Temple of the Kings Deck #756370 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 31/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 7 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck boss monsters (Anubis the Last Judge, Lord of the Heavenly Prison, Ecclesia and the Dark Dragon, Time Thief Redoer, Jinzo - Layered) backed by Apophis / Temple of the Kings board presence; Divine Serpent Apophis fusion and Fusion Summons via Super Polymerization (both listed as archetype core but Divine Serpent Apophis is not in this list)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Treasures of the Kings or Temple of the Kings and Set Apophis traps for a Temple-based Special Summon, keeping Infinite Impermanence, Ash Blossom and Evenly Matched up as interaction
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the six-card hand's hand traps (17 in the Main Deck) to answer the opponent's first board, then rebuild with Anubis, The Man with the Mark and Apophis monsters through the Temple
• Recovery: Apophis the Swamp Deity and Apophis the Serpent recycle Set Apophis traps; Treasures of the Kings and Temple of the Kings reconstruct the field
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered, so no post-side plan can be evaluated

Why it scores here

The list is Illegal under the OCG banlist: four Forbidden cards (Called by the Grave, Triple Tactics Talent, Varudras, Albion) and three Limited or Semi-Limited copy-limit breaches (Ash Blossom, Super Polymerization, Droll and Lock Bird) make it theoretical only, so the score is capped low. Within that theoretical read, the system reliably opens an archetype core (P(at least one core card in 5-card opening hand) about 0.86, Inferred) and has strong interaction density (19 negation texts, 22 removal texts, 17 hand traps), which is the main source of its points. Its conversion and median output cannot be measured because no combos were recorded, so D3 and D4 are text-only estimates and kept near the middle. Archetype purity is only 11.4% exact-name, so the engine is a mix of Temple, Apophis, Serket, Branded and generic staples rather than one coherent line, which holds back consistency and pilotability. The score comes from consistency, interaction and resilience on the system, not from Temple of the Kings being a popular archetype, and the card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 44.5, Going First ≈ 40, Going Second ≈ 48, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-12). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional; Illegal list, so the result is theoretical only): 0.80*44.5 + 0.20*35 - 12 = 30.6, rounded to 31

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

• Heavy interaction package: 17 hand traps, 19 negation texts and 22 removal texts
• Archetype core is accessible: about 0.86 chance to open at least one core card
• Multiple Extra Deck boss options with recursion through Apophis traps

Weaknesses

• Illegal under the OCG banlist: four Forbidden cards and three copy-limit breaches
• Low archetype purity (11.4%) and many sub-archetype conflicts
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation
• No recorded combos, so the conversion ceiling and median are unmeasured

Critical choke points

• Temple of the Kings and the Set Apophis trap chain for most Special Summon routes
• Divine Serpent Apophis absent, leaving the fusion route dependent on Super Polymerization copies that are over the limit

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is Illegal: 4 Forbidden and 3 copy-limit breaches in OCG; Main Deck 55 cards, Extra Deck 15 cards, Side Deck 0 cards; Archetype purity 11.4% exact-name; Copy-limit violations listed in legality.violations
• Inferred: Opening-hand consistency for the archetype core (about 0.86 at least one in 5 cards); Interaction density read from negation and removal text (19 and 22 texts); Going-second hand-trap estimate (about 0.90); Engine conflict across sub-archetypes
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit: no dated metagame sample or tournament link
• Data gaps: no combos supplied, so D3 and D4 are text-only inference no tournament link, so archetype meta-share and pilot record are absent no win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchups or brick rates Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Side Deck is empty, so D12 has no list to evaluate