, Reinforcement of the Army at 1 copy (Limited); Ash Blossom at 2 (Semi-Limited); Main 59, Extra 15, Side 0 within size rules; Copy histogram 14/12/7 sums to 59; Extra breakdown 9 Synchro, 5 Link, 1 XYZ; Hypergeometric odds recomputed (3-copy 0.237 going first, 0.279 going second)
• Inferred: Consistency and brick estimates from hypergeometric arithmetic and card text; Interaction density from 12 hand traps and negation text; End-board and going-second strength from card text and ATK values
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit (no dated metagame sample); Tournament reliability (no tournament link or win-rate telemetry)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference Usage statistics mark M-X-Saber Invoker as not in this deck (copies_in_deck 0), but the cards list shows 1 copy in the Extra Deck and archetype purity counts it; treated as present, flagged as an inconsistency Deck archetype is X-Saber but only one card is exact X-Saber; the list is primarily Six Samurai and Radiant Typhoon No side deck registered (Side Deck size 0), so post-side performance cannot be assessed No tournament link, guides or win-rate telemetry; Meta Power is provisional