Ghoti Deck #702409 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fish Synchro boards (Ghoti Synchros such as Askaan, Arionpos, Ghoti of the Deep Beyond) followed by attacks from high-ATK Synchro bodies; Stardust and PSY-Frame Driver (2500 ATK) as finishers once a Synchro line is established
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Level 2 Fish or Ghoti tuner (Zep, Shif, Paces, Keaf) with a Level 4 or 6 Fish starter, Synchro Summon into a Ghoti Synchro, and use the Ghoti removal and recursion effects to clear the opposing board
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom and PSY-Framegear Gamma to answer the opponent's first starter, then rebuild the Fish Synchro line from the GY using Lifeless Leaffish and Zep recursion
• Recovery: Recycle Fish monsters from the GY (Lifeless Leaffish, Zep, Psiics, Snopios) through their banish and return effects to rebuild the Synchro line
• After siding: Not evaluable: the Side Deck is empty (0 cards), so no post-side plan exists in the list

Why it scores here

This list is Illegal in OCG: it runs 3 copies each of Sekka's Light and PSY-Framegear Gamma against a limit of 1, so it is scored as a structural-only theoretical read and capped at 30. The engine is a Fish/Ghoti Synchro package: P(at least one of the 14 archetype-core cards in a 5-card opening hand) is about 0.90, so the deck usually reaches a live starter, and recursion effects in the GY (Lifeless Leaffish, Zep, Paces, Shif) help it continue after disruption. Interaction is real but thin on the board: 5 hand traps, 6 negation-text cards and 27 removal-text cards, with an estimated 0.58 chance of at least one hand trap in a 6-card going-second hand. Median output and combo ceiling cannot be measured because no recorded boards exist, so both are text-only Inferred reads. Popularity or the archetype's usage stats did not earn points, and the score comes from the system as a whole, not from averaging individual card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo primary, Midrange secondary; no combo evidence, so the profile is chosen from card text and Synchro composition (Inferred). Structural ≈ 56, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-10); Engine conflicts (-2). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(56) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) = 53.8, then modifiers (-12) = 41.8; capped to 30 because the list is Illegal (theoretical/structural-only, not a normal Final Contextual score)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.9 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.1 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Large Fish/Ghoti archetype core (14 copies) gives a high chance of a live starter in the opening hand
• Multiple recursion routes from the GY (Lifeless Leaffish, Zep, Shif, Paces) support continuation after disruption
• Five hand traps and several negation or removal effects give real interaction options

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Sekka's Light and PSY-Framegear Gamma run 3 copies against a limit of 1
• Empty Side Deck means no post-side plan and no adaptability
• Low archetype purity (30.9%) with PSY-Frame and other off-archetype cards diluting the engine
• No recorded boards, so combo ceiling and median cannot be verified

Critical choke points

• The Main Deck is illegal, so the list cannot be played in a sanctioned OCG event as built
• Ghoti Synchro Summons depend on Fish tuners and non-tuners being in hand or the GY at the same time
• Going-second hands without a hand trap or Level 2 tuner lose the early Synchro line

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is Illegal in OCG: Sekka's Light and PSY-Framegear Gamma each run 3 copies against a legal limit of 1; Main Deck is 40 cards, Extra Deck 15, Side Deck 0; Archetype core group has 14 copies; exact-name purity is 30.9%
• Inferred: Starter access ≈ 0.90 in a 5-card opening hand (hypergeometric proxy); Brick rate ≈ 0.10 for a 5-card hand with no core card; Going-second hand has ≈ 0.58 chance of a hand trap; Engine recovery through GY recursion (Lifeless Leaffish, Zep, Shif, Paces); Synchro finisher strength from printed ATK and text
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit (no tournament_context)
• 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 are absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN; going-first and going-second splits are Inferred Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Side Deck is empty, so post-side adaptability cannot be evaluated