Apophis Deck #760412 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 32/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 52 / Extra 18 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Serket and Temple of the Kings boss monsters (Divine Scorpion Beast of Serket, Naturia Exterio, Divine Serpent Apophis) closing from a stable Trap-based engine; Link and Fusion beatsticks (Starving Venom, Predaplant Dragostapelia) once the board is stabilised
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Treasures of the Kings or The Man with the Mark to search, then Apophis Traps and Temple of the Kings to reach a Serket or Divine Serpent extra-deck summon while holding hand traps
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Infinite Impermanence, Maxx C, Solemn Accusation or Dominus Purge to break the opponent's first combo, then rebuild through Apophis the Serpent and Embodiment of Apophis
• Recovery: Recur Apophis Traps from the Graveyard (Divine Serpent Apophis effect) and re-use Temple of the Kings and Dominus Purge as negates after the first interaction is spent
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no side deck (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

This list is illegal in the OCG format because its Extra Deck holds 18 cards against a maximum of 15, so it is capped low and scored only as a structural read. Its archetype core (17 copies of the Apophis, Temple of the Kings and Dominus cards) opens at least one copy in about 87% of going-first hands, which is the main reason D1 is not lower, but only 5 of 77 Main and Extra copies are named exactly Apophis, and the rest span Temple, Dominus, Serket, HERO, Naturia, Predaplant and Chaos Phantom sub-archetypes, so the engine is weakly unified. The four hand traps, several negation effects and the Skill Drain floodgate give the deck real interaction density, which earns D7 a moderate score. Offensive closing and combo output are scored from the card text alone because no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling and median are Inferred and carry low confidence. Popularity and archetype usage did not earn points, and no card scores were averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 46, Going First ≈ 45, Going Second ≈ 38, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: Illegal Extra Deck size (-12). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); Illegal deck, so result is capped low and labelled structural-only (0.80*46 + 0.20*35 = 43.8, then -12 modifier)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.88 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.13 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Core archetype cards are present in quantity (17 copies), so the engine is accessible in most opening hands
• Four hand traps plus negation text across Traps and Spells gives broad interaction
• Searchers are numerous (20 cards), which supports consistency

Weaknesses

• Extra Deck is 3 cards over the OCG maximum, so the list is illegal as built
• Only 7.1% of copies share the exact archetype name; four or more sub-engines compete for hand space
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Many Level 0 Traps and Spells with no clear payoff in the deck text

Critical choke points

• Serket and Divine Serpent Apophis extra-deck summons depend on Temple of the Kings staying on the field
• A single Temple of the Kings removal or Skill Drain-style floodgate would shut down multiple engine lines at once

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main Deck is 52 cards, within the 40 to 60 range; Extra Deck is 18 cards, over the 15 maximum (size_warnings); All 8 Limited and Semi-Limited copy counts are within OCG limits; 17 archetype core copies, with 5 exact-name Apophis copies (7.1% purity); No Side Deck (side_count 0); No combo boards and no tournament link
• Observed: Usage statistics show the core archetype cards are present, but no board frequency data exists
• Inferred: Going-first core hit rate of about 0.875 and full brick rate of about 0.125; Hand-trap and negation coverage as a semantic read of card text; Ceiling and median output are estimates from card text, not from recorded boards
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Format fit (D13), set to 40 without tournament data
• Data gaps: No combos supplied, so combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link, so archetype meta-share and pilot match record are absent No win-rate telemetry for OCG matchups, going-first or going-second splits, or brick rates Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample Deck title is null in the export