Temple of the Kings Deck #758778 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 20/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Stun
• Secondary strategies: Combo
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 7 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Temple of the Kings / Apophis engine: Treasures of the Kings and Apophis Traps set and search into Fusion and Special Summon payoffs (Divine Serpent Apophis, Anubis, Merciless Scorpion), with hand traps protecting the setup; Link and Xyz beatdown from Time Thief Redoer, Jinzo - Layered, Evolzar Lars and Ecclesia and the Dark Dragon
• Turn 1 (going first): Treasures or Man with the Mark to search an Apophis Trap or Temple, set it, then Special Summon a Fusion or Scorpion; hope the Trap stays unnegated
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Ghost Ogre, Infinite Impermanence and Nibiru to stop the opponent's first-turn line, then convert with a surviving Apophis engine
• Recovery: Apophis the Serpent and Man with the Mark search and recycle; Ecclesia and Gallant Granite provide recursion and Xyz material
• After siding: None. The deck has zero side-deck cards, so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

This list is illegal under the OCG ban list: it runs five Forbidden cards and over-limits Ash Blossom and Droll, so per the rubric it cannot receive a normal Final Contextual score and is capped at 20 as a theoretical, structural-only read. Structurally it has a real engine core: Treasures of the Kings and the Apophis Traps set and search into Temple and Fusion payoffs, and about 86% of hands hold at least one of the 17 archetype-core cards. Its strongest dimension is interaction, with 17 hand-trap copies and roughly 90% odds of one going second, which lifts going-second power and the Stun profile. It scores low on coherence and closing power: 89% of copies are off-archetype, the three Forbidden Extra Deck threats are the deck's biggest closers, and there is no side deck. The score comes from consistency, interaction and the system's structure, not from the Temple of the Kings archetype's popularity (no meta share in the export) and not from averaging card scores. No combos were recorded, so every conversion figure is text-based and Inferred.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Stun primary, with Combo as a secondary read of the Temple and Apophis engine (no separate blend ratio was applied). Structural ≈ 53, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 66, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-6); engine_conflicts (-3). Final formula: Illegal cap applied. Uncapped no-meta formula 0.80*53 + 0.20*40 = 50.5, modifiers -9 gives 41.5; capped to 20 under the illegal-list rule (theoretical/structural-only). Meta Power provisional, null.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.86 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.14 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Hand-trap density (17 copies) gives strong going-second interaction
• The Treasures and Apophis Trap chain gives a real search and summon engine
• Core-archetype hit rate of about 0.86 in a 5-card hand

Weaknesses

• Illegal under the OCG ban list and copy limits
• Fragile closers: three of the best Extra Deck threats are Forbidden
• No side deck, so no post-side plan
• Low archetype purity (11.4% exact name; 89% off-archetype copies)

Critical choke points

• A single negate on the first Apophis Trap or Treasures stops the whole Temple setup
• Without the Forbidden Extra Deck threats the closing board relies on 2500 to 2600 ATK monsters

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality is Illegal: 5 Forbidden cards and 2 over-limit Limited/Semi-Limited copies; Main 55 and Extra 15 are within OCG size rules; side 0; Archetype core presence about 0.86 in a 5-card hand (hypergeometric, Main Deck only)
• Observed: No recorded boards, so no measured combo frequency is available
• Inferred: Stun is the primary strategy, using the hand-trap and negate text counts; Engine conversion and closing power from card text; Interaction and going-second strength from negation text and the hand-trap probability
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit (no dated metagame sample)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta share and pilot match record are absent No win-rate telemetry: going-first and going-second splits and matchup results are unknown Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample Deck title is null and the deck has no side deck, so the post-side plan is unverified