Ancient Warrior Deck #710366 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 20/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Toolbox
• Secondary strategies: Midrange
• 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: Extra Deck Link Monsters (Tri-Brigade Arms Bucephalus II 3500 ATK, Shuraig 3000 ATK, Underworld Goddess 3000 ATK) summoned from Beast, Beast-Warrior and Winged Beast material; Ancient Warriors monster beatdown with Lu Feng and Savage Don Ying, supported by the Ancient Warriors Oath Link-3 buff
• Turn 1 (going first): Search an Ancient Warriors or Tri-Brigade engine card with Three Visits or Fire Formation - Tenki, Normal Summon a Beast-Warrior or Beast, then Link Summon through Tri-Brigade or Ancient Warriors Link monsters (text-based read, no recorded boards)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Infinite Impermanence and Nibiru to interrupt the opponent's first line, then rebuild through searcher text and Link Summons
• Recovery: Banish Beast-family monsters from the GY to Link Summon through Tri-Brigade Kitt, Arms Mouser or Bearbrumm, and recover with Tri-Brigade Hammer searches
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no Side Deck (0 cards), so no post-side plan exists

Why it scores here

This deck is scored on the system as a whole, not by averaging its card scores, and it is marked Illegal, so the final number is capped to a theoretical, structural-only read. Its opening access is reasonable on paper: 16 searcher-text cards give about an 83% chance of at least one in a 5-card opener, and the Link-heavy Extra Deck offers strong end-boards such as Bucephalus II and Shuraig. Those strengths are offset by a split engine (Tri-Brigade, Ancient Warriors, Fire Formation, Springans, Cyclone, Forbidden and Code Talker), a 0% exact-archetype purity, and a 44% proxy chance of no archetype core in hand. The deck also carries four rule violations (two copies over the Limited and Semi-Limited caps, and two Forbidden cards), has no Side Deck, and has no recorded boards or tournament context, so the score rests on text and probability inference only. Popularity and archetype usage stats confirm the list is real but did not add points.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 45.5, Going First ≈ 45, Going Second ≈ 48, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: Illegal list cap (-23). Final formula: Illegal cap: 0.80*Structural(45.5) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(35) = 43.4 before the legality modifier, then capped to 20 as a theoretical, structural-only read (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.83 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.44 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense searcher text (16 cards) gives a high chance of finding an engine piece
• Large interaction suite (14 hand traps, negates and removal) covers many openers
• Extra Deck has strong Link end-boards (Bucephalus II, Shuraig, Underworld Goddess) and flexible Link Ratings

Weaknesses

• Four rule violations make the list Illegal in OCG (two Forbidden cards and two copy-limit overages)
• No Side Deck, so no post-side plan at all
• Split across six or more sub-archetypes with 0% exact-archetype purity, weakening engine cohesion
• No recorded boards or tournament data, so the power read is inferred from text

Critical choke points

• Archetype core (8 copies) absent in roughly 44% of opening hands
• Each Link Summon depends on Beast, Beast-Warrior or Winged Beast material in the GY or hand, which can run dry after interruption

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is Illegal: 4 violations under the OCG BanList (Called by the Grave and Triple Tactics Talent Forbidden; Ash Blossom 3 vs 2 and Droll 2 vs 1); Main Deck size 55 within 40-60; Extra Deck 15 within 0-15; Side Deck 0; Composition: 13 Link, 2 Xyz, 0 Side; archetype_spread across 9 labels; 14 hand traps and 16 searcher-text cards from curated flags
• Observed: Usage stats show 8 archetype core cards, 3 present in this list; this confirms the deck is a real, accessible build
• Inferred: Opening access to at least one searcher ≈0.83 and archetype-core presence ≈0.56 (hypergeometric); Interaction breadth from negate and hand-trap card text; Going-second hand-trap density ≈0.84 for one hand trap in six cards
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample supplied); Matchup fit (no tournament link)
• 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 supplied (0 cards) — post-side plan cannot be assessed no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN — going-first/second, matchup, brick and OTK rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied