Mitsurugi Deck #773863 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 56/100 (±7 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ritual Summon Ame no Murakumo, Ame no Habakiri or Futsu no Mitama (8-level Reptile Ritual bosses) that negate or remove opposing cards and then attack with 2400 to 3200 ATK, supported by Link and Xyz monsters from the Extra Deck; Reptile Link monsters such as Ragnaraika Selene Snapper and Gorgon of Zilofthonia for board control and removal, plus Worldsea Dragon Zealantis as a late Link boss
• Turn 1 (going first): Search with Mitsurugi Mikoto or Pre-Preparation of Rites, set up Mitsurugi Ritual or Mitsurugi Mirror, and Ritual Summon a Reptile boss while keeping Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre or Maxx C up for the opponent's first interaction
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 8 hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Maxx C, Droll and Lock Bird, Dominus Impulse, Mitsurugi Great Purification) to break the opponent's starter and then rebuild the Ritual engine from the GY
• Recovery: Mitsurugi Prayers and Mitsurugi Great Purification revive or add Reptile monsters from the GY, and Lamia and the Mikoto monsters search Mitsurugi cards to rebuild a second engine
• After siding: Not applicable: Master Duel has no sideboard (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan; the deck relies on its main-deck hand traps and Ritual recursion

Why it scores here

The deck opens a functional plan reliably: 16 searcher-text cards give an estimated 0.94 chance of at least one searcher in an opening five, and the 24-copy archetype core is almost always reachable (0.99). It converts that plan into pressure through Ritual bosses (Murakumo, Habakiri, Futsu) that negate or remove, and into Link and Xyz monsters from the Extra Deck. Its interaction density is high, with eight hand traps and Great Purification, so it can continue through common disruption and recover through GY revival. Scoring is structural: 3 of 15 Extra Deck cards (Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Dark Magician of Destruction, Super Starslayer TY-PHON) have no visible material in the list, the 6 Mulcharmy copies conflict with a board-based plan, and no sideboard or tournament data exists. The score comes from consistency, redundancy, and interaction on the whole system, not from Mitsurugi's popularity or from averaging card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 60, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: dead Extra Deck slots (-3); Mulcharmy empty-field conflict (-2); banlist exposure (-1); searcher redundancy (2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional; no dated metagame sample)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.94 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.01 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Searcher density gives about 0.94 chance of at least one searcher in opening 5 (Inferred)
• Ritual bosses Murakumo, Habakiri and Futsu give negation, removal and high ATK (verified text)
• Eight hand traps give strong going-second interaction (Inferred)
• Compact core: 8 cards run at 3 copies, all within legal copy limits (verified)

Weaknesses

• 3 of 15 Extra Deck slots are dead without Dark Magician, a Dragon-type or Level 12 monsters (Inferred)
• 6 Mulcharmy copies conflict with a board-based plan (verified text, Inferred)
• Only 14 of 22 archetype usage-stat core cards are present, so the list deviates from the standard build (verified)
• No combo records, so the ceiling and median are text-inferred (Provisional)

Critical choke points

• Mitsurugi Ritual and Mitsurugi Mirror (4 Ritual Spells total) gate every Ritual Monster line; Pre-Preparation of Rites is the only other Ritual-Spell search (verified)
• Going-second interaction depends on 8 hand traps; with one Droll and Ash-style single-choke hand traps, a hand without them is exposed (Inferred)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 40 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side in Master Duel; all restricted cards within legal copies; Copy histogram 12 singles, 2 two-of, 8 three-of; Race and level spreads: no Dragon-type, no Dark Magician, no Level 12 monsters except TY-PHON; Usage stat: 14 of 22 core cards present (63.6%)
• Observed: No measured combo or board outcomes exist for this deck (combos_evidence empty)
• Inferred: Searcher and archetype-core hypergeometric estimates; Hand-trap interaction density and going-second value; Dead Extra Deck slot analysis from text and spreads; Mulcharmy empty-field conflict
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated sample); Matchup and format fit (D13); Going-second win impact
• Data gaps: no combos supplied, so floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent no win-rate telemetry, so going-first, going-second and matchup results are unknown Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample deck title is null