Skull Servant Deck #429443 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 54/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Midrange
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 2 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Chain Skull Servant and Wight engine monsters from hand, Deck and Graveyard, then close with King of the Skull Servants, Wightprincess, Zombie Master or Mezuki on the field.; Piercing damage from Wight Reanimator and Vampire Sucker beatdown once the board is established.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Wight starter (Wightbaking, Moissa Wight or King of the Skull Servants), search the next engine piece, and build a Zombie board through Graveyard recursion.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Hand Destruction or Card Destruction and XX-clusion to disrupt the opponent's hand, then rebuild through Graveyard effects of Wightlord, Wightmare and Wightprince.
• Recovery: Recur Skull Servants and Wight monsters from the Graveyard with Wightmare, Wightprince and King of the Skull Servants, using Book of Life or Wight Reanimator to restore board presence.
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a connected Skull Servant and Wight system, not as an average of its card scores. It opens reliably around its engine: the four 3-copy starters (Wightbaking, Moissa Wight, King of the Skull Servants, Wightprincess) each have a 33.8% chance of appearing in a 5-card opening hand, and the archetype core group has an estimated 96.9% chance of at least one piece in an opening hand. Its Graveyard recursion (Wightlord, Wightmare, Wightprince, Zombie Master, Mezuki) gives it resilience and resource grind after disruption. Interaction is thin (one hand trap, one negation trap, Eternal Chaos and Lady in Wight), so board control and going-second strength are modest. Popularity and archetype usage confirm the list is real and accessible but did not earn points; no side deck and no recorded boards keep the score in the mid-50s with a moderate band.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 57, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 52. Modifiers: no side deck (-3); self-disruption in hand (-1); engine compactness (2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers(-2) = 0.80*57 + 0.20*52 - 2 = 54

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.34 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.03 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Four 3-copy engine starters give multiple ways to begin the Wight chain.
• Heavy Graveyard recursion means the deck can rebuild after removal.
• Compact 23-card core with one archetype identity keeps the engine coherent.
• Link-2 Vampire Sucker and the Level 1 Link-1 Linkuriboh add Extra Deck utility.

Weaknesses

• No side deck, so there is no post-side adaptation in best-of-3.
• Only 2 Extra Deck cards and a low-coverage Extra Deck.
• Interaction is limited to one hand trap, one negation trigger and a few removal spells.
• No recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and median cannot be confirmed.

Critical choke points

• The 3-copy starters (Wightbaking, Moissa Wight, King of the Skull Servants) at about 34% each in an opening hand: a hand with none of them has a weak start.
• Hand disruption spells (Hand Destruction, Card Destruction) can discard the starters the engine needs.
• Zombie-only Graveyard revival depends on the Graveyard being populated, which early disruption can prevent.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main Deck is 40 cards and Extra Deck is 2 cards, which is legal for OCG.; All five restricted cards run at their legal limit of 1 copy.; Archetype usage shows King of the Skull Servants, Foolish Burial and Wightbaking are core cards in this archetype.; No side deck is registered.
• Observed: Usage statistics show the deck runs 9 of 14 core cards in the archetype list.
• Inferred: Opening hand probabilities for the 3-copy starters.; Going-first and going-second power estimates.; Floor, median and ceiling estimates from card text, because no boards are recorded.; Interaction and resilience reads from the card text.
• Provisional: Matchup and format fit, because no tournament or dated metagame sample exists.
• Data gaps: No recorded boards, so the floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference. No tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record are absent. No win-rate telemetry exists, so going-first, going-second and matchup results are unknown. Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied. The usage comparison marks Linkuriboh as absent, but the card list runs it in the Extra Deck, so that comparison appears to cover the Main Deck only. No side deck and no guide evidence are attached to this deck.