Ryzeal Deck #773886 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Xyz and Ritual boards (Ryzeal Detonator, Ryzeal Duo Drive, Ame no Murakumo no Mitsurugi, Ame no Habakiri no Mitsurugi) that convert into 2400-3200 ATK pressure; Hand-trap-supported disruption (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx "C") followed by a Ritual or Xyz follow-up
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Ice Ryzeal / Mulcharmy Fuwalos / Pre-Preparation of Rites to reach a Ritual Spell and Reptile Ritual Monster, then Ritual Summon Mitsurugi and recycle through Mitsurugi monsters
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird and Maxx "C" to stop the opening, then Ritual or Xyz through the board the opponent leaves behind
• Recovery: Mitsurugi monsters return from GY/banish through their own effects, and Ryzeal Duo Drive can attach Ryzeal monsters from the GY as materials
• After siding: Not applicable: Master Duel has no sideboard (Side Deck size 0 is legal under the size rules)

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens on its starters: three copies each of Ice Ryzeal, Mulcharmy Fuwalos, Pre-Preparation of Rites and Mitsurugi Ritual put a live starter in hand on about a third of openings, and the searcher group (17 cards) reaches at least one searcher in roughly 95% of 5-card hands (Inferred from hypergeometric estimates). It converts into pressure through Ritual and Xyz boards that reach 2400-3200 ATK, and Ame no Murakumo no Mitsurugi and Ame no Habakiri no Mitsurugi give it real board-breaking when it goes second. Its interaction is layered across hand traps (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx "C") and in-field negation or destruction (Great Purification, Murakumo, Detonator, Light Dragon @Ignister). It is not scored on popularity: the archetype usage stats confirm the Ryzeal/Mitsurugi core is real and accessible, but they add no points by themselves, and no card scores were averaged into the deck score. The extra deck carries several non-Ryzeal cards (Favorite HERO Flame Wingman, The Dragon that Devours the Dogma, Garura) whose material requirements are not met by this main deck, which pulls down D10 and D11.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo primary, Midrange secondary; no blend ratio applied to weights (Combo profile used as-is). Structural ≈ 62.8, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 65, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: Conflicting engines (-2); Dead or unsupported Extra Deck cards (-3); Banlist exposure (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional) = 0.80*62.8 + 0.20*58 - 6 = 55.8

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

• Three-copy starters and a 17-card searcher group give a high chance of a functional opening
• Layered interaction: six hand traps plus in-field negation and destruction
• Strong Ritual and Xyz payoffs (Murakumo 3200, Detonator 3000, Duo Drive 2500)
• Multiple GY recursion routes keep resources alive after disruption

Weaknesses

• Two engines (Mitsurugi Ritual and Ryzeal Xyz) compete for hand slots
• Several Extra Deck cards are dead or unsupported in this main deck
• Low exact-name archetype purity (14.5%) and many conditional or off-theme main deck slots
• No sideboard in Master Duel, so no post-side adaptability

Critical choke points

• Mitsurugi Ritual plus a Reptile Ritual Monster in hand or GY
• Ryzeal Duo Drive / Detonator needing a Level 4 Ryzeal material on the field or in GY

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal: 40 main, 15 extra, 0 side within Master Duel size rules; Restricted copies all within legal limits (Limited x1, Semi-Limited x2); Archetype purity 14.5% exact name; 8 Ryzeal, 16 Mitsurugi copies
• Observed: Usage stats show core Ryzeal and Mitsurugi cards at 84-100% inclusion
• Inferred: Starter and searcher accessibility from hypergeometric estimates; Brick and dead-card rate; Interaction and board-breaking quality from card text; Combo ceiling and median from text only
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit (no dated metagame sample)
• 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 exists in YGOVN Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied usage statistics marks 8 Extra Deck core cards (Number 104, Ryzeal Duo Drive, Mereologic Aggregator, King of the Feral Imps, Number 60, Vallon, Eclipse Twins, Ryzeal Detonator) as not in deck, but cards[] lists all of them in zone extra; the preprocessor appears to match main deck only. Treated as present; the core-card presence of 68% is not used for scoring Side deck is empty; Master Duel has no sideboard, so D12 is not a deck defect