Ice Barrier Deck #759787 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 5 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ice Barrier board presence (Revealer, Georgius, Speaker, Hexa Spirit, General Raiho/Wayne) feeding Synchro bosses such as Trishula Zero, Chengying, Gymir Aegirine and Lancea; the illegal Trishula Dragon adds a banish-on-summon boss that cannot be run as built.; Hand-trap-supported disruption (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Ghost Belle, Droll, Evenly Matched) that protects Synchro summons and taxes the opponent's first turn.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a starter (Revealer, Georgius, Speaker or Hexa Spirit with a second Ice Barrier body) and search Ice Barrier pieces with Medallion or General Wayne, then Synchro toward a 3000-ATK boss while holding hand traps for the opponent's first response.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Ghost Belle and Droll for the opponent's starter, then use Mirror, Speaker or Freezing Chains to rebuild a board through their interaction.
• Recovery: Recursion through Winds Over the Ice Barrier and Freezing Chains from the GY, Mulcharmy draw effects, and Ice Barrier Tuners in the Deck for a second Synchro.
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs no Side Deck (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens an Ice Barrier starter: the archetype core has about a 94% chance of at least one card in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred, hypergeometric), and 23 exact-name Ice Barrier copies plus recursion give it redundancy. Its interaction is the strongest part of the system: 19 hand-trap-tagged cards, 14 negation-text cards and 19 removal-text cards make the going-second plan credible, with about 93% odds of at least one hand trap in a 6-card going-second hand (Inferred). The deck converts into 3000-ATK Synchro bosses, but there are no recorded boards, so ceiling and median output are text-based estimates only. The score is capped because the list is illegal: three Forbidden cards and two copy-limit overages put it outside the format, so the figure is theoretical and structural only. Popularity and archetype usage did not earn points, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange profile used directly; Stun is noted as secondary but not blended numerically. Structural ≈ 53.4, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 66, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-10). Final formula: Illegal list: theoretical/structural only. Unclamped 0.80*53.4 + 0.20*45 = 51.7, capped to 30 under the illegal-deck rule. Meta Power provisional (null).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.94 · 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

• Dense Ice Barrier starter and recursion package (23 exact-name copies, Winds Over and Freezing Chains recursion)
• Strong hand-trap and negation density for going second
• Multiple 3000+ ATK Synchro bosses in the Extra Deck

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: 3 Forbidden cards and 2 copy-limit overages
• Low archetype purity (33%) with 47 off-archetype copies
• No Side Deck, so no post-side plan
• No recorded combos, so ceiling and median are unmeasured

Critical choke points

• The Ice Barrier starter count is the single point of failure for Synchro access
• Hand-trap density is needed on the opponent's first turn with no fallback if it is dead

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 3 Forbidden cards and 2 copy-limit overages (Illegal); Composition: 55 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side; 33% exact-name purity; Card text: 19 hand-trap, 14 negation and 19 removal text hits (regex scaffold, confirmed from excerpts)
• Inferred: Archetype-core P(>=1 in 5-card hand) = 0.94; Hand-trap P(>=1 in 6-card going-second hand) = 0.93; Synchro access and going-second strength from text and probability
• Provisional: Matchup and format fit (D13); no dated metagame or tournament link
• Data gaps: No recorded combos: combo ceiling, median and floor are text-based inference only No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent No win-rate, going-first/second or matchup telemetry in YGOVN usage_statistics in_this_deck flags disagree with the cards array for Extra Deck cards (e.g. Icejade Gymir Aegirine, Chengying, Lancea, Adamancipator Dragite are run per cards[] but flagged in_this_deck=false); core_present_pct is unreliable and was not used Meta Power provisional without a dated metagame sample