Mitsurugi Deck #772536 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 26/100 (±6 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 8 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ritual-summon Mitsurugi boss monsters (Ame no Murakumo, Futsu no Mitama) and Link-based board pressure; Light and Darkness Ritual boss monsters (Black Chaos, Black Luster Soldier) as a second ritual route
• Turn 1 (going first): Search a Mitsurugi Ritual or Pre-Preparation of Rites, then Ritual Summon a boss from the Mitsurugi Reptile line; the list is illegal, so this plan cannot be assessed as a legal line
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre and Droll & Lock Bird as hand-based interaction, then convert with a Ritual boss; no combo evidence exists to measure this
• Recovery: Reptile recursion through Mitsurugi Prayers and Mitsurugi Mirror (Inferred from card text only)
• After siding: None: the side deck is empty (0 of 15 slots), so no post-side plan exists

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a connected system, not as an average of its cards. Its legality is Illegal: eight Forbidden copies (Ame no Habakiri x3 and seven single-copy Extra Deck and Main Deck cards) are over the OCG copy limit, so this is a theoretical, structural-only read and does not earn a normal final score. Its starter access is moderate: the searcher group gives about 89% chance of at least one searcher in an opening 5-card hand, but only 11 archetype core copies give about 65% chance of at least one core card, and 9 hand traps give about 64% chance of at least one going second. Combo evidence is absent (0 boards), so the ceiling and floor are text-only inferences. The deck has a sizeable interaction suite (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Solemn Judgment, Dimensional Barrier, Maxx C) that supports the endboard, but the empty side deck and the forbidden Extra Deck links cap resilience and post-side adaptability. Archetype popularity (Mitsurugi core at 87% and 82% inclusion) confirms the list is real, but it does not raise the score. The score is 26 because the illegal list is capped low and the banlist exposure and engine conflicts are applied as modifiers.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 40, Going First ≈ 38, Going Second ≈ 36, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 30. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); engine conflicts (-4). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); illegal-list modifiers applied after

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.89 · 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 (21 cards) gives about 89% chance of a searcher in opening 5
• Strong Ritual boss monsters with ATKs of 2400 to 3200
• Hand-trap and negation suite (9 hand traps, 12 negation-text cards)
• Core cards are real and played at archetype-standard rates (Mitsurugi Great Purification 87%, Mirror 82%)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: eight Forbidden copies over the limit
• Empty side deck (0 of 15), so no post-side plan
• Low exact-archetype purity (16%): many off-archetype cards dilute the engine
• No combo or tournament data to confirm the ceiling or floor
• Five Extra Deck cards are Forbidden, so most of the Link and Fusion Extra Deck is unusable

Critical choke points

• Legal copy count: any fix must remove all Forbidden cards before the deck can be scored normally
• Mitsurugi Ritual and Mitsurugi Prayers as the only Reptile-ritual enablers
• Only 11 archetype core copies; a miss on core cards leaves the Reptile line dead

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Eight Forbidden copies over the OCG limit (legality); Main 60 and Extra 15 at legal maximums; Side deck empty (0 of 15); Archetype core inclusion 87% and 82% for Mitsurugi Great Purification and Mirror (usage stats)
• Inferred: Searcher hit rate ≈ 0.89 and core hit rate ≈ 0.65 in hand 5 (hypergeometric); Hand-trap hit rate ≈ 0.64 in hand 6; Interaction suite strength from card text; Engine continuity after disruption from card text
• Provisional: Meta power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit (no tournament data)
• Data gaps: Deck is Illegal: eight Forbidden copies; scored structurally only No combos supplied: combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN; matchup and going-first/second figures are Inferred Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Side deck is empty, so post-side adaptability cannot be assessed