X-Saber Deck #753707 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 34/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Synchro
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 49 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro pressure from X-Saber Extra Deck monsters (Hyunlei, Souza, Urbellum, Airbellum-based boards) backed by recursion of X-Saber monsters from the Graveyard; Commander Souza and Black Rose Dragon as board-breaking closers with a Tech/hand-trap interaction shell
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Level 3 or 4 X-Saber starter, Normal Summon into Tuner or searcher text (Ragigura, Darksoul, Bruno, Fire Formation - Tenki), and Synchro toward a removal or board-control Synchro. Hand traps are held for the opponent's turn.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence and Droll-style interaction to slow the opponent's first board, then rebuild through X-Saber Graveyard recursion and Synchro into a boss.
• Recovery: Gottoms' Emergency Call and Gottoms' Second Call recover Graveyard X-Saber monsters; Ragigura and Darksoul search a replacement from the Deck or Graveyard.
• After siding: Not evaluable: side deck is empty (0 cards), so no best-of-3 adjustment exists in the export.

Why it scores here

Scored as a system, not as an average of its card scores. The 49-card Main opens a functional X-Saber Synchro plan with an estimated 0.74 chance of at least one searcher in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred), and the X-Saber Graveyard recursion gives a second route when the first starter is removed. Interaction density is reasonable: Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Droll and Saber Hole cover several disruption types. Those strengths are offset by a 39% exact-name archetype purity, spread across Saber, Mulcharmy, Danger!, Naturia, Rose Dragon, Swordsoul and Ice Barrier cards, which weakens engine coherence. The deck is illegal in the OCG list (five Forbidden cards plus Droll over its copy limit), so it is capped low and scored as a theoretical, structural-only read. No recorded boards, no side deck and no tournament data exist, so the combo and matchup dimensions are text-based and Low confidence.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, no separate secondary weighting applied in the Structural sum. Structural ≈ 47, Going First ≈ 44, Going Second ≈ 40, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 42. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); engine conflicts (-4). Final formula: Illegal cap applied. No reliable metagame, so Final = 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 0.80*47 + 0.20*42 - 12 = 34 (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.74 · 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

• Searcher density (11 cards) gives about a 74% chance of at least one searcher in a 5-card opening hand
• Two-layer interaction: Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Saber Hole and Droll cover several disruption types
• Graveyard recursion from Gottoms' Second Call, Emergency Call and Ragigura supports multi-turn recovery
• Synchro bosses at 2200–3100 ATK give closing pressure

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: five Forbidden cards plus Droll over the copy limit
• 39% exact-name archetype purity; sub-archetypes compete for the same slots
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Floor and median output cannot be measured without recorded boards

Critical choke points

• Forbidden Extra Deck bosses (Gottoms, Trishula) remove two of the stronger closers
• Every line starts from one Level 3 or 4 X-Saber starter; a single hand-trap block on the starter stalls turn 1
• Droll and Ash Blossom are both needed for going-second interaction; one dead copy weakens the second-turn plan

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: five Forbidden cards and Droll over its Limited copy count (Illegal); Main 49, Extra 15 and Side 0 are within size_rules; Composition: 25 exact-name X-Saber copies out of 64 cards; 39.1% purity; Searcher text hits: 11; negation text: 6; removal text: 14
• Inferred: At least one searcher in a 5-card opening ≈ 0.74 (hypergeometric); Interaction density is adequate for the Midrange plan (semantic read of card text); Ceiling and median are text-based only; no recorded boards
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit: no dated metagame sample and no tournament link
• Data gaps: No combos supplied, so combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent No side deck (0 cards), so post-side adaptability cannot be measured No win-rate telemetry for going-first/second, matchups or brick rate Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied M-X-Saber Invoker (core, 67% usage) is absent from the list