Secret Six Samurai Deck #773169 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Combo
• 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 synchro and xyz boards (Shi En, Enishi, Kizan, Zanji, Grandmaster) converting through 1800-2500 ATK bodies; Non-engine damage and board control from Raigeki, Trap Hole and Shadow Spell with Six Samurai recursion
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Anarchist Monk or Tactical Trainer from hand, search Shien's Smoke Signal or Reinforcement of the Army, and build into a Synchro or Xyz with the Six Samurai field spells pressing Bushido counters
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler, Divine Wrath) to stop the opponent's first play, then rebuild a Six Samurai board from the Graveyard
• Recovery: Recur Six Samurai monsters from the GY with Gateway of the Six, Return of the Six Samurai, Cunning of the Six Samurai or Legendary Secret of the Six Samurai
• After siding: No side deck exists, so no post-side plan can be evaluated

Why it scores here

The deck is illegal as submitted: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring runs 3 copies against a Semi-Limited limit of 2, so the normal Final Contextual score is capped and this result is theoretical and structural only. Structurally the list reliably reaches its Six Samurai core, with the archetype core group giving about 86% at least one copy in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred), and it carries strong interaction density from six hand traps plus Raigeki, Trap Hole, Shadow Spell and Solemn Judgment. Its ceiling comes from high-ATK synchro and xyz bodies such as Shi En, Kizan and Leo, but no recorded boards exist, so combo floor and median are text-only inferences and stay low. The 57-card main deck dilutes its engine with many single-copy non-archetype staples and 14 Extra Deck cards are split across several unrelated engines, which lowers efficiency. The deck has no side deck, which caps post-side adaptability and best-of-3 reliability. Popularity and archetype usage stats were not used to add points, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, Toolbox secondary, no normalization needed (weights sum to 100). Structural ≈ 55.6, Going First ≈ 56, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Illegal copy-limit violation (-10); No side deck (-2). Final formula: Illegal deck: theoretical only. Unconstrained 0.80*Structural(55.6)+0.20*TournamentReliability(45)=53.5, plus modifiers (-12) = 41.5, capped at 35 for illegal copy-limit violation. Meta provisional and excluded.

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

• Dense Six Samurai starter and searcher package (18 core copies, P(at least one in opening 5) ≈ 0.86)
• Broad interaction across hand traps, spell/trap negation and removal
• High-ATK synchro and xyz finishers with recursion for grind

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy limit on Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring
• No side deck for best-of-3 play
• Many single-copy non-archetype staples dilute the engine
• Extra Deck spread across unrelated engines

Critical choke points

• Ash Blossom copy count must be fixed before the list is playable
• Starter access depends on a few Six Samurai monsters from hand, so losing them to a single hand trap collapses the first turn

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring copy count exceeds Semi-Limited limit (3 vs 2); Main deck size 57 and Extra Deck size 14 are within the OCG size rules; Archetype core group contains 18 copies; No side deck is present
• Inferred: Starter access probability (≈ 0.86 at least one in opening 5); Interaction density across hand traps, negations and removal; Brick and dilution risk from singleton staples; Going-first and going-second estimates
• Provisional: Meta and format fit (D13) with no dated meta sample; Tournament reliability
• Data gaps: No combos supplied, so combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record are absent No win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchup or brick rates Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample No side deck, so post-side adaptability cannot be measured