Mitsurugi Deck #771557 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 22/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 5 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Mitsurugi Ritual / Mitsurugi Ritual Monster boards (Ame no Murakumo, Futsu no Mitama) backed by Extra Deck beaters (Super Starslayer TY-PHON, Dark Armed, Underworld Goddess); Kashtira Shangri-Ira and Kashtira Unicorn/Fenrir boards, which are largely unavailable under the current OCG list
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a searcher (Mitsurugi no Mikoto or Kusanagi) into Mitsurugi Ritual or Mitsurugi Prayers, then ritual or fusion into a board and keep Solemn/Ash-style interaction up
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, D.D. Crow, Droll & Lock Bird, Infinite Impermanence) to break the opponent's first combo, then ritual into a board
• Recovery: Mitsurugi searchers and Ragged Records / Pre-Preparation of Rites recover card advantage from the GY, with Mitsurugi Magatama and Mitsurugi Mirror as ritual enablers
• After siding: Not supported: the deck runs no Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

This list cannot receive a normal score because it breaks OCG copy limits on five cards and runs Kashtira Fenrir, which is Forbidden, so the result is a structural-only read capped at 22. Structurally the deck reliably finds a searcher (P(at least one searcher in a 5-card opening) ≈ 0.86, Inferred) and has strong interaction density, with 17 hand traps and 13 negation-text cards, which is the main source of its score. The deck is held back by a split engine (Mitsurugi ritual plus Kashtira fusion/xyz shells), an archetype-core brick rate of roughly 35% in a 5-card hand (Inferred), and the absence of any side deck. No combo boards or matchup data were supplied, so the combo floor and ceiling are text-only inference and carry low weight. Popularity and archetype share earned no points, and the score was not produced by averaging the individual card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 51, Going First ≈ 45, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 38. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); engine conflict (-4); illegal_deck_cap (-14). Final formula: Pre-cap: 0.80*51 + 0.20*38 = 48.3, then modifiers -12 (banlist exposure -8, engine conflict -4) = 36.3; illegal-deck cap applied, final 22. Meta provisional. Structural-only read.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.86 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.35 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense interaction: 17 hand traps and 13 negation-text cards give strong end-board and going-second answers
• Searcher density (19 cards) gives a high chance of a live starter
• Extra Deck covers Xyz, Fusion and Link with strong ATK beaters

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: five copy-limit violations, including a Forbidden card run at three copies
• Split engine between Mitsurugi ritual and Kashtira shells, which conflict in hand and in the Extra Deck
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptability
• No recorded combo boards, so ceiling and median output cannot be verified

Critical choke points

• Mitsurugi Ritual and its ritual monsters, which most lines depend on
• Forbidden Kashtira Fenrir: the Kashtira searcher/summon chain loses its starter under the current list

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: five copy-limit violations and one Forbidden card (legality block); Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0, all within OCG size rules; Attributes, levels, ATK/DEF and archetype tags as listed in the card evidence; Archetype core inclusion and usage stats (usage statistics)
• Inferred: Consistency: P(≥1 searcher in hand5) ≈ 0.86 and archetype-core brick ≈ 0.35; Hand-trap interaction quality from text and role tags; Going-second strength from the hand-trap group; Split-engine conflict between Mitsurugi and Kashtira
• Provisional: Meta power and format fit (no dated meta sample); Matchup coverage
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchup, brick or OTK rates Meta Power is Provisional; no dated metagame sample supplied Deck title is null in the export