Mitsurugi Deck #773845 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 56/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ritual boards (Ame no Murakumo, Ame no Habakiri, Futsu no Mitama) and Rank 4 Ryzeal / Xyz pressure from the Extra Deck; Rank 8 and Rank 12 Xyz (Dragluxion, Number 38, TY-PHON) and Ryzeal Detonator pressure
• Turn 1 (going first): Pre-Preparation of Rites or a Mitsurugi searcher (Saji, Aramasa, Kusanagi) into a Ritual Summon or a Ryzeal Xyz line
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Ash Blossom, Droll, Maxx C, Nibiru) to slow the opponent, then Ame no Murakumo or Ryzeal Detonator to break the board
• Recovery: Futsu no Mitama re-summons Reptiles from the GY, Mitsurugi Ritual and Mirror re-use the GY, and Mulcharmy draws refill the hand
• After siding: None: the list runs no Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a functional plan: 17 searcher-text cards give a 0.95 chance of at least one searcher in a going-first hand, and the 24-copy archetype core gives 0.99 (Inferred). Its ceiling comes from Ritual boards that wipe or ATK-reduce the opponent and from Ryzeal Xyz pressure, but the median is weaker because the deck runs three overlapping engines (Mitsurugi Ritual, Ryzeal Xyz, Mulcharmy draw) with only 24 percent exact-name purity. Interaction is broad, with 7 hand traps and several negate and removal effects, which gives it resilience on the second turn. The score comes from consistency, interaction and recovery on the system, not from Mitsurugi being a popular archetype and not from averaging the individual card scores. The deck has no Side Deck and no combo or tournament data, so going-second and matchup scores stay low or provisional.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 62, Going First ≈ 66, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 52. Modifiers: Engine conflict across three sub-archetypes (-3); No Side Deck (-2); Conditional dead-ish card (-1); Compact searcher engine (2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural(62) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(52) + ContextModifiers(-4) = 56 (Meta provisional)

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

• Dense searcher engine (17 searcher-text cards plus Pre-Preparation)
• Seven hand traps and broad negate or removal coverage
• Multiple finishers across Ritual, Ryzeal Xyz and generic Rank 4 and 8 Xyz

Weaknesses

• Three overlapping engines with low exact-name purity
• No Side Deck
• Seventh Tachyon and the Triple Tactics pair are conditional

Critical choke points

• Ritual Summon requires Reptile tributes, so losing the Reptile starters cuts off the Ritual boards
• Ryzeal Xyz lines need Rank 4 materials and a Ryzeal monster on the field

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal list: 40 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side; all restricted copy counts within limits; Searcher-text count 17 and hand-trap count 7 from the role tags; Archetype purity 23.6 percent
• Inferred: P(>=1 searcher in 5-card hand) 0.95 and P(>=1 core card) 0.99; Ceiling and interaction scores from card text; Recovery and resilience from text
• Provisional: Meta Power is null; matchup and format fit (D13) are anchored at 50 with no dated sample
• Data gaps: No combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent No win-rate telemetry; going-first, going-second and matchup rates are unknown No Side Deck, so post-side performance cannot be assessed Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample