Argostars Deck #755558 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 52/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck beatsticks (Divine Serpent Apophis 2800, Full Armored Crystalzero/Dark Knight Lancers, Utopia Prime/Utopia, TY-PHON, AA-ZEUS) supported by Home Stadium chip damage and Continuous Trap pressure; Anubis the Last Judge (3000 ATK) and Merciless Scorpion of Serket via the Temple of the Kings line, when the GY and Temple requirements are met
• Turn 1 (going first): Set Treasures of the Kings or Giantslaying to fetch an Argostars or Apophis piece, Special Summon Apophis the Serpent or Swamp Deity from hand to establish a Continuous Trap in the Monster Zone, then Argostars Adra or Slayer Eteo to reach Level 4 Xyz material
• Turn 2 (going second): Respond to the opponent's board with Verdict of Anubis (needs 3 other Spell/Traps), Swamp Deity negations and Number 39 Utopia attack negation, while Continuous Trap bodies rebuild the board; no hand traps are present to stop their first play
• Recovery: Recur Continuous Traps and Argostars from the GY (Statue of Anguish Pattern, Swift Capane, Tydeu, Home Stadium's GY/banish search) and use Armored Xyz / Xyz Armor Fortress to re-enter Xyz pressure
• After siding: None: the list runs 0 side cards, so there is no defined post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a live engine: the archetype core is present in about 98% of going-first opening hands and at least one searcher in about 94%, and the 15 Continuous Trap copies make a Continuous Trap in the Monster Zone available in roughly 92% of going-first openings (Inferred from hypergeometric estimates). It converts that engine into Level 4 Xyz and Fusion pressure, with a closing top end of 2800-3000 ATK Extra Deck monsters and Home Stadium damage (Inferred). Its resilience comes from several independent recursion routes and a negation package (Verdict of Anubis, Swamp Deity, Number 39 Utopia), but it has no hand traps, no side deck, and no recorded boards, so the going-second and post-side scores stay low. The score was not raised by Argostars' popularity, which only confirms the list is a real, accessible build, and the card scores were not averaged; the score rests on consistency, median output estimated from text, and interaction on the system as a whole.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange; D13 dropped and remaining weights renormalized (sum 95) because no dated meta exists. Structural ≈ 59, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 48, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: no_side_deck (-3); engine_conflict (-2); diffuse_extra_deck (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional; Structural = 5612/95 = 59.1; 0.80*59.1 + 0.20*55 - 6 = 52.3)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.98 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.02 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense Continuous Trap engine (15 copies) with 16 searchers gives high opening-hand functionality
• Multiple independent threats that re-enter from GY or Spell/Trap Zone support recovery after interruption
• High-ATK Extra Deck closing options (2800-3000 ATK) with Home Stadium chip damage

Weaknesses

• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation
• No hand traps or floodgates to stop an opponent's going-second combo
• Several conditional or slow cards (Special Hurricane, That's 10, Armored Xyz, Full-Armored Xyz, Anubis GY requirement)
• 14 distinct Extra Deck cards with mixed material requirements lower repeatability

Critical choke points

• Continuous Trap in the Monster Zone gates most Argostars effects; without one the engine stalls
• Level 4 non-Xyz monsters are needed as Xyz material; the Level 4 bodies are mostly Traps that must be Summoned first
• Temple of the Kings is required for Scorpion of Serket and Anubis routes

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal under OCG BanList; all cards Unlimited, no violations; Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 counts and copy histogram; Exact-name Argostars purity 27.3%; core-group probability 0.98 (computed)
• Observed: Usage stats: 9 of 16 archetype core cards present in this list
• Inferred: Opening-hand consistency and Continuous Trap availability estimates; Combo ceiling and median from card text only (no recorded boards); Going-first and going-second scores from text, interaction density and hand-trap count
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and matchup fit (D13), since no dated metagame sample exists; Post-side score (D12) since no side deck exists
• Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent no win-rate telemetry in YGOVN (going-first/second, matchup, game-level, brick rates) Meta Power provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied no side deck: post-side behavior unobservable