Ryzeal Deck #773597 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 55/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Combo, Toolbox
• Format: master-duel

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ritual-summoned Ame no Murakumo no Mitsurugi (3200 ATK, destroys opposing monsters on Special Summon) or Ryzeal Duo Drive / Ryzeal Detonator boards (Inferred from card text; no recorded boards); Ame no Habakiri no Mitsurugi (2400 ATK, -800 ATK to opposing monsters) and Futsu no Mitama no Mitsurugi recursion; Ryzeal Xyz pressure
• Turn 1 (going first): Pre-Preparation of Rites or Mitsurugi Ritual to find a Ritual monster, or Ice Ryzeal / Sword Ryzeal starter by sending a card to the GY, then Xyz or Ritual into a 2400-3200 ATK body (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird and Maxx C (6 hand traps across 40 cards, P(>=1 in 6) = 0.65) to slow the opponent's first board, then Ritual or Xyz through the gap (Inferred)
• Recovery: Futsu no Mitama no Mitsurugi revives Reptile monsters from the GY, Mitsurugi Mirror and Mitsurugi Ritual re-summon from GY, and Ryzeal Duo Drive re-attaches Ryzeal monsters from the GY as materials (Inferred)
• After siding: None: Master Duel is a single-game format and the deck runs 0 side cards, so there is no post-side plan to score

Why it scores here

The deck is a two-engine midrange system: a Ritual chain (Pre-Preparation of Rites, Mitsurugi Ritual, Mitsurugi Mirror, five Ritual monsters) and a Ryzeal Xyz/hand-start package, with a 6-card hand-trap suite and a Murakumo board wipe as the closing interaction. Starter access is strong on paper (P(>=1 searcher in 5 cards) = 0.95; P(>=1 Ice Ryzeal in 5) = 0.34), but starter density is spread across two archetypes, so the score is held back by consistency and conflicts. Going second is decent because six hand traps and the Mitsurugi/Ryzeal boss bodies convert gaps into board control, but no recorded boards exist to confirm this. Popularity and archetype usage stats were used only to confirm the core list is real, not to add power, and no card scores were averaged into the deck score. Master Duel's single-game format means the empty side deck is legal but gives no post-side adaptability.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 62.4, Going First ≈ 64, Going Second ≈ 66, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-2); Single choke point (-2); Engine conflict (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional/null): 0.80*62.4 + 0.20*55 - 6 = 54.9, rounded to 55

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.34 · 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

• Legal, full 40/15 list with copy limits met
• Dense searcher text (17 cards) with 95% chance of at least one searcher in an opening 5
• Six hand traps for going second
• Two high-ATK Ritual bosses and Ryzeal Xyz close games
• Ryzeal Detonator and Murakumo give end-board interaction

Weaknesses

• Two engines compete for resources
• Triple Tactics and Super Polymerization are conditional
• No side deck and no recorded combos to validate the lines
• Low extra-deck coherence beyond the two Ryzeal Xyz

Critical choke points

• Mitsurugi Ritual (3 copies) and Pre-Preparation gate all Ritual lines
• Ice Ryzeal (3 copies) is the main Ryzeal starter; P(>=1 in 5) = 0.34

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in master-duel (BanMasterDuel), 40 main / 15 extra / 0 side; Copy limits met for all Limited and Semi-Limited cards; Card text for all 40 main and 15 extra cards; Archetype usage stats available (core 17/25 present)
• Observed: Exact-name Ryzeal purity 14.5% (8/55 archetype-related copies)
• Inferred: Starter, searcher and hand-trap probabilities (hypergeometric, verified inputs); Going-first and going-second plans from card text; Engine conflict and choke-point modifiers; Interaction and closing-power reads from text
• Provisional: Meta power (null) and matchup fit (D13); Combo floor and median (D4)
• 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 win-rate telemetry: going-first/second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or unknown Meta power is provisional without a dated metagame sample Evidence conflict: usage_statistics marks King of the Feral Imps, Number 104, Number 60, Vallon, Eclipse Twins, Ryzeal Duo Drive, Ryzeal Detonator and Mereologic Aggregator as in_this_deck=false, but the cards array lists them in the Extra Deck with copies=1; scored from the cards array Guide evidence is a single one-line snippet with no sections Master Duel has no side deck in play, so D12 is structurally weak by design