Junk Deck #757348 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Toolbox
• Secondary strategies: Stun, Tempo
• Format: tcg

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro beatdown from Junk and Elfnote Synchros (Chaos Angel, Junora, June Pride, Fydraulis-style 2500+ ATK bodies) once the board is stable; Power Patron pendulum and Synchro recursion (Vidolium, Junoldo, Medius) for a second wave of attackers
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Tuner plus non-Tuner starters (Ghost Ogre, Ghost Belle, Starjunk, Jet Synchron), search an Elfnote, and Synchro into a 2400-3100 ATK body while holding Ash Blossom and Droll for the opponent's first answer
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Droll and Ghost Ogre or Ghost Belle as hand traps on the opponent's first summon or activation, then rebuild a Synchro board from the hand-trap Tuners
• Recovery: Mulcharmy draw effects, Pot of Sloth and Medius/Junoldo searches restore card count after a stopped line
• 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 Tuner-plus-non-Tuner starters and has dense hand-trap coverage (Ash Blossom, Droll and Lock Bird, Ghost Ogre and Ghost Belle, Nibiru), which gives it real interaction both going first and going second. Its Synchro endboard reaches 2200 to 3100 ATK, so its closing power is credible if the first line survives. The score is held down because the list is Illegal under the TCG ban list (Elfnote Lucina at 3 copies against 1 legal, Ash Blossom at 3 against 2), which caps it per the legality rule, and because there are no recorded boards, no side deck and no tournament data, so every consistency figure is Inferred. Archetype popularity and the Junk usage stats were not counted as power, and no card scores were averaged into the result.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox primary; Stun considered but not blended. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-4); no Side Deck (-2). Final formula: Illegal cap: unconstrained 0.80*Structural(55) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(48) = 54; capped to 30 for legality. Meta provisional (null). Theoretical/structural-only.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.98 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.02 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense hand-trap package (Ash, Droll, Ghost Ogre, Ghost Belle, Nibiru) for going second
• High Synchro ATK ceiling in the Extra Deck
• Layered negation and removal text across the Main Deck

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy counts for Elfnote Lucina and Ash Blossom
• No Side Deck
• Heavy Tuner and hand-trap dependence with high decision load
• No recorded boards to confirm the combo floor or ceiling

Critical choke points

• Every line starts from a Tuner plus non-Tuner; losing the Tuners to hand traps stalls the Synchro plan
• The Elfnote Synchro plan depends on a single Elfnote Lucina/Tinia body in the center zone

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Elfnote Lucina 3/1 and Ash Blossom 3/2 are over their copy limits (Illegal); Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0 within TCG size rules; Banlist status of Solemn Judgment, Called by the Grave and Harpie's Feather Duster is Limited at 1 copy each (legal)
• Inferred: Starter probability of about 0.98 via the archetype-core proxy; Hand-trap coverage and interaction density from text; Ceiling from 2200-3500 ATK Synchro text
• Provisional: Meta and format fit (no dated meta sample)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN — brick/starter/OTK rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied no Side Deck supplied