Evil Eye Deck #520138 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 40/100 (±6 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Evil Eye Link/Xyz boards (Gorgoneio/Selene equip loop, Zerrziel and Gorgon) converting through Evil Eye Selene removal and attack pressure; Xyz/Link extra-deck closers such as Xyz Armor Fortress, Super Starslayer TY-PHON, and D/D/D Deus Machinex
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a 3-card Evil Eye starter (Basilius, Serziel, Evil Eyes Unleashed or Domain Pareidolia) and search Evil Eye of Gorgoneio or Selene to build a Link/Xyz board
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom and Maxx C in hand to stop the opponent's first starter, then rebuild through Basiltrice and Catoblepas recursion from the GY
• Recovery: Basilius and Basiltrice recursion from the GY, Evil Eye Repose draw, and Evil Eye Awakening re-summons from the GY
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs zero side-deck cards

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens an Evil Eye engine: the 26-copy archetype core has a 99.7% chance of at least one hit in a 5-card opening hand, and the 13 searcher-text cards give about 88% for a searcher. Its interaction is dense, with five hand traps, Evil Eye Retribution, Gorgon and Selene negation/removal, and Harpie's Feather Duster, and its extra-deck closers reach 2500-3000 ATK. The score is held down because the list is illegal in OCG (Forbidden Called by the Grave, plus Ash Blossom and Maxx C over their limits), there are no recorded boards, no tournament data, and no side deck. Archetype popularity and usage stats confirm the list is real but did not add points, and no card scores were averaged; the score comes from the system's consistency, interaction, and closing power, with the illegal-list cap applied.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 58, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (illegal copy counts) (-6). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 0.80*58 + 0.20*48 - 6 = 50, then Illegal cap (min(50, 40)) = 40; theoretical/structural-only

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 1 · 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

• Core Evil Eye engine is almost always live in the opening hand (Inferred)
• Dense, layered interaction: 5 hand traps, Retribution, Gorgon/Selene negation and destruction (Inferred from text)
• Extra-deck closers at 2500-3000 ATK (Verified)

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: Forbidden Called by the Grave and two over-limit staples (Verified)
• No side deck at all, so no post-side adaptability (Verified)
• 26 off-archetype copies and mixed Xyz/D/D picks dilute the engine (Verified)

Critical choke points

• Evil Eye of Selene in the Spell & Trap Zone is the key to the Gorgon/Zerrziel loop; its removal shuts down the board (Inferred from text)
• Going-second hands without a hand trap or Evil Eye starter (Inferred)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Illegal (Called by the Grave Forbidden x2; Ash Blossom 3 vs 2; Maxx C 2 vs 1); Deck size 40 Main / 15 Extra / 0 Side; Archetype core copies: 26; exact-name purity 52.7%; Archetype usage: 12 of 23 core cards present (52.2%)
• Inferred: Starter P(>=1 in 5-card hand) 0.997 for the archetype core; Going-second hand-trap P 0.577; Interaction density and recursion read from card text; Combo ceiling from the Selene equip loop text
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit (no dated metagame sample); Median output (no recorded boards)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median, and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry in YGOVN: going-first/second, matchup, and brick/starter rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample Deck has no side deck, so D12 has no performance basis