Edge Imp Deck #755259 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 52 / Extra 19 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 7 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion boards from the Edge Imp / Frightfur Extra Deck (Frightfur Cruel Whale x2, Frightfur Kraken, Frightfur Sabre-Tooth, Frightfur Tiger, Frightfur Sheep) built through Polymerization-family and Fluffal material; Link and Xyz boards (Underworld Goddess, Knightmare Unicorn, Super Starslayer TY-PHON, Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS) reached via the same Fluffal/Edge Imp material pool
• Turn 1 (going first): Toy Vendor / Fluffal Penguin / Fluffal Dog / Edge Imp Chain searches into a Fluffal or Edge Imp starter, then a Polymerization-family summon into a Frightfur Fusion
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom and Forbidden Droplet for the opponent's starter, then rebuild through Fluffal Owl / Frightfur Patchwork searches; no side deck is present to adjust
• Recovery: Fluffal Wings and Toy Vendor recursion from the Graveyard, plus Frightfur Repair to return a Frightfur Fusion from the GY to the Extra Deck
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has zero Side Deck cards, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck's 26 Spell cards and 25 Effect monsters form a dense Fluffal and Edge Imp searcher engine. The archetype core is almost always reachable: the hypergeometric estimate for at least one core card in a 5-card opener is 0.9955, and a searcher is present in about 89% of opening hands (Inferred). Interaction is real, with Ash Blossom, Forbidden Droplet and Artifact Lancea, but the end-board and going-second breaking power are capped by the missing Side Deck and by the Forbidden cards that would be removed. The structural read is about 56 on the Combo profile, and the deck is then pulled down by a 10-point banlist-exposure modifier, a 2-point Extra Deck overflow modifier and a 20 TR-blend, then capped at 30 because the list is illegal: four Forbidden cards, two over-limit Semi-Limited cards and 19 Extra Deck cards against a 15-card limit. Popularity and archetype usage did not earn points, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 56, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 46, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-10); extra_deck_overflow (-2); illegal_cap (-12). Final formula: Theoretical: 0.80*56 + 0.20*45 + modifiers(-12) = 42; Illegal-deck cap applied → 30 (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.89 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense searcher engine (18 searcher-text cards) with a near-certain archetype core in opening hands
• Four hand traps and two negates (Ash Blossom, Forbidden Droplet) give interaction on both turns
• Extra Deck has high-ceiling Frightfur fusions (Cruel Whale, Kraken, Sabre-Tooth, Tiger) and Link/Xyz finishers

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: four Forbidden cards, three over-limit Semi-Limited copies, and 19 Extra Deck cards against a 15 limit
• No Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan and no matchup adjustment
• Low exact-archetype purity (22.5%) with a Fluffal / Edge Imp / Frightfur / Forbidden mix that dilutes consistency
• No combo evidence or meta data to validate the score

Critical choke points

• Polymerization-family access: Polymerization x2, Super Polymerization (over limit) and Frightfur Fusion x1 are the main fusion enablers
• Fluffal Penguin / Toy Vendor / Edge Imp Chain starters: the line needs one of them in the opening hand
• Extra Deck size: 19 cards cannot all be legally run, so any legal list must drop Extra Deck options

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Illegal (4 Forbidden, 3 Semi-Limited over-limit, 19 Extra Deck vs 15); Main 52 cards, Extra 19, Side 0; Archetype core in opening hand P ≈ 0.9955 (hypergeometric); Searcher-text group P ≈ 0.8929 in opener
• Inferred: Starter access and brick estimates from hypergeometric and card text; Interaction and resilience reads from card text (Ash, Droplet, Lancea, Twin Twisters); Combo structure from text only; no parseable boards
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit and tournament reliability (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 usage_statistics.in_this_deck contradicts the deck list: Frightfur Kraken, Guardian Chimera, Frightfur Tiger, Cruel Whale, Sabre-Tooth, Cross-Sheep, I:P Masquerena and Underworld Goddess are marked in_this_deck:false although the cards list shows them in the Extra Deck, so usage-based core counts are unreliable for this deck no Side Deck cards — post-side and matchup evaluation is not possible no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN — brick, starter and matchup rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied