Mitsurugi Deck #772986 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 40/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Ritual / Link / XYZ mechanic tags
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 41 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ritual or Link-summoned Mitsurugi / End of the World boss monsters (Ame no Murakumo no Mitsurugi 3200 ATK with a destroy-all effect, Ruler of the End of the World 3000 ATK) and XYZ/Link beaters; Galaxy-Eyes Photon Lord and Light Dragon @Ignister board control and removal from the Extra Deck
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a searcher (Mitsurugi monsters, Lamia, Mitsurugi Ritual route) to reach a Ritual Spell and tribute-based summon; keep Ash Blossom and Infinite Impermanence for the opponent's first activation. Going first, the hand traps are dead if no opposing activation occurs.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the six-card hand's hand traps (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Infinite Impermanence) to interrupt the opponent's starter, then rebuild through the Mitsurugi searcher chain into a Ritual boss
• Recovery: Recover through Mitsurugi searchers and Ritual Spells returning from the GY and banish zones (Mitsurugi Mirror, Mitsurugi Ritual, Pre-Preparation of Rites, Mitsurugi Sacred Boundary)
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has zero side-deck cards, so there is no post-side plan in the evidence.

Why it scores here

This list is illegal as built: three cards exceed their OCG copy limits (Pre-Preparation of Rites and Mitsurugi Prayers at 3 copies against 1 legal, Ash Blossom at 3 against 2), so the score is a theoretical, structural-only read and is capped at 40. Structurally the deck reliably opens an engine, since the searcher text group is present in about 98% of opening 5-card hands and the archetype core in about 81%. It converts that into Ritual and Link boss pressure (Ame no Murakumo, Ruler of the End of the World) and carries strong interaction density (7 hand traps and about 12 negation-text cards). The score does not rest on popularity: the 70.8% and 67.4% usage figures only confirm the core cards are real and accessible. No recorded boards exist, so combo floor and ceiling are text-only inference, and the zero-card side deck limits the post-side and Tournament Reliability reads.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange weights used as the primary profile; no secondary blend applied to the weighting. Structural ≈ 61.5, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 64, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-8); Weak post-side plan (-4). Final formula: Structural 61.5 -> Final = 0.80*61.5 + 0.20*50 = 59.2, plus modifiers -12 = 47.2, then capped at 40 because the list is Illegal (theoretical/structural-only). Meta Power provisional/null.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.98 · 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

• Searcher density (21 searcher-text cards): at least one searcher in about 98% of opening 5-card hands
• Ritual and Link boss threats: Ame no Murakumo 3200 ATK with a destroy-all effect; Ruler 3000 ATK
• Layered negation and removal: 7 hand traps and about 12 negation-text cards
• Redundant Mitsurugi searcher lines (Aramasa, Kusanagi, Saji, Lamia, Wousu) for interruption resilience

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: three cards over their copy limits
• Zero side deck, so no best-of-3 adaptation
• Low exact-name archetype purity (32.1%) with 38 off-archetype copies
• Extra Deck spread across many unrelated Link and XYZ monsters, weakening engine cohesion
• Hand traps are dead going first without an opposing activation

Critical choke points

• Ritual enablers (Mitsurugi Ritual, Mitsurugi Mirror, Pre-Preparation of Rites): after the copy-limit fix, one copy each reduces ritual access
• Mitsurugi Prayers and Pre-Preparation: both need reducing to one legal copy, which removes search redundancy (Inferred)
• Reptile tribute resources on the field or in hand for the Ritual summons

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Pre-Preparation of Rites 3 vs 1 legal, Ash Blossom 3 vs 2 legal, Mitsurugi Prayers 3 vs 1 legal; Main 41 and Extra 15 are within OCG size rules; side 0; Side deck is empty; usage_statistics core inclusion for Mitsurugi Great Purification (87.6%), Mitsurugi Mirror (83.1%), Mitsurugi no Mikoto Kusanagi (82.0%)
• Observed: probabilities: searcher-text group P>=1 in hand5 = 0.979; archetype core group P>=1 in hand5 = 0.810 (hypergeometric, computed from the list)
• Inferred: Primary strategy Midrange with a Toolbox secondary, from searcher density, interaction density and Ritual/Link boss threats; Engine accessibility and brick rate read from searcher and hand-trap density; Interaction and board-breaking quality from card text roles; Ritual boss closing power from printed ATK/DEF and effect text
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); D13 matchup and format fit (no tournament data); Tournament Reliability, which depends on the side deck and matchup variance
• Data gaps: Illegal list: copy-limit violations prevent a normal Final Contextual score No combos supplied, so combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No side deck, so post-side and D12 scoring are unmeasurable No tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry for this deck Data inconsistency: usage_statistics marks S:P Little Knight, I:P Masquerena, Dyna Mondo and Cyberse Contract Witch as not in deck (in_this_deck false, copies 0), but the cards array lists each as an extra-zone card with 1 copy; the usage matcher appears to ignore the Extra Deck, so core_present_pct 53.8 is understated (about 11 of 13 by the card list) Deck title is null Meta Power provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied