Vaalmonica Deck #761181 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Pendulum Resonance-gated Link Summons (Zebufera, Duralume) and Vaalmonica Link beats, with Fiendsmith's Lacrima and Lyna as secondary boards; Fiendsmith's Lacrima field lock (-600 ATK) and Exceed the Pendulum searching/extension
• Turn 1 (going first): Angello or Dimonno Pendulum Set, Vaalmonica searcher (Selettrice / Vaalmonica the Voice) into a Link Summon once 3 Resonance Counters exist; Ash Blossom and Droll held up as interaction
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C, Nibiru) against the opponent's first Normal/Special Summon, then a Pendulum-zone rebuild; no side deck to adjust the plan
• Recovery: Searcher-dense main deck (17 searcher-text cards) plus Mulcharmy draw engines to refill hand and re-establish Pendulum Zone scales
• After siding: Not supported: Side Deck size is 0, so no post-side plan exists in a best-of-3 setting

Why it scores here

This OCG list is illegal as submitted: two Forbidden cards (Knightmare Gryphon and Number 60: Dugares the Timeless) are in the Extra Deck, so the normal Final Contextual score is capped and this result is theoretical and structural-only. Structurally the deck is consistent on paper: the Vaalmonica core (27 copies, 99.8% chance of at least one in a 5-card opener) and 17 searcher-text cards give it a real engine, and 7 hand traps keep it interactive on the going-second turn. The Vaalmonica Link route and Lacrima's field lock supply end-board pressure, but no combo boards were recorded, so ceiling and median output are text-only inferences. The deck has no side deck, so adaptability is scored near the floor, and the 45.5% exact-name archetype purity with Fiendsmith, Mulcharmy and Magistus splashes weakens engine coherence. The score reflects consistency, interaction and resilience measured on the system, not the popularity of Vaalmonica or an average of card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 56, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist exposure (Forbidden in-format) (-12); illegal cap (-12); no side deck (0). Final formula: Illegal cap: 0.80*Structural(56.2) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) = 53.9, less banlist-exposure modifier (-12) = 41.9 theoretical; capped to 30 because the list is illegal (Forbidden cards). Meta Power provisional/null.

Probability & combo summary

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

Strengths

• Core Vaalmonica starters are near-certain in an opening hand (0.998 for the archetype core group)
• Seven hand traps and about 11 removal-text cards cover both going-first and going-second interaction
• Searcher density (17 cards) and draw engines support recovery after a disruption
• Link-based Extra Deck offers several 2500-plus ATK end-board options

Weaknesses

• Illegal as submitted: two Forbidden cards in the Extra Deck
• No side deck, so there is no post-side adaptation
• Low exact-name archetype purity (45.5%) with four related sub-archetypes spread across the list
• No combo or tournament data, so the ceiling and median are unverified

Critical choke points

• Pendulum Resonance counters gate Link Summons of Zebufera and Duralume; without 3 counters the main Link route is offline
• Forbidden Knightmare Gryphon and Number 60 cannot be legally run, so any line built on them is unavailable

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: two Forbidden cards (Knightmare Gryphon, Number 60) each run at 1 copy, making the list Illegal; Main 40 and Extra 15 are within OCG size rules; side is 0; Archetype core group P(at least one in 5-card opener) = 0.998 over 27 copies; Archetype exact-name purity = 45.5%
• Inferred: Consistency and brick estimates from hypergeometric draws and composition; Interaction quality from card text (hand traps, negation, removal); Going-first and going-second plans read from card text
• Provisional: Matchup and format fit (no tournament link, no dated metagame); Meta Power (null)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent No win-rate telemetry for going-first/second, matchup, or brick/starter rates Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Deck title is null; the deck was identified by archetype only