Dark World Deck #440185 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 8 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Dark World Fiend boss monsters (Grapha Dragon Overlord, Danger! Thunderbird, Lava Golem) and Link/Xyz beatdown after a Dark World starter builds board; Graveyard recursion of Dark World monsters into repeated Special Summons (Inferred from text)
• Turn 1 (going first): Dark World searcher (Genta, Snoww, Reign-Beaux) plus Gates or Dark Corridor to fetch the next engine piece; the forbidden Extra-Deck link/xyz pieces are not available in this legal list
• Turn 2 (going second): Droll & Lock Bird and D.D. Crow as hand interaction, then discard-engine Dark World monsters to recover board presence (Inferred)
• Recovery: Returning Dark World monsters to the hand from the GY and re-searching via Dark Corridor and Dark World Accession (Inferred from card text)
• After siding: No side deck is registered (side count 0), so there is no post-side plan to evaluate

Why it scores here

This list is Illegal: eight copies of Forbidden cards and one Limited overage (Droll & Lock Bird at 2 copies) break the TCG rules, so the score is capped at 25 and is theoretical or structural only. The structural read is that the Dark World core is reasonably reliable: P(at least one of the 16 archetype-core copies in a 5-card opening hand) is about 0.83, and 14 searcher-text cards add redundancy. Recovery and interruption are moderate because many Dark World monsters can revive or re-search from the GY. Conversion is text-only, since no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling and median are both Inferred. Popularity and usage stats confirm the Dark World shell is real, but they did not earn points, and the score is not an average of card scores. Eight of the 15 Extra Deck slots are used by Forbidden or Limited Link and Xyz pieces, which further reduces the legal engine.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 54, Going First ≈ 56, Going Second ≈ 48, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-6); no side deck (-4). Final formula: Illegal list: uncapped 0.80*Structural(54) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(40) + modifiers(-10) = 41; capped to 25 per rubric (theoretical/structural only). Meta provisional.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.83 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.17 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dark World searcher density (14 searcher-text cards) gives a reasonable opening-hand engine chance
• Multiple independent starters and GY revival routes support recovery after disruption
• Boss monsters around 3000 ATK provide closing power

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: 8 Forbidden copies and one Limited overage
• Extra Deck is 5 Forbidden cards out of 15, leaving 10 legal Extra slots
• Six sub-archetypes with 34.3% exact-name purity hurt engine coherence
• No side deck
• No recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and median are unmeasured

Critical choke points

• Dimensional Barrier and Called by the Grave are Forbidden and cannot be played in any legal build
• Extra Deck link/xyz engine depends on Forbidden pieces (Knightmare Gryphon, Moon of the Closed Heaven)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Illegal; 8 Forbidden copies and Droll & Lock Bird over its Limited cap; Main 55 and Extra 15 are within size rules; Side 0; Card text and stats for all 45 distinct cards; Archetype usage stats: Dark World core cards absent from this list
• Inferred: Opening-hand engine chance (about 0.83 for the core group); Brick proxy (about 0.17); Interaction and going-second read from card text; Recovery and resource estimates from GY revival text
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit (no dated metagame sample or 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 record are absent No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN (going-first, going-second, matchup, brick and starter rates are Inferred or Unknown) No side deck, so post-side performance cannot be assessed No guides attached for the archetype Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied