Ghoti Deck #698024 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ghoti Fish Synchro/Link beaters (Askaan, Arionpos, Ghoti of the Deep Beyond are absent; the list runs Snopios, Psiics, Superancient Deepsea King Coelacanth, White Aura Whale-free Extra) converting a Fish board into a single large attacker; Nibiru, the Primal Being as a hand-trap-driven board breaker, and Garura / Mudragon as Fusion finishers
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Abyss Shark, Lifeless Leaffish or Icejade Ran Aegirine (each 3 copies, roughly 25 percent to open each in 5 cards), chain Fish searches and Synchro into a Fish Synchro, then protect the board with Ash Blossom, Dominus Impulse and Solemn Judgment (Solemn illegal at 2 copies)
• Turn 2 (going second): Six-card hand with Ash Blossom, Droll and Lock Bird or Maxx C to strip the opponent's first Synchro or Fusion, then rebuild from Lifeless Leaffish and Abyss Shark recursion
• Recovery: Lifeless Leaffish GY banish-and-shuffle plus Zep and Keaf Ghoti revival keep the Fish engine recovering after a single interruption
• After siding: No side deck is supplied (0 side cards), so no post-side plan exists in this build; a legal rebuild would need a side deck

Why it scores here

The deck is Illegal in the OCG format: Solemn Judgment is run at 2 copies against a limit of 1, and Called by the Grave, Dimension Shifter and Baronne de Fleur are Forbidden, so the structural score is shown for reference only and the final score is capped at 25. Its engine reliably opens a Fish starter (3-copy starters have about a 25 percent chance each in a 5-card opening hand), but no recorded boards exist, so the combo ceiling and median are text-only inferences. Interaction density is the strongest system signal, with 14 negation-text cards and 6 hand traps, and it is repeated to cover the Ghoti board. The score does not come from Ghoti being a popular archetype, which carries no points, and it was not produced by averaging card scores. Going-first and going-second splits, side plan and matchup fit are unsupported by data and are marked Provisional.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 44, Going First ≈ 46, Going Second ≈ 42, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12). Final formula: Illegal cap: 0.80*Structural(44) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(35) = 42.2; context modifiers total -12 gives 30.2; Illegal rule caps the final score at 25 (theoretical/structural-only)

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 negation and hand-trap package (14 negation-text, 6 hand traps) gives the deck layered answers
• Redundant Fish starters at 3 copies each (Abyss Shark, Lifeless Leaffish, Icejade Ran Aegirine) support a 0.90 archetype-core opening rate
• Multiple Fish Synchro and Link options in the Extra Deck give varied follow-ups

Weaknesses

• Illegal as submitted: over copy limit on Solemn Judgment and three Forbidden cards
• Low archetype purity (12.9 percent exact-name), with 19 tech slots diluting the engine
• No side deck, so no post-side plan
• No recorded boards or tournament data to confirm the combo ceiling

Critical choke points

• Forbidden cards must be removed before this build is legal, and Solemn Judgment must drop to 1 copy
• Fish Synchro material availability on the first turn
• No side deck to answer a post-board matchup

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 55 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side; Solemn Judgment at 2 copies vs 1 legal; Called by the Grave, Dimension Shifter and Baronne de Fleur Forbidden; Card text and stats for all 55 Main and 15 Extra cards; Archetype purity 12.9 percent and copy histogram; Usage stats: 11 of 25 core cards present (44 percent)
• Observed: No recorded combos in the evidence (zero boards)
• Inferred: Starter opening probabilities 0.2529 and 0.2977 from hypergeometric draws; Interaction density and negation-text read of 14 cards; Going-second hand-trap estimate 0.5176; Consistency and brick estimates from copy histogram
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit (no dated meta sample, no tournament link); Going-first and going-second power splits
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no side deck — post-side plan and D12 cannot be scored no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN — going-first/second and matchup signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied