Qliphort Deck #448809 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 53/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 3 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Pendulum-summoned Qliphort bodies (Stealth, Disk, Carrier, Helix) and Apoqliphort Towers pressure through the board, with Qliphort Genius (Link-2) as the only Extra Deck payoff.; Special Summon lock from the Qliphort Pendulum effects ('cannot Special Summon monsters except Qli') plus Skill Drain as a floodgate, so the opponent's Special Summon-based lines stall while the Qli board stays up.
• Turn 1 (going first): Pendulum Summon a scale 1 and scale 9 pair, Normal Summon a Qli monster without Tribute, and use Laser Qlip for a second Qli Normal Summon. Search with Saqlifice or Summoner's Art and keep the Qli lock online.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Urgent Schedule (negated Defense summons) or a Pendulum pair to rebuild a board after the opponent's first turn, then convert with Towers or Qli Pendulum ATK boosts. The deck has no clean hand trap, so this depends on the opponent not having a clear answer.
• Recovery: Qli monsters that go to the Graveyard (Saqlifice, Scout's 800 LP search, Summoner's Art) and the many duplicate Qli starters refill the hand. Qlife's End can revive a Qli-protected board.
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered (Side Deck size 0). There is no evidence-backed post-side plan; a best-of-3 pilot has no adaptation tools.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens into its Qli engine: 19 Qli monsters in 40 cards give roughly a 97% chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand (hand-computed hypergeometric, Inferred), and the scale 1 and scale 9 Pendulum pairs make the Pendulum Summon plan usually available. Its redundancy comes from many 3-copy starters, three search effects and Qli recursion, which give strong resilience to a single disruption. Conversion and median output are scored only from the card text (no recorded boards), so the ceiling and floor are Inferred and low-confidence. Weaknesses are the single-card Extra Deck (three Qliphort Genius, which Pot of Extravagance can banish entirely), the empty Side Deck, and a usage-statistics block that does not match a Qliphort core, so no archetype-fit credit was taken from it. Popularity and meta-share played no part in the score, and card scores were not averaged; the score reflects the system's consistency, engine redundancy and lack of post-side tools.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary; Stun is recorded as secondary context only, not blended into the weights. Structural ≈ 59, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: No Side Deck / no post-side plan (-3); Single Extra Deck card dependence with Extravagance conflict (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional; no dated meta sample supplied)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.97 · 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

• 19 Qli monsters in 40 cards makes starter access very likely
• Pendulum scale pairing (1 and 9) gives a functioning Pendulum plan
• Redundant searchers and Qli recursion help recovery after disruption
• Compact main deck with 19 distinct cards and tech held to singles

Weaknesses

• Single-card Extra Deck (3 Qliphort Genius) with no backup payoff
• Pot of Extravagance and Pot of Prosperity can banish the whole Extra Deck
• Empty Side Deck; no post-side adaptation
• No hand traps, so going-second interaction is thin

Critical choke points

• Qliphort Genius is the only Extra Deck card; if it is banished or stuck in the Extra Deck, the Link-based line is gone
• The Pendulum scale 1 and 9 pair must both be available for the Pendulum plan

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 40, Extra 3, Side 0 within OCG size rules; Copy limits satisfied (Skill Drain, Terraforming, Prosperity at 1; Extravagance at 2); Card text and archetype composition from evidence
• Inferred: Starter access ~0.97 from the 19-card Qli count; Consistency, interaction and recovery scores from card text and hypergeometric draws; Pot of Extravagance conflict with a 3-card Extra Deck
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit (no dated sample); Going-first and going-second splits (no boards)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference usage statistics does not match a Qliphort core: 0 of 25 listed core cards are present, and the list is mostly Chimeratech, Cyber Dragon and Ash Blossom staples. Treated as unreliable, not used to score archetype fit. No tournament link: archetype meta-share and match record absent No win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchup, starter or brick rates No Side Deck supplied Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied