Dark World Deck #457597 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 43/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox
• Format: tcg

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Discard Dark World monsters to trigger draw and special summon engine monsters; Hand‑trap disruption and floodgate control
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with The Gates of Dark World, discard a Dark World monster to add another Dark World card and draw, then set up a discard chain (e.g., Snoww → Genta) for early board development
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the six‑card hand to include a hand trap (Droll & Lock Bird) or Dimensional Barrier, then discard to fuel the Dark World engine and respond to the opponent’s board
• Recovery: Leverage Dark World Archives, Allure of Darkness and draw engines to refill the hand and resurrect discarded Dark World monsters from the GY
• After siding: No side deck; the list relies on its main‑deck consistency alone

Why it scores here

The deck attempts a discard‑driven Dark World combo engine but is hampered by illegal cards and a very large, low‑purity main deck, which makes opening consistency poor and raises brick risk. Although it contains strong draw and disruption tools, the lack of a side deck and the reliance on many conditional effects lower resilience and pilotability. Scores reflect the theoretical engine potential rather than actual tournament performance, and the illegal status further caps its power.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 46.7, Going First ≈ 40, Going Second ≈ 45, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 30. Modifiers: Illegal cards (Forbidden) (-10); Over‑copy violations (-5). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*Tournament (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.56 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.44 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Strong discard‑draw engine when it activates
• Multiple hand traps and floodgates for disruption
• High potential boss monster ATK

Weaknesses

• Illegal card violations make the list unplayable
• Low archetype purity and many 3‑copy filler increase brick rate
• No side deck, no post‑side adaptation
• Complex conditional discarding raises pilot error

Critical choke points

• Reliance on The Gates of Dark World and discard triggers to start the engine
• Presence of Illegal cards that must be removed for legality

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality status confirmed by legality section; Card text excerpts verified in cards section
• Inferred: Engine accessibility probability from archetype core; Brick risk from copy histogram and core probability; Combo ceiling and floor based on card effects and typical lines; Resource economy from draw engines; Interaction density from floodgate and negation cards; Going‑second hand‑trap probability from hand_trap_group; Boss monster ATK from card stats
• Provisional: Matchup format fit due to missing tournament data
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text‑only inference no tournament link — archetype meta‑share and per‑pilot match record absent no win‑rate telemetry exists in YGOVN (going‑first/second, matchup, game‑level, brick/starter/OTK rates) — those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied