Sinful Spoils Deck #754308 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 34/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Combo, Toolbox
• Format: tcg

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Dark Magician and Magician-named board pressure converted through Dark Magician of Destruction-style and Fusion/Link extra-deck boards, with Azamina and Sinful Spoils as secondary pressure; Timaeus, Gandora-G and Chaos MAX boards from Dark Magician-named sources
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Dark Magical Curtain, Dark Magician or Mulcharmy/Diabellstar starters, search the Dark Magician package and extend into an Extra Deck summon; the forbidden Azamina and Magician's Souls lines are not available in a legal build
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Droll and Infinite Impermanence style interaction against the opponent's first summon chain, then rebuild a board with Dark Magician-named monsters and Extra Deck links
• Recovery: Recover through Dark Magician-named searchers and Shining Sarcophagus or Eternal Soul style recursion, with hand traps guarding the rebuild
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan; the deck cannot adjust between games

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system on the Midrange profile, not as an average of its card scores, and its Illegal status caps the result as a theoretical, structural-only read. Its Dark Magician core is reasonably accessible: the archetype core group has about an 81 percent chance of at least one copy in a 5-card opening hand, and the searcher text group about 87 percent. Interaction density is high, with 13 hand traps and 12 negation-text cards, which earns credit for going-second resilience. Against that, eight Forbidden cards and three over-limit Limited or Semi-Limited cards mean the list cannot be played as built, and the exact-name archetype purity is only 5.7 percent, so the engine spreads across several sub-archetypes. There is no combo recording, no Side Deck, and no tournament or win-rate data, so the floor, median, and closing numbers are text-only inferences. Archetype popularity and usage statistics confirm that the list is real, but they did not earn points.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 49, Going First ≈ 45, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-10); copy_limit_overrun (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural(49) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(35) + ContextModifiers(-12) = 34; capped low because the list is Illegal (theoretical/structural-only)

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

• Dark Magician core is accessible, with about 81 percent to open at least one core card
• Dense interaction: 13 hand traps and 12 negation-text cards give strong going-second resilience
• Layered closers at 2800 to 3000 ATK via Timaeus, Gandora-G, Chaos MAX and Master of Chaos

Weaknesses

• Illegal in TCG: eight Forbidden cards and three over-limit Limited or Semi-Limited cards
• Low exact-name archetype purity (5.7 percent) and 66 off-archetype copies weaken engine coherence
• No Side Deck, so there is no post-side adaptation
• No combo records or tournament data to validate consistency

Critical choke points

• Dark Magician-named searchers and starters are the only route to the Extra Deck boards
• Losing Dark Magical Curtain or Dark Magician to a hand trap leaves few live starters
• Removing Forbidden Azamina and Magician's Souls leaves the Sinful Spoils line with little recovery

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: eight Forbidden cards and three over-limit restricted cards; Main 55 and Extra 15 are within size rules; Side 0; Exact-name archetype purity 5.7 percent; Usage statistics confirm core cards such as Ash Blossom, Droll and Nibiru are real and accessible
• Inferred: Opening-hand consistency from the hypergeometric draw table; Interaction and going-second strength from hand-trap and negation text; Closing power from card text and ATK values
• Provisional: Meta Power is null because no dated metagame sample exists; Matchup fit is provisional with no tournament data
• Data gaps: No combos supplied, so combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link, so archetype meta share and per-pilot match record are absent No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN for going-first, going-second, matchups or brick rate Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No Side Deck is registered, so post-side evidence is absent