Forbidden Deck #760830 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ritual or Fusion boss (Black Chaos, Black Luster Soldier, Granguignol, Titaniklad, Chaos Angel) built off the Fallen of Albaz / Light and Darkness Ritual engine; Synchro and Fusion extra-deck bosses that gain stats or banish the board (Mirrorjade, The Dragon that Devours the Dogma, Despian Quaeritis)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Nadir Servant or Ragged Records of Rites to search a Ritual Spell, then Light and Darkness Ritual into Black Chaos or Black Luster Soldier, with Maxx C or Droll as protection
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C, Evenly Matched) to stop the opponent's first board, then rebuild a boss from the GY through Skull Archfiend of Chaos or Mind Shuffle
• Recovery: Recurse Ritual Spells and Level 8 monsters from GY via Skull Archfiend of Chaos and Mind Shuffle, and use Mulcharmy draw effects to refill hand
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has zero Side Deck cards, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck is scored on the system, not on an average of its card scores. Its consistency rests on a searcher-dense core, with about 0.87 probability of at least one searcher in the opening five cards (Inferred), but its engine is split across several sub-archetypes (purity 0%, 31 generic copies, and 14 Light and Darkness Ritual copies alongside Branded, Dogmatika, Albaz and Ecclesia cards), which lowers the Main Deck efficiency and raises brick risk. Its conversion ceiling is high because Black Chaos, Black Luster Soldier, Chaos Angel and Granguignol close games, but no recorded boards exist, so the median output is a text-only estimate. Interaction is the strongest part of the list: 7 hand traps, 5 negation-text cards and 16 removal-text cards give it going-second force. Two things cost it heavily. Three cards exceed their copy limits, including two Forbidden cards, so the deck is illegal and receives only a structural read. It also has no Side Deck. Popularity and archetype usage did not earn points.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 52, Going First ≈ 46, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 38. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-8); No Side Deck (-4); Illegal list cap (0). Final formula: Illegal deck: the normal No-reliable-meta formula gives 0.80*52 + 0.20*38 ≈ 50, which is then capped at 25 because the deck is Illegal (3 copy-limit violations, including 2 Forbidden cards). The 25 is a theoretical, structural-only read and is not a legal-deck score.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.87 · 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 searcher text (18 cards) gives a high chance of finding an engine piece
• Interaction package of 7 hand traps, 5 negation-text cards and 16 removal-text cards
• Strong 2500 to 3500 ATK extra-deck bosses with banish and negate text

Weaknesses

• Illegal: 3 copy-limit violations, including Called by the Grave and Albion the Branded Dragon (Forbidden)
• No Side Deck
• Engine split across sub-archetypes (0% exact archetype purity)
• High brick risk from 21 non-monster cards and conditional Ritual and Fusion requirements

Critical choke points

• Light and Darkness Ritual (1 copy) is the single Ritual Spell that enables Black Chaos and Black Luster Soldier
• Fallen of Albaz as the enabling monster for most Fusion and Synchro extra-deck bosses

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality violations: 3 copy-limit breaches including 2 Forbidden cards; Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 counts; Card text and stats for the listed cards
• Inferred: Starter consistency ≈ 0.87 for searcher group, 0.45 for archetype core; Hand-trap coverage on going second ≈ 0.58; Interaction and resilience read from card text
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit (no dated metagame sample)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied, so combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link, so archetype meta-share and match record are absent No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied