Gishki Deck #537241 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 34/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Stun, Tempo
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 58 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ritual or Link pressure from Evigishki Neremanas (3000 ATK) and Mekk-Knight Crusadia Avramax (3000 ATK), reached through Gishki searchers and Spright or Link bodies; Extra Deck Link and Xyz boards (Worldsea Dragon Zealantis, Gigantic Spright, Spright Sprind) built from the Spright and Marincess pool
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with searchers (Gishki Abyss, Spright Blue, Focused Aquamirror) into a Ritual setup, backed by Ash Blossom and Ice Barrier for protection
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 12 hand traps (Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Evenly Matched, Droll & Lock Bird, Nibiru) to break the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Gishki searchers
• Recovery: Gishki Aquamirror and Focused Aquamirror recycle Gishki Ritual monsters from the GY, but the Ritual Spell count is low, so recovery depends on the GY holding a Ritual target
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

This list is illegal in OCG: three cards exceed their copy limits (Dimensional Barrier 3 vs 1, Droll & Lock Bird 2 vs 1) and Called by the Grave is Forbidden, so the score is capped and reported as structural-only. The Gishki core is not fully present: only 5 of 25 usage-core cards appear (20%), and exact-name archetype purity is 21.9% with 26 generic and 57 off-archetype copies, so the engine reads as a loose mix of Gishki, Spright and Ritual/Link pieces rather than one coherent engine. Interaction is the strongest area: 12 hand traps and about 20 negation-text cards give the deck a real answer density, and going-second hand-trap coverage is about 77% in a six-card hand (Inferred hypergeometric estimate). Opening consistency is weak, since the archetype-core proxy brick rate is about 33% and no combo boards were recorded to confirm conversion, so floor and median output are set low. The score does not come from Gishki being a popular archetype and was not produced by averaging card scores; the 0 side-deck slots also cost the deck on the side-adaptability dimension.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 43, Going First ≈ 38, Going Second ≈ 44, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-8). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional; illegal-deck cap applied)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.24 · 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 interaction: 12 hand traps and about 20 negation-text cards
• Strong top-end bodies at 3000 ATK (Neremanas, Avramax) and 2500 ATK (Zealantis)
• Multiple searchers (18 copies) give some hand-smoothing

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: three cards over copy limit, one Forbidden card
• Engine coherence is low: exact-name archetype purity 21.9%
• No Side Deck, so zero post-side adaptability
• Core usage-stat cards mostly absent (5 of 25 present)

Critical choke points

• Ritual summon requires a Gishki Ritual Spell plus tributes; a missing Ritual Spell or tribute stalls the Ritual line
• Every starter line depends on Gishki searchers, which are thin in copies

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Copy-limit violations (Dimensional Barrier, Droll & Lock Bird, Called by the Grave) and the Forbidden status in OCG; Main 58 / Extra 15 / Side 0 counts against OCG size rules; Card stats and text for listed cards; 5 of 25 usage-core cards present; exact-name purity 21.9%
• Inferred: Starter probabilities (0.24 per 3-copy card, 0.67 archetype core group) and brick rate (about 0.33); Going-second hand-trap coverage (about 0.77 at hand 6); Interaction density and negation estimates from card text; All dimension scores and the structural/final computation
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and matchup fit (D13 placeholder 40) — no dated metagame sample or tournament link
• 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 Side Deck — post-side plan cannot be assessed no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN — going-first/second and matchup signals are Inferred Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied