Steelswarm (Inverz) Deck #545554 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 58 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 7 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link/Xyz boards built from Orcust and Mitsurugi pieces, closing through Orcust link monsters and Mitsurugi ritual monsters (Inferred from card text; no recorded combos); Ritual Summon of Ame no Murakumo no Mitsurugi via Mitsurugi Ritual (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Mitsurugi or Orcust starter with Mitsurugi no Mikoto searchers and Orcust Harp Horror or Orcust Knightmare, then link up; hand traps held for the opponent's first activation (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 18 hand traps and Infinite Impermanence / Ash Blossom style interaction to answer the opponent's board, then rebuild through Orcust searchers (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recursion through Orcust Cymbal Skeleton, Orcustrated Babel and Galatea-I from GY and banish; largely unverified because there is no combo data (Inferred)
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs no Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck's score is driven by its system, not by its individual cards or its archetype label. It has a plausible two-engine structure (Orcust link/xyz and Mitsurugi ritual), a heavy interaction suite (18 hand traps, 15 negation-text cards) that carries the going-second game, and 13 searcher-text cards that make the starter reasonably accessible. Against that, it is an illegal list: four Forbidden cards and three over-limit Semi-Limited/Limited cards mean it cannot be played as submitted, so the score is capped at 20 under the legality rule. It also has no Side Deck, no recorded boards, and no tournament or meta data, so floor, median and ceiling are all unmeasured and consistency rests on hypergeometric estimates. The popularity of the Steelswarm (Inverz) label earned no points, because the list contains zero exact-name Steelswarm cards.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary; Toolbox secondary, taken as the Midrange profile without blend adjustment. Structural ≈ 42, Going First ≈ 40, Going Second ≈ 38, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-10); tech dilution (-2); illegal-deck cap (0). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(42) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(35) = 40.6, then modifiers -12 (total), then capped at 20 because the deck is Illegal (copy limit and Forbidden cards). Meta provisional.

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

• Heavy interaction suite: 18 hand traps and 15 negation-text cards give going-second resilience (Inferred)
• Multiple starter lines (Orcust, Mitsurugi, Mulcharmy) reduce single-card dependence (Inferred)
• Searcher density of 13 cards gives about 0.73 odds of at least one searcher in the opening hand (Inferred)

Weaknesses

• Illegal as submitted: four Forbidden cards and three over-limit cards (Verified)
• No Side Deck, so there is no post-side adaptability (Verified)
• No recorded combos or tournament data, so the floor and ceiling are unmeasured (Verified gap)
• Archetype label mismatch: 'Steelswarm (Inverz)' with 0 exact-name Steelswarm cards (Verified)

Critical choke points

• Forbidden cards are removed on the legal list, so any working build must cut the Mitsurugi and Orcust engines' key pieces (Verified)
• Ritual Summon of Mitsurugi monsters depends on Mitsurugi Ritual and Mitsurugi Prayers, which are over-limit (Verified)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 7 copy-limit violations including 4 Forbidden cards; Main 58 cards, Extra 15, Side 0; Main and Extra within size rules; Composition: 18 hand traps, 13 searcher-text, 15 negation-text cards; Archetype exact-name purity 0%
• Inferred: Hypergeometric starter and searcher odds; Strategy classification as Midrange with Toolbox secondary; Going-first and going-second plans from card text
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit (no dated metagame sample)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent No win-rate telemetry in YGOVN; going-first/second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Deck title is null Archetype label 'Steelswarm (Inverz)' does not match any Steelswarm card in the list; the usage-stat core cards are all absent Meta power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied