Graydle Deck #417294 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 52 / Extra 18 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 9 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro Summon large Dragons and Ice Barrier boss monsters (Lancea, Graydle Dragon, Swordsoul Supreme Sovereign - Chengying) that the hand traps and Ice Barrier body effects protect; Attrition through hand traps and Spell/Trap removal that strips the opponent's interaction before a Synchro boss attacks
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Tuner plus Ice Barrier body or hand trap, then Synchro into a boss while holding Ash Blossom and similar interaction for the opponent's first response
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold hand traps (Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Maxx "C", Droll & Lock Bird) against the opponent's board, then Synchro through the gap they leave
• Recovery: Re-summon from the Graveyard with Icejade and Ice Barrier recursion effects, then rebuild a Synchro boss from the field
• After siding: Not assessable: the deck has no Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

This list is illegal in OCG: it runs Forbidden cards, exceeds the copy limit on five Limited or Semi-Limited cards, and holds 18 Extra Deck cards against a 15-card maximum, so it receives a capped theoretical score rather than a normal Final Contextual score. Structurally the system opens a live Ice Barrier body or hand trap in roughly half of hands (archetype core open at least once in 5 cards about 53%), and sixteen hand traps give high interaction against the opponent's first response, which is why the going-second interaction score is the highest of the set. The deck does not earn points from its Synchro boss threats alone; its main-deck spread of 24 tech and 22 Level 0 spells and traps, plus a 52-card main with no recorded boards, pulls consistency and efficiency down. Popularity and archetype usage stats confirm the list is real and accessible, but they did not raise the score. Card scores were not averaged into the deck score; the number reflects the system as a whole.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 43, Going First ≈ 40, Going Second ≈ 48, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 30. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8). Final formula: Illegal: no normal Final Contextual score. 0.80*Structural(43) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(30) = 40.4 before the modifier; the value is capped at 25 for an illegal list (theoretical/structural-only), with the banlist modifier below.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.27 · 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

• Sixteen hand traps give high interaction on the going-second turn
• Ice Barrier body effects and recursion provide a second route when one starter is answered
• Synchro bosses at 3000 ATK or more close games

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: Forbidden cards and copy-limit overages
• Extra Deck is 3 cards over the maximum
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Only about 1% of the main deck is the exact archetype name; many tech and dead cards

Critical choke points

• A single Synchro boss is the win condition; if it is answered before it is summoned, the board has no backup route
• Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse are needed in multiple copies, and the legal copy limit is 2 each

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is Illegal: Forbidden cards present and copy limits exceeded (Called by the Grave, Dimension Shifter, Trishula, Baronne de Fleur); Extra Deck is 18 against a 15-card OCG maximum; No Side Deck (side count 0); Archetype usage rows show Graydle core cards absent from this list
• Inferred: Ice Barrier body engine is live in roughly half of openings; Hand-trap density gives going-second interaction; Synchro bosses are the primary win condition
• Provisional: Matchup fit and meta position (no dated metagame sample supplied)
• 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 absent No win-rate telemetry; going-first and going-second performance is inferred Meta Power is provisional because no dated metagame sample is supplied No Side Deck, so post-side plan is unknown