Darklord Deck #759657 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck pressure from Darklord Fusion and Link monsters (Darklord Eveningstar 3000, The First Darklord 4000, Mirrorjade 3000), reached through Darklord searches and Fusion Summons (Inferred from card text).; Tribute-summoned Darklord Morningstar (3000 ATK) and Darklord Ixchel (2500 ATK) as board presence (Inferred from card text).
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon Darklord Djehuty, whose text Special Summons a Darklord from the Deck, then extend with Darklord Gulgolet and Ixchel while searching with Banishment of the Darklords and Gulgolet (Inferred from card text; no recorded boards).
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps Ash Blossom and Herald of Orange Light to answer the opponent's first line, then rebuild through Darklord Dance or Super Polymerization into a Fusion (Inferred from card text; hand-trap density is reduced once copy limits are enforced).
• Recovery: Darklord Contact Special Summons a Darklord from the GY, Gulgolet adds a Darklord from the Deck when sent to the GY, and Ixchel's Spell/Trap effect recurs from the GY (Inferred from card text).
• After siding: No side deck is listed (0 cards), so no post-side plan can be evaluated; this is a data gap.

Why it scores here

The deck's structural read rests on its engine and interaction as a system: 10 archetype-core copies give about a 78% chance of at least one in the opening five, and 14 searcher-text cards add search density, so the deck usually opens a live engine (Inferred). Its interaction layer of 5 hand traps, 7 negation-text and 9 removal-text cards gives it resilience across both turn orders, and its Extra Deck carries high-ATK closers. The score is held down by an illegal list: four cards exceed their copy limits, including the Forbidden Albion, so the Final Contextual score is capped at 30 and the evaluation is theoretical/structural-only (uncapped it would be about 41). Popularity did not earn points: the archetype's core stats confirm the list is real but only 5 of 25 core cards are present, and points came from the system's consistency, interaction and closing power, not from averaging the individual card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo, meta-neutral (D13 dropped and weights re-normalized over 97). Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 56, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); archetype fragmentation (-2); no side deck (-2). Final formula: Illegal cap: uncapped 0.80*55 + 0.20*45 + modifiers (-12) = 41; reported as 30 (theoretical/structural-only); Meta Power provisional

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.78 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.22 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Archetype core of 10 copies gives about a 78% chance of at least one in the opening five (Inferred)
• 14 searcher-text cards give high search density (P≥1 in hand 5 ≈ 0.90, Inferred)
• Layered interaction: 5 hand traps, 7 negation-text and 9 removal-text cards (Verified role tags)
• High-ATK Extra Deck closers: Eveningstar 3000, The First Darklord 4000, Mirrorjade 3000 (Verified stats)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: four cards exceed copy limits, including Forbidden Albion (Verified legality)
• Low exact-name archetype purity of 43.6%, with 31 off-archetype copies (Verified composition)
• No side deck, so no post-side plan (Verified composition)
• No recorded combos, so ceiling and median are unsupported (Verified data gap)

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz (3 copies) is the material for Titaniklad, Mirrorjade and the Blazing Cartesia → Granguignol line (Verified card text)
• Legalizing the copy limits cuts hand-trap and Fallen Angel density, which lowers interaction and starter redundancy (Inferred)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 4 cards over copy limit, including Forbidden Albion; Main 40, Extra 15, Side 0 against the TCG size rules; Exact archetype purity 43.6%, 31 off-archetype copies; Extra Deck stats for Eveningstar, The First Darklord, Mirrorjade; Usage statistics: 5 of 25 core cards present
• Inferred: Hypergeometric estimate of at least one archetype-core copy in opening 5 ≈ 0.78; Consistency, brick and resilience reads from card text and role tags; Going-first and going-second plans from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power is null; D13 matchup/format fit is provisional with no dated meta sample; Post-side adaptability is unknown
• 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 absent no win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter/OTK rates) Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied no side deck listed, so post-side performance cannot be evaluated