Mitsurugi Deck #773556 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 61/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Stun
• Format: master-duel

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ritual Summon Ame no Murakumo no Mitsurugi (3200 ATK, destroys the opponent's monsters on Special Summon) or Xyz Summon a Rank 4/8 boss such as Ryzeal Detonator, Futsu no Mitama no Mitsurugi or Divine Golden Shadow Dragon Dragluxion; Ryzeal Duo Drive and Super Starslayer TY-PHON as extra-deck closers once material is stacked
• Turn 1 (going first): Pre-Preparation of Rites or Mitsurugi Prayers or Bonfire to fetch a Ritual Spell or Reptile, Mitsurugi Ritual into a Reptile ritual boss, with Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C and Nibiru held as hand traps for the opponent's first summon or search
• Turn 2 (going second): Open with Ash Blossom or Droll & Lock Bird in hand to slow the opponent's draw and first summon, then Xyz into a Rank 4 (Ice Ryzeal, Node Ryzeal, Star Ryzeal chains) and ritual-summon a Reptile boss through Mitsurugi Mirror or Mitsurugi Ritual
• Recovery: Mitsurugi no Mikoto (Saji, Aramasa, Kusanagi) and Futsu no Mitama recycle Mitsurugi monsters from GY/banish, Gallant Granite and King of the Feral Imps add Rock or Reptile monsters back to hand; Mitsurugi Great Purification can ritual-revive a Reptile from GY
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan; the list cannot change its answers to the opponent's disruption between games

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a functional plan: 17 searcher-text cards put at least one searcher in a 5-card opening hand about 95% of the time (Inferred, hypergeometric), and the Pre-Preparation, Mitsurugi Ritual and Mitsurugi Mirror searchers feed the Reptile ritual engine directly. It converts that plan into pressure through the ritual bosses (Murakumo at 3200 ATK, Futsu at 2000 ATK with 3400 DEF) and an Xyz line into 2500 to 3000 ATK monsters, and it has seven hand-trap or negation-text cards (Ash Blossom, Droll, Maxx C, Nibiru) to survive the opponent's first summon. The score comes from consistency, interaction density and resource recovery on the system, not from averaging the individual card scores and not from Mitsurugi being a popular archetype; archetype usage stats confirm the list is real but earn no points on their own. Structural power is held down by the absence of recorded boards (no combo floor or median can be measured), a three-way engine tension between the Xyz-gated Ryzeal monsters, the Reptile tribute engine and five off-engine Mulcharmy copies, and a zero-card side deck that leaves no post-side plan.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary; Stun secondary used only for the hand-trap context; D13 excluded and weights renormalized to 95 (meta-neutral). Structural ≈ 66, Going First ≈ 67, Going Second ≈ 64, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 60. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-2); engine conflict (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional, D13 excluded from structural): 0.80*66.1 + 0.20*60 - 4 ≈ 61

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.95 · 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

• 17 searcher-text cards give near-certain access to a starter in the opening hand
• Mitsurugi regrowth and Gallant Granite recycle keep resources flowing after disruption
• Seven hand traps and negation-text cards cover the first summon and a second wave of effects
• Ritual and Xyz boss options at Rank 4 and 8 reach 2500 to 3200 ATK boards

Weaknesses

• No side deck, so no answer to a format shift or repeated hand-trap disruption
• Three engines (Ryzeal, Mitsurugi Reptile tributes, Mulcharmy) compete for the same board space
• Five Limited cards at one copy each; banlist moves hit the core directly
• No recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and median are unverified

Critical choke points

• Reptile tributes for Mitsurugi Ritual and Mirror require Reptile monsters on board; a board wipe or Droll-style lock stalls the ritual route
• Ryzeal Xyz monsters need a Rank 4 monster on board before the Xyz chain can start
• Droll & Lock Bird on the opponent's search turns can lock the Mitsurugi searchers out of the draw

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status: 40 main, 15 extra, 0 side within master-duel size rules; Five Limited cards and two Semi-Limited cards, all within legal copy counts; Exact-name Mitsurugi purity 23.6%; Ryzeal, Mulcharmy and Lswarm spread present; Usage stats: core present 14 of 21 (66.7%)
• Inferred: P(at least one searcher in hand) ≈ 0.95; Engine conflict between Ryzeal Xyz gating, the Reptile tribute engine and Mulcharmy; Going-first and going-second estimates from text and probability
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated meta sample); D13 matchup and format fit (excluded from structural weight)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no side deck registered (0 of 15 side slots filled) no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN (going-first/second, matchup, game-level, brick/starter/OTK rates) — those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied