Gandora Deck #393785 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Toolbox
• Secondary strategies: Stun, Combo
• Format: tcg

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 8 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck boss monsters (Gandora-G, Dark Magician the Dragon Knight, Number 97/38) closing through ATK and board control; Link and Fusion pressure via Accesscode Talker, Selene and Starving Venom Fusion Dragon
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Shining Sarcophagus or Gadget Trio for a searcher line, then use Ash Blossom and Droll as protection while building toward a Gandora-G or Fusion boss
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Infinite Impermanence and Evenly Matched to slow the opponent's board, then rebuild through Ghost Mourner and Gandora-G
• Recovery: Shining Sarcophagus and Gadget Trio supply searches; Upstart Goblin and Pot of Prosperity refill the hand, but only 25% of hands contain a Sarcophagus
• After siding: No side deck is present, so no post-side plan can be evaluated; a best-of-3 build would have to be assembled from scratch

Why it scores here

The score is capped at 30 because the list is illegal: it runs 8 copy-limit violations, including five Forbidden cards (Crossout Designator, Dimension Shifter, There Can Be Only One, Called by the Grave, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon) and three over-limit Semi-Limited or Limited cards, so this is a theoretical, structural-only read. The engine is thin on the evidence: only 2 of 55 main-deck cards are exact-name Gandora, archetype purity is 2.9%, and the Shining Sarcophagus starter reaches an opening hand with P(≥1 in 5) ≈ 0.25 (Inferred). Interaction is dense (15 hand traps, 18 negation-text cards, 15 removal-text cards), so the deck can slow an opponent's board, but it has no combo recordings to show that the interaction converts into a reliable line. The Extra Deck is a flexible set of bosses (Gandora-G, DMDK, Draglubion, Hope Harbinger) that gives a real closing route if the engine lands. Popularity and the Gandora archetype's usage data confirm the list is real and accessible, but they did not earn any points, and no card scores were averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 44, Going First ≈ 40, Going Second ≈ 45, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12). Final formula: Illegal: theoretical/structural-only. 0.80*Structural(44) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(35) = 42, minus 12 banlist-exposure modifier = 30 (Meta provisional)

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

• Dense hand-trap and negation coverage (15 hand traps, 18 negation-text cards)
• Multiple Extra Deck boss routes (Gandora-G, DMDK, Draglubion, Hope Harbinger)
• Redundant hand-trap pair (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird) for going second

Weaknesses

• Illegal in its current form: 8 copy-limit violations including 5 Forbidden cards
• Low engine access: Shining Sarcophagus is in only ~25% of opening hands
• Low archetype purity (2.9%) and a 25-distinct-card main deck spread across many sub-archetypes
• No side deck

Critical choke points

• Shining Sarcophagus is the single engine starter with 3 copies and no secondary starter that opens the engine alone
• Removing the Forbidden copies also removes Crossout Designator and Dimension Shifter, which are central to its interaction plan

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main deck 55 cards, Extra Deck 15 cards, side 0; 8 copy-limit violations and 5 Forbidden cards present; Card text and banlist status for every listed card
• Inferred: Shining Sarcophagus opening-hand access ≈ 0.25 (hypergeometric); Brick rate and hand-trap coverage estimates; Structural dimension scores and weights
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament link)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record are absent No win-rate telemetry for going-first/second, matchup, or brick/starter rates Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No side deck present, so post-side performance cannot be assessed Deck title is null in the export