Ghoti Deck #752536 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Stun
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 52 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Water Synchro/Link boards (Superancient Deepsea King Coelacanth, Askaan, Ghoti Synchros, Mediclius) built from Fish recursion (Inferred from card text; no recorded boards); Piercing and multi-attack Synchro beats (White Aura Whale, White Aura Porpoise) once a board is established (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on First Penguin / Lifeless Leaffish / Abyss Shark to make a WATER board, then use Fish Tuner and Level-2 recursion (Shif, Paces, Zep, Keaf) to reach a Synchro (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the six-card hand to deploy hand traps (Infinite Impermanence, Evenly Matched, Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C, Ghost Ogre) against the opponent's first board, then rebuild Fish monsters from the GY (Inferred)
• Recovery: Banish Fish monsters from the GY through Lifeless Leaffish, Paces, Zep and Shif to resummon or Synchro again after a clean interruption (Inferred)
• After siding: None: the Side Deck is empty (0 cards), so there is no post-side plan to evaluate (verified from legality counts)

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a connected Fish/WATER system, not as an average of its card scores. Its strongest structure is interaction: 13 hand traps plus Solemn Judgment, Crossout Designator and Ash Blossom give high interaction density, and the going-second hand-trap odds are high (P(at least one in a 6-card hand) ≈ 0.84, Inferred). Fish recursion (Lifeless Leaffish, Abyss Shark, Paces, Zep, Shif) keeps some engine alive after disruption, which supports the resilience and resource scores. The deck does not earn points for its archetype label: exact-name purity is only 13.4% and 58 copies are off-archetype across 15 related and unrelated names, so the 'Ghoti' tag reflects a loose toolbox rather than a coherent engine. There are no recorded boards, so the combo floor and ceiling are text-only inferences and kept low-confidence. The list is Illegal because Baronne de Fleur is Forbidden, so the final score is capped low and treated as theoretical/structural only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 54, Going First ≈ 56, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-10); illegal_cap (-7). Final formula: No reliable metagame: pre-cap 0.80*Structural(54.3) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) + modifiers(-10) = 42.2; Illegal cap applied, final 35 (theoretical/structural only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.89 · 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 hand-trap and negate suite (13 hand traps, 13 negation-text cards) gives strong going-second interaction
• Fish recursion across GY and banish zones supports resilience after a single disruption
• Synchro/Link end boards with 2000–3000 ATK and piercing or multi-attack options

Weaknesses

• Illegal: Baronne de Fleur is Forbidden and must be removed before any normal score applies
• Weak archetype coherence: 13.4% exact-name purity across roughly 15 names
• No Side Deck, so no best-of-3 adaptability
• No recorded combos or boards, so the ceiling and floor are unmeasured

Critical choke points

• Single-card removal of Baronne de Fleur is required before the list is playable in OCG
• Relies on Fish-type density (21 Fish monsters) for both recursion and Synchro material

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 52 main, 15 extra, 0 side; Baronne de Fleur is Forbidden (0 legal copies); Card text for all 36 distinct cards as listed in the evidence pack; Limited and Semi-Limited copy counts are within their legal limits
• Observed: First Penguin is in 88.9% of archetype decks; 8 of 17 core cards are present (usage statistics)
• Inferred: Hypergeometric opener odds (0.27 for 3-copy starters, 0.89 for the archetype-core group, 0.84 for hand traps going second); Hand-trap interaction strength and Fish recursion resilience from card text; Going-first and going-second plans from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format 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 — post-side plan cannot be evaluated no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN — going-first/second and matchup signals are Inferred Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied