Superheavy Samurai Deck #600081 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Stun, Toolbox, Link, Xyz
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Rescue-ACE board of 2800-3000 ATK monsters (Turbulence, Preventer, Fire Engine, Fire Attacker) backed by Link and Xyz closers (Raging Phoenix, Zealantis, TY-PHON); structural read only, no recorded boards.; Superheavy Samurai pendulum and Link extension through Wakaushi, Motorbike and Big Benkei; low exact-name purity means this is a mixed build, not a pure SSam line.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Rescue-ACE or SSam starter (Impulse, Hydrant, Air Lifter, Wakaushi, Motorbike), search with ALERT!/Air Lifter/Motorbike, then bridge into a Link Summon with hand traps held up for the opponent's first interaction. Probability of a searcher in the opening 5 is about 0.72 (Inferred).
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold hand traps (Nibiru, Effect Veiler, Ghost Ogre, Droll, Evenly Matched, Artifact Lancea) to answer the opponent's first board, then pivot into Rescue-ACE recursion. About 0.87 chance of at least one hand trap in the opening 6 (Inferred).
• Recovery: Recover through Rescue-ACE GY recursion (Impulse, Air Lifter, Preventer, Turbulence banish costs) and ALERT!/RESCUE! to re-add or re-summon monsters after a disruption.
• After siding: Not available: the deck runs no Side Deck (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

This is an Illegal OCG list: Droll & Lock Bird is run 3 times against a limit of 1, and Called by the Grave and Number 41: Bagooska are Forbidden but run once each. Under the rubric's legality rule the final score is capped low and this evaluation is structural-only. The structural read is a Midrange hand-trap and Rescue-ACE shell with a 0.72 searcher-in-hand-5 estimate and a 0.87 hand-trap-in-hand-6 estimate, which is what gives it its interaction and going-second value. Floor and median output are weak because no recorded boards exist, and the build is split across Rescue-ACE and Superheavy Samurai (exact-name purity 11.4%) with no Side Deck. The score is not raised by Superheavy Samurai's guide mentions or any archetype popularity, and no card scores were averaged into it.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary; Stun secondary used only as disclosure, weights not blended. Structural ≈ 50, Going First ≈ 42, Going Second ≈ 56, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12). Final formula: Pre-cap: 0.80*Structural(50) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(40) + Modifiers(-12) = 36; Illegal legality cap applied, final = 30 (structural-only, Meta provisional)

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 negation package (15 hand-trap-role copies, 9 negation-text) gives strong going-second interaction.
• Rescue-ACE recursion and searchers (Impulse, Air Lifter, ALERT!, RESCUE!) support recovery after disruption.
• High-ATK end-board options (Turbulence 3000, Preventer 2800, Fire Engine 2500) and multiple Link closers.

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Droll & Lock Bird over copy limit, and two Forbidden cards run.
• Low exact-name archetype purity (11.4%) splits the engine across Rescue-ACE, SSam and generic cards.
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptation.
• Many situational hand traps raise brick and dead-card risk in opening hands.

Critical choke points

• Forbidden cards (Called by the Grave, Number 41) must be removed before any legal evaluation is possible.
• A Rescue-ACE monster on the field is required for most hand traps and Rescue-ACE spells to function.
• The searcher-in-hand estimate of 0.72 means roughly one in four openings lacks a searcher on turn 1.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Droll & Lock Bird run 3 vs legal 1; Called by the Grave and Number 41 are Forbidden with 1 copy each.; Main 55 and Extra 15 are within the OCG size rules; Side 0 is legal but leaves no sideboard.; Exact-name archetype purity is 11.4% (8 of 70 archetype-named copies).; Usage statistics show 0 of 25 core cards present.
• Inferred: P(>=1 searcher in opening 5) ≈ 0.72 and P(>=1 hand trap in opening 6) ≈ 0.87 from hypergeometric estimates.; Interaction density (negation and removal text roles) supports the D7 score.; Going-second advantage from hand-trap density.
• Provisional: Meta Power is null: no dated metagame sample exists.; Matchup fit (D13) is provisional: tournament_context is unavailable.
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference. No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record are absent. No win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchup, brick or OTK rates. No Side Deck: post-side performance cannot be evaluated. Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample.