Ryzeal Deck #771611 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 54 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 6 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Xyz pressure from Ryzeal Duo Drive and the Ryzeal Xyz line, backed by Ryzeal Detonator and Node Ryzeal follow-up (only Ryzeal Duo Drive is in the Extra Deck list; Detonator is present at 1 copy); Mitsurugi Ritual and Reptile Ritual monsters (Ame no Murakumo no Mitsurugi, Futsu no Mitama no Mitsurugi) for board-clearing and ritual pressure
• Turn 1 (going first): Opening Ryzeal searchers (Sword Ryzeal, Ext Ryzeal, Mitsurugi searchers) into a Xyz, with Ice Ryzeal and Node Ryzeal as extenders; it is not a reliable turn-1 engine because the Limited copy counts are over the line
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Droll and Lock Bird, Evenly Matched, Nibiru) to stop the opponent's first engine, then a Ryzeal Xyz on the following turn
• Recovery: Xyz materials and Ryzeal monsters recycled from the GY (Ryzeal Cross, Ryzeal Duo Drive attach effect); Mitsurugi searchers rebuild the hand
• After siding: Not applicable: the deck runs 0 side cards in a format that allows up to 15

Why it scores here

Scored on the deck as a system, not by averaging its cards. The Ryzeal core is present but only 14.5% of main-deck copies carry the exact Ryzeal name, and 59 of 69 main-deck copies sit outside it (Mitsurugi, Mulcharmy, Forbidden, Hole, Traptrix, Skyblaster, Lswarm, Number and @Ignister). That split weakens engine cohesion and raises brick risk. Hand-trap density is a real strength: 9 hand traps, with Ash Blossom and Ghost Belle giving a 68% chance of at least one going second, which lifts the interaction and going-second scores. The deck has no parseable recorded boards, so ceiling and median are text-based inference only. Popularity did not earn points: the Ryzeal core is in 64% of usage-stat cards, but that only confirms the list is real. The deck is Illegal as built (six over-limit Limited or Semi-Limited cards and no side deck), so the 25 is a capped theoretical reading and not a normal contextual score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary; Toolbox used as the secondary read for the mixed sub-archetype list. Structural ≈ 45, Going First ≈ 42, Going Second ≈ 46, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-6); engine conflicts (-4); illegal_cap (-9). Final formula: Illegal cap applied: 0.80*Structural(45) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(40) = 44, then modifiers -19 gives 25; Meta Power provisional (no dated sample)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.82 · 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

• Strong hand-trap suite (9 cards) with redundant answers to the opponent's first engine
• Broad Extra Deck coverage with Ryzeal Duo Drive, Ryzeal Detonator and interaction Xyz (Number 104, Traptrix Rafflesia, Tornado Dragon)
• Searcher density (24 cards) keeps the opening hand functional when the Ryzeal core is present

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: six cards exceed their Limited or Semi-Limited copy limits
• Low exact-archetype purity (14.5%) produces an incoherent engine
• No side deck, so there is no post-side adjustment
• No recorded combos, so ceiling and median are unverified

Critical choke points

• The Ryzeal core (Sword Ryzeal, Ext Ryzeal, Ice Ryzeal) is restricted to 1 copy each, so the line cannot be run as built
• Ryzeal Detonator is the only Extra Deck answer and it is single-copy

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is Illegal: six over-limit copies (Seventh Tachyon, Pre-Preparation of Rites, Ash Blossom, Mitsurugi Prayers, Ice Ryzeal, Sword Ryzeal); Main 54, Extra 15, Side 0 are within the OCG size rules; Exact-archetype purity is 14.5% (10 of 69 main-deck copies); Extra Deck: 14 Xyz and 1 Link, with Ryzeal Duo Drive at 2 copies; Side deck is empty
• Observed: Core-card inclusion stats show Ext Ryzeal at 93% and Ash Blossom at 64% across the archetype sample
• Inferred: P(at least one Ryzeal core card in 5) ≈ 0.82; P(at least one hand trap in 6 going second) ≈ 0.68; Brick and conflict risk is high because of off-archetype copies; Interaction density is high relative to the number of cards
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit: no dated metagame sample and no tournament link
• Data gaps: No combos supplied; ceiling, median and board-per-starter are text-only inference No tournament link; archetype meta share and pilot match record are absent No win-rate telemetry; going-first and going-second splits are Inferred Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample No guides attached to this archetype