Shark Deck #755423 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Shark Drake Xyz line (Number 32: Shark Drake, Number C32: Shark Drake LeVeiss, Number C32: Shark Drake Veiss) built from Shark and WATER Level 4 starters; the Forbidden Bahamut Shark slot is not a usable win condition; Number 101 Silent Honor ARK and Stealth Kragen Spawn board pressure through Xyz stacking
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a WATER Level 4 starter (Veiss Shark, Buzzsaw Shark, Surfacing Big Jaws, Abyss Shark), search or Special Summon a second Level 4 to Xyz Summon a Shark Drake, keep Ash Blossom or Infinite Impermanence up for the first interaction
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Ash Blossom, Droll and Lock Bird, Maxx C, Dominus Impulse, Infinite Impermanence) answer the opponent's first board, then Xyz through the remaining starters
• Recovery: Xyz Remora and Hydrojet Shark recycle Level 4 Fish from the Graveyard; Seventh Ascension and Virtue Stream rebuild the hand from the Deck
• After siding: Not evaluable: side_count is 0, so there is no post-side plan (Provisional)

Why it scores here

The deck has a real starter base: three copies each of Veiss Shark, Buzzsaw Shark, Surfacing Big Jaws and Abyss Shark give the archetype core a high chance of at least one starter in an opening hand (about 0.92 for the core group, Inferred). Six hand-trap and tech cards (Ash Blossom, Droll and Lock Bird, Maxx C, Dominus Impulse, Infinite Impermanence, Forbidden Crown) give interruption resilience and going-second interaction, but no recorded boards exist, so conversion and floor scores are text-based Inferred reads. Fifteen Xyz monsters in the Extra Deck give strong closing bodies at 2800 to 3100 ATK, though the Forbidden Bahamut Shark slot is dead and the list is illegal, so the final score is capped at 30 and labelled theoretical. The score comes from consistency, interaction and closing power on the system, not from Shark being a popular archetype (usage stats only confirm the list is real) and not from averaging the individual card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange only; Toolbox not blended into weights. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 52.7 - 12 = 40.7, then capped at 30 because the deck is Illegal (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

• Four Level 4 WATER starters at 3 copies each give a high chance of a live opening hand
• Six hand traps and negation text give redundant interaction
• Xyz bodies at 2800 to 3100 ATK give strong closing power

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Bahamut Shark is Forbidden and run at 1 copy
• No side deck, so no post-side plan
• Low archetype purity (10.9 percent) and 49 off-archetype main-deck copies weaken engine coherence

Critical choke points

• Bahamut Shark occupies an Extra slot the list cannot legally run
• Going second depends on hand traps that are each single or double copies

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Bahamut Shark Forbidden with 1 copy run; Main 40, Extra 15, Side 0 are within size rules; Copy limits pass for all other restricted cards
• Observed: Usage stats: Surfacing Big Jaws 85 percent and Stealth Kragen 78 percent archetype inclusion
• Inferred: Starter and hand-trap hand probabilities; Brick, interaction and going-second read from card text; Combo ceiling and floor from text only
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit (no dated meta sample); Post-side plan (no side deck)
• 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 for going-first, going-second, matchups or brick rate Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Side deck empty, so post-side scoring is Provisional