Prank-Kids Deck #456702 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Stun, Toolbox
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 5 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Prank-Kids Link and Fusion monsters (Battle Butler at 3000 ATK, Rip-Roarin-Roaster at 3000 ATK) closing through the board; Repeated Prank-Kids recursion from the Graveyard feeding further Link and Fusion summons
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Prank-Kids Place or a 3-copy Prank-Kids monster, then use the Graveyard-send effects of Lampsies, Rocksies, Dropsies and Fansies to special summon further Prank-Kids monsters and set up a Link or Fusion boss
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler, Infinite Impermanence or Nibiru to interrupt the opponent's first engine, then rebuild through Prank-Kids Pranks and the Graveyard recursion effects
• Recovery: Recover from the Graveyard through Prank-Kids Dodo-Doodle-Doo and Bow-Wow-Bark, which return Prank-Kids cards from the Graveyard to the hand; Pranks shuffles three from the Graveyard back for a card
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs no Side Deck cards

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens its Prank-Kids engine: 21 core copies make at least one core card likely in an opening hand, and three-copy starters give a consistent first turn. Its conversion depends on Link and Fusion summons out of the Extra Deck, so the score rests on the structure of those lines rather than on any recorded boards, of which there are none. Interaction is its strongest area, with 11 hand traps and about 9 removal or negation effects that can answer a first engine on either turn. The score is capped because the list is illegal in the OCG format: three Forbidden cards are run, and Ash Blossom, Maxx C and Called by the Grave exceed their copy limits. Popularity of the archetype did not earn points, and the card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo primary with Stun secondary for hand-trap interaction; the Structural score is shown for theory only. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); dependence_on_one_extra_card (-2). Final formula: Illegal list: theoretical structural score only (Combo profile, Structural about 55); the standard Final formula is withheld and the Final score is capped at 30 for the three Forbidden cards and copy-limit violations

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.98 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.02 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• 21 core Prank-Kids cards make a live opening hand very likely
• 11 hand traps and about 9 removal or negation effects cover both turns
• Graveyard recursion gives several ways to rebuild after an interruption
• Battle Butler and Rip-Roarin-Roaster give 3000-ATK closing threats

Weaknesses

• Three Forbidden cards and three copy-limit violations make the list illegal
• Only 56.4% of the Main Deck is exact archetype, so the engine is diluted
• No Side Deck, so there is no post-side adaptation
• No recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and median cannot be confirmed

Critical choke points

• Prank-Kids Place and the Lampsies/Dropsies/Fansies/Rocksies starter set, whose removal would leave the deck without a first turn
• The Forbidden Link 1 Meow-Meow-Mu, which the Prank-Kids Link lines depend on

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality status Illegal with five copy-limit violations, three of them Forbidden; Main Deck 40 and Extra Deck 15 meet the OCG size rules; Archetype purity is 56.4%, with 24 off-archetype copies; The deck runs no Side Deck cards; Extra Deck breakdown is 10 Link, 4 Fusion and 1 Xyz
• Inferred: Opening-hand probability of at least one core Prank-Kids card is about 0.98; Interaction density from hand-trap and removal card text; Recursion and resource regeneration from card text; Going-second interaction strength from hand traps and Nibiru
• Provisional: Median output and ceiling, because no recorded boards exist; Format fit, because no dated metagame or tournament sample exists
• Data gaps: No recorded combos are supplied, so the median and ceiling are estimated from card text only No tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot results are absent No win-rate telemetry for going first, going second, matchups or brick rate; these are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is provisional because no dated metagame sample is supplied The deck has no title and no guides are attached