Shark Deck #760153 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Level-4 WATER Xyz bosses (Number 101 / Number C101 / Number C32 / Number 32 line) built from Shark and Buzzsaw Level-4 bodies (Inferred from card text and archetype core; no recorded boards); Full Armored Dark Knight Lancer and Xyz Armor Fortress recursion off the Xyz core (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Level-4 WATER body (Surfacing Big Jaws, Buzzsaw Shark, Drake Shark, Hydrojet Shark), search a Shark or Seventh piece, and Xyz into a boss; hold Ash Blossom and Droll & Lock Bird as the protection layer (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Red Reboot, Ghost Ogre and Maxx C to break the opponent's first-turn interaction, then rebuild through Mulcharmy draw effects into an Xyz boss (Inferred)
• Recovery: Mulcharmy Fuwalos and Purulia draw on opponent summons; Number 101 and N.As.H. Knight recover Xyz material from the GY (Inferred)
• After siding: None: Side Deck size is 0, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck is Illegal in OCG: Barrier Statue of the Torrent and Bahamut Shark are Forbidden and run at 1 copy each, so under the legality rule it receives no normal contextual score. Its structural read (about 53) comes from the system, not from averaging card scores: the archetype core is well represented (P(at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand) about 0.97, searcher text about 0.72), and the list has a dense layer of negation and hand-trap interaction (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Red Reboot, Maxx C, Crossout Designator, Ghost Ogre). Its weaknesses are a fragmented engine (exact archetype-name purity is only 5.7%, with many Mulcharmy, Seventh, Xyz and generic cards), a 55-card main deck with 11 three-copy and 18 single-copy slots, and no side deck. Floor, median and ceiling could not be separated because the export has zero parseable combo boards, so D3 and D4 are low-confidence. Archetype popularity earned no points, and no tournament or win-rate data was supplied. The contextual figure before the legality cap is about 39 (0.80 x 52.8 + 0.20 x 42 - 12 modifiers); the Illegal rule caps the published score at 30, and the figure should be re-run once the two Forbidden cards are removed.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 52.8, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 42. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-8); No post-side plan (-4). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (-12) = 39 pre-cap; capped at 30 because legality is Illegal; Meta provisional

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.97 · 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

• Large archetype core: 26 copies, with about 97% chance of at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred)
• Dense interaction layer: 8 hand traps and 14 negation-text cards, including Ash Blossom and Droll & Lock Bird (Verified tags)
• Multiple Xyz bosses with 2800+ ATK in the Extra Deck (Verified stats)

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: two Forbidden cards are run (Verified)
• No side deck, so there is no post-side plan (Verified)
• Fragmented engine: exact archetype-name purity 5.7%, with many off-archetype cards (Verified)
• Wide main deck: 31 distinct main cards and 18 singletons, with 24 Level-0 spells/traps (Verified counts)

Critical choke points

• Forbidden Barrier Statue of the Torrent and Bahamut Shark must be removed before the list is legal; the rest of the engine depends on Shark and Xyz bodies that Bahamut feeds
• Shark bodies at Level 4 WATER are the only route into most Xyz bosses; losing them to hand-trap or Ash Blossom timing removes the boss line (Inferred)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Barrier Statue of the Torrent and Bahamut Shark are Forbidden and each run 1 copy (legality violations); Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0; main size 55 is within the 40-60 limit (legality); Copy histogram 18x1, 2x2, 11x3 sums to 55 (composition); Exact archetype-name purity 5.7%; 14 Xyz and 1 Synchro in the Extra Deck (composition); Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse are Semi-Limited at 2 copies, within limit; Crossout Designator, Droll, Gozen Match, Maxx C, Red Reboot and Seventh Tachyon are Limited at 1 copy, within limit
• Inferred: P(at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand) about 0.97 for the 26-copy archetype core; P(at least one searcher in a 5-card opening hand) about 0.72; Hand-trap availability of about 0.63 in a 6-card going-second hand; Midrange primary strategy with Combo and Toolbox secondaries, from card text and archetype core; Interaction density is high from negation and removal text roles
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit (D13) are not supported by any dated metagame sample or tournament link
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: floor, median and ceiling (D3, D4) are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record are absent No win-rate telemetry for going-first/second, matchup, brick or starter rates No side deck (Side Deck size 0): D12 has no evidence usage statistics in this deck flags disagree with the cards list for Number 4: Stealth Kragen, Number 32: Shark Drake, Number C32: Shark Drake LeVeiss, Full Armored Dark Knight Lancer and Xyz Armor Fortress (flagged absent in missing core cards, but present with copies 1 in cards); the cards list was trusted for scoring Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied