Burning Abyss Deck #633366 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 29/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 43 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: No single proven win condition. Extra Deck Xyz/Link boards (Arc Rebellion Xyz Dragon, Number F0: Utopic Draco Future, Underworld Goddess, Accesscode Talker) close games once a board exists, but the deck offers no reliable route to reach them.; Phantom Knights Break Sword and Rusty Bardiche recursion-based boards.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Phantom Knights or Adventurer starter (Torn Scales, Silent Boots, Water Enchantress, Ancient Cloak) and hope for a Special Summon chain. Hand traps are held back for the opponent's turn.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Maxx C, Droll and Nibiru to interact with the opponent's first summon, then rebuild a board from the Phantom Knights lines. Lightning Storm or Called by the Grave is not available as a legal line here.
• Recovery: Recycle Phantom Knights monsters from the GY through Ancient Cloak and Silent Boots, and use Fog Blade to shut down a single threat.
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The list does not form one engine. Only 1 of 58 main/extra copies carries the exact Burning Abyss name, and the rest is spread across Phantom Knights, Adventurer, Roid, Mulcharmy, Code Talker and several singletons, so the main deck reads as a toolbox. Its starters are 3-copy cards with about a 32% chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand, and the 2-copy Adventurer and Mulcharmy lines are lower, so the deck is inconsistent on turns 1-2. Its interaction density is high (Fog Blade x3, Ash Blossom x2, Maxx C, Droll, Nibiru, Crossout, Lightning Storm), which lifts end-board interaction quality. Two Forbidden cards (Called by the Grave, Triple Tactics Talent) make the list illegal, and there is no side deck, no combo data and no tournament data. The structural read is therefore theoretical only. Popularity and archetype usage were not used to add points, and the card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 43, Going First ≈ 40, Going Second ≈ 35, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); engine conflicts (-4). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(43) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(35) = 41.4, then ContextModifiers (-12) = 29; capped to the Illegal-list outcome. Meta provisional.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.32 · 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

• Interaction density across negates, hand traps and destruction effects
• Multiple Extra Deck threats at 3000 ATK
• Searcher and recursion text give some redundancy across turns

Weaknesses

• No single engine: exact archetype purity 1.7%
• Two Forbidden cards make the list illegal in OCG
• No side deck and no post-side plan
• Dead singletons and conflicting Normal Summons raise brick risk

Critical choke points

• Any single Phantom Knights starter being dead in hand
• Losing the Extra Deck Xyz/Link threats to a single removal or negation

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 43 / Extra 15 / Side 0 sizes are within OCG size rules; Called by the Grave and Triple Tactics Talent are Forbidden and over the limit (0 legal copies); Six Limited cards each run at 1 copy, within limit; Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring is Semi-Limited and runs 2 copies, within limit; Archetype purity exact-name 1.7%; spread across 13 families
• Inferred: Starter probabilities from the hypergeometric table; Brick and consistency reads from the copy histogram; Interaction density from card-text flags; Going-first and going-second power estimates; Extra Deck coherence read
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); D13 matchup and format fit
• Data gaps: No combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot records absent No win-rate telemetry in YGOVN (going-first/second, matchup, brick and starter rates) No side deck, so post-side performance cannot be assessed Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample Deck is Illegal (two Forbidden cards); scored structurally only, with the score capped low