forbidden Deck #751880 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 5 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Light and Darkness Ritual boss (Black Luster Soldier or Black Chaos, 3000 ATK) backed by Synchro beaters (Chaos Angel 3500, The Crimson King 3000, Red Dragon Archfiend 3000); Stardust and Chaos Synchro beats through a cleared board
• Turn 1 (going first): Set up a Ritual or Synchro starter with Griffoh, Celtic Mystic or Mulcharmy draws, and hold Ash Blossom and Solemn for the key response (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Ash Blossom, Droll, Evenly Matched, Nibiru) on the opponent's first summons, then Stardust negation or Solemn into a Ritual or Synchro follow-up (Inferred)
• Recovery: Ragged Records of Rites, Mind Shuffle and Sky Striker-independent searchers (Skull Archfiend, Mind Shuffle) rebuild the Ritual starter from the GY and deck (Inferred)
• After siding: Not available: the deck runs 0 side cards, so there is no post-side plan (Verified)

Why it scores here

The deck's power is judged on the system, not by averaging its card scores. Its engine is a Light and Darkness Ritual core (Black Luster Soldier, Black Chaos, Magician of Dark Chaos) that needs a Ritual Spell, and only 2 copies of Light and Darkness Ritual are in the Main Deck, so the starter is live in an opening 5 only about 17% of the time (Inferred). Interaction is dense: 8 hand traps, Solemn Judgment, Stardust Dragon negations and Harpie's Feather Duster give strong end-board and going-second answers (Verified card text, Inferred density). Closing power is high because several 3000-ATK bosses and the 3500-ATK Chaos Angel are in the Extra Deck. Popularity and archetype usage did not earn points; the usage stats show only 3 of 20 core cards present (Verified). The deck is Illegal (3 Forbidden and 2 over-limit Limited/Semi-Limited copies), so the score is capped and this evaluation is theoretical/structural only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary (no secondary blend applied to weights). Structural ≈ 54, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 56, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12). Final formula: Illegal cap: pre-cap = 0.80*Structural(54) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(48) + Modifiers(-12) = 41; capped to 30 for an Illegal list (theoretical/structural-only). Meta Power provisional.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.45 · 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 interaction: 8 hand traps plus Solemn Judgment, Stardust negations and Harpie's Feather Duster
• Several 3000-ATK bosses and the 3500-ATK Chaos Angel give strong closing power
• Full, varied Extra Deck (11 Synchro, 3 Fusion, 1 Link) with several boss routes

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: 3 Forbidden cards and 2 over-limit copies must be removed before the deck is playable
• Ritual engine depends on only 2 Light and Darkness Ritual Spells, so the starter is often absent
• No Side Deck (0 cards), leaving no post-side plan in a best-of-3 format
• Low exact-archetype purity (1.4%): the deck mixes several unrelated engines

Critical choke points

• Light and Darkness Ritual (2 copies) is the only route to the Ritual bosses
• Ash Blossom and Droll are over the limit, so the list cannot be played as built

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 5 violations (3 Forbidden copies, 2 over-limit Limited/Semi-Limited copies); Main 56 and Extra 15 are within the TCG size rules; Side is 0; Card text and ATK/DEF values for the listed cards; Archetype core usage: 3 of 20 core cards present
• Inferred: Consistency estimates from the hypergeometric draw table; Ceiling read from card text (Black Luster Soldier, Black Chaos, Chaos Angel); Going-first and going-second plans from text and probability; Hand-trap density as the main interaction source
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and matchup fit (D13); Tournament reliability
• Data gaps: no combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent no win-rate telemetry (going first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates) Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample deck title is null