Vanquish Soul Deck #756642 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 29/100 (±6 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Toolbox
• Secondary strategies: Combo
• Format: tcg

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 9 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link and Fusion boss monsters (Vanquish Soul Caesar Valius, Black Chaos, Black Luster Soldier, Dark Magician of Destruction) closing from Extra Deck plus Vanquish Soul board presence; no recorded combo boards to confirm the line.; Light and Darkness Ritual chain (Black Chaos / Magician of Dark Chaos - Black Chaos) as a second independent engine; Mulcharmy draw-punish as a grind plan.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on a searcher-rich hand (Vanquish Soul Dr. Mad Love, Vanquish Soul Start!, Mind Shuffle, Stake your Soul!) to reach a Vanquish Soul Level 4-5 body and start a Link or Fusion route; this plan depends on a card-text read and has no recorded board sample (Inferred).
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird and Griffoh as hand interaction, then rebuild through Vanquish Soul searchers; interaction density is high on paper but several copies are over the legal limit (Inferred).
• Recovery: Recover through Vanquish Soul Hollie Sue and Vanquish Soul Heavy Borger returns plus Mulcharmy draw effects; the deck has 19 searcher-text cards and 17 removal-text cards, so recovery is plausible on paper only (Inferred).
• After siding: No side deck is registered (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan; best-of-3 play would run the same illegal list.

Why it scores here

The deck's score is driven by its system structure, not by averaging its cards. Its searcher density (19 searcher-text cards, P(at least one in a 5-card opening hand) of about 0.89) and an archetype-core group of 16 copies (P of at least one in hand about 0.83) suggest it can usually open a live engine, so access and consistency earn a moderate score. However, the list runs 9 copies of 3-of cards and 5 Forbidden cards, and it is 16.9% exact-name Vanquish Soul, with at least 11 sub-archetypes (Light and Darkness Ritual, Mulcharmy, Sinful Spoils, Azamina, Dark Magician, Diabellstar, Bystial, Code Talker, Greed and others) competing for the same slots. That spread lowers coherence, brick resistance and engine conflict scores. There are no recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and median are inferred from card text only. Popularity and usage statistics confirm the archetype core is real but do not make the list strong. The deck is Illegal: 5 Forbidden cards and 4 over-limit cards, and it has no side deck. Under the rubric the structural score is capped and the final score is a low theoretical read rather than a normal contextual score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 43, Going First ≈ 45, Going Second ≈ 38, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-8); engine_conflicts (-4). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional; Illegal deck, theoretical read only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.89 · 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

• Searcher density gives high opening-hand access to a live engine (Inferred)
• Several independent starter families (Vanquish Soul, Mulcharmy, Light and Darkness Ritual, Diabellstar) provide some redundancy (Inferred)
• Layered hand traps and negation text (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Griffoh, Nibiru) (Inferred)

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: 5 Forbidden cards and 4 over-limit cards (Verified)
• No side deck (Verified)
• Low exact-archetype purity (16.9%) and many sub-archetypes compete for slots (Verified composition)
• No recorded boards, so ceiling and median are unmeasured (Verified gap)

Critical choke points

• Vanquish Soul monster in hand as the link into every Vanquish Soul line
• Extra Deck link and fusion bosses; 11 Link and 4 Fusion, several unavailable
• Ash Blossom and Droll & Lock Bird legal copy limits cap interaction density

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status and Forbidden / over-limit violations listed in legality; Main 56, Extra 15, Side 0 counts within size rules; Exact-name archetype purity 16.9%; 19 archetype labels; No combos, no tournament link, no guides
• Observed: Archetype core inclusion usage stats for Vanquish Soul Hollie Sue, Mulcharmy Fuwalos, Ash Blossom and Stake your Soul (100 to 93 percent)
• Inferred: Starter access P(at least one searcher in 5) about 0.89 from hypergeometric draw table; Brick and conflict rates from composition and text; Interaction density from hand-trap and negation text; Going-first and going-second strength from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament or meta data)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates) exists in YGOVN Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied deck title is null in the export