Qliphort Deck #440248 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 54 / Extra 16 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 6 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Qli Pendulum board of 2800 ATK monsters (Qliphort Shell/Cephalopod/Disk) plus Extra Deck boss monsters (Superdreadnought Gustav Max, Juggernaut Liebe, Tyrant Red Dragon Archfiend); Link and Xyz boss monsters (Qliphort Genius, Underworld Goddess, Number 9: Dyson Sphere) with Pendulum-enabled extra-deck access
• Turn 1 (going first): Pendulum Scale a Qli monster, Normal Summon Qliphort Scout or Carrier, search a Qli card with Saqlifice or Qlimate Change, then Pendulum/Link into a 2800-ATK boss. Full line not confirmed: no combo evidence is recorded.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Qli interaction and negation (Disablaster, Qliphort Helix, Sealing Ceremony of Mokuton) and rebuild through Qli searchers. No recorded going-second boards to confirm this.
• Recovery: Recur Qli monsters from the Graveyard through Saqlifice and Qlime-style searchers, plus Small World and Summoner's Art for brick recovery. Recovery depends on the Extra Deck staying intact after interruption.
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs no Side Deck (Side Deck size 0), so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The deck can reliably open a Qli engine: three copies each of Qliphort Scout and Carrier, plus Saqlifice and Laser Qlip, and about an 88% chance of at least one searcher in an opening hand of 5 (hypergeometric, Inferred). Its power ceiling comes from Extra Deck bosses that reach 2800 to 4000 ATK, and it has 19 negation-text and 18 removal-text cards. The score is not driven by Qliphort's popularity or by an average of card scores. It is capped low because the list is illegal: five Forbidden copies and 16 Extra Deck cards against a 15-card OCG maximum. There are no recorded combos or tournament results, so conversion, median output, and matchup fit are text-based inference only. The archetype is split across many sub-archetypes (only 2 of 54 Main Deck cards are the exact archetype name), which weakens engine coherence. The score is a theoretical, structural-only read.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 47, Going First ≈ 46, Going Second ≈ 42, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-6); engine conflicts (-4). Final formula: Meta-neutral: 0.80*Structural(47) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(40) = 45.6, then Illegal cap applied (score capped at 25; list cannot earn a normal Final score)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.26 · 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

• Qli Pendulum and Extra Deck bosses reach 2800 to 4000 ATK
• Heavy searcher density (18 searcher-text cards) gives reliable access to Qli pieces
• 19 negation-text and 18 removal-text cards provide layered interaction on paper

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: five Forbidden copies and an oversized Extra Deck
• Engine dilution across many sub-archetypes; only 2 cards use the exact archetype name
• No Side Deck, so no post-side plan
• No recorded combos or win data to confirm any line

Critical choke points

• Qli Pendulum Zone and Scale setup (Scale 1 to 9 pairs must be live)
• Extra Deck access: removing the Forbidden Link and XYZ cards also removes two boss routes
• Saqlifice and Qli searchers as the only recovery path

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: 5 Forbidden copies, 16 Extra cards against a 15 OCG maximum; Main Deck 54 cards, Extra 16, Side 0; Card texts and banlist statuses from the evidence pack; Hypergeometric probabilities (0.2572 for 3-copy cards; 0.8808 for searcher group)
• Inferred: Qli engine consistency and brick rate; Interaction quality from negation and removal text; Going-first and going-second estimates; Extra Deck access routes and their reliability
• Provisional: Matchup and format fit (no tournament or meta data); Tournament reliability
• 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/second, matchup, brick and starter rates) Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Side Deck is empty, so no post-side evidence exists