Mitsurugi Deck #773682 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox
• Format: tcg

Legality

Main 45 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 7 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ritual or Fusion boss monsters (Ruler of the End of the World, Ame no Murakumo no Mitsurugi, Fiendsmith's Desirae) backed by a Reptile ritual engine; Link and Fusion follow-up (Fiendsmith's Lacrima, Dyna Mondo, Garura) for board pressure
• Turn 1 (going first): Search Mitsurugi or Fiendsmith engine pieces with Mitsurugi Prayers, Pre-Preparation of Rites or Fiendsmith's Tract, then ritual-summon a Reptile boss with Mitsurugi Ritual or Mirror. Hold Ash Blossom and Droll & Lock Bird for responses.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the hand traps (Ash Blossom, Nibiru, Droll & Lock Bird) to slow the opponent, then attempt a board-wiping Ame no Murakumo summon or a Fusion or Link follow-up.
• Recovery: Rebuild from the GY: Futsu no Mitama no Mitsurugi revives Reptiles, Mitsurugi Mirror re-ritual-summons from the GY, and Fiendsmith's Lacrima recovers LIGHT Fiends.
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has 0 Side Deck cards.

Why it scores here

The score is capped low because the list is illegal: seven cards exceed their TCG copy limits, so the probability and consistency figures describe a list that cannot be built as submitted. Within that limit, the system has real strengths: 22 searcher-text cards give a roughly 97% chance of at least one searcher in an opening hand (Inferred), and the hand traps (Ash Blossom, Nibiru, Droll & Lock Bird) plus the Ame no Murakumo board-wipe effect give solid interaction density. Ritual recursion from the GY (Futsu no Mitama, Mitsurugi Mirror) supports resilience after disruption. The score does not come from averaging card power or from Mitsurugi's popularity, and no combo boards exist, so the floor and median are unmeasured (D4 is set neutrally). The deck is weakened by a 26.7% exact-archetype purity, a split between Mitsurugi and Fiendsmith engines, and the absence of any Side Deck.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 59, Going First ≈ 64, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (copy-limit violations) (-6); Engine conflict (Mitsurugi vs Fiendsmith) (-3); No Side Deck (0). Final formula: Structural 59.25 -> 0.80*59 + 0.20*48 = 56.8; modifiers -9 -> 47.8; capped at 35 because the deck is Illegal (7 over-limit cards). Theoretical/structural only; Meta Power provisional/null.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.97 · 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

• 22 searcher-text cards give high starter access (about 97% for the group in an opening 5, Inferred)
• Layered interaction: 7 hand traps plus Droll & Lock Bird, with negation and removal text on the boss monsters
• Ritual recursion from the GY (Futsu no Mitama, Mitsurugi Mirror) supports recovery after disruption
• High-impact boss monsters: Ruler (3000 ATK), Ame no Murakumo (3200 ATK, board wipe on summon)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: seven cards exceed TCG copy limits
• Low exact-name archetype purity (26.7%); 44 of 45 main copies are off-name
• No Side Deck, so best-of-3 adaptation is impossible
• No combo boards, so floor and median are unmeasured

Critical choke points

• Mitsurugi Ritual or Mirror plus a Reptile tribute package is needed to summon the main bosses
• Over-limit copies of Ash Blossom, Super Polymerization and Mitsurugi Prayers would be lost once the list is made legal
• Single Droll & Lock Bird as the only Limited hand-trap engine

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality status Illegal with 7 over-limit cards (from legality.violations); Banlist statuses and legal copies per card (from restricted cards); Main 45 / Extra 15 / Side 0 composition and archetype purity 26.7%; Searcher-text count 22 and hand-trap count 7 (role counts)
• Inferred: Starter consistency around 0.97 (hypergeometric on the over-limit list); Combo ceiling and interaction quality from card text; Dimension scores D1 to D9, D11 and D14
• Provisional: D13 matchup and format fit (no tournament link); Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); Median combo output (no combo records)
• Data gaps: Deck title is null No combos supplied: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and pilot match record are absent No win-rate telemetry for going first or second, matchups, or brick and starter rates Meta Power provisional without a dated metagame sample Side Deck is empty, so post-side plan cannot be assessed