Ghoti Deck #756109 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro and Link bosses from the Fish/WATER lane (Askaan, Coelacanth, Mediclius) converting a board the hand traps and starters have cleared; Ghoti of the Deep Beyond and Garura-style damage/attrition, with Gozen Match as a floodgate
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a starter (First Penguin, Lifeless Leaffish, Abyss Shark, Aspischool) into a Fish/WATER Synchro with a Ghoti tuner; keep Ash/Maxx/Droll to answer their first extender
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the six-card hand of hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit, Maxx C, Droll & Lock Bird, Infinite Impermanence, Evenly Matched) to blank the opponent's first summon, then rebuild with Fish recursion
• Recovery: Recur through the GY and banish-based summons (Shif, Paces, Zep, Lifeless Leaffish shuffle-and-draw) to refill the hand after a hand-trap exchange
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck supplies no side deck (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a functional starter: the 18-copy Ghoti core gives about an 87% chance of at least one core card in a going-first opening hand (Inferred, from the hypergeometric estimate). Its thirteen hand traps and several Fish starters with recursion give it real interruption resilience, and it has enough Fish/WATER Synchro and Link bosses to close a board. Consistency is held back by a weak exact-archetype purity of 12.9% (61 off-archetype copies), by a 55-card main that runs many single copies, and by an empty side deck. The score comes from consistency, interaction and closing power on the system, not from the Ghoti archetype's popularity or from averaging card scores. The Forbidden Baronne de Fleur violates the OCG copy limit, so the deck is capped at 35 and scored as structural-only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary; Stun counted as context only, not blended into weights. Structural ≈ 59, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 64, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (Forbidden card run) (-8); No side deck (-4). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 0.80*58.7 + 0.20*48 - 12 = 44.6, then capped at 35 because the deck is Illegal (structural-only evaluation)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.87 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.13 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Ghoti core open rate ≈ 87% on a going-first hand (Inferred)
• Thirteen hand traps give strong going-second interaction (Inferred)
• Several Fish starters with recursion keep the deck playing after a hand-trap exchange (Inferred)
• Fish/WATER Synchro and Link bosses supply closing power (Verified stats)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Baronne de Fleur (Forbidden) is run once in the OCG Extra Deck (Verified)
• Low exact-archetype purity of 12.9%; many off-archetype copies dilute the engine (Verified)
• No side deck, so no post-side plan (Verified)
• No recorded combos, so no measured floor, median or ceiling (Verified gap)

Critical choke points

• Baronne de Fleur must be removed before this list can be scored as legal
• Ghoti core depends on First Penguin and Lifeless Leaffish (3 copies each) for the first starter

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 55 and Extra 15 are within OCG size rules; Baronne de Fleur is Forbidden with 0 legal copies and 1 copy run (illegal); Archetype core: 18 copies; exact-name purity 12.9%; Copy histogram: 19 singles, 3 doubles, 10 triples
• Inferred: Ghoti core opening probability ≈ 0.87 (going first); Hand-trap coverage ≈ 0.82 (going second); Interaction and recursion quality read from card text; Closing power from Synchro/Link stats
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit (no dated sample); 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 no side deck supplied — post-side plan cannot be evaluated Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied