Ice Barrier Deck #752819 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 57 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ice Barrier Synchro and Link boards (Lancea, Trishula Zero, Ekhajar, Coral Dragon, Marincess Coral Anemone) built off Ice Barrier tuners, with hand traps protecting the first summon; Mulcharmy and Frog card advantage lines that draw off opponent Special Summons, then convert into Synchro or Xyz pressure
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Ice Barrier tuner (Revealer, Georgius, Hexa Spirit, Icejade Ran) and Medallion or Mirror to search the next piece, then Synchro into Lancea or Trishula Zero; hold Ash Blossom and Droll for the first interruption
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the hand traps (Ash Blossom, Maxx C, Droll and Lock Bird, Ghost Ogre, Infinite Impermanence, Red Reboot) to stop the opponent's first Special Summon, then recover with Revealer or Speaker from hand
• Recovery: Hand traps convert into a second Special Summon through Revealer and Georgius; Freezing Chains and Spellbreaker re-protect the board after a removal
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs no Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan (Inferred from composition)

Why it scores here

The deck's core engine is the Ice Barrier archetype: 22 archetype-core copies give a 92% chance of at least one in the opening 5-card hand (Inferred hypergeometric), so the engine usually gets started. Its interaction is the main strength: 12 hand traps and 14 negation-text cards let it answer the first summon on the opponent's turn, which is why going-second hand-trap coverage is about 78% (Inferred). Conversion is weaker: no combo boards were recorded, so the ceiling and median can only be read from card text, and the three Forbidden cards (Triple Tactics Talent, Bahamut Shark, Trishula Dragon of the Ice Barrier) break the list's legality. Because the deck is Illegal, the score is capped at the theoretical structural level, and popularity was not used to earn points; card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 51, Going First ≈ 45, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 42. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-12); illegal_cap (0). Final formula: No reliable metagame, so Meta is provisional: 0.80*Structural(51) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(42) = 49, then banlist-exposure modifier -12 gives 37; the Illegal rule caps the final at 25 (theoretical/structural-only).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.92 · 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

• Archetype core (22 copies) is present in about 92% of opening hands (Inferred)
• 12 hand traps and 14 negation-text cards give strong early interaction (Inferred)
• Synchro boards (Lancea, Trishula Zero, Ekhajar) provide 2700-3300 ATK closing pressure (Verified)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: three Forbidden OCG cards (Verified)
• No Side Deck, so no post-side plan (Verified)
• No recorded combo boards, so ceiling and median are text-only (Verified data gap)
• Low exact-name archetype purity (29.2%); many off-archetype support cards (Verified)

Critical choke points

• Single-engine dependency on Ice Barrier tuners to reach Lancea and Trishula Zero
• Forbidden-card removal needed before the list can be played at all

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is Illegal: three OCG Forbidden cards at 1 copy each; Main Deck size 57 within 40-60; Extra Deck 15 within 0-15; Archetype is Ice Barrier with exact-name purity 29.2%
• Inferred: Archetype-core presence about 92% in opening hands (hypergeometric); 12 hand traps and 14 negation-text cards provide interaction density; Midrange primary strategy with Stun secondary, from composition and interaction
• Provisional: Meta Power is null: no dated metagame sample; D13 matchup fit is provisional: no tournament link
• Data gaps: 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/second and matchup signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample No Side Deck: post-side plan cannot be scored