Secret Six Samurai Deck #772589 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 55/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 54 / Extra 12 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Six Samurai field engine (Bushido counter cards and Hand-summon chains) feeding Extra Deck synchro, XYZ and link closers such as Shi En, Lord Shi En, Crimson Blader and Battle Shogun; Six Strike - Triple Impact as a conditional mass-removal board breaker once 3 Six Samurai are face-up
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon Legendary Six Samurai - Kageki, use its Special Summon of a Level 4 or lower Six Samurai from hand (Kizan, Trainer, Anarchist Monk), and search a Level 3 or lower Six Samurai with Shien's Smoke Signal to keep the field growing
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom or Ghost Belle for the opponent's first activation or Summon, then use Six Samurai hand Special Summons and Solemn Judgment or Musakani Magatama as interaction on the opponent's board
• Recovery: Recur Six Samurai from the Graveyard with Warrior Returning Alive, Grandmaster of the Six Samurai, Monster Reborn or Pinpoint Guard, then re-enter Extra Deck synchros
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck opens a Six Samurai engine reliably: the archetype core group of 16 copies has an estimated 0.84 chance of at least one copy in an opening 5-card hand, and Kageki, Kizan, Anarchist Monk and Trainer all have hand-Summon conditions that keep the first turns live. Conversion is credited from the card text and the structural evidence only, because there are no recorded boards: Triple Impact, the Bushido counter cards and the Extra Deck synchro closers give a plausible ceiling, but the median is scored conservatively. Interaction is layered across Solemn Judgment, Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Musakani Magatama, Pinpoint Guard and Shi En negation, which lifts the endboard score. The score is not driven by the popularity of the archetype, which only confirms the list is real, and card scores were not averaged; the deck is judged as a system. The deck has no side deck, so its post-side adaptation is scored at the floor, and matchup and meta fit are provisional without a dated sample.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 60, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: no_side_deck (-2); engine_compactness (-1); banlist_exposure (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); Structural 60.5, TR 55, modifiers -4 -> 55

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.84 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.16 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Hand-Summon starters across multiple names keep the engine live from hand
• Layered interaction: four negates, Shi En negation, and a mass-removal card
• Extra Deck covers synchro, XYZ and link closers with high ATK
• Legal list with Limited and Semi-Limited cards within their copy limits

Weaknesses

• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation
• 54-card main with several conditional or off-engine spells
• Two hand traps only, weak going-second interaction
• Shinai and Mizuho require each other on the field for the hand Special Summon

Critical choke points

• Shinai and Mizuho mutual Special Summon condition
• Six Strike - Triple Impact needs 3 face-up Six Samurai
• Solemn Judgment, Monster Reborn and Gateway of the Six are Limited (1 copy each)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status: 54 Main, 12 Extra, 0 Side, all copy limits respected; Card stats and text for all listed cards; Banlist: Solemn, Monster Reborn and Gateway Limited at 1; Ash Semi-Limited at 1 of 2
• Observed: Usage statistics: 9 of 17 core cards present (52.9%)
• Inferred: Starter probability 0.84 and brick proxy 0.16; Engine conversion and median output from card text; Interaction and pressure ratings from text
• Provisional: Meta power null; Matchup and format fit (D13) scored neutral with no dated meta sample
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta share and pilot match record absent No win-rate telemetry: going-first, going-second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred Usage stats conflict with the card list: 42209438 (Lord Kizan), 34235530 (Lord Shi En) and 29981921 (Shi En) are in the Extra Deck but usage marks in_this_deck false; the core count is unreliable Deck title is null; no guides attached Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample