Prophecy Deck #751775 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 32/100 (±10 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Control, Toolbox
• Format: tcg

Legality

Main 57 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 10 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Light and Darkness Ritual boards (Black Chaos, Black Luster Soldier, Magician of Dark Chaos - Black Chaos) and Dark Magician-based pressure, with Link monsters as the Extra Deck backbone; Fusion/Link extension via Dark Magician of Destruction (absent from the list) is not present; the secondary route is Mulcharmy card-advantage grind
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a searcher (Magician's Rod, Dark Magical Circle, Mind Shuffle) and a Ritual Spell route to a Light and Darkness Ritual boss; hold Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse for the first opposing activation (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Droll & Lock Bird, Ash Blossom and Solemn cards to break the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Mulcharmy draws and Pot of Sloth (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recover from a negated line via Griffoh, Skull Archfiend of Chaos and Light and Darkness Ritual recursion from the GY (Inferred)
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no Side Deck (side_count 0).

Why it scores here

The deck is Illegal in TCG: ten copy-limit and Forbidden-card violations (including Called by the Grave, Magicians' Souls, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon and Protectcode Talker) mean it cannot earn a normal Final Contextual score, so this result is theoretical and structural only. Structurally it opens a searcher (about 0.80 to find at least one of 15 searcher-text cards in a 5-card hand) and has a reasonable hand-trap and negation layer (5 hand traps, 14 negation-text cards), which supports a going-second plan. Its conversion depends on a single Light and Darkness Ritual, with no recorded boards and no combo evidence, so the ceiling and median are text-only estimates. Popularity does not earn points here: the Prophecy usage data confirms the archetype core is real, but the score comes from the system's consistency, interaction and going-second shape, not from averaging individual card scores. The 26 Level-0 spell and trap slots and a 0-card Side Deck cap the adaptability and efficiency dimensions.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Balanced. Structural ≈ 46, Going First ≈ 42, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-12). Final formula: Illegal cap: 0.80*Structural(46.35) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(35) = 44.1, then banlist-exposure modifier -12 = 32. Theoretical/structural-only; Meta provisional (null).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.8 · 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

• Layered negation and hand-trap package (Ash Blossom, Dominus Impulse, Solemn cards, Droll & Lock Bird)
• Searcher density (15 searcher-text cards) gives good opening access to the Dark Magician and Light and Darkness Ritual engines
• Multiple big-body closers (Black Chaos, Lava Golem, Illusion of Chaos)

Weaknesses

• Illegal in TCG: 10 copy-limit and Forbidden violations
• Zero Side Deck, so no post-side adaptation
• No recorded combos or tournament data to verify conversion
• 26 Level-0 spell/trap slots create brick risk

Critical choke points

• Light and Darkness Ritual is a single copy; losing it removes most of the Ritual boss route
• Forbidden Extra-Deck cards removed from a legal build would leave Link/Fusion slots underfilled

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status and 10 violations from legality block; Forbidden and Limited banlist statuses for listed cards; Main/Extra counts within size rules (57 and 15), Side count 0
• Observed: Prophecy archetype usage data confirms core cards are common in the archetype (usage_statistics available)
• Inferred: Opening access P(>=1 searcher) approx 0.80 from hypergeometric estimate; Going-second hand-trap plan using Droll, Ash and Solemn cards; Brick risk from 26 Level-0 spell/trap slots
• Provisional: Tournament reliability and matchup fit (no dated meta sample; tournament_context unavailable)
• 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 or matchup telemetry; going-first/second, brick and starter rates are Inferred Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Deck has no Side Deck, so post-side performance cannot be assessed