Nimble Deck #456602 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 9 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck boss monsters (Toadally Awesome, Knightmare Unicorn, Gigantic Spright, Mannequin Cat) built from Nimble and Spright bodies, with hand traps protecting the line; Nibiru, the Primal Being special summon after the opponent summons 5 or more monsters, as a board-reset finisher
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Nimble Beaver or Spright starter bodies plus one searcher (Spright Jet or Spright Blue), then hold hand traps (Infinite Impermanence, Effect Veiler, Ash Blossom) for the opponent's turn while building a Link or Xyz boss
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the six-card hand to present one hand trap or Effect Veiler against the opponent's first engine, then rebuild a board through Nimble Angler and Spright Red/Carrot negation with a Link or Xyz follow-up
• Recovery: Recover from a disrupted hand through Spright searchers, Nimble Angler GY-send summons and Gigantic Spright, which can rebuild from the GY
• After siding: No side deck is listed, so no post-side plan can be assessed; a best-of-3 build would need one before it could be rated

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system: it is a Nimble and Spright hybrid with 16 hand traps, 8 searcher-text cards and an 9-card Extra Deck of Xyz, Link and Synchro bosses, and no card score was averaged in. Its reliable parts are the hand-trap density, which gives a 96% chance of at least one hand trap in a six-card going-second hand, and the Extra Deck bosses at 1600 to 2200 ATK. It does not reliably open a plan: P(at least one searcher in five cards) is about 69%, and with 16 hand traps going first a meaningful share of hands will be dead. No combo boards, tournament result or dated meta data exist, so the combo floor, median and ceiling scores are structural guesses and Meta Power is provisional. Popularity of the archetype did not earn points. The list fails legality (Ash Blossom over by one, Droll over by two, and one Forbidden Herald), so the structural score of about 49 is capped at 30 under the rubric's illegal-deck rule. The score therefore describes the structure only, not a legal playable deck.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 49, Going First ≈ 45, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-6). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 0.80*49 + 0.20*40 - 6 = 41.2; Illegal deck capped to 30 per rubric Step 2 (structural/theoretical only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.69 · 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 suite (16) gives strong going-second interaction
• Extra Deck bosses (Toadally Awesome, Knightmare Unicorn, Gigantic Spright) provide multiple boss options
• Recursion via Nimble Angler and Gigantic Spright

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: three cards over copy limit or Forbidden
• No side deck
• Low archetype purity (10.2%), so the engine is diffuse
• No recorded combos, so consistency and power are inferred only

Critical choke points

• Single-copy Spright and Nimble searchers are the only route to a live starter going first
• Dependence on the Forbidden Herald is removed by legality, which leaves the Extra Deck thinner

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status with three violations (Ash Blossom 3 vs 2, Droll 3 vs 1, Herald Forbidden); Main 40 and Extra 9 are within size rules; Archetype purity 10.2% from composition data
• Inferred: Searcher and hand-trap probabilities from the hypergeometric table; Hand-trap density effects on going-first and going-second hands; Engine accessibility and resilience reads from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power is null; Matchup fit and side-deck adaptability cannot be measured
• 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 for going-first, going-second, matchup or brick rates Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No side deck supplied for best-of-3 evaluation