Ancient Warrior Deck #756190 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 45/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Beat down with high-ATK Ancient Warriors monsters (Lu Feng 2800, Zhang De 2700, Red-Eyes Exceed 3400) after Saga/Wizard/Fire Formation searches put them in hand; Fusion and Link Extra Deck threats (Exceed, Garura, Flame Wingman, Mudragon, Double Dragon Lords) that add pressure once Super Polymerization or Ancient Warrior summons are live
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a searcher (Three Visits, Dark Time Wizard, Tenki, Savage Don Ying), summon an Ancient Warriors monster, search a second, and build a board that uses Ultimate Sky or Savage Don Ying tax to protect it
• Turn 2 (going second): Maxx C in hand to draw off an opponent summon, then Gameciel or Loyal Guan Yun to remove or negate the opposing board and rebuild with the searchers
• Recovery: Ancient Warriors Saga and Mulcharmy draw effects rebuild the hand; Pot of Extravagance is a second draw source
• After siding: No side deck is run, so there is no post-side plan; sideboarding is unavailable in this build

Why it scores here

The deck opens functionally about 88% of the time with at least one searcher in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred, from the 13 searcher-text cards), so its consistency is real but leans on a single Ancient Warriors summon as the trigger. Conversion is moderate: the Ancient Warriors monsters reach 2700–3400 ATK, and the interaction (Ultimate Sky, Savage Don Ying tax, Gameciel negation, Loyal Guan Yun destruction, one Maxx C) gives a usable end-board, but there are no recorded boards so no combo ceiling or median is measured. Structural power is pulled down by three Super Starslayer TY-PHON Xyz that cannot be summoned because the Main Deck has no Level 12 monsters to use as material, by six conditional Mulcharmy draw cards, and by a zero-card side deck with no post-side plan. Popularity and meta-share earned no points (no tournament data), and the card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange 100 / Toolbox 0 (Toolbox noted, not weighted). Structural ≈ 51, Going First ≈ 48, Going Second ≈ 44, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Dead Extra-Deck slots (-3); No side deck (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural(51, meta-neutral, D13 dropped and renormalised) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) + modifiers(-5) ≈ 45 (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.88 · 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

• Dense searcher suite (13 searcher-text cards) gives high P(≥1 searcher in hand) (Inferred)
• High-ATK beaters (Lu Feng 2800, Zhang De 2700, Exceed 3400) close games (Verified stats)
• Layered interaction: Ultimate Sky, Savage Don Ying tax, Gameciel and Loyal Guan Yun (Inferred from card text)
• Compact Ancient Warriors core: 16 Main Deck copies plus 3 Double Dragon Lords (Verified counts)

Weaknesses

• Three Super Starslayer TY-PHON cannot be summoned without Level 12 monsters (Inferred from card text)
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation (Verified)
• Six Mulcharmy and other conditional cards (Lu Feng, Kurikara, Gameciel) add brick and misfire risk (Inferred)
• Only one hand trap (Maxx C) for a going-second plan (Verified)

Critical choke points

• An Ancient Warriors monster on the field enables Saga Three Visits, Lu Feng and Savage Don Ying (Inferred)
• Super Polymerization is the only fusion route for nine Fusion Monsters (Inferred)
• Red-Eyes Exceed needs a Dark Time Wizard-mentioning monster (Inferred from card text)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status; 40 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side within size rules; Restricted cards: Maxx C Limited (1 copy), Pot of Extravagance and Super Polymerization Semi-Limited (2 copies each); Card stats and text excerpts for all listed cards; Copy histogram and archetype spread counts
• Inferred: P(≥1 searcher in 5-card hand) ≈ 0.88; TY-PHON ×3 is unsummonable with no Level 12 Main Deck monsters; Brick and misfire risk from conditional summons; Interaction layering from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit (no tournament link)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and pilot match record absent No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick and starter rates) Usage statistics core cards (Droll & Lock Bird, Accesscode Talker, Masquerena and others) do not match this archetype's staples, so they were not used Exact-name purity uses 'Ancient Warrior' while cards are named 'Ancient Warriors'; purity figure is unreliable No side deck, so post-side performance cannot be assessed Deck title is null