Mitsurugi Deck #772570 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 28/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 50 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 5 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ritual or Synchro boss (Black Chaos, Magician of Dark Chaos - Black Chaos, Black Luster Soldier, Ame no Murakumo no Mitsurugi, Psychic End Punisher) carried by a Mitsurugi Reptile-ritual engine; Link and Synchro extension pressure (Chaos Angel, Golden Cloud Beast - Malong, Enigmaster Packbit, A Bao A Qu)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with a Mitsurugi or Light and Darkness Ritual searcher (Mitsurugi no Mikoto series, Mitsurugi Ritual, Light and Darkness Ritual, Mind Shuffle), then convert into a Ritual boss; as written, the deck cannot run this line legally
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring, Dominus Impulse and Maxx "C" as hand interaction through the Ritual setup; the legal core of this plan is the interaction, not the Forbidden Ame no Habakiri
• Recovery: Recover through Mitsurugi Ritual and Light and Darkness Ritual recursion from the GY and Mitsurugi searchers, with Mulcharmy Fuwalos draw-off as a card-economy reset
• After siding: None. The Side Deck is empty, so the deck has no adaptation plan for best-of-three play

Why it scores here

The deck is Illegal in the OCG format: it runs 6 copies of Forbidden cards (3 Ame no Habakiri no Mitsurugi, plus King of the Feral Imps, Cross-Sheep and Number 60), and it has an empty Side Deck. Under the rubric, an Illegal deck is capped and scored as a theoretical, structural-only read, so the score of 28 is a cap-driven figure and not a normal Final Contextual score. The structure itself is coherent: the Mitsurugi Reptile searchers, Mitsurugi Ritual and Light and Darkness Ritual form a real ritual engine into strong bosses, and the Ash Blossom, Dominus Impulse and Maxx "C" package gives it legal interaction. Its consistency is moderate, since the archetype core covers about 82% of opening hands (Inferred) but the engine has no recorded boards to test conversion. The score was built on the system (engine cohesion, interaction, resilience and cost) and not by averaging card scores, and popularity (archetype usage) did not add points. Meta Power is null because no dated metagame sample was supplied.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox 80 / Midrange 20. Structural ≈ 50, Going First ≈ 40, Going Second ≈ 46, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 32. Modifiers: illegal_cap (-18); empty_side_deck (-4). Final formula: Illegal cap: theoretical structural-only read. Structural 50 with an illegal-deck cap applied; 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) gives 0.80*50 + 0.20*32 = 46, then capped to 28 for Forbidden cards and an empty Side Deck

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.96 · 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 (23 cards) gives a high chance of finding a starter (Inferred)
• Layered legal interaction: 2 Ash Blossom, 2 Dominus Impulse, Maxx "C", Herald of the Arc Light and Mitsurugi Great Purification
• Ritual boss package (Black Chaos, Black Luster Soldier, Ame no Murakumo) gives strong closing stats

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: 6 copies of Forbidden cards must be removed before the list can be played
• Empty Side Deck, so best-of-three play has no adaptation
• No recorded boards or win-rate data, so the combo ceiling and floor are not measured
• Ritual and Synchro bricks in opening hands likely reduce consistency (Inferred)

Critical choke points

• Mitsurugi Ritual and Light and Darkness Ritual, the only ritual enablers, are single-point access once the Forbidden Ame no Habakiri line is removed
• The Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse negation package is the main defense against going-second disruption

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: 6 Forbidden copies run (Ame no Habakiri x3, King of the Feral Imps, Cross-Sheep, Number 60); Main 50 cards and Extra 15 cards are within the OCG size rules; Side is 0 cards; Limited and Semi-Limited copy counts are legal (1 copy each for the Limited cards, 2 copies each for Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse); Card text for Ash Blossom, Dominus Impulse, Maxx "C", Black Chaos, Black Luster Soldier and Ame no Murakumo
• Observed: Archetype core inclusion: Mitsurugi Great Purification 87.6%, Mitsurugi Mirror 83.1%, Mitsurugi no Mikoto, Kusanagi 82.0%; 8 of 13 core cards present (61.5%)
• Inferred: Starter access about 0.96 for searcher text and about 0.82 for archetype core in hand 5; Consistency and brick estimates from the hypergeometric model and composition; Interaction density and going-second value from negation and removal text
• Provisional: Meta Power (null: no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament link or meta-share)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN (going-first/second, matchup, game-level, brick/starter/OTK rates) — those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Side Deck is empty, so post-side performance cannot be assessed No card-pool list for legal replacements, so recommendation 1 names the pool without listing cards