Abyss Actor Deck #707459 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 28/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 20 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 5 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Assemble a board of Abyss Actor Pendulum monsters with Abyss Script Spells to control the opponent's field and generate card advantage; Use Super Polymerization and Fusion monsters to remove opponent threats; generate late-game pressure via Pendulum Summoning and extenders
• Turn 1 (going first): Establish Pendulum Zones with Curtain Raiser and Extras, search Abyss Scripts, set up Pendulum Summon access and field control—goal is a board with 2-3 monsters and searchable removal
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Nibiru, Infinite Impermanence) to disrupt opponent setup, then break their board with Ultimate Slayer, Super Polymerization, or Lava Golem
• Recovery: Abyss Scripts (especially Rise of the Abyss King and Abysstainment) allow recursion and field rebuilding after disruption; Superstar tributes Actors to recover Abyss Scripts from GY
• After siding: No side deck present; structural weakness in best-of-3 format

Why it scores here

This Abyss Actor deck is illegal in OCG due to four Forbidden cards (Heavy Storm, Maxx C, Heavymetalfoes Electrumite, Supreme King Dragon Starving Venom) and an oversized Extra Deck (20 vs 15 limit), making it unplayable in tournament formats. Structurally, the deck suffers from a 55-card main and inconsistent opening hands—archetype-core consistency P(≥1 starter hand5) is ~98% but brick risk remains high due to tech density and conflicting Normal Summons. The median combo output is modest (~2.5 board effects), ceiling is mid-range (~3–4 effects with extenders), and the 20-card Extra is bloated with flex Fusions that clog slots. Going-second game is hampered by limited board-breaking tools and low offensive ceiling (35/100). The deck lacks a side deck entirely, eliminating post-side adaptability. Without fixing the legality issues and right-sizing the deck to 40 main / 15 extra, no competitive evaluation is possible.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 42, Going First ≈ 48, Going Second ≈ 42, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 25. Modifiers: Four Forbidden cards + oversized Extra + zero side deck (-35); Oversized main deck (55 vs 40) (-8); No side deck in best-of-3 format (-5). Final formula: ILLEGAL DECK: Structural capped at 42 due to legality violations and critical design flaws; Final = 0.60·Structural + 0.40·TournamentReliability (accounting for zero side deck, oversized Extra, forbidden cards) = 28. Meta provisional, withheld.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.99 · key two-card combo ≈ 0.72 · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.12 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex 68, median 52, board-per-starter 2.4
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Strong archetype-core consistency (P ≥ 1 starter in hand5 ≈ 98.5%)
• Abyss Script recursion (Abysstainment, Superstar) provides float and mid-turn recovery
• Abyss Playhouse field spell offers soft negation once Pendulum Summoned
• Decent going-first hand trap suite (Ash Blossom, Nibiru, Infinite Impermanence) for defensive setup
• Super Polymerization for cross-field removal and disruption

Weaknesses

• FOUR FORBIDDEN CARDS in main deck and Extra (Heavy Storm, Maxx C, Heavymetalfoes Electrumite, Supreme King Dragon Starving Venom) — deck is unplayable as-is
• Extra Deck 20 > 15 limit violation; bloated with 3–4 flex Fusions that do not synergize with core strategy
• 55-card main (37.5% oversized) dilutes consistency and brick rate
• Low ceiling offensive power: Abyss Actors are vanilla 1100–1800 ATK beatsticks; no piercing, no multi-attack except hard-to-access Twinkle scale 9
• Single-choke Pendulum Scale setup: loss of Pendulum Zones or a disruption on scale-setter (Curtain Raiser) collapses most lines
• Median combo output modest (~2.5 board effects); no high-impact starters like Halquifibrax or extra-deck toolbox access
• No side deck entirely (0/15) — zero post-game-1 adaptability in best-of-3 format
• Limited going-second board-breaking: Ultimate Slayer, Super Polymerization, Lava Golem are narrow answers

Critical choke points

• Forbidden card quadruple-violation (Heavy Storm, Maxx C, Electrumite, Supreme King Starving Venom) — must be removed immediately
• Oversized Extra Deck (20 > 15) — must cull 5 cards; recommend dropping Garura, Fossil fusions, Guardragon, and Mudragon, keeping only core Abyss Link-2s and one Synchro
• Curtain Raiser + Dress Rehearsal are the only true multi-card starters; loss of either via hand trap or disruption leaves the deck searching one card at a time and bricking
• Lava Golem is a hard garnet in many hands (aggressive tech that assumes opponent has 2+ monsters); brick risk compounded by 55-card main
• No side deck: cannot tech for meta in games 2 and 3 of best-of-3

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality status: ILLEGAL (4 Forbidden cards: Heavy Storm, Maxx C, Electrumite, Supreme King Starving Venom); Main deck 55 > 40 (legal range 40–60 but 55 is non-standard and inefficient); Extra deck 20 > 15 (illegally oversized); Side deck 0/15 (absent entirely); Card text confirmed for all 51 distinct cards resolved; Archetype core: 29 exact-name Abyss Actor cards + 8 Abyss Script cards = 37 archetype core; Usage statistics available; core inclusion 19/25 present, 76% core presence
• Observed: Archetype purity 38.7% exact-name (Abyss Actor) + 26 off-archetype generic cards; Role tag counts: 7 hand traps, 15 tech cards, 15 searcher text, 11 negation text, 15 removal text
• Inferred: P(≥1 Abyss Actor core starter in opening 5) ≈ 98.5% via hypergeometric from 30-card core group; Brick estimate ~12–15% due to 55-card main and conflicting searchers (Dress Rehearsal, Mellow Madonna, Superstar all Normal-summon-lock effects); Best combo line: Curtain Raiser + Dress Rehearsal → Pendulum setup + 2 Abyss Scripts + 1 boss monster ≈ 3–4 effects (PowerIndex ~68); Median combo output: ~2–2.5 board effects (PowerIndex ~52) due to low starter diversity and limited extenders; Ceiling offensive power: ~3000–4000 damage via low-ATK Actors and lack of piercing/multi-attack; Going-first resilience: moderate (2–3 independent lines via Dress Rehearsal, Mellow Madonna, Superstar, but all collapsed if Pendulum Zone disrupted); Going-second power: ~42/100 (limited removal coverage, no universal board-breaker)
• Provisional: Meta Power: null (no dated metagame sample supplied; archetype usage stats present but no tournament link); Archetype meta-share: unknown (Abyss Actor is niche/old; no tournament context available); Format-specific matchup spread: speculative without OCG meta snapshot
• Data gaps: No combos supplied in combo data (total combos: 0, scored combos: 0) — combo floor/median/ceiling derived entirely from card text and archetype patterns, labeled Inferred No tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent; format fit is Provisional No win-rate telemetry in YGOVN (going-first/second split, brick rate, matchup outcomes, game-level stats) — all consistency/performance inferences are Inferred or Unknown Guides evidence: 0 guides attached; no archetype strategy writeups available Meta Power uncomputable without dated OCG metagame sample — remains null/Provisional Four illegal cards and oversized Extra/Main make this deck unplayable in practice; Structural score must be capped and evaluation marked theoretical-only