Secret Six Samurai Deck #773168 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 31/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 57 / Extra 14 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Six Samurai board of Level 4 and Level 3 monsters converted into Synchro, Xyz and Link beats (Shadow of the Six Samurai - Shien, Legendary Lord Six Samurai - Shi En, Angel of Zera, Arcana Extra Joker); Secret Six Samurai Fusion Rihan and Hatsume recursion, with Six Strike and Double-Edged Sword Technique as burst
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Six Samurai starter (Anarchist Monk or Tactical Trainer special summons from hand with another Six Samurai), search a Six Samurai with Shien's Smoke Signal or Legendary Secret, then extend into a Synchro or Xyz
• Turn 2 (going second): Play Ash Blossom or Effect Veiler to protect the first starter, then rebuild the board through Secret Six Samurai Kizaru and Hatsume recursion while Solemn Judgment and Dark Bribe answer key interaction
• Recovery: Ash Blossom and Effect Veiler from hand, Shien's Dojo and Six Samurai United counters, and GY-based special summons via Hatsume and Cunning of the Six Samurai
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck list has zero side-deck cards, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a structural system only, because the list is illegal: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring is run 3 copies against an OCG limit of 2, and that caps the final score. Engine access is reasonable: 18 archetype-core copies give an estimated 86% chance of at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred), so the deck usually has a starter, but 58 Six Samurai-family monsters and spells are only 8.5% exact-name purity, so the engine is spread across sub-archetypes. There is no recorded combo data, so the ceiling and median are text-only inference and are scored conservatively. Interaction is dense (Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler, Solemn Judgment, Dark Bribe, Divine Wrath, Trap Hole) and gives the deck a real mid-game answer suite, but it is not treated as board-breaking. Popularity and archetype usage did not earn points: the usage data only confirms the core list is standard, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score. The Final Score uses 0.80 x Structural + 0.20 x Tournament Reliability with Meta Power provisional, minus the illegality penalty.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, Toolbox secondary (approx. 4:1 without the Toolbox weight shift, not reweighted). Structural ≈ 44, Going First ≈ 45, Going Second ≈ 42, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: illegal copy-limit violation (-12). Final formula: 0.80*Structural(44) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(40) + ContextModifiers(-12) = ~31; Meta Power provisional, no dated metagame sample; theoretical/structural-only because the list is Illegal

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.86 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.14 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Consistent core: 18 archetype-core copies give about 86% at least one in opening 5-card hand
• Layered interaction suite: negation and removal text across hand traps, spells and traps
• Extra Deck covers Synchro, Xyz, Link and Fusion without dead Extra slots

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring over the OCG copy limit
• Low exact-name archetype purity (8.5%), so the engine is spread across sub-archetypes
• No side deck: zero post-side plan and no adaptability
• No recorded combo or win-rate data to validate conversion

Critical choke points

• Ash Blossom copy count must drop to 2 before the list can be considered legal
• Starter access depends on Six Samurai special summons from hand, which conflict with the Normal Summon and Synchro sequencing

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 57, Extra 14, Side 0 against OCG size rules; Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring 3 copies vs legal 2 (violation); Archetype core copies 18 and purity 8.5%; Extra Deck breakdown: 8 Synchro, 3 Link, 2 Xyz, 1 Fusion
• Inferred: Starter probability and brick estimate from hypergeometric draw table; Interaction density from card-text read (Ash Blossom, Solemn Judgment, Dark Bribe, Divine Wrath); Going-first and going-second estimates from text and probability only
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament link)
• 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 and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Side deck is empty: no post-side evidence