Shark Deck #756111 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ghoti / Fish synchro and Extra Deck boards (Askaan, Arionpos, Ghoti of the Deep Beyond, White Aura Whale, Icejade Gymir Aegirine) backed by Fish-Type recursion and banish loops, with hand traps and removal protecting the board; Link and Fusion beats (Mediclius, Marincess Coral Anemone, Garura, Mudragon) once the board is established
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Fish or WATER starter (Abyss Shark, Lifeless Leaffish, Psiics, Mulcharmy line) and extend into a Level 6 or 8 Synchro, while holding one or two hand traps for the opponent's first answer
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the six-card hand's hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Evenly Matched, Infinite Impermanence, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C) to disrupt the opponent's first board, then rebuild from GY and banish recursion
• Recovery: Recover through recursion effects (Lifeless Leaffish, Paces, Shif, Zep banish-to-revive) and searchers (Psiics, Snopios, Abyss Shark, Royal Penguins Garden)
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so no post-side plan can be evaluated; the deck cannot adapt between games

Why it scores here

The deck is Illegal as submitted: it runs one copy of Baronne de Fleur, which is Forbidden in OCG, so the score is capped and the evaluation is theoretical and structural only. Its strongest system feature is interaction density: 13 hand traps, 14 negation-text cards and 27 removal-text cards give it breadth on both turns, which lifts going-second hand quality and end-board interaction. The engine is weaker. Archetype purity is 0 percent (70 of 70 non-core copies are off-archetype and split across Ghoti, Mulcharmy, Penguin and others), the core Shark cards in the usage stats are absent, and no recorded boards exist to measure combo floor or ceiling. Popularity and archetype usage did not earn points, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score. The Structural score (about 47) is pulled down by the missing combo evidence, the 0-copy side deck, and the lack of any tournament or meta signal, with Meta Power left provisional.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox primary, Stun secondary; weights used as Toolbox profile because the deck mixes interaction and synchro engines with no combo evidence. Structural ≈ 47, Going First ≈ 42, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-9); engine_conflict_and_purity (-3); illegal_cap (-7). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) = 44.2, then capped to 25 because the list is Illegal (Forbidden card run)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.25 · 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

• Broad interaction: 13 hand traps plus removal and negation text gives layered answers on both turns
• Ghoti synchro bosses at 2700 to 3000 ATK provide closing power if the engine goes live

Weaknesses

• Illegal as submitted (Baronne de Fleur, Forbidden)
• No side deck, so the deck cannot adapt
• No archetype core: 0 percent purity, 1 of 20 core Shark cards present

Critical choke points

• The Ghoti synchro engine depends on Fish-Type searches and banish loops; losing the early Fish starter to one hand trap stalls the line
• Single Extra Deck card (Baronne de Fleur) makes the list illegal and cannot be used in OCG

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0 within OCG size rules; Baronne de Fleur is Forbidden in OCG and run once; Archetype purity 0 percent; 70 off-archetype copies; 13 hand traps, 14 negation-text, 27 removal-text cards; Combo evidence empty (0 boards)
• Inferred: Hypergeometric starter and hand-trap probabilities; Ghoti synchro engine reading from card text; Interaction quality from text plus flags; Going-first and going-second split estimates
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated meta sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament link)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied, so combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link, so archetype meta-share and match record are absent No win-rate telemetry (going-first, going-second, matchup, starter or OTK rates) No side deck, so post-side performance cannot be assessed Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample