Mitsurugi Deck #773929 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 48/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ritual-summon Ame no Murakumo no Mitsurugi or Ame no Habakiri no Mitsurugi via Mitsurugi Ritual / Mitsurugi Mirror, then press with the ritual monster and Yummy / Sky Striker / Azamina extra-deck follow-ups; Synchro and Link Yummy pressure (Cooky Yummy Way, Lollipo Yummy Way, Yummy Snatchy) and Azamina fusion boards
• Turn 1 (going first): Pre-Preparation of Rites or Mitsurugi Prayers to fetch a Mitsurugi or Ritual piece, Yummy starter into Link-1 / Synchro-2 extension, keep Infinite Impermanence, Ash Blossom and Ghost Ogre up for the opponent's first response
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Effect Veiler, Infinite Impermanence, Maxx C) to break the opponent's first board, then rebuild with a Ritual or Synchro line on the next turn
• Recovery: Mulcharmy Fuwalos / Purulia draws, Maxx C, Magicians' Souls draws, and Mitsurugi Saji / Aramasa add Mitsurugi pieces back from the Deck
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan; the deck relies on its main-deck hand traps for all matchups

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a functional starter: the archetype core group has an estimated 84% chance of at least one copy in a 5-card opening hand, and the searcher text group about 88%, both Inferred from hypergeometric draws on the Main Deck. Its interaction suite is the strongest part of the system, with 13 hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Effect Veiler, Infinite Impermanence, Maxx C, Ghost Belle) plus Great Purification and Dominus Spark, giving roughly 79% odds of at least one hand trap on going second, which keeps the midgame resilient. Conversion is the weak link: no recorded boards exist, so the ritual and extra-deck lines are text-only, and only 5 Reptile monsters are present to serve as Ritual tributes, a real choke point. The list is scattered across more than a dozen sub-archetypes (only 12% exact-name purity, 21 singleton slots, 0 side cards), which lowers efficiency and pilotability. Popularity and the archetype's usage statistics confirm the list is real and accessible, but they earned no points on their own, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 58, Going First ≈ 65, Going Second ≈ 64, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 46. Modifiers: Engine spread / low exact-archetype purity (-4); Reptile fodder choke point (-2); No side deck / weak post-side plan (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.84 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.16 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Strong starter access: about 84% archetype-core presence in a 5-card opening and about 88% searcher access (Inferred)
• Layered interaction: 13 hand traps plus Great Purification and Dominus Spark (Inferred)
• Recovery through Mulcharmy draw effects, Maxx C and Magicians' Souls (Inferred)
• Real closing bodies: Murakumo 3200, Diabellstar 2500, Borrel 3000 in the Extra Deck (Verified stats)

Weaknesses

• Scattered engine: 12% exact-name purity across more than a dozen sub-archetypes (Verified)
• Missing two core Mitsurugi rituals observed in usage stats: Mitsurugi no Mikoto, Kusanagi (94%) and Futsu no Mitama no Mitsurugi (90%) (Observed)
• Zero side deck, so no post-side plan (Verified)
• 21 singleton slots raise brick and conflict risk (Verified composition)

Critical choke points

• Reptile tribute availability for Mitsurugi Ritual / Mirror (5 Reptile monsters in Main Deck) (Inferred)
• Hand-trap dependence when the opponent goes first and does not give a window (Inferred)
• Droll-style lock pieces: the guide reports the deck's search is vulnerable to Droll (Provisional)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 within Master Duel size rules [40-60 / 0-15 / 0-15]; All Limited and Semi-Limited copies are within legal copies (Limited 1, Semi-Limited 2); Composition: 35 distinct Main Deck cards, 21 singletons, 12% exact-name archetype purity; Usage stats: 11 of 22 core cards present; Kusanagi 94% and Futsu no Mitama 90% missing
• Observed: Core inclusion percentages from usage statistics (archetype-level, not this list's results)
• Inferred: P(at least one core card in opening 5) ≈ 0.84 and searcher ≈ 0.88 from hypergeometric draws; 79% chance of at least one hand trap on going second; Reptile tribute scarcity as a Ritual choke point; Floor and median output estimated from text only
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); D13 matchup fit (no tournament link)
• 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 (going-first/second, matchup, game-level, brick/starter/OTK rates) — those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied no side deck registered, so post-side performance is unscorable guide snippet is a single Vietnamese paragraph with no sections