D/D/D Deck #759090 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 59 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 5 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck D/D/D boss monsters (for example Kali Yuga at 3500 ATK and Deus Machinex at 3000 ATK) summoned through the Pendulum and Dark Contract engine; Link and Xyz pressure from Zeus Ragnarok and Abyss King Gilgamesh, where the list runs them
• Turn 1 (going first): Pendulum-set a D/D starter (Count Surveyor, Kepler or Gryphon) and use Dark Contract with the Gate to search a D/D monster, then build toward a D/D/D boss; the 2 Forbidden cards cannot be run in-format
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Ghost Ogre, Droll and Lock Bird, Infinite Impermanence, Evenly Matched) to disrupt the opponent, then rebuild through Extra Deck summons
• Recovery: Recycle D/D monsters from the Graveyard through D/D Necro Slime and the Dark Contract Standby effects; the 1000 LP cost per turn is the price of recovery
• After siding: None: the Side Deck is empty, so no post-side plan is present in this list

Why it scores here

The list is Illegal in OCG: it runs three Forbidden cards (Called by the Grave, Triple Tactics Talent, D/D/D Wave High King Caesar) and exceeds the limits on Ash Blossom and Droll and Lock Bird, so it receives a capped, structural-only score rather than a normal Final Contextual score. Structurally the deck is a connected Pendulum and Dark Contract engine: nine Pendulum starters give roughly a 58% chance of at least one in an opening five, and the D/D archetype core has high presence, so the engine usually comes online. The Extra Deck is fully used across Fusion, Xyz, Synchro and Link, which gives the list real closing power, but no recorded boards exist, so conversion and median output are inferred from card text only. Interaction is dense (17 hand traps and 15 negation-text cards), which supports the going-second plan, yet the list has no Side Deck and a high share of off-archetype tech. Popularity and archetype usage did not earn points; the score comes from consistency, interaction and Extra Deck coverage on the system, not from averaging card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 53.1, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12). Final formula: Illegal cap: theoretical 0.80*53.1 + 0.20*35 - 12 (banlist modifier) = 37.5, capped to 20 because the list is Illegal and receives no normal Final Contextual score; Meta is null/provisional

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.24 · 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

• Pendulum starter density (nine copies across D/D Count Surveyor, D/D Savant Kepler and D/D Gryphon) gives a reasonable chance of an engine start
• Dense hand-trap and negation text (17 and 15 cards) supports going-second interaction
• All 15 Extra Deck slots are used with Fusion, Xyz, Synchro and Link coverage

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: three Forbidden cards and two copy-limit violations
• Zero exact-name archetype purity (74 off-archetype copies) weakens the engine's coherence
• Empty Side Deck means no post-side adaptation
• No recorded boards, so conversion and median output cannot be measured

Critical choke points

• Forbidden cards must be removed before the list can be played in OCG
• Pendulum starters must be in hand for the engine to begin

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 59 Main and 15 Extra cards; five violations (three Forbidden, two over copy limit); Archetype purity: 0% exact-name, 74 off-archetype copies; Side Deck: 0 cards
• Inferred: Pendulum starter access of about 0.58 and searcher access of about 0.87 (hypergeometric); Interaction density from the hand-trap and negation text counts; Going-second hand-trap coverage of about 0.88
• Provisional: Median output set near the midpoint with no recorded boards; Matchup and format fit, with no tournament or dated meta
• 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 exists in YGOVN: going-first, going-second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional: no dated metagame sample supplied usage_statistics in_this_deck flags are false for nine Extra Deck monsters (Flame King Genghis, Arc Crisis, Clovis, Alfred, Cursed King Siegfried, Sky King Zeus, Marksman King Tell, Wise King Solomon, Abyss King Gilgamesh) that the cards array lists in the Extra zone; the stat and the list disagree No guides attached to the archetype