Mitsurugi Deck #771979 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 40/100 (±10 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 57 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ritual Summon Ame no Murakumo no Mitsurugi (3200) or Futsu no Mitama no Mitsurugi (2000/3400) through Mitsurugi Ritual / Mitsurugi Mirror, using Reptile tributes from the Mitsurugi searchers; Black Skull Dragon (3200) via its hand Special Summon, and Light and Darkness Ritual boss monsters (Black Chaos, Black Luster Soldier) when the Light and Darkness sub-engine is live
• Turn 1 (going first): Search a Mitsurugi Reptile with Saji/Aramasa/Kusanagi, convert via Mitsurugi Ritual or Mirror into a ritual boss, and hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle or Effect Veiler for the opponent's first activation
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash, Ghost Belle, Effect Veiler, Nibiru) to break the opponent's first turn, then rebuild the Mitsurugi engine from the GY via Saji/Kusanagi recursion
• Recovery: Mitsurugi monsters and Ragged Records / Pre-Preparation recur from the GY; Mulcharmy draw effects refill the hand when the board is empty
• After siding: Cannot be evaluated: side deck is empty (0 cards), so no post-side plan exists in the evidence

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Mitsurugi engine: 24 searcher-text cards give about 94% odds of at least one searcher in the opening 5, and the archetype core gives about 77% odds of at least one core card. Conversion is plausible through Mitsurugi Ritual and Mirror into 3000+ ATK ritual bosses, though no recorded boards exist, so all ceiling and floor reads are text-only inference. Interaction is layered: 10 hand traps, Lightning Storm, Harpie's Feather Duster, Cosmic Cyclone and Gravedigger's Trap Hole, and the hand-trap group reaches about 70% odds when going second. Score is held down by the illegal list (four cards over their copy limits), the empty side deck, the 57-card main with 16 tech slots and 14 singletons, and the lack of any tournament or win-rate data. Popularity and archetype usage did not earn points, and card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, Toolbox secondary (approximately 80/20 weights applied to the Midrange profile). Structural ≈ 56, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Copy-limit violations (-8); Banlist exposure (-4). Final formula: Structural 56 (Midrange weights) -> 0.80*56 + 0.20*45 = 53.8; modifiers -12 gives 41.8; Illegal-list cap applied, final 40. Theoretical/structural-only: the list is not tournament-legal as submitted. Meta Power is null (Provisional).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.77 · 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 searcher text (24 cards) gives high odds of finding an engine piece
• Layered interaction: hand traps, backrow removal and monster negation
• Several high-ATK ritual and XYZ closers with destruction or negation effects

Weaknesses

• Four cards over their legal copy limits, so the list is Illegal as submitted
• Empty side deck: no post-side plan
• 57-card main with 32 distinct cards and 14 singletons weakens consistency
• No recorded boards, so combo ceiling and floor are unverified

Critical choke points

• Mitsurugi Ritual / Mitsurugi Mirror as the ritual gateway
• Reptile tributes for both ritual summons and Saji/Kusanagi recursion
• Limited-status Mitsurugi Prayers and Pre-Preparation as core searchers

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality status Illegal: four over-limit cards and banlist statuses from evidence; Main 57 / Extra 15 / Side 0 composition and type spread; Card text and stats for listed monsters and spells; Archetype-core inclusion statistics for the Mitsurugi list
• Observed: Searcher, hand-trap and removal text counts from role tags
• Inferred: Opening-hand odds (hypergeometric) for starters, searchers and hand traps; Strategy classification as Midrange with Toolbox secondary; All dimension scores D1 through D14, including the combo-free ceiling and floor reads; Going-first and going-second power estimates
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and D13 matchup/format fit (neutral); Tournament reliability (45, no tournament link)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied (total_combos 0): combo ceiling, median and going-first/second splits are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent No win-rate telemetry: going-first/second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred No side deck (side_count 0): post-side plan cannot be evaluated Usage-statistics inconsistency: S:P Little Knight, I:P Masquerena and Dyna Mondo are listed in the deck's cards array but marked in_this_deck false in usage_statistics, so the core-present count (8 of 12) may be understated Deck title is null Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied