Kashtira Deck #756772 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Large Link/Fusion/Xyz boards (Master of Chaos, Dark Magician of Destruction, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Underworld Goddess) assembled through Dark Magician searchers and Kashtira monsters; Kashtira Ogre and Tearlaments Kashtira beatdown after Kashtira Preparations and hand-trap protection
• Turn 1 (going first): Search Dark Magician or Shining Sarcophagus, Normal Summon Magician's Rod or Mulcharmy Fuwalos, then extend into a Link or Fusion board while holding Ash Blossom or Infinite Impermanence
• Turn 2 (going second): Open with hand traps (11 in deck, 72% chance of at least one in a 6-card hand) to blank the opponent's first play, then rebuild through searchers
• Recovery: Searchers and recursion (Dark Magician the Pharaoh's Servant, Eternal Soul, Soul Servant, Magicians' Souls) refill the hand after a hand-trap or board wipe
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs no side deck, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a searcher-driven start: P(at least one searcher in a 5-card hand) is about 0.94, so the Dark Magician and Shining Sarcophagus engine is usually reachable on turn 1 (Inferred). Its ceiling comes from text-level reads of Link, Fusion and Ritual boards with many negations and removal, but there are no recorded boards, so floor and median output cannot be measured and are scored conservatively. Interaction is the deck's strongest system: 11 hand traps and about 16 negation-text cards give a going-second hand-trap chance of about 0.72, and this is what earns the middle-of-range resilience and endboard scores. The deck is a hybrid of Dark Magician, Kashtira and Chaos, with exact-name archetype purity of only 10.7% and only 4 of 25 usage-core cards present, so engine coherence is weak and the Kashtira payoff is partly disconnected. The score is capped to 30 because the list is Illegal (3 copies of the Forbidden Kashtira Fenrir and 3 of Ash Blossom against a limit of 2) and has no side deck; popularity or meta-share did not earn points, and no card scores were averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 55.6, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-9); engine conflicts (-3); illegal cap (-12). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability = 54.1, plus modifiers (-12) = 42.1, capped to 30 because legality is Illegal (theoretical/structural-only evaluation)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.94 · 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 package (25 searcher-text cards) gives reliable access to the engine
• Eleven hand traps plus Droll and Ash Blossom give a strong going-second interaction shell
• High-ceiling Link, Fusion and Ritual finishers provide closing power

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Forbidden Kashtira Fenrir run 3 times and Ash Blossom over the copy limit
• No side deck, so no best-of-3 adaptability
• Three archetype lines (Dark Magician, Kashtira, Chaos) with very low exact-name purity

Critical choke points

• Kashtira Fenrir is a Forbidden card in the engine; removing it removes a core Kashtira route
• Single Xyz (Kashtira Shangri-Ira) is the only Xyz route for the Kashtira line

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Illegal, with Kashtira Fenrir Forbidden (3 copies) and Ash Blossom over its Semi-Limited limit (2); Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 counts and card text for 40+ resolved cards; Usage stats: 4 of 25 core cards present (16%)
• Inferred: Searcher access ≈ 0.94 and going-second hand-trap access ≈ 0.72 from hypergeometric estimates; Interaction density and negation coverage from text hints; Going-first and going-second power from the composition and text read
• Provisional: Meta power is null: no dated metagame sample; Matchup fit (D13) and tournament reliability (48) scored without meta or tournament 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 are absent No win-rate telemetry for going-first/second, matchup, brick or starter rates Meta power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Deck title is null; no side deck supplied