Kuriboh Deck #46149 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 20/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Eyes Restrict and Relinquished fusion/ritual boards that equip and remove opposing monsters, closing with Starving Venom Predapower Fusion Dragon or Predaplant Triphyoverutum; Starving Venom Fusion Dragon and Dharc as additional boards once the Extra Deck is reachable
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a searcher (Sangan, Tour Guide, Pre-Preparation or Mediclius-style searches are not present, so rely on Sangan, Millennium-Eyes Illusionist, Pre-Preparation) into Ritual or Fusion access; Gozen Match is dead in this list and cannot be counted on
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash-style hand traps (none present) is unavailable; rely on Evenly Matched and Dark-Eyes Illusionist for force-interaction against a board, then convert through Relinquished Fusion
• Recovery: Golden-Eyes Idol and Millennium-Eyes Illusionist can be banished or discarded to re-equip monsters; Relinquished Fusion recurs from GY
• After siding: Not evaluable: side deck is empty (0 cards), so no post-side plan exists

Why it scores here

The list is illegal in TCG: it runs 3 copies of Gozen Match (Forbidden) and 3 copies of Pre-Preparation of Rites (Limited to 1), so the normal Final Contextual formula is not applied and the score is capped as a structural-only read. Structurally, the deck has a real searcher and ritual/fusion engine (about 78% chance of at least one searcher in a 5-card hand) and a reasonable Extra Deck of Eyes Restrict, Predaplant and Link pieces, but the Main Deck is only 19 distinct cards with 53 off-archetype copies, so the Eyes Restrict engine is thin and conflicting. Recorded combos are absent, so floor, median and ceiling are text-only inferences and are kept separate. Interaction is the strongest area (negation and equip-based removal in the Extra Deck), while the empty Side Deck and missing tournament or win-rate data keep the score low. Popularity of the Kuriboh label and the usage table (no core cards present) earned no points, and no card scores were averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 40, Going First ≈ 38, Going Second ≈ 30, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 30. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12). Final formula: Illegal: normal Final not applied. Structural 40 with TournamentReliability 30 gives 0.80*40 + 0.20*30 = 38 before modifiers; modifier -12 gives 26; theoretical cap for illegal lists sets the final score to 20 (structural-only).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.78 · 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 searcher density (10 searcher-text cards; ~78% chance of one in opening 5)
• Layered Extra Deck interaction (negation and equip-based removal)
• Strong closing boards via Starving Venom and Predaplant Triphyoverutum

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Gozen Match is Forbidden and Pre-Preparation of Rites exceeds its Limited cap
• Only 2 exact-name Kuriboh cards; 53 off-archetype copies make the engine incoherent
• Side Deck is empty, so no post-side adaptability
• Gozen Match occupies 3 slots as a dead card in this list

Critical choke points

• Extra Deck access via Relinquished/Fusion recursion depends on a few GY-recursion cards
• Forbidden Gozen Match in-format makes any hand containing it non-functional

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Gozen Match Forbidden (3 run), Pre-Preparation Limited (3 run vs 1 allowed); Main 40, Extra 15, Side 0 (size legal for TCG main/extra; side empty); Usage stats available with no core cards present
• Inferred: Opening-hand probabilities for starter and searcher access; Brick and conflict estimates from copy histogram and card text; Interaction quality from negation and removal text
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit (no tournament or win-rate data)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied (combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only) No tournament link, archetype meta-share or per-pilot match record No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates) Side Deck is empty Deck title is null