Gladiator Beast Deck #758654 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 40/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck Gladiator Beast Fusion/Link boards (Heraklinos, Domitianus, Claudius, Tamer Editor) and Augustus-led attacks; structural read only because the list is illegal; Radiant Typhoon Link and Mulcharmy draw-and-pressure lines, with Gladiator Beast Equeste/Attorix recursion
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Gladiator Beast searcher (Gladiator Proving Ground, Flavian, Hey Space Trunade) into a Gistel/Fuwalos body, then extend through Gladiator Beast's Comeback or Augustus
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Maxx C, Red Reboot, Droll & Lock Bird) and Forbidden Crown to stop the opponent's first board, then extend to a Gladiator Beast Fusion or Link
• Recovery: Recover Gladiator Beast monsters from the GY with Equeste or Attorix and re-extend through Dragases or Test Panther
• After siding: Not applicable: the deck runs no Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan in the list as built

Why it scores here

The deck is illegal as built: three copy-limit or Forbidden violations, so it is capped and scored only as a theoretical, structural read. Structurally it reliably reaches an archetype starter (about 83% to open at least one of the 16 core Gladiator Beast copies in a going-first 5-card hand, Inferred) and has a dense searcher and hand-trap package that keeps it live through one interruption. Its ceiling comes from the Extra Deck Gladiator Beast Fusions and Augustus, which score on closing power, but no recorded boards exist to confirm conversion or a median. The Side Deck is empty, so adaptability is low. Popularity did not earn points: the archetype usage stats only confirm the core is real and accessible, and the score was built from the deck's dimensions, not from averaging card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 53.3, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Illegal deck cap (-12). Final formula: Illegal cap: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) = 51.7, then -12 illegal-deck modifier, rounded to 40; theoretical/structural read only

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.83 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.17 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense searcher and recursion text (19 searcher cards) keeps the engine live through the first turns
• Seven hand traps and a second interaction layer (Forbidden Crown, Harpie's Feather Duster, Crossout Designator) give going-second resilience
• High-ATK Extra Deck closers (Claudius 3700, Domitianus 3500) give real closing power if the Extra Deck is reached

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: three copy-limit or Forbidden violations
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptation
• 55-card Main Deck with many one-of situational cards raises brick and redundancy cost
• No recorded boards, so the floor and median are unmeasured

Critical choke points

• The Extra Deck Fusion and Link summons depend on Gladiator Beast monsters surviving the opponent's first turn
• Radiant Typhoon Chant at 3 copies cannot be legally run; a legal list would cut this to 1

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 within OCG size rules (40–60 / 0–15 / 0–15); Radiant Typhoon Chant (3 copies, Limited 1), Charmer Quartet in Bloom and Knightmare Gryphon (Forbidden) violations; Archetype composition: 16 exact-name Gladiator Beast copies; 13 legal Extra Deck monsters
• Inferred: P(≥1 archetype core copy in going-first 5-card hand) ≈ 0.83; Hand-trap coverage on going-second ≈ 0.58; Engine accessibility, brick management and interaction quality read from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit (D13) and tournament reliability
• Data gaps: no combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link; archetype meta share and per-pilot record absent no win-rate telemetry; going-first, going-second and matchup signals are Inferred or Unknown Side Deck is empty, so post-side behaviour cannot be scored Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied