Mitsurugi Deck #772620 — 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 43 / Extra 12 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 5 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ritual and Link board presence via Mitsurugi Ritual or Mitsurugi Mirror into Ame no Murakumo no Mitsurugi or Futsu no Mitama no Mitsurugi, backed by Fiendsmith Fusion/Link pressure; Mitsurugi Tempest banish-8 and Galaxy-Eyes Photon Lord / Chaos Angel as end-board threats
• Turn 1 (going first): Search and bring out a Reptile starter (Mitsurugi Prayers, Mitsurugi no Mikoto searchers), then Ritual Summon Futsu or Ame no Murakumo; keep Ash Blossom and Infinite Impermanence up for the opponent's first interruption (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird and Infinite Impermanence as hand traps against the opponent's first search or summon, then rebuild through Mulcharmy Fuwalos draw and Reptile recursion (Inferred)
• Recovery: Mitsurugi Great Purification or Mitsurugi no Mikoto recursion from GY, Pre-Preparation of Rites and Ragged Records for re-searching the Ritual Spell and monster (Inferred)
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so no post-side plan exists in the evidence; any adaptation would require adding a side deck (Unknown)

Why it scores here

The deck's core is a Mitsurugi Ritual engine: the archetype core group has an estimated 0.88 chance of at least one card in a 5-card opening hand, and searcher text is dense (24 cards, about 0.99 for at least one). Its end-board is strong on paper, with Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Droll & Lock Bird, Mitsurugi Great Purification and Galaxy-Eyes Photon Lord giving layered negation, and its top threats (Ame no Murakumo no Mitsurugi at 3200 ATK, Chaos Angel at 3500 ATK) give closing power. Score is held down because the list is illegal: five cards exceed their OCG copy limits, so the evaluation is theoretical and structural only. Combo evidence is absent (no parseable boards), so ceiling and median are text-based inference, and there is no side deck. Popularity of the Mitsurugi archetype was not credited, and card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 60, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 66, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-6); no Side Deck (-2); illegal_cap (-16). Final formula: Illegal cap applied. Pre-cap: 0.80*Structural(60) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(55) = 59, then modifiers -8 (banlist exposure -6, empty side deck -2) = 51; Illegal status caps the result at 35. Theoretical/structural only. Meta provisional.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.88 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.12 (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 draw text (24 searcher cards) gives high refuel
• Layered negation: Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Droll & Lock Bird, Great Purification, Photon Lord
• High-ATK closers across Ritual, Synchro, Fusion and Link (3200 to 3500 ATK)

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy counts on five cards; list cannot be played as built
• No side deck
• Multi-step Ritual and Fusion lines raise pilot error risk
• Fiendsmith and Mitsurugi engines are only partly coherent (purity 27.3%)

Critical choke points

• Reliance on Mitsurugi Ritual or Mitsurugi Mirror as the ritual enabler
• Limited copies of Pre-Preparation and Fiendsmith Engraver after legal correction would thin the searchers

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck status Illegal: five cards exceed OCG copy limits; Main 43, Extra 12, Side 0 within size rules except empty side deck; Archetype core group P(at least one in hand 5) = 0.877; Searcher text density 24 cards; Exact-name archetype purity 27.3%
• Inferred: Starter reliability and brick estimate from hypergeometric draw odds; Hand trap and negation coverage from card text; Going-second hand trap strength from card text; Ritual Summon ceiling from text read
• Provisional: Meta Power: no dated metagame sample; Matchup fit: no tournament link; Going-first and going-second split: no win-rate telemetry
• Data gaps: no combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry (going-first, going-second, matchup, brick, starter rates) Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample deck title null; side deck empty