Dark World Deck #760394 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Blind-Second/OTK
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 58 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 6 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Dark World Fiend recursion and Fusion/Link end-boards (Grapha, Dragon Overlord; Reign-Beaux; Desirae; A Bao A Qu); Hand-disruption virus traps (Full Force, Deck Devastation, Eradicator) to strip the opponent and destroy low-ATK/DEF monsters
• Turn 1 (going first): Gates of Dark World / Genta / Snoww searches and summons, then Dark Corridor or Dark World Accession into a Fiend Fusion or Link; the three Forbidden Xyz cards are unavailable, so this plan runs on 12 legal Extra cards
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand-trap and virus traps (Evenly Matched, Skill Drain, Eradicator/Deck Devastation/Full Force Virus) against a board, followed by GY recursion to rebuild
• Recovery: Discard-based revival from the GY (Snoww, Sillva, Ceruli, Grapha, Reign-Beaux, Genta) to re-establish Dark World monsters after a board wipe
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs 0 side cards, so no post-side plan exists

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Dark World starter: the 18-copy archetype core has an 0.856 chance of at least one copy in a 5-card opening hand, and 20 searcher-text cards add redundancy (Inferred). Its conversion ceiling depends on Fiend Fusion and Link end-boards plus graveyard recursion, but no recorded boards exist, so both conversion and median output are text-only inference. Interaction is thin and partly unusable: the Forbidden copies remove Called by the Grave, Triple Tactics Talent and the Xyz engine, leaving legal disruption at Evenly Matched, Skill Drain and the three virus traps. The Structural score (53, meta-neutral with D13 dropped) is computed on the list as submitted, but it is capped to 30 because the deck is Illegal; the score is not averaged from card scores and popularity was not credited.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange profile, D13 dropped and weights renormalized over 95 (meta-neutral). Structural ≈ 53, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: Illegal list (theoretical cap) (-12); Banlist exposure on key cards (-4); Engine conflicts (-4); Zero side deck (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability = 52 before modifiers; modifiers -22 give 30; capped because the deck is Illegal (theoretical/structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.86 · 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

• Archetype core is redundant: 18 copies, 0.86 chance of at least one in an opening 5
• Several GY recursion routes keep the Dark World engine running after disruption
• Late-game end-boards at 3000+ ATK

Weaknesses

• Illegal: five Forbidden cards and one over-limit Limited card
• Three of the Xyz slots are Forbidden, leaving 12 of 15 Extra slots usable
• Zero side deck
• Mixed sub-archetypes (only 28.8% exact-name purity)

Critical choke points

• Dark World starters and Gates of Dark World must be live early; a single missed starter ends the line
• Extra Deck end-boards depend on the Fusion and Link cards
• Virus-trap tributes need a DARK monster of sufficient ATK/DEF

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: six copy-limit violations including five Forbidden cards (legality); Zero side-deck cards (composition); Exact-name archetype purity 28.8% (composition); Card text for Dark World recursion and Fusion/Link end-boards (card text)
• Inferred: Archetype-core access ≈ 0.86 (hypergeometric); Brick-risk and conflict estimates from composition and card text; Interaction quality from negation and removal text; Going-first and going-second estimates
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit (no tournament or meta data)
• 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 (going-first/second, matchup, brick and starter rates) Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample