Witchcrafter Deck #412643 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Stun
• Format: master-duel

Legality

Main 46 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck monsters (Witchcrafter Vice-Madame, Diabell, Zoroa, Vahram) summoned after Witchcrafter GY-recursion starts; no single proven finisher; White Forest Synchro/Tuner pressure (Silvera, Rciela, Diabell) and Magistus Xyz/Synchro bodies
• Turn 1 (going first): Inferred from card text: open a Witchcrafter Spellcaster starter (Schmietta, Potterie, Genni), discarding a Spell to Special Summon another Witchcrafter from the Deck, then extend into a Synchro or Fusion Summon from the Extra Deck
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence x2, Ghost Belle) to answer the opponent's first play, then rebuild through Witchcrafter GY effects; Raigeki, Dark Ruler No More and Harpie's Feather Duster serve as board-breakers
• Recovery: Witchcrafter Creation, Unveiling, Draping and Confusion Confession return from the GY to hand on End Phase while a Witchcrafter monster is controlled (card text); White Forest Synchro monsters recur through Tales and Woes
• After siding: Not available: the Side Deck is empty, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Witchcrafter starter in its opening hand about 58% of the time, based on 7 starter copies in 46 Main Deck cards (Inferred), and 16 searcher texts give a 90% chance of at least one searcher in the opening 5 (Inferred). Its strongest system features are recursion from the Graveyard, six hand traps and 14 negation/removal texts, which together let it keep interacting through disruption. Scoring is held back by a 36% exact-archetype purity split across Witchcrafter, White Forest, Magistus and two other archetypes, and by 12 tech and one-of cards that often become dead draws. No recorded boards exist, so combo ceiling and median are text-only inferences, and the empty Side Deck gives no post-side adaptation. The score was not raised by Witchcrafter's popularity or by averaging individual card scores; the list is Illegal, so it is capped at 35 as a theoretical, structural-only read.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 53, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-6); engine conflicts (-3); no_side_plan (-3). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 0.80*53 + 0.20*40 - 12 = 38.4; Illegal cap applied (Called by the Grave at 2 copies vs Forbidden) -> 35. Theoretical/structural-only.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.58 · 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

• Witchcrafter GY recursion (Creation, Unveiling, Draping, Confusion Confession) gives repeatable resource returns
• Six hand traps and 28 negation/removal texts give layered interaction
• Varied Extra Deck (Fusion, Synchro, Xyz, Link) with several 2500+ ATK bodies
• Searcher density (16) makes a searcher in hand about 90% likely

Weaknesses

• Two copies of Called by the Grave (Forbidden) make the list Illegal
• Empty Side Deck: no post-side plan
• Exact-archetype purity 36.1%; the deck splits across Witchcrafter and White Forest
• 12 one-of tech/staple slots add dead-draw risk

Critical choke points

• Called by the Grave is Forbidden and must be removed before any play
• Witchcrafter starters need a Spell in hand to discard, so a Spell-light hand stalls the first play
• Single-copy engine pieces (Madame Verre, Haine, Rucia) reduce redundancy

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Called by the Grave: 2 copies, Forbidden (legal copies 0): Illegal; Main Deck 46 cards, Extra Deck 15, Side Deck 0; Witchcrafter starters and recursion effects confirmed from card text; Exact-name purity 36.1% with archetype spread as listed
• Inferred: Starter-in-opening-hand probability (0.58) and searcher probability (0.896); Interaction and recursion quality scores from text; Structural score 53 under the Combo profile; Going-first and going-second power estimates
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and matchup fit (D13 = 50)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent Side Deck empty: post-side adaptability cannot be measured No win-rate, going-first/second or brick-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample