Graydle Deck #445865 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 61/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Graydle Dragon and Stardust Dragon / White Aura Whale synchro boards, backed by Charmer link monsters that recur from the Graveyard; Knightmare and Charmer link boards that take over opposing monsters or keep pressure up with recursion
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on a Graydle Slime or Slime Jr., use the Graydle monsters for a Synchro or Link line toward Graydle Dragon or a Charmer, and keep Infinite Impermanence or Starlight Road up for the opponent's first play
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold one or more of the six hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Ghost Mourner, Effect Veiler, D.D. Crow, Nibiru) to disrupt the first board, then rebuild through Graydle Slime recursion and the Extra Deck
• Recovery: Use Graydle Slime and Charmer recursion from the Graveyard, plus Graydle Impact's end-phase search, to rebuild after a board is cleared
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck opens reliably: 23 Graydle main-deck copies give about a 99% chance of at least one Graydle card in an opening 5, although any single three-copy starter is only about a 34% draw. Its strength is interaction and recovery rather than raw combo output: seven hand traps plus several removal and steal effects cover the first turns, and Graydle Slime and Charmer recursion rebuild after disruption. Its ceiling is set by Graydle Dragon and the link and synchro extra-deck options, but no recorded boards exist to confirm the typical output, so the median and ceiling are text-based inferences. Popularity was not used to earn points, and the score comes from the deck as one system, not from averaging individual card scores. The deck has no side deck, which caps its post-side adaptability and lowers the final score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 62.5, Going First ≈ 64, Going Second ≈ 68, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: No side deck (-2); Shared Aqua-tuner engine (1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); Structural 62.5, TR 58, modifiers -1 = 61

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.99 · 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 negation package (seven hand traps) that covers both going-first and going-second turns
• Graydle Slime and Charmer recursion rebuilds after disruption
• Graydle Dragon and high-ATK synchros and links give real closing power

Weaknesses

• No side deck, so the deck cannot adapt between games
• Several singleton or staple trap and spell slots need specific targets and can dead-draw
• Archetype cohesion is only about 47% exact-name, so engine coherence depends on the staple slots

Critical choke points

• Only two Aqua tuners (Graydle Slime and Graydle Slime Jr.) feed Graydle Dragon, so losing both shuts down the Dragon line

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal OCG list: 40 main, 15 extra, 0 side; Ash Blossom at 1 copy of its 2-copy limit; Card text and stats are taken from the evidence pack; Archetype exact-name count is 26 (23 main plus 3 Graydle Dragon)
• Inferred: At least one Graydle main-deck card in an opening 5 ≈ 0.99; A single three-copy starter in an opening 5 ≈ 0.34; Hand-trap coverage, layering, and recursion read from card text; Going-first and going-second reads from text and hand-trap probability
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament link)
• Data gaps: No recorded boards exist, so combo floor, median, and ceiling are text-only inferences No tournament link, so archetype meta share and per-pilot record are absent No win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, or matchups The archetype usage list shows core cards from other archetypes (Mitsurugi, Ruler of the End of the World, Demise), so the 4% core-card share is not meaningful for Graydle No side deck is registered, so post-side performance cannot be assessed