Gravekeeper's Deck #424079 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 26/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 10 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Kashtira Shangri-Ira and Kashtira-based XYZ boards built from Kashtira monsters and Kashtiratheosis / Kashtira Birth recursion (Inferred from card text; no combo data); Xyz pressure from Dark Armed, Divine Arsenal, Super Starslayer and Number 76 once a board is established (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Kashtira Riseheart or Kashtira Birth and search a Kashtira monster; the deck has only 3 Riseheart and no reliable T1 full starter, so the opener is weak (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 16 hand traps (Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Ghost Sister, Artifact Lancea, Droll) to interrupt the opponent's first engine, then rebuild with Kashtira searchers (Inferred)
• Recovery: Kashtira Fenrir and Unicorn search the next Kashtira monster when on the field, but two of the most important searchers are Forbidden in the current format (Inferred)
• After siding: No Side Deck supplied; no post-side plan can be evaluated

Why it scores here

The score comes from the deck as a system, not from averaging card scores. The Kashtira core gives some access through searchers and Kashtira Riseheart, but P(at least one Riseheart in a 5-card opening hand) is only about 0.25, so the deck does not reliably open a live engine on turn 1. Sixteen hand traps and a 23-card tech and disruption suite give decent interaction density for going second, but many of those cards compete for the same hand slots and roughly 70 of 71 main-deck copies are off-archetype by exact name, which weakens engine coherence. Most of the deck's power-defining cards (Kashtira Fenrir, Dimension Shifter, Dimensional Barrier, Called by the Grave, Rivalry of Warlords, Triple Tactics Talent, Abyss Dweller) are Forbidden in the TCG format, and two more are Limited, so the list cannot be played as built. Popularity and archetype identity did not earn points, and no combo, win-rate or meta data exists to lift the floor or ceiling.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary; Toolbox secondary weights not applied (structural only). Structural ≈ 39, Going First ≈ 36, Going Second ≈ 42, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 33. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) = 37.8, then illegal-deck cap -12 → 26

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 negate package (16 hand traps, 11 negation-text cards) for going second
• Multiple Kashtira searchers and a 15-card searcher group give ~80% chance of at least one search in an opening 5
• Strong Xyz and Link finishers in the Extra Deck (Shangri-Ira 3000 DEF, Dark Armed, Divine Arsenal, Super Starslayer)

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: 7 Forbidden cards and 3 copy-limit breaches
• Weak T1 starter access (~25% for the 3-copy Riseheart)
• Low archetype purity: 1.4% exact-name Gravekeeper's/Kashtira coherence with a heavy generic and off-theme tech base
• Main-deck compactness: 27 level-0 Spell/Trap slots and 23 tech cards compete with the engine
• No Side Deck

Critical choke points

• Forbidden Kashtira Fenrir and Dimension Shifter are the Kashtira searchers and disruption that the list depends on
• Single Riseheart starter at 3 copies gives a low opening-hand rate

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 7 Forbidden and 3 Limited/Semi-Limited copy-limit violations; Main 56, Extra 15, Side 0; size rules satisfied for TCG; Card text and composition counts from evidence.json; P(≥1 Riseheart in 5) = 0.2487; P(≥1 searcher in 5) = 0.8038; P(≥1 hand trap in 6) = 0.8818
• Inferred: Consistency and brick-rate estimates are hypergeometric and text-based, not measured; Strategy classification from text and composition; Dimension scores D1–D11 and going-first/second estimates
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and matchup fit (D13); Tournament reliability (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 absent No win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchup, brick or starter rates No Side Deck supplied Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample