Performapal Deck #761530 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 6 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Pendulum and Magician/Odd-Eyes engine into Extra Deck boss monsters (Odd-Eyes Vortex Dragon, Dark Magician of Destruction, Unchained Abomination) once the board is stable; Link and Synchro pressure from Extra Deck (Exceed the Pendulum, Dragunity Lord - Georgius, Imperial Princess Quinquery) after the opponent's interaction is spent
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Performapal Skullcrobat Joker or Horoscope Sorcerer and search a Pendulum or Performapal monster with Monkeyboard, Joker, or Pendulum Call, then build a Pendulum Zone and Link or Synchro into the Extra Deck
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the six-card hand to hold hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Ghost Ogre, Effect Veiler, Infinite Impermanence) for the opponent's first Summon or activation, then convert the surviving Pendulum board into Extra Deck monsters
• Recovery: Recover through Mulcharmy Fuwalos and Purulia draw triggers, Maxx "C", and Droll & Lock Bird, then rebuild the Pendulum Zone from Deck and GY searches
• After siding: Not evaluable: the Main Deck has no side deck (0 cards), so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck's structural score comes from its system, not from averaging its cards. Pendulum starters (Horoscope Sorcerer, Skullcrobat Joker, Monkeyboard) give roughly a 25% chance of at least one starter in a 5-card opening hand per copy, and 17 searcher-text cards lift the chance of finding an engine piece to about 86% (Inferred). The hand-trap and negation density (17 hand traps, 27 negation-text cards, 25 removal-text cards) is the main strength, with an estimated 90% chance of a hand trap in a 6-card going-second hand (Inferred). Going-second strength is credible but the deck is capped by its 67 off-archetype copies, a 4.3% exact-name Performapal purity, and the lack of any side deck. Popularity did not earn points: archetype usage data shows the core cards Exceed the Pendulum, Odd-Eyes Absolute Dragon, and Beyond the Pendulum are absent from this list. The deck is also Illegal under OCG rules (six copy-limit or Forbidden violations), so it is capped at 35 and scored structurally only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Balanced (default; unclear primary strategy). Structural ≈ 53, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12); illegal cap (-5); no side deck (0). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 0.80*53 + 0.20*45 - 12 ≈ 40, then capped at 35 because the list is Illegal (theoretical/structural only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.25 · 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: 17 hand traps and 27 negation-text cards cover the opponent's first Summon or activation
• Extra Deck covers Link, Synchro, Fusion, and Xyz routes, so the deck has several conversion paths
• Searcher density (17 cards) keeps the Pendulum engine reachable more often than the raw starter count suggests

Weaknesses

• Illegal under OCG rules: Forbidden Extra Deck cards and copy-limit violations (Dimensional Barrier at 2 copies)
• 67 off-archetype copies with 4.3% exact-name purity; the Pendulum engine is diluted by Solemn, Magician, Odd-Eyes, and Mulcharmy tech
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Core archetype cards are absent (Exceed the Pendulum, Odd-Eyes Absolute Dragon, Beyond the Pendulum)

Critical choke points

• Pendulum starter access: about 25% per copy in a 5-card hand
• Forbidden Extra Deck cards (Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Borreload Savage Dragon) remove two boss routes until the list is legal

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: six copy-limit or Forbidden violations (OCG ban field); Main 55 and Extra 15 are within the OCG size rules; Side Deck count is 0; Exact-name Performapal purity is 4.3%
• Inferred: Starter, searcher, and hand-trap hypergeometric probabilities; Interaction density reads from card text; Going-first and going-second plan descriptions
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format-fit scores (D13)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied, so combo floor, median, and ceiling are text-only inferences No tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent No win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchups, or brick rate Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample Deck title is null