Gate Guardian Deck #577232 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 5 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ritual Summon LIGHT Ritual Monsters from the Voiceless Voice line (Saffira, Sauravis, Skull Guardian) and convert into large beaters, with Extra Deck closers such as Chaos Angel and Super Starslayer TY-PHON where the line allows.; Extra Deck Link and Fusion beaters (Dyna Mondo, El Shaddoll Construct, Elder Entity N'tss) when the Ritual line is stopped.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Lo, the Prayers of the Voiceless Voice or a Prayers/Blessing ritual route, then Ritual Summon a LIGHT Ritual Monster; keep Ash Blossom or Ghost Belle up for the first opposing response.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the six-card hand for hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Maxx C, Nibiru, Artifact Lancea, Evenly Matched) to break the opponent's first summon, then rebuild the ritual line.
• Recovery: Blessing of the Voiceless Voice and Radiance of the Voiceless Voice return banished or GY Voiceless Voice cards; Prayers and Lo can be reused after a hand trap or Maxx C.
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered (side 0), so there is no post-side plan; the evaluator cannot credit any sideboarding.

Why it scores here

The list is illegal in OCG (three Limited or Semi-Limited copy overages and two Forbidden cards), so the score is theoretical and structural only and is capped at 30. As built, the deck opens its Voiceless Voice ritual line with about a 25 percent chance of at least one Lo in the opening five cards (Inferred), and it has a dense hand-trap and interaction suite (about 84 percent chance of at least one hand trap in a six-card going-second hand, Inferred). Its ceiling is high because its LIGHT ritual beaters and Extra Deck closers reach 2500 to 3500 ATK, but there are no recorded boards, so median output and combo conversion are text-based and low-confidence. Popularity and archetype label were not credited: only 2 of 13 archetype core cards are present, and the Gate Guardian label is not the engine actually built. The score comes from the deck system (interaction, going-second pressure and closing power against brick risk and a bloated 56-card main) and not from an average of card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 48, Going First ≈ 42, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); no side deck (-3). Final formula: Final = 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers = 0.80*48.3 + 0.20*35 - 11 = 34.6, then capped at 30 because the deck is Illegal (theoretical/structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.25 · 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 hand-trap and interaction suite with redundant copies
• Strong LIGHT ritual beaters and Extra Deck closers on paper
• Recursion through Blessing and Radiance

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy limits and two Forbidden cards
• 56-card main with 19 singletons and 20 tech cards
• No side deck
• Ritual line needs specific ritual spells and a LIGHT target, so many hands bricked

Critical choke points

• Lo, the Prayers of the Voiceless Voice as the ritual engine piece (3 copies, about 25 percent in opening five)
• Prayers of the Voiceless Voice or Blessing as the only ritual route

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Illegal, five copy-limit violations, two Forbidden cards; Composition: 56 main, 15 extra, 0 side; 34 distinct main cards; Usage: 2 of 13 archetype core cards present
• Inferred: Opening-hand estimates from hypergeometric draw tables; Hand-trap coverage at going second; Interaction quality from card text; Ceiling from card text only
• Provisional: Meta power and format fit (no dated meta sample or tournament link)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied, so combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent No win-rate telemetry exists for this deck No Side Deck, so post-side performance cannot be scored Deck title is null; archetype label Gate Guardian does not match the engine built