Nemeses Deck #756115 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 20/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 11 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro, Link and Ritual boards built from Yummy, Mitsurugi, Sky Striker and Mulcharmy searches, with Ritual boss monsters such as Ame no Murakumo no Mitsurugi (3200 ATK) as the closing threat; Hand-trap and Solemn-based interaction that keeps the opponent from establishing a board so that the deck can attack through a 1-for-1 exchange
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a starter from Mulcharmy, Yummy or Mitsurugi search effects and convert it into a Link or Synchro board; hold Ash Blossom, Droll or Solemn for the opponent's first response. The deck has no reliable turn-1 board without a 2-card hand, so this is Inferred
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre and Droll as hand-trap answers to the opponent's first summon, then rebuild a board from the GY-recursion and searcher text; the 6-card hand offers only a modest starter chance (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recover from GY through Mitsurugi Ritual, Mitsurugi Mirror and Yummy GY-recursion, plus Nemeses Corridor for banished-monster recovery (text-supported, Inferred)
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so no post-side plan exists. The deck cannot adapt between games in a best-of-3 setting.

Why it scores here

This list is Illegal in OCG: five Forbidden cards are present and several cards exceed their copy limits, so it does not receive a normal Final Contextual score and is capped as a theoretical, structural-only read. The structural score comes from the system and not from averaging card power. Interaction is the strongest part, with Ash Blossom, Droll and Lock Bird, Solemn Judgment, Solemn Warning, Ghost Ogre and Anti-Spell Fragrance, but the 1.4 percent exact-name purity and 69 off-archetype copies spread across Yummy, Mitsurugi, Sky Striker, Mulcharmy and Solemn mean the engine is not coherent. The archetype core is only about 51 percent likely to appear in a 5-card opening hand, with no recorded boards and no side deck, so the floor and median are weak. Popularity was not used to earn points, and the cards were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Balanced (default; primary Toolbox is not weighted separately because the deck is Illegal). Structural ≈ 41, Going First ≈ 38, Going Second ≈ 36, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12); illegal-deck cap (-8). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) = 39.8, then banlist exposure -12 and illegal-deck cap -8 applied, giving 20

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.51 · 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

• Layered hand-trap and Solemn interaction (Ash Blossom, Droll, Solemn Judgment, Solemn Warning, Ghost Ogre)
• Multiple searchers across Yummy, Mitsurugi, Sky Striker and Mulcharmy (searcher text on 20 cards)
• Strong closing bosses in Ame no Murakumo no Mitsurugi and Futsu no Mitama no Mitsurugi

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: five Forbidden cards and several copy-limit violations
• Very low archetype purity (1.4 percent exact name) with engines split across Yummy, Mitsurugi, Sky Striker and Mulcharmy
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation
• No recorded boards, so floor and median are unknown

Critical choke points

• Legality: the list must be corrected before it can be scored as a normal deck
• Opening-hand access to the archetype core (about 0.51 for 5 cards)
• Reliance on hand traps for the first interruption, with no side deck to adjust

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality status Illegal with five Forbidden cards and multiple copy-limit violations; Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0 (within size rules); Card text for each listed card (resolved from the deck export); Exact-name purity 1.4 percent; 69 off-archetype copies; Extra Deck split 6 Synchro, 8 Link, 1 Fusion
• Inferred: Opening-hand core access about 0.51 (archetype_core_group hypergeometric proxy); Interaction layering is strong based on text reads; Going-first and going-second power estimates are text-based; Floor and median output are unknown and estimated
• Provisional: Meta power (no dated meta sample); Matchup and format fit
• Data gaps: no combos supplied; floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent no win-rate telemetry; going-first and going-second power are Inferred Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No side deck registered