Mitsurugi Deck #772592 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 14 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 5 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ritual/Fusion/Link/Xyz boss (Ame no Murakumo no Mitsurugi, Ruler of the End of the World, Predaplant, Galaxy-Eyes) after a Reptile ritual or board-wipe line (Inferred from text; no recorded boards); Mitsurugi Ritual / Mitsurugi Mirror recursion into Ame no Habakiri or Futsu no Mitama (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Search a Mitsurugi monster or Ritual Spell with Mitsurugi Prayers, Pre-Preparation of Rites or Mitsurugi no Mikoto, then ritual or fuse toward a boss while holding Ash Blossom and Droll as protection (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Dominus Impulse and Mitsurugi Great Purification to answer the opponent's board, then Ritual Summon through the cleared field (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recycle Mitsurugi monsters and Ritual Spells from the GY with Ragged Records of Rites, Futsu no Mitama and Mitsurugi Ritual (Inferred)
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no Side Deck (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Mitsurugi starter: the archetype core group has about 81% chance of at least one copy in a 5-card opening hand, and 20 searcher-text cards push that toward about 91% (Inferred hypergeometric estimate). Its strongest feature is interaction density, with three Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Dominus Impulse, Mitsurugi Great Purification and Solemn Judgment giving it layered answers to the opponent's turn. Conversion is plausible through Ame no Murakumo no Mitsurugi and the Ritual/Fusion/Link/Xyz bosses, but there are no recorded boards, so the ceiling and median are text-only inferences. The score does not come from Mitsurugi being a popular archetype or from averaging card scores; the list is illegal, which caps it at 35. Over-limit copies of Pre-Preparation of Rites, Mitsurugi Prayers, Ash Blossom, Dominus Impulse and Super Polymerization, plus a missing Side Deck, cost it heavily.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 56.5, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); no side deck (-4); illegal-list cap (0). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 0.80*56.5 + 0.20*48 - 12 = 42.8, then capped at 35 because the list is Illegal (theoretical/structural-only score)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.81 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.19 (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 Mitsurugi archetype core, with about 81% chance of a live opening hand
• Layered interaction: Ash Blossom x3, Droll & Lock Bird, Dominus Impulse, Great Purification, Solemn Judgment
• High-ATK bosses available on the Extra Deck (Ame no Murakumo 3200, Ruler 3000, Predaplant 3000)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: five cards exceed their copy limits in OCG
• No Side Deck at all
• Heavy off-archetype and tech density (17 tech) with narrow dead-in-hand cards
• No recorded combos, so ceiling and median are unverified

Critical choke points

• Reptile monsters are required for Mitsurugi Ritual, Mirror and most boss summons
• Ash Blossom and Droll are the only hand-trap answers to going-second openers

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Five over-limit copies against the OCG ban list; Main 55, Extra 14, Side 0 against size rules; Archetype core P(open) 0.81 and searcher-text P 0.91 from hypergeometric draws; Boss stats for Ame no Murakumo, Ruler, Predaplant and Galaxy-Eyes
• Observed: Archetype usage: Mitsurugi Great Purification, Mitsurugi Mirror and Mitsurugi no Mikoto Kusanagi are core cards in 80%+ of sampled lists
• Inferred: Consistency, interaction density, resilience and going-second estimates from card text; Conversion ceiling and median from text only, since no boards were recorded
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit, since no dated metagame sample or tournament link is supplied
• Data gaps: no combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent no win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchup or brick rates Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied