Paleozoic Deck #412297 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 44/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Xyz pressure from Paleozoic Anomalocaris (2400 ATK) and Toadally Awesome (2200 ATK), fed by revived Level 2 Paleozoic monsters.; Board control with Raigeki, Torrential Tribute and Harpie's Feather Duster, then attacking through an empty field.
• Turn 1 (going first): Set several Paleozoic traps and generic traps, use Dark Ruler No More or Raigeki for interaction if needed, and build toward a Level 2 Xyz with a trap activation to revive a monster.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Evenly Matched, Waboku or Fiend Griefing as reactive plays, then use Torrential Tribute or Raigeki to clear the opponent's board and rebuild Xyz pressure.
• Recovery: Revive Paleozoic monsters from the Graveyard by activating traps, Xyz-summon from them, and use Opabinia and Anomalocaris effects to add traps back to hand.
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-game adjustment plan.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Paleozoic starter: the 14 core copies give about a 78% chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand, and the trap-revival engine lets a set trap become a Level 2 monster for Xyz plays. Its strongest value is breadth of interaction, with Raigeki, Torrential Tribute, Harpie's Feather Duster, Evenly Matched and Dark Ruler No More covering most board states, though most of these need a set turn first. Conversion is weaker: only 12 monsters sit among 55 main cards, roughly a third of opening hands are dead or awkward, and nothing in the evidence records real boards to confirm a median output. The score comes from consistency, recovery and interaction working together as a system, not from averaging card strengths or from the archetype's popularity, which earned no points. With no side deck and no meta sample, post-game adaptation and matchup fit remain unscored by evidence and are carried as provisional.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox primary; Midrange secondary, used as a reference only (Toolbox weights applied).. Structural ≈ 50.5, Going First ≈ 54, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: No side deck (-3); Dead extra and main slots (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional): 0.80*50.5 + 0.20*45 - 5 = 44.4, rounded to 44

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.78 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.22 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Core Paleozoic set of 14 copies gives about a 78% chance of at least one starter in an opening 5-card hand.
• Broad interaction: Raigeki, Torrential Tribute, Harpie's Feather Duster, Evenly Matched and Dark Ruler No More cover many board states.
• Graveyard revival lets set traps become Level 2 monsters, which feed Xyz summons and give recovery after disruption.

Weaknesses

• Only 12 monsters among 55 main cards, so many hands are traps that cannot be summoned directly.
• Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS and Winged Dragon of Ra Sphere Mode are poor fits for this build.
• No side deck, so no adaptation for a best-of-three format.

Critical choke points

• Early Xyz pressure depends on a trap activation that revives a Level 2 monster.
• The core needs set traps on the first turn, so a hand with only monsters or dead traps stalls.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main deck is 55 cards and Extra Deck is 15 cards, within OCG size limits.; Harpie's Feather Duster and S:P Little Knight are Limited with one copy each, which is legal.; No side deck is registered.
• Observed: The archetype's core cards appear in most lists of this archetype in the usage statistics.
• Inferred: Opening-hand odds for the Paleozoic core are about 78% for at least one starter.; About 22% of openings have no core card and are likely to be dead.; Interaction is broad, but most of it needs a set turn.; Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS is effectively unsummonable in this build.
• Provisional: Meta fit and matchup position are unscored because no dated meta sample or tournament record was supplied.
• Data gaps: No recorded boards exist, so ceiling and median output are text-based inference only. No tournament link, so archetype meta share and per-pilot records are absent. No win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second or matchup results. Meta Power is provisional until a dated metagame sample is supplied.