Train Deck #540720 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 28/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Stun
• Secondary strategies: Midrange, Control
• Format: tcg

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Tutoring Ancient Gear monsters and grinding through hand traps and interaction; Fusion Summoning board-dominating bosses via Ancient Gear Fusion
• Turn 1 (going first): Search and activate Ancient Gear Fortress for protection; set up Wyvern/Statue loops for extended plays and hand replenishment
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ultimate Slayer and hand traps to disrupt; attempt forced special summons via Urgent Schedule or Geartown recursion to recover
• Recovery: Leverage searcher density and Geartown recursion to rebuild after disruption; Ghost Ogre and Nibiru provide interruption relief
• After siding: No side deck present; structural and piloting adjustment only

Why it scores here

This deck is illegal in TCG format due to running 3 copies of the Limited Solemn Judgment. Setting legality aside structurally, the deck attempts a Stun/midrange hybrid built primarily on Ancient Gear recursion and hand-trap density rather than Train synergy—only 3 Train cards (Urgent Schedule) appear in a 55-card Main. Engine accessibility is hampered by a large deck size (55), low archetype purity (4.3%), and missing core Train tutors like Superdreadnought Rail Cannon Gustav Max and Exceptional Schedule. The hand-trap suite (Nibiru, Ghost Ogre, Mulcharmy Fuwalos/Purulia) provides second-player disruption and resource draw, but the lack of combo evidence, no side deck, and conflicting engines (Ancient Gear, Stun pieces, generic interactive cards) prevent reliable board assembly and post-side adaptation. Consistency is further depressed by 14 cards at 3 copies creating high brick potential, and the searcher core (12 distinct searchers) does not cohere into a unified line. The deck's popularity or archetype meta-share did not influence this score; the evaluation reflects system cohesion and redundancy only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: 60% Stun + 40% Midrange. Structural ≈ 39, Going First ≈ 45, Going Second ≈ 32, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 30. Modifiers: Illegality penalty (-12); Archetype purity deficit (-3); No side deck (-2). Final formula: Structural (39) capped at 28 due to Illegal status; 0.70*39 + 0.30*TournamentReliability(30) = 37, then adjusted to 28 to reflect unplayability (Illegal deck, cannot compete)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.65 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.31 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• High searcher density (12 cards with search mechanics) enables consistent Ancient Gear tutoring
• Geartown recursion provides recovery and Special Summon generation after disruption
• Hand-trap suite (Nibiru, Ghost Ogre, Mulcharmy Fuwalos/Purulia) offers second-player interaction and card advantage
• Forbidden Droplet negation and removal package (Lightning Storm, Ghost Ogre, Ultimate Slayer) for versatile disruption
• Wyvern/Fortress untargetable clause and Advance draw provide modest resource regeneration

Weaknesses

• Deck is Illegal: 3 copies of Limited Solemn Judgment (legal limit 1); cannot be registered or used in sanctioned events
• Oversized Main Deck (55 cards vs. 40-min): reduces opening-hand consistency and increases brick likelihood
• Severe archetype purity deficit (4.3%): only 3 Train cards; missing all core Train tutors (Gustav Max, Exceptional Schedule, Revolving Switchyard, Infinitrack synergies)
• Conflicting engine routes: Ancient Gear normal summons (Wyvern, Statue, Tanker) compete; no unified combo line
• No side deck: cannot adapt post-Game 1; best-of-3 reliability severely limited
• Going-second plan weak: forced special summons via Urgent Schedule/Geartown only work when behind; no robust board-breaker package
• Fusion summoning requires tutors + materials: high setup cost; boards are conditional on Advance activation or recursive setup
• Low metagame positioning: no tournament context; Ancient Gear + Stun is not a current meta staple

Critical choke points

• Solemn Judgment illegality makes deck unregisterable as written
• Oversized deck (55 cards) depresses consistency below viable threshold for competitive play
• Ancient Gear Wyvern is the primary starter; disruption during Normal Summon phase collapses the turn
• Fusion setup requires both searcher hit and materials in hand/field; no tutors for Extra Deck boards
• Going-second plan relies on forced summons via Urgent Schedule; without opponent board space, the card is stuck in hand
• No follow-up after one negation on key pieces (Wyvern, Advance, Fortress); recovery is slow and resource-intensive

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck legality: Illegal (3 Solemn Judgment over copy limit of 1); Main Deck size: 55 (violates min 40, still within max 60; size rule violation not flagged separately, but over-limit is); Extra Deck size: 15 (legal, within 0–15 range); No side deck: 0 cards (legal, optional for single-format testing, but worst-of-3 liability); Banlist status of all cards verified against TCG BanList
• Observed: Archetype composition: Ancient Gear 36% (25 copies), Stun/tech 25% (14 copies), Mulcharmy 9% (6 copies), others 30%; Copy histogram: 14 cards at 3 copies, 4 cards at 2 copies, 5 cards at 1 copy; Card-text roles: 13 negation text, 19 removal text, 12 searcher text, 6 hand-trap cards
• Inferred: P(≥1 archetype starter in hand 5) ≈ 0.65 based on 11-copy core (Ancient Gear Wyvern, Advance, Fortress, Statue, Tanker, Dark Golem, Fusion, Catapult, Ballista, Geartown, Clockwork Night); Brick rate ≈ 0.31 (no hand-trap, no searcher, dead Solemn/interaction in opening 5); Best combo ceiling: Chaos Ancient Gear Giant (4500 ATK, untargetable by Spell/Trap) or Ultimate Ancient Gear Golem (4400 ATK + piercing); median output: Wyvern search + 1 follow-up special summon; Going-first plan: Wyvern → search Advance/Fortress → set up protection + draw engine; not a full negation board; Going-second plan: rely on Urgent Schedule forced summons (conditions: opponent board advantage) and hand-trap disruption; weak without setup; Interruption resilience: 2–3 independent routes (Wyvern vs. Statue vs. Tanker); Geartown recursion provides recovery after 1 disruption; 3-Solemn redundancy (if legal) shores up resilience
• Provisional: Meta Power: null. No dated metagame sample supplied; archetype meta-share and tournament context unavailable. Train is niche; Ancient Gear + Stun hybrid is unproven in current format
• Data gaps: No combo evidence (scored combos = 0); floor/median/ceiling inferred from card text only No tournament context; archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent No guide evidence; strategic intent inferred from card composition and text No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, game-level, brick/starter rates); all consistency signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power cannot be computed without a dated metagame sample No post-side performance data; only theoretical adaptation possible given 0-card side deck