Gladiator Beast Deck #757675 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Fusion/Link
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 42 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link and Fusion boards built from Gladiator Beast and Tri-Brigade monsters, closing with Gladiator Beast Claudius, Heraklinos, Vespasius or Shuraig (all text-based, not verified by combo data); Yummy LIGHT Beast chains into Link-1 and Synchro Yummy monsters with Yummyusment Mignon ATK boosts
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Gistel, Fraktall, Kerass or Nervall for a Tri-Brigade or Gladiator Beast search and a Link Summon, with Ash Blossom and Droll held back as interaction (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom and Droll for opposing starters, then use Gladiator Beast War Chariot and Noxious as follow-up (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recur Gladiator Beast's Comeback, Tri-Brigade Hammer and Cupsy-style searches from GY and Deck; Link material is rebuilt from GY banishes (Inferred)
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so no post-side plan can be scored; a best-of-3 deck with 0 side cards cannot adapt (Provisional)

Why it scores here

This list is Illegal in OCG: Ash Blossom is run 3 copies against a limit of 2, Droll & Lock Bird 2 against 1, and Cupsy Yummy Way (Forbidden) is in the Extra Deck, so the score is a theoretical structural read capped at 30 under rubric Step 2. The structural read (about 54) comes from the system: the 3-copy Gistel, Kerass and Fraktall starters give P(at least one core-group card in a 5-card hand) of about 0.67 and P(at least one searcher) of about 0.86, which supports D1 and D5. The Tri-Brigade and Gladiator Beast Link/Fusion web gives redundant lines, and five hand traps plus Gladiator Beast War Chariot and Noxious give real interaction, but the deck mixes Yummy, Springans and Fire Formation with 19.3% exact-archetype purity, and five or more dead-draw cards (Foolish Burial, Piri Reis Map, Flavian, One for One, Marshmao) lower brick management. No combo boards exist, so no ceiling or median was measured, and popularity (archetype stats present, 24% core present) was not credited as power; card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 54, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 57, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-4); illegal_list_cap (-20). Final formula: Illegal list: normal Final not applied. Theoretical Structural 54 (Midrange profile) with banlist modifier -4, capped at 30 per legality rule (Step 2).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.86 · 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

• Three-copy starters (Gistel, Kerass, Fraktall) give consistent engine access (Inferred)
• Five hand traps and a Gladiator Beast War Chariot give layered interaction (Inferred)
• High-attack Extra Deck boss monsters (Claudius, Heraklinos, Shuraig) (Verified stats)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Ash Blossom and Droll over copy limit, Cupsy Yummy Way Forbidden (Verified)
• Exact-archetype purity 19.3%, with Yummy, Springans and Fire Formation diluting the engine (Verified)
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation (Verified)
• Several dead-draw cards in the Main Deck (Inferred)

Critical choke points

• Legality: the list cannot be played as built in OCG until the copy and Forbidden violations are fixed (Verified)
• Reliance on Gistel and Kerass as starters, with 3 copies each (Inferred)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Ash Blossom over copy limit (3 vs 2), Droll over limit (2 vs 1), Cupsy Yummy Way Forbidden; Main 42 and Extra 15 are within size rules; Side 0; Card stats and banlist status for listed cards
• Inferred: Starter hypergeometric estimates (0.67 core, 0.86 searcher); Brick and dead-draw risk from card text; Going-first and going-second plans from text
• Provisional: Meta Power and format fit (no dated meta); Side-deck adaptability (no side deck)
• Data gaps: No recorded combos; floor, median and ceiling are text-only No tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry; going-first/second and matchup signals are Inferred Meta Power Provisional without a dated sample No side deck registered