ABC Deck #761221 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 57 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Union-monster engine (Union Activation / Union Hangar searches) feeding ABC-Dragon Buster and the A-to-Z XYZ-Hyper Dragon Cannon boss (Inferred from card text; theoretical only because the list is illegal); Extra Deck bosses reached through Union Controller, Cyber Dragon Nova and Therion King Regulus (Inferred from card text)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a searcher (Union Hangar, Union Activation, Terraforming, Pot of Prosperity) and build toward a Union Machine that supports a Fusion or Link boss (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold hand traps (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Infinite Impermanence, Evenly Matched, Nibiru) and interact with the opponent's first summon chain, then convert with the Union engine (Inferred)
• Recovery: Rebuild through Union monsters that re-equip or re-Special Summon from the GY, and Searcher effects; no combo data exists to verify (Inferred)
• After siding: Not assessable: the side deck is empty (0 cards)

Why it scores here

The score is capped low because the list is illegal in OCG: Ash Blossom and Droll exceed their copy limits, and Called by the Grave and Triple Tactics Talent are Forbidden, so this is a theoretical, structural-only read. Structurally the deck reads as a Toolbox-leaning Union/ABC build with a strong interaction suite: 14 hand-trap-tagged cards and 18 negation-text cards give it an 0.83 chance of at least one hand trap when going second (Inferred). The Union searchers (Union Hangar and Union Activation, 3 copies each) give roughly a 0.77 chance of at least one searcher-text card in the opening five (Inferred), but the engine is split across several sub-archetypes (ABC, A-to-Z, PSY-Frame, Therion, Cyber Dragon, Stellarknight, Bujin, Gadget), and only 8 of 57 main cards are exact ABC. No combo boards exist, so floor, median and ceiling are text-only inferences and none is treated as an observed output. Popularity and archetype usage were not credited, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 51, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-4); Engine conflicts (-3). Final formula: Structural 51 and TR 40 give 0.80*51 + 0.20*40 = 48.8; after modifiers -7 the value is 41.8; the Illegal-list cap then sets the final score to 25 (theoretical/structural-only, not a normal contextual score). Meta is provisional (null).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.24 · 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 interaction: 14 hand-trap-tagged and 18 negation-text cards
• Strong going-second hand-trap coverage (≈0.83 P≥1 in a 6-card hand)
• High-ATK Extra Deck bosses (ATK 3000)
• Searcher text on Union Hangar, Union Activation and Terraforming

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: copy-limit overages and two Forbidden cards
• Split engine across many sub-archetypes; 11.1% exact archetype purity
• Empty side deck (no post-side plan)
• No recorded combo data to confirm conversion

Critical choke points

• Union monster needed to be live: the Union engine depends on a LIGHT Machine partner
• Ash Blossom and Droll copies beyond the legal count are not playable as built

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Ash Blossom 3 copies vs 2 legal; Droll 2 vs 1; Called by the Grave and Triple Tactics Talent Forbidden; Main 57 and Extra 15 are within OCG size rules; Side 0 of 15 allowed; Card text and stats for all listed cards; Extra Deck composition: 5 Fusion, 5 Link, 4 XYZ, 1 Synchro
• Inferred: Hypergeometric draw odds (starter ≈0.24, searcher ≈0.77, hand trap ≈0.83 going second); Union engine and A-to-Z loop function from card text; Interaction density from regex-tagged card text
• Provisional: Meta Power is null; no dated metagame sample; D13 matchup and format fit
• Data gaps: No combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link; archetype meta-share and pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick rates) Side deck is empty, so the post-side plan is unassessed Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample