Timelord Deck #401540 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 43 / Extra 17 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: No single reliable win condition; closing relies on Extra Deck Xyz/Train boards (e.g., Superdreadnought Rail Cannon Gustav Max, Number 77) and Timelord/Egyptian God pressure, none of which is supported by recorded lines.; Direct damage and piercing-style finishers: Gustav Max inflicts 2000 damage per activation, Rainbow Dark Dragon and Juggernaut Liebe reach 4000 ATK.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on a searcher (Gravekeeper's Commandant, Necrovalley Throne, Eldlich, Terraforming) toward Necrovalley plus a Gravekeeper's or Timelord body; no verified T1 line exists in the evidence.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Raigeki, Harpie's Feather Duster, Skill Drain or Lose 1 Turn to strip the opponent's board, then rebuild through Xyz monsters from the Extra Deck.
• Recovery: Foolish Burial Goods, Pot of Prosperity and Crystal Beast Sapphire Pegasus provide some recursion and card flow; the Extra Deck has enough Xyz bodies to keep rebuilding.
• After siding: Not applicable: the deck has 0 side cards, so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The deck is scored on its structure, not on the strength of its individual cards or on the Timelord name, which covers only 3 of 60 copies. Searchers (11 text hits, about 79% chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand) make the engine reachable, but the three distinct engines (Gravekeeper's, Crystal Beast, Train) plus Timelord and Egyptian God pieces do not share a clear plan, so conversion is inconsistent. Interaction is the strongest area: Raigeki, Harpie's Feather Duster, Skill Drain and several Xyz effects give real board control. The deck cannot be scored normally because it is illegal: it runs 2 Number 41 and 1 Varudras (both Forbidden), and its Extra Deck is 17 against a limit of 15. Structural read is 45 and the score is capped to 25 as a theoretical-only value. Popularity and archetype share were not used, and no card scores were averaged (Inferred).

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 45, Going First ≈ 42, Going Second ≈ 45, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-6); engine conflicts (-4); no Side Deck (-2). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(45) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(35) = 43; context modifiers -12 gives 31; Illegal cap applied, final reported 25 as theoretical/structural-only.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.79 · 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

• Interaction suite: Raigeki, Harpie's Feather Duster, Skill Drain, Tornado Dragon, Gangaridai
• Searcher density: about 79% chance of at least one searcher in a 5-card opening hand
• Extra Deck has real finishers: Gustav Max, Liebe, Super Dora, Rainbow Dark Dragon (text-level)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: 2 Number 41 and 1 Varudras (Forbidden); Extra Deck 17 over the 15 limit
• Low archetype purity (5% exact name); three to four engines compete for slots
• No side deck and no recorded combos or meta data

Critical choke points

• Timelord core (Sandaion x3) is live in only about 32% of openings, so the Timelord plan is unreliable
• All lines depend on Necrovalley/Gravekeeper's searches; there is no second route if those are dead

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: 2 Number 41 and 1 Varudras are Forbidden; Extra Deck is 17 (over 15).; Main deck 43 cards (within 40-60); side deck 0.; Archetype purity: 5% exact name; 3 Timelord copies.; Searcher-text group P(>=1 in 5) = 0.7908.
• Inferred: Engine reliability and brick risk from hypergeometric odds and card text.; Interaction quality from text roles (Raigeki, Feather Duster, Skill Drain).; Dimension scores D1 to D14 apart from D13.
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and D13 matchup/format fit: no dated meta sample or tournament link.
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference. No tournament link: archetype meta-share and pilot match record absent. usage statistics core list (25 cards, 0 present, e.g., Swiftwind Panther Warrior) does not match the Timelord archetype pool, so it was not used. No win-rate telemetry: going-first/second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown. Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied.