Argostars Deck #693357 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 51 / Extra 19 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 5 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Argostars board of Trap-Monster-based Special Summons and Argostars Warriors, closed by Xyz/Fusion/Synchro/Link bosses (Adventurous Arion, Super Starslayer TY-PHON, Garura) and the 500 damage from Home Stadium triggers (Inferred from card text).; Continuous Trap activations plus That's 10! ATK pump to force damage with Warrior monsters (Inferred from card text).
• Turn 1 (going first): Argostars - Giantslaying or Home Stadium to search an Argostars monster, Set a Continuous Trap, and extend through Slayer Eteo / Swift Capane Special Summons (Inferred; the core is Argostars-engine-dependent).
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Droll & Lock Bird, Solemn Judgment) to interrupt, then Glorious Adra or Fierce Parthe to rebuild a Warrior board (Inferred).
• Recovery: Continuous Trap recursion through Lightning Tydeu, Fierce Parthe and Home Stadium's GY/banish add-back; Pot of Prosperity and Pot of Extravagance for card flow (Inferred).
• After siding: Not evaluable: side deck is empty (0 cards), so no post-side plan exists in the submitted list.

Why it scores here

The deck's Argostars core is real and dense: 25 copies of the archetype core give a hypergeometric opening-hand presence of about 0.97 (Inferred), and the Continuous Trap engine (Slayer Eteo, Lightning Tydeu, Swift Capane) gives it a plausible way to keep a board going after a single interruption. Interaction is broad, with several hand traps, Ash Blossom, Solemn Judgment and Infinite Impermanence adding negation coverage. The score is held down by the list itself: it is Illegal, with a 19-card Extra Deck against a limit of 15, a third copy of Super Polymerization against a limit of 2, and three Forbidden cards. It also has an empty Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan, and there are no recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and median are text-only inference. Archetype popularity (75 to 100% inclusion of several core cards) confirms the list is real and accessible but was not counted as power. The structural read was built from the system, not by averaging card scores, and the result is capped as a theoretical, structural-only evaluation.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 44.6, Going First ≈ 40, Going Second ≈ 35, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-6); no side deck (-2). Final formula: Pre-cap: 0.80*Structural(44.6) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(40) + ContextModifiers(-8) = 35.6. Illegal cap applied: theoretical/structural-only score capped at 25. Meta Power provisional (no dated meta sample).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.97 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.03 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense archetype core (25 Argostars-related copies) gives high opening-hand engine presence
• Continuous Trap engine offers recursion and multiple Special Summon routes after one interruption
• Broad negation and hand-trap coverage (Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Droll & Lock Bird, Solemn Judgment)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: 19 Extra Deck cards (limit 15), three Forbidden cards and an over-limit Semi-Limited card
• Empty Side Deck: no post-side plan and no matchup adaptability
• Low archetype purity (25.7%) with many off-archetype and tech copies reduces engine coherence
• No recorded boards, so combo conversion and median output cannot be verified

Critical choke points

• Legal copy limits must be fixed before this list can be played; the current list is not playable in OCG as submitted
• Argostars Continuous Trap engine depends on a few Trap cards; loss of them leaves the Warrior board without its recursion route

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 51 Main, 19 Extra, 0 Side; Extra Deck over the 15-card limit; Copy-limit violations: Super Polymerization 3 vs limit 2; Called by the Grave, Triple Tactics Talent, Naturia Beast Forbidden; Archetype purity 25.7% exact name (18 of 70 archetype-related copies); Archetype core usage stats: 13 of 19 core cards present
• Inferred: Archetype core P(>=1 in opening 5) = 0.972 (hypergeometric); Engine recursion and interaction quality from card text; Going-first and going-second plans from card text; Strategy classification as Midrange with a Combo secondary, from the composition and the Trap-Monster engine text
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); D13 matchup and format fit (no tournament or meta data)
• 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 and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No guides attached for this archetype Side Deck is empty, so post-side behaviour cannot be evaluated