G Golem Deck #392859 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±6 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Stun, Toolbox
• Format: ocg

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Boss monsters from the Extra Deck (Kashtira Shangri-Ira, Dark Armed, Super Starslayer TY-PHON, Divine Arsenal) built off a Kashtira or hand-trap-protected board; no combo boards are recorded to confirm a reliable kill turn.; Link and Xyz pressure (Red-Eyes Flare Metal Dragon, Number 28, Decode Talker Heatsoul) once the board is stable.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a starter (Kashtira Riseheart, Kashtiratheosis, Kashtira Birth) to search or summon a Kashtira monster, then protect the line with hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Infinite Impermanence, Nibiru) while Xyz or Link into a boss. Starter odds are low on a 5-card hand (about 0.25 per 3-copy card).
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (P >= 1 in a 6-card hand is about 0.92 across 18 cards) to answer the opponent's first combo, then establish a single Kashtira boss. Board-breaking depends on Lightning Storm, Harpie's Feather Duster and Terraforming, which are narrow.
• Recovery: Recover with Kashtira Birth and Kashtiratheosis from the GY and banish, plus Kashtira Shangri-Ira's Standby effect. Without Kashtira Fenrir and Unicorn (one legal copy), the recovery engine is thinner than the list suggests.
• After siding: No side deck is registered (Side Deck size 0). The deck has no post-side plan as submitted, so best-of-3 adaptation cannot be assessed.

Why it scores here

This list cannot receive a normal score because it is illegal in OCG: it runs Forbidden cards (Kashtira Fenrir, Dimension Shifter, Triple Tactics Talent, Called by the Grave, Number 41) and exceeds the Limited and Semi-Limited copy caps on Kashtira Unicorn, Dimensional Barrier, Droll & Lock Bird and Ash Blossom. Its structural read rests on a Midrange profile: a 3-copy starter appears in an opening 5-card hand only about 25% of the time, the Kashtira core (12 cards) is present in about 72% of 5-card hands, and the 18 hand-trap/tech cards give strong going-second interaction (about 92% to hold one in 6 cards). The end-board is strong on paper (Kashtira Shangri-Ira DEF 3000, Divine Arsenal ATK 3000, Dark Armed ATK 2800), but no combo boards are recorded, so floor, median and ceiling can only be inferred from card text. Popularity and archetype usage stats confirm the list is real, not that it is strong, and no card scores were averaged into the deck score. The side deck is empty, so there is no post-side plan.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange 85 / Stun 15 (Structural computed on Midrange weights; Stun secondary disclosed only). Structural ≈ 45, Going First ≈ 42, Going Second ≈ 48, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); no_recorded_combos_and_engine_conflict (-4). Final formula: Illegal: capped. Formula 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + modifiers = 0.80*45 + 0.20*35 - 12 = 31, capped to 30. Meta provisional. Theoretical/structural-only.

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: 18 hand traps and 11 negation-text cards, with strong hand-trap density on going second
• Strong closing bosses in the Extra Deck (Kashtira Shangri-Ira DEF 3000, Divine Arsenal ATK 3000, Super Starslayer ATK 2900)
• Searcher density: 15 search-text cards keep the hand functional

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: Forbidden cards and copy-limit violations must be removed before it can be played or scored normally
• Starter odds are low: a 3-copy starter appears in a 5-card opening hand only about 25% of the time
• No side deck: no post-side plan is possible

Critical choke points

• Kashtira Riseheart and Kashtiratheosis as the entry starters; roughly a 25% chance each in hand 5
• Single-copy Kashtira Unicorn, Dimensional Barrier and Droll & Lock Bird limit the recovery plan

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality status Illegal; Forbidden and Limited cards with copy-cap violations; Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0; within OCG size rules; Card text and stats for the listed cards; Usage stats: core 5 of 6 present (83.3%)
• Inferred: Starter and hand-trap probabilities from hypergeometric estimates; Dimension scores D1 to D14 from card text and composition; Interaction density and board-breaking read from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (D13)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchup, or brick rate Meta Power provisional: no dated metagame sample Side deck is empty, so post-side performance cannot be assessed