Skull Servant Deck #577423 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 55/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 54 / Extra 13 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Zombie-engine beatdown and Extra Deck summons (Gashadokuro 3300, Yoko 2900, Yuki-Onna 2900, Red-Eyes 2800, Felgrand 2800) enabled by Skull Servant and Wight searches plus GY recursion.; King of the Skull Servants and Wightprince GY recursion to rebuild boards after a disruption; Yuki-Onna and Felgrand supply negation and removal on the field.
• Turn 1 (going first): Turn 1: Level 1 monster (Moissa Wight, Wightbaking, Wightmare or Wightlord) to search Skull Servant or a Wight card, plus Where Arf Thou? or Curse of the Ancient Turtle to reach a Zombie Synchro or Link.
• Turn 2 (going second): Six-card hand with an archetype starter (about 0.30 per copy of a 3-copy card) and a Zombie Tuner or Level 1 for the Synchro; the deck has no hand traps, so the plan relies on the summon itself.
• Recovery: Return the Skull Servant and Wight cards from GY through Wightprince, King of the Skull Servants, Gozuki and Mezuki, then re-Synchro or Link from the rebuilt field.
• After siding: No side deck is registered (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan in the evidence; the post-side score is provisional.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens an archetype card: the archetype core group is about 99.5% likely to have at least one copy in a 5-card opener, and roughly 14 of the 24 standard core cards are present. Its recursion package (Wightprince, King of the Skull Servants, Gozuki, Mezuki) and six searchers let it rebuild after one interruption, which lifts resilience and resource economy. Its closing power comes from a strong Extra Deck of 3000-plus ATK Synchro and Link monsters. It scores less on interaction, because it has no hand traps or floodgates, its only negation sits on Link and Synchro monsters, and it has no side deck. Popularity and archetype usage were not credited as power, and the card scores were not averaged; the score comes from the system's engine, recovery and closing, with a penalty for the self-harming discard spells and the missing post-side plan.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo (D13 dropped and renormalised to 97). Structural ≈ 59, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 52. Modifiers: No side deck / weak post-side plan (-3); Engine conflict (self-discard) (-2); Zombie engine compactness (2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); Structural meta-neutral (D13 dropped) = 59.3, TR 52, pre-modifier 57.8, modifiers −3 → 54.8 rounded to 55

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

• Dense Skull Servant and Wight search package that reliably opens a starter
• Strong GY recursion (Wightprince, King of the Skull Servants, Gozuki, Mezuki) gives multiple routes after disruption
• High-ATK Extra Deck closers (Gashadokuro, Yoko, Yuki-Onna, Red-Eyes, Felgrand)

Weaknesses

• No hand traps or floodgates, so going second has little answer to an established board
• No side deck, so no post-side plan
• Self-harming discard spells and four weak one-of spells lower consistency

Critical choke points

• Level 1 starter needed for the Synchro/Link chain (22 Level 1 cards, but few are hands-free)
• Single copies of Foolish Burial and Card Destruction add slots without a consistent role

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 54 / Extra 13 / Side 0 is within the OCG size rules; Limited cards (Card Destruction, Foolish Burial, One for One, That Grass Looks Greener) each run 1 copy, which is legal; Card text for the Skull Servant and Wight cards; Usage: Mezuki and Foolish Burial are 100% inclusion in the archetype stats
• Inferred: Consistency: P(at least one archetype starter) ≈ 0.995 from hypergeometric draw; Recursion resilience from GY revival text; Going-second interaction is weak because there are no hand traps
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (D13); Post-side plan (no side deck)
• 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 win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates) Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No side deck registered (side_count 0), so post-side plan is absent Data inconsistency: Relinquished Anima appears in the Extra Deck card list but usage_statistics flags in_this_deck false; not relied upon Data inconsistency: role_tag_counts.negation_text is 0 although Yuki-Onna and Felgrand text includes negation; negation credited from text only