Performage Deck #693372 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 36/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 44 / Extra 16 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Pendulum-to-Xyz/Link beatsticks (Performage Shadow Maker 2600, Trapeze High Magician 2700, TY-PHON 2900, ZEUS 3000, Utopic Draco Future 3000) backed by Pendulum searchers and negation; Fusion (Performage Trapeze Witch) and Link pressure through Exceed the Pendulum and Abyss Actor Super Producer
• Turn 1 (going first): Pendulum-zone searchers and Performage monsters into an Xyz or Link extender; hand traps held for the opponent's first interaction (Inferred from card text, no recorded boards)
• Turn 2 (going second): Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence and Effect Veiler to slow the opponent's first turn, then Xyz into a 2600+ ATK boss (Inferred, no going-second split recorded)
• Recovery: Performage Trick Clown and Hat Tricker recursion plus Pendulum searches to rebuild a board after a clean removal or negation (Inferred from text)
• After siding: Not assessable: the deck runs zero side cards, so there is no post-side plan at all

Why it scores here

This list is scored as a structural, theoretical read only, because it is Illegal: Ash Blossom is run three times against a two-copy limit, Called by the Grave and Triple Tactics Talent are Forbidden in OCG, and the Extra Deck holds 16 cards against a limit of 15. The deck reliably finds a Performage searcher (about 94% for at least one searcher-text card in a 5-card hand) and can reach a 2600 to 3000 ATK Xyz or Link boss, which drives the closing score. Interaction is real but thin: five hand traps and 17 negation-text cards, with Ash Blossom effectively down to two copies. Consistency is only moderate: just 38% of copies match the exact Performage name, the core-group probability of opening one of its three copies is about 31% in a 5-card hand, and there are many Pendulum bricks with no side deck to cover them. Popularity and archetype usage did not earn points, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 48, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 42, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-8); extra_deck_oversize (-2). Final formula: Illegal list: theoretical structural read only. 0.80*Structural(48.4) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(35) = 45.8, then illegal-list modifiers -10 = 36 (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.31 · 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

• High-ATK Xyz and Link bosses (2600 to 3000 ATK) with searchable Pendulum support
• Searcher density: 18 searcher-text cards, about 94% to find one in an opening 5
• Hand traps and negation text give layered interaction

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: copy-limit and Extra Deck size violations
• Only 38% exact-name Performage purity, with many off-archetype tech cards
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptability
• Pendulum monsters are dead in hand without a Pendulum zone

Critical choke points

• Pendulum zone availability for Pendulum-summoned starters
• Single-copy Xyz and Link extenders (Shadow Maker has 2 copies, the rest 1 each)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality status Illegal with three copy-limit violations and an Extra Deck of 16 against 15; Main Deck size 44 within the 40 to 60 range; Zero side deck cards; Card text and boss ATK values from the evidence excerpts
• Observed: Exact-name purity 38.3% and archetype spread from the composition summary
• Inferred: Starter reliability and brick estimates from hypergeometric draws; Hand-trap and negation coverage read from card text; Going-first and going-second plans from text, since no recorded boards exist
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (D13)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied, so combo floor, median, and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link, so archetype meta-share and pilot record are absent No win-rate or going-first/second telemetry exists in YGOVN Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample The deck has no side deck, so post-side performance cannot be assessed No guides attached for the archetype