Apophis Deck #757848 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck boss monsters (Divine Serpent Apophis, Swordsoul Supreme Sovereign - Chengying, Super Starslayer TY-PHON) and Time Thief Redoer pressure, supported by Apophis/Temple of the Kings trap-based summon lines; Negation and removal through Apophis the Swamp Deity, Verdict of Anubis, and Dominus traps to clear the opponent's board before attacking
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with a Temple of the Kings or Apophis searcher (Treasures of the Kings, The Man with the Mark, Primite Lordly Lode) to set a trap, then convert into an Extra Deck boss through Apophis monsters; the hand has no verified full combo because no combo boards were supplied (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Dominus traps and hand traps (Infinite Impermanence, Maxx C, Droll & Lock Bird) to stop the first summon, then rebuild through searchers; hand-trap access is about 0.58 in a 6-card hand (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recover through trap recursion in the GY and searchers (Dominus Spiral, Apophis the Serpent, Primite Dragon Ether Beryl) that add a new Apophis or Temple card (Inferred)
• After siding: Not evaluable: the side deck is empty, so no post-side plan exists in the submitted list (Provisional)

Why it scores here

This list is Illegal because it runs two copies of Baronne de Fleur, which is Forbidden in OCG, so the score is capped and the evaluation is structural-only and theoretical. Its engine is reasonably accessible: the 12-card archetype core has about 0.85 probability of at least one copy in a 5-card opening hand, and the searcher text group (20 cards) about 0.98, so the deck usually finds a starter (Inferred). Its interaction is broad (17 negation and 14 removal text hints, plus 5 hand traps), which helps it survive disruption, but the midrange conversion ceiling and median output cannot be measured because no recorded boards exist. Popularity did not earn points: the archetype core shows 50% presence, and the list has only 9.1% exact-name Apophis purity, spread across Temple of the Kings, Dominus, Primite, Greed, and Time Thief. Card scores were not averaged; the score reflects the system-level consistency, interaction and Extra Deck access, reduced by the illegal copy count and the empty side deck.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 48, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 42. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-12). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(48) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(42) = 46.8, then context modifiers (-12) gives 34.8; capped at 30 because legality is Illegal, so the result is theoretical/structural-only (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.85 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.15 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Starter access is high: about 0.85 probability for the 12-card archetype core and about 0.98 for searcher text cards
• Broad interaction package: 17 negation and 14 removal text hints plus 5 hand traps
• Extra Deck has several high-ATK bosses and link-based extension options

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Baronne de Fleur (Forbidden) run at 2 copies
• Very low archetype purity (9.1%), with cards spread across several sub-archetypes
• Empty side deck: no post-side adaptability
• No combos or recorded boards, so ceiling and median cannot be measured

Critical choke points

• Baronne de Fleur must be removed before the list can be played; the score assumes its removal and is not a legal-list score
• A single Apophis/Temple starter line depends on a few trap or Temple cards (Inferred)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Baronne de Fleur is Forbidden with 2 copies run; the list is Illegal; Main 40 and Extra 15 are within OCG size rules; side is 0; Banlist statuses for Limited and Semi-Limited cards match the copies run; Probability estimates from the evidence table
• Inferred: Starter access and brick estimates from hypergeometric draws; Interaction and hand-trap density from text hints; Going-first and going-second plans from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament link); Post-side plan (no side deck)
• 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 OTK rates Side deck is empty (0 cards) Deck title is null Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied