Edge Imp Deck #707259 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 20/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 52 / Extra 19 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 7 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck Fusion and Link boards (Frightfur fusions, Cruel Whale, Sabre-Tooth, Tiger) that clear or outnumber the opponent's field; Xyz and Link follow-ups (AA-ZEUS, Super Starslayer, Underworld Goddess) once the Fusion engine is live
• Turn 1 (going first): Turn 1 Fluffal or Edge Imp searcher (Fluffal Dog, Toy Vendor, Frightfur Patchwork) into a Polymerization or Frightfur Fusion line, with Ash Blossom and Artifact Lancea held up against the opponent's first interaction
• Turn 2 (going second): Six-card hand with a searcher and a hand trap (Ash Blossom, Artifact Lancea, Forbidden Droplet) to stop the opponent's board, then a Fusion Summon through the Frightfur engine on the next turn
• Recovery: Graveyard recursion through Toy Vendor, Fluffal Wings, Frightfur Repair and Fluffal Octopus to rebuild starters and Fusion materials after an interruption
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs no side deck (0 cards), so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

This OCG Edge Imp list is illegal as built: it runs four Forbidden cards, over-limits Foolish Burial Goods and Super Polymerization by one copy each, and carries 19 Extra Deck cards against a 15-card cap. The structural read is a Midrange profile with a Combo secondary, scored on the system: the searcher density (P(at least one searcher in an opening 5) is about 0.89) and the Fluffal/Edge Imp recursion give reasonable consistency and resilience, while the Frightfur Fusion boards supply the closing power. Because the list is illegal, it does not receive a normal Final Contextual score and is capped to a theoretical 20. The score did not come from Edge Imp being a popular archetype, and it was not an average of the individual card scores. No combo boards, tournament record or side deck exist, so median output, matchup fit and post-side ability are unverified and confidence is Low.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange profile used directly; Combo secondary disclosed, not blended into weights. Structural ≈ 52.7, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 45, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); illegal_list_cap (0). Final formula: Illegal deck: theoretical structural-only cap. Structural 52.7 is capped to 20 instead of the normal 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability; Meta Power is null (provisional).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.27 · 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 searcher layer (18 searcher-text cards) gives high P(at least one searcher in an opening hand)
• Redundant hand traps (Ash Blossom, Artifact Lancea, Forbidden Droplet) give interaction on the opponent's turn
• Fusion and Link endboards (Frightfur Cruel Whale, Sabre-Tooth, Tiger) give high ATK and destruction effects

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: four Forbidden cards, two over-limit Semi-Limited cards, and an Extra Deck of 19 against a cap of 15
• No side deck, so no best-of-3 adaptation
• Low exact-name archetype purity (22.5%) and 26 Spells in the Main Deck add conflicting-card risk
• No combo or tournament data to confirm the median output

Critical choke points

• Extra Deck legality: the list cannot be played until it drops to 15 Extra Deck cards
• Foolish Burial Goods and Super Polymerization copy limits (2 each in OCG)
• Every Fusion line depends on Polymerization or Frightfur Fusion and the Edge Imp/Fluffal materials

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main Deck is 52 cards, within 40-60; Extra Deck is 19 cards, above the OCG cap of 15; Four Forbidden cards are in the list; Foolish Burial Goods and Super Polymerization are each run 3 times against a limit of 2; The deck has 0 side deck cards
• Inferred: Searcher density gives high opening-hand access (0.89); Frightfur Fusion boards give a high text-level ceiling; Recursion and two hand-trap redundancy lines give resilience
• Provisional: Meta-share and matchup fit (no tournament data); Median combo output (no recorded boards)
• 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: going-first/second, matchup, brick and starter rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Usage-statistics in this deck flags conflict with the cards list: I:P Masquerena, Frightfur Kraken, Guardian Chimera, Frightfur Tiger, Frightfur Sabre-Tooth, Underworld Goddess and Frightfur Cruel Whale appear in the cards list as present but are reported as missing core cards No side deck present, so no best-of-3 plan can be evaluated