Kuriboh Deck #35255 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 31/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 9 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck boss monsters (Kashtira Shangri-Ira, Red-Eyes Flare Metal Dragon, Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS, Swordsoul Supreme Sovereign, Black Luster Soldier) reached through hand traps and generic searches, with Kashtira Ogre as the main-deck beater; Negation-based board control (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Evenly Matched, Dark Hole, Dark Ruler No More) that stalls the opponent while a boss is assembled
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a searcher or Kashtira Birth, then build toward a Level 7 Normal Summon or an Xyz boss using generic searchers; the Forbidden cards cannot be played in TCG, so this plan is theoretical only until the list is legal
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold 11 hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Evenly Matched, legal copies of Solemn Judgment) to answer the opponent's first summon or activation, then convert the surviving board into an Xyz or Synchro boss
• Recovery: Ghost Belle and Ash Blossom recur from the GY and deck, and generic searchers rebuild the hand; recovery depends on hand traps still being live
• After siding: No side deck is registered (side 0), so no post-side plan exists; a best-of-3 event would have no answer to sideboard-dependent matchups

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system, not as an average of its cards. Its consistency is limited by the Kashtira core: Kashtira Fenrir is Forbidden and Kashtira Unicorn is capped at one legal copy, so the T1 engine is thinner than the list suggests (P(at least one Kashtira Birth in a 5-card hand) is about 0.25). Its strongest feature is interaction: 11 hand traps, 13 negation cards and 36 removal-text cards give high going-second disruption, and the hand-trap group reaches about 0.76 in a going-second 6-card hand. Median output and combo conversion cannot be measured because no combos were supplied, so those scores rest on text inference only. Popularity did not earn points, since the archetype label Kuriboh has only 2.9% exact-name purity and the list is mostly off-archetype. The list is Illegal in the TCG format, so it is capped and receives a theoretical score of 31 with Low confidence.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, Toolbox secondary (structural weights from the Midrange profile). Structural ≈ 44, Going First ≈ 40, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 38. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-9); No post-side plan (-3). Final formula: 0.80*Structural(44.4) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(38) + ContextModifiers(-12) = 31; Meta provisional; illegal list capped

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.25 · 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

• Layered interaction: 11 hand traps, 13 negation cards and 36 removal-text cards
• Going-second hand-trap density (about 0.76 in a 6-card hand)
• Multiple 3000-ATK Extra Deck bosses

Weaknesses

• Illegal in TCG: Forbidden and Limited copy violations
• Kashtira engine core is damaged (Fenrir removed, Unicorn capped at 1)
• No side deck, so no best-of-3 plan
• Low archetype purity (2.9%); the Kuriboh label does not describe the list
• High brick and dead-card risk from 27 tech and 7 floodgate cards

Critical choke points

• Kashtira Birth (3 copies) is the main T1 starter, and its legal reach is limited
• Ash Blossom and Ghost Belle are the only redundant answers to a first summon

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main deck 55, Extra deck 15, Side 0 (legality counts); Forbidden and Limited status for listed cards; Archetype purity 2.9% and copy histogram
• Inferred: Starter access 0.25 and searcher group 0.69 (hypergeometric); Interaction density and going-second hand-trap estimate 0.76; Combo ceiling and median from text only, no recorded boards
• Provisional: Meta Power (null); Matchup and format fit (no dated meta or tournament link)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied, so combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record are absent No win-rate telemetry for going-first/second, matchup or brick rate No side deck, so post-side performance is unknown Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied