Nekroz Deck #755485 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 48/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ritual Summon a high-ATK Nekroz boss (Areadbhair 3300, Trishula 2700, Brionac 2300, Metaltron 2500) through a Ritual Spell (Mirror, Kaleidoscope, Cycle, Divinemirror) and tribute fodder, then close with Extra Deck beaters such as TY-PHON and Malong.; Extra Deck pressure from Exciton Knight, Luluwalilith and Garura, with Herald and Ash Blossom protecting the Ritual line.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Preparation of Rites or a Ritual Spell, fetch a Ritual monster, use a tribute body (Avance, Emilia, Shurit) and keep one hand trap (Infinite Impermanence or Ash Blossom) up for the opponent's first answer.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 6-card hand to present one hand trap (7 in deck) against the opponent's starter, then rebuild the Ritual line with Preparation of Rites or a Ritual Spell.
• Recovery: Ritual Spells that return from the GY (Preparation of Rites, Nekroz Cycle, Mirror) plus Nekroz GY recursion (Unicore, Clausolas) rebuild the board after a disruption.
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan; the evidence shows no sideboard to adapt.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Ritual line: a Ritual Spell or Preparation of Rites appears in the opening five cards about 69 percent of the time (Inferred hypergeometric estimate over 8 enablers), which gives a plausible turn-1 route to a Nekroz boss. Its conversion ceiling comes from high-ATK Ritual bosses (Areadbhair, Trishula, Brionac) and Extra Deck beaters, but the median is held back by off-archetype filler: Nadir Servant has only one legal Dogmatika target, and Mulcharmy Fuwalos is conditional. Interaction is layered through seven hand traps plus Extra Deck disruption, which earns the endboard and going-second scores. The deck has no side deck, no combo evidence and no tournament record, so the score rests on the structure of the list and not on popularity or any averaging of card scores; the Ritual line has to survive a single opposing interaction with no recorded alternative.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 54.5, Going First ≈ 54, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: No side deck (-3); Off-archetype dependency (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional): 0.80*54.5 + 0.20*45 - 5 = 47.6, rounded to 48

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.69 · 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

• Ritual Summon route with high-ATK bosses (Areadbhair 3300, Trishula 2700, Brionac 2300)
• Seven hand traps and layered Extra Deck interaction
• Good spread of Ritual recursion via Preparation of Rites and Ritual Spells
• Legal list under OCG size and copy rules

Weaknesses

• Exact-name archetype purity only 38.2 percent; off-archetype cards dilute the engine
• Nadir Servant has one legal Dogmatika target in the Main Deck, creating dead-card risk
• No side deck, so no post-side plan
• Heavy tribute and material requirements make the Ritual line fragile to one disruption

Critical choke points

• A Ritual Spell plus a tribute body must both be present on the opening turn
• Opposing hand traps or negation on the first Ritual Summon ends the line unless a hand trap is held
• Single-copy Ritual Spells (Kaleidoscope, Cycle, Mirror) and single-copy bosses limit redundancy

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 40, Extra 15, side 0; legal under OCG rules (legality); Limited and Semi-Limited copy counts: Droll 1, Herald 1, Maxx C 1, S:P Little Knight 1, Ash Blossom 2 (legality); Printed ATK/DEF and card text for key bosses (cards); Exact-name archetype purity 38.2 percent (composition); Core usage: 7 of 11 present; missing Code Igniter, Toadally Awesome, Exciton and Stealth Kragen (usage_statistics)
• Inferred: P(at least one starter in opening 5) about 0.69 with 8 enablers; Brick risk from Nadir Servant and Mulcharmy Fuwalos; Interaction layering quality from text roles; Going-second hand-trap coverage about 0.71
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); D13 matchup and format fit (no tournament link); Side deck adaptability (no side deck)
• 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 no side deck - post-side plan cannot be evaluated no win-rate telemetry - going-first/second and matchup signals are Inferred Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied