Mitsurugi Deck #771888 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 34/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ritual/Link pressure: Ame no Murakumo no Mitsurugi (3200 ATK) and Sky Striker Ace link monsters converting a board into an attack and a board-wipe effect.; Fusion and Xyz follow-ups (Predaplant Dragostapelia, Evilswarm Exciton Knight) if the Sky Striker or Mitsurugi line stalls.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a searcher (Mitsurugi no Mikoto, Saji, Radiant Typhoon Vision, Sky Striker Mobilize - Engage!) and search a Sky Striker Ace or Mitsurugi Ritual route into a Link Summon.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre and Droll as hand traps, then Raigeki, Lightning Storm or Murakumo to clear the opposing board.
• Recovery: Recycle Sky Striker spells from the GY through Ace Shizuku and Mitsurugi Prayers; the recursion depends on the GY spell count.
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered, so no post-side plan can be evaluated.

Why it scores here

The deck is illegal in OCG: three cards exceed their copy limits (Pre-Preparation of Rites, Super Polymerization and Mitsurugi Prayers), so the score is capped and the evaluation is structural only. The main deck is a three-engine mix (Sky Striker, Mitsurugi, Mulcharmy) with only 12.9% exact-name archetype purity, which hurts engine cohesion and the opening-hand plan. Searchers are plentiful (P(at least one searcher in a 5-card hand) is about 0.86, Inferred), but the core engine is only about 0.69 likely in hand and roughly 31% of hands are proxy bricks. Interaction is the strongest part of the list (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Droll, Murakumo, Lightning Storm, Raigeki). There is no side deck and no combo or tournament data, so the floor, median and ceiling are text-based inferences. Archetype popularity was not credited, and card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo primary, Midrange secondary (approx. 80/20 by weight). Structural ≈ 49, Going First ≈ 46, Going Second ≈ 44, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: Illegal copy-limit violations (-12). Final formula: 0.80*Structural(49) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(35) = 46.2; illegal-deck cap applied via modifier to 34 (structural-only). Meta provisional.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.69 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.31 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense searcher and hand-trap suite with broad interaction (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Droll, Great Purification)
• High-impact closers: Ame no Murakumo no Mitsurugi, Radian, Predaplant Dragostapelia
• Good board wipes for going second: Raigeki, Lightning Storm, Murakumo

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: three cards exceed copy limits
• Three competing engines (Sky Striker, Mitsurugi, Mulcharmy) with 12.9% exact-name archetype purity
• No side deck, so no post-side plan
• No combo, tournament or win-rate data

Critical choke points

• Ritual Spell plus Ritual monster pairing (Mitsurugi Ritual or Mirror plus Murakumo or Futsu) for the Mitsurugi line
• Sky Striker Ace monster in hand or GY for Link Summons
• Spell count in GY for Sky Striker recursion

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main deck size 55 and Extra Deck 15 are within OCG size rules; Three copy-limit violations: Pre-Preparation of Rites, Super Polymerization, Mitsurugi Prayers; Card stats and text (Murakumo 3200 ATK, Radian 2800 ATK, Predaplant 2700 ATK, etc.); Archetype purity 12.9% and spread across Sky Striker, Mitsurugi, Mulcharmy
• Inferred: Searcher probability about 0.86 in a 5-card hand; Core engine live probability about 0.69 in a 5-card hand, with proxy brick rate about 31%; Combo ceiling and interaction quality from text, not from boards; Going-first and going-second estimates
• Provisional: Meta position and format fit (d13), with no dated metagame sample
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent No win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchup or brick/starter/OTK rates Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample No Side Deck registered (Side Deck size 0)