Solemn Deck #595166 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 40/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Control
• Secondary strategies: Combo, Toolbox
• Format: tcg

Legality

Main 48 / Extra 13 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Gravekeeper's Fusion (Supernaturalist) and Utopia/Knightmare Phoenix beatdown once Necrovalley is live and the opponent's board has been cleared by interaction (Inferred).; Attrition: Solemn traps, Royal Decree, Unending Nightmare, Raigeki and Harpie's Feather Duster grind the opponent out of cards (Inferred).
• Turn 1 (going first): Commandant discard search for Necrovalley (P(at least one Commandant in 5) = 0.29), set Solemn/Royal Decree, use Spy or Headman to build a Gravekeeper's field (Inferred).
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand-trap the opening starter with Veiler, Ash, Nibiru or Infinite Impermanence (P(at least one hand trap in 6) = 0.69), then Solemn or Raigeki on the follow-up (Inferred).
• Recovery: Pot of Desires and Pot of Extravagance draw; Headman and Descendant recover Gravekeeper's monsters from the GY; Commandant recycles Necrovalley (Inferred).
• After siding: None: the deck runs 0 side cards, so there is no post-side plan (verified gap).

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system, not as an average of its cards. Its real strength is interaction density: 8 hand traps, three Solemns, Royal Decree, Unending Nightmare, Raigeki, Feather Duster and Imperial Tombs give it a broad, layered answer set, especially going second (Inferred). The Gravekeeper's engine is the plan that wins, but it is fragile: Necrovalley (3 copies) is only reachable through Commandant (3) and the Throne searches monsters, not Necrovalley, so Necrovalley access is roughly a coin flip on the opening draw (Inferred). Two Hidden Temples of Necrovalley also stop 10 of the 13 Extra Deck monsters (all non-Gravekeeper's Xyz and Link) from being Special Summoned while active, so the Extra Deck is partly self-conflicting. No combo boards, tournament results, or side deck exist, so floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference and confidence is capped at Medium. Popularity of the Solemn name earned no points; the deck is mainly Gravekeeper's (28 copies), and the score was not raised by averaging the card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Control. Structural ≈ 53, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 64, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 42. Modifiers: Hidden Temples extra-deck lock (-4); Engine conflicts (-3); Zero side deck (-2); Necrovalley choke point (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.5 · 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

• Very high interaction density: 8 hand traps, 3 Solemns, Royal Decree, Unending Nightmare, Raigeki, Feather Duster, Infinite Impermanence and Imperial Tombs.
• Strong going-second answers that do not need the engine to be live.
• Real card-advantage tools: two Pot of Desires and Pot of Extravagance, plus Gravekeeper's recursion through Headman and Descendant.

Weaknesses

• Necrovalley access depends on Commandant alone, so the engine is not reliably live on turn 1 or 2.
• Hidden Temples of Necrovalley locks out most of the Extra Deck, including Xyz and Link threats, and so conflicts with the deck's own threats.
• Off-archetype singletons (Gameciel, Pankratops, Nibiru, Pots, Allure) dilute the plan and add conditional bricks.
• No side deck at all, so the deck cannot adapt between games.
• Weak closing pressure; the win conditions are few and fragile.

Critical choke points

• Necrovalley is the engine's single center: without it, Gravekeeper's Fusion, Hidden Temples and Royal Tribute do nothing.
• Commandant (3 copies) is the only searcher for Necrovalley; losing it to hand traps or a board wipe cuts the engine off.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 48 main and 13 extra are within the TCG size rules; Limited and Semi-Limited copy counts are within limits.; Card texts for Necrovalley, Hidden Temples, Commandant, Solemn traps and hand traps, taken from the evidence excerpts.; Archetype spread: Gravekeeper's 28, generic 18, Solemn 4 exact.; Side deck count is 0.
• Inferred: Hypergeometric draw odds for starters, hand traps and searchers.; Interaction density and going-second answer coverage from card text.; Engine conflict between Hidden Temples and the Xyz/Link Extra Deck.; All 14 dimension scores and the Control-profile structural score.
• Provisional: Meta power is null: no dated metagame sample.; D13 matchup and format fit: no tournament link.
• 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 (going-first/second, matchup, brick or starter rates). Side deck is empty (0 cards): no post-side evidence. Usage statistics come from only 2 rows (9-deck sample inferred), so the core-card read is weak. Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied.