Exodia Deck #753576 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Control
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Hand-assembled Exodia: Exodia the Forbidden One plus the four Forbidden One limbs, each run as a single copy, all in one hand (Inferred: no recorded boards).; Exxod Fires of Rage and Obliterate!!! Blaze board-wipe and Exodd line, conditional on a Level 10+ Exodia monster.
• Turn 1 (going first): Set Millennium Ankh, Shield of the Millennium Dynasty or Heart of the Blue-Eyes to search Forbidden One pieces and build toward a 5-piece hand. Ash Blossom and Solemn Strike protect the line.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold hand traps (Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Droll & Lock Bird, Solemn Strike) to disrupt the opponent's first board, then attempt the Exodia line on a later turn.
• Recovery: Searchers (Sengenjin, Golem that Guards the Millennium Treasures, Heart of the Blue-Eyes, Wedju Temple) rebuild hand pieces after a broken line. Recovery depends on the Forbidden One pieces still being in the Deck.
• After siding: Not assessable: the deck has zero Side Deck cards, so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The deck's Exodia core (Exodia the Forbidden One plus four limbs, all single copies) has a real, but narrow, path to a win: the probability of assembling all five in one hand is low and is not measured here. The list has a strong negation suite (9 hand traps, 17 negation-text cards) and 15 searchers, which lift the going-second and interruption scores. The score is not driven by Exodia's popularity: 94% inclusion of the core pieces shows the list is real, not that it is strong. Combo ceiling and median are text-only inference because no boards were recorded. The deck is Illegal (forbidden Called by the Grave and Dimension Shifter, plus copy-limit breaches on Ash Blossom and Droll), so the Final score is capped at 25 and labelled structural-only. The score was not produced by averaging card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 43, Going First ≈ 40, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-6); single-copy choke point (-3). Final formula: Illegal cap: formula 0.80*Structural(43) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(35) + modifiers(-9) = ~33, capped to 25 because the deck is Illegal; Meta Power provisional and excluded

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.95 · 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

• 9 hand traps and 17 negation-text cards give a dense interruption suite
• 15 searcher-text cards support recovery and starter access
• Core Exodia pieces have high usage-statistic inclusion (94%), so the list is recognisable and accessible

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: two Forbidden cards and copy-limit breaches on Ash Blossom and Droll
• Empty Side Deck (0 cards) in a best-of-3 format
• No recorded combos, so floor, median and ceiling are unmeasured
• Only 12.9% of main slots match the exact Exodia name; the engine is spread across many sub-archetypes

Critical choke points

• Each Exodia limb and Exodia the Forbidden One is a single copy, so one lost piece ends the win line
• Forbidden and over-limit cards must be removed before the list is legal

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality status Illegal: 4 violations (2 copy-limit breaches on semi-limited and limited cards, 2 Forbidden cards run); Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0; main and extra sizes are within the OCG rules; Exact-name archetype purity 12.9%; 9 of 70 cards match the Exodia name; Zero Side Deck cards
• Observed: Core-piece usage statistics: 94% inclusion for the five Forbidden One limbs and Exodia the Forbidden One
• Inferred: Opening-hand starter estimate (archetype core P ~0.95) and the low probability of 5 pieces in hand; Interaction and going-second strength from the hand-trap and negation text counts; Combo ceiling from the Exodia card text, with no boards recorded
• Provisional: Meta fit and matchup coverage: no dated metagame sample or tournament link
• Data gaps: no combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link; archetype meta-share and pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchup or brick rates Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample deck title is null; name recorded from archetype only