A-to-Z Deck #388995 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 27/100 (±12 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 44 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Summon high‑ATK Ancient Gear Fusion monsters (e.g., Chaos Ancient Gear Giant); Control the board with hand traps and flood‑gate effects
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon an Ancient Gear monster (e.g., Ancient Gear Golem) and set hand traps while searching for key spells
• Turn 2 (going second): Play hand traps (Infinite Impermanence, Forbidden Droplet) then use Super Polymerization or Ancient Gear Fusion to bring out a boss Fusion monster
• Recovery: Use Forbidden Droplet, draw engines (Ancient Gear Advance, Triple Tactics Talent) and searchers to rebuild a monster field
• After siding: No side deck; rely on remaining hand traps and draw power to stabilize after the first turn

Why it scores here

The deck can occasionally spin up a powerful Ancient Gear Fusion boss using its many draw and search engines, but the lack of a clear, single‑card starter makes the opening highly volatile. Hand traps and flood‑gate style spells give decent going‑second pressure, yet the illegal triple copy of Triple Tactics Talent and the wide spread of sub‑archetypes raise brick risk dramatically. Without a side deck and with no recorded combo data, the system is fragile and hard to pilot, resulting in a low overall power assessment.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 39, Going First ≈ 35, Going Second ≈ 45, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 30. Modifiers: Illegal copy limit penalty (-10). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) - Illegal copy limit penalty

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ — · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.45 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Strong hand‑trap suite (Infinite Impermanence, Forbidden Droplet, Lightning Storm)
• Access to very high ATK Fusion monsters

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy of Triple Tactics Talent (3 copies over limit)
• High brick potential due to many 3‑copy cards and lack of a single‑card starter
• No side deck for post‑side adaptation
• No recorded combo data; reliance on complex multi‑step lines

Critical choke points

• Triple Tactics Talent copy limit
• Assembling Ancient Gear Golem / Fusion boss

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality status and violation data; Card text excerpts for role identification; Copy counts per card
• Observed: Hand‑trap counts from role counts
• Inferred: Engine accessibility probabilities derived from hypergeometric data; Brick risk assessment from copy histogram and illegal card; Combo ceiling/floor estimates based on card capabilities; Resource economy from draw/search card counts; Going‑second power from hand‑trap group probability
• Provisional: Matchup and format fit due to lack of tournament data
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no archetype usage statistics — core/meta-standard comparison unavailable 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