Darklord Deck #752158 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 31/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 9 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Darklord Fusion and Link boss pressure (The First Darklord, Darklord Eveningstar, Darklord Asmodeus, Darklord Morningstar) reached through Darklord Ixchel and Darklord Gulgolet recursion; Vidolium the Unstable Power Patron of Unity (5000 ATK) and Super Starslayer TY-PHON - Sky Crisis as single-copy finishers
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Darklord Djehuty or Darklord Gulgolet to put Darklord bodies on the board, then convert into a Darklord Fusion through Darklord Dance or Heavy Polymerization
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the eight hand traps (Ash Blossom, Herald of Orange Light, Droll and Lock Bird, Dominus Impulse) to break the opponent's first Special Summon, then rebuild from Banishment of the Darklords and Darklord Ixchel
• Recovery: Darklord Contact, Fallen Angel in Darkness and Banishment of the Darklords refill the hand and revive Darklords from the Graveyard after disruption
• After siding: None: the deck runs no Side Deck, so there is no documented post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck is Illegal under the TCG list: it runs four Forbidden cards (Albion the Branded Dragon, Archlord Kristya, Called by the Grave, Crossout Designator) and nine copies over the copy limit, so it does not receive a normal Final Contextual score and this result is structural-only and capped low. Within that cap, the Darklord engine is the real core: three-copy Djehuty, Ixchel and Gulgolet give a consistent T1 body and recursion, and the Fusion and Link bosses carry 3000-4000 ATK closing power. The main weaknesses are the 34% exact-name archetype purity (46 off-archetype copies from Mulcharmy, Power Patron, Herald, Branded, Dominus, Greed and Polymerization), a high brick and conflict risk from many narrow hand traps and level-0 spells, and no side deck, so there is no post-side plan. Popularity and archetype usage did not earn points, and the card scores were not averaged into the deck score; the dimension scores reflect the system, and the missing combo, tournament and win-rate data keeps confidence Low.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary; Control context carried only through the Control-leaning modifiers. Structural ≈ 44.6, Going First ≈ 47, Going Second ≈ 46, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); copy-limit violations (-4). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers(-12) = 0.80*44.6 + 0.20*35 - 12 = 30.7, rounded to 31; capped low because the deck is Illegal

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.25 · 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

• Three-copy Darklord starters (Djehuty, Gulgolet, Ixchel) give a consistent T1 body
• Recursion via Darklord Contact, Fallen Angel in Darkness and Banishment of the Darklords
• High-ATK Fusion and Link bosses (First Darklord 4000, Eveningstar 3000, Asmodeus 3000, Morningstar 3000)
• Eight hand traps and several negation cards give real interaction on the opponent's turn

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: four Forbidden cards and nine copy-limit violations
• Low archetype purity (34.3%) and 46 off-archetype copies dilute the engine
• High brick and dead-card risk from narrow hand traps and level-0 spells
• No side deck, so no post-side plan

Critical choke points

• Darklord Djehuty or Gulgolet opener: if they are not drawn, the engine does not start on T1
• Single copies of Forbidden and Limited cards removed from the list would leave the Fusion route dependent on the Darklord Dance and Heavy Polymerization pair

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 9 copy-limit violations and 4 Forbidden cards; Composition: 55 main, 15 extra, 0 side, 27 distinct main names; Card text and banlist statuses from the evidence pack; Archetype purity 34.3% from the composition
• Inferred: Hypergeometric starter, searcher and hand-trap probabilities; Strategy classification from card text and Extra Deck composition; Dimension scores D1-D14 from text and composition; Going-first and going-second estimates
• Provisional: Meta Power (null); D13 matchup and format fit; Tournament reliability
• Data gaps: Deck is Illegal: normal Final Contextual score does not apply; result is structural-only and capped low No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry: going-first, going-second and matchup results are Unknown Usage-stat inconsistency: The First Darklord and Darklord Eveningstar are run (2 copies each) but usage_statistics marks them in_this_deck false; core_cards list mixes in non-Darklord staples (Garura, Sea Monster of Theseus), so core_present_pct is not a reliable purity read No side deck, so post-side adaptability cannot be scored from data Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied