Prophecy Deck #761861 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 40/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 57 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Dark Magician / Magician-named Fusion, Link and Extra Deck boards (Dark Magician of Destruction, Dark Magician the Dragon Knight, Timaeus, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon) built from Dark Magician-tagged searchers and Spell-based summons; Link and Xyz pressure (W:P Fancy Ball, Underworld Goddess, Super Starslayer TY-PHON) when the Extra Deck line is live
• Turn 1 (going first): Search a Dark Magician-named card with Magicians' Souls, Dark Magician, Magician's Rod, Dark Magical Circle or Dark Magical Curtain, then keep Ash Blossom / Ghost Belle / Infinite Impermanence up for the first opponent Quick Effect
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand-trap the opponent's first board-building activation (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Droll & Lock Bird, Nibiru), then convert the surviving Dark Magician searchers into a Fusion or Link board
• Recovery: Recover through Soul Servant, Magicians' Souls and Shining Sarcophagus recursion from the GY, and rebuild Dark Magician-named monsters from the deck
• After siding: Not evaluable: the export lists no side deck (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan to score

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens an engine: the 31 Dark Magician-core copies give about a 98 percent chance of at least one core card in a five-card opening hand, and 18 searcher-text cards give about 86 percent (Inferred). Its 13 hand traps and 17 negation or removal texts give strong end-board and going-second interaction. Ash Blossom is over the copy limit (3 run, 2 legal) and that makes the list Illegal, so the score is capped and labelled theoretical and structural only. The score comes from consistency, interaction and engine redundancy on the system, not from Prophecy being a popular archetype and not from averaging card scores. No combos were supplied, so the ceiling and median are text-only inference and the deck's floor is unknown. Only 5.6 percent of the main deck is exact-name Prophecy, with a broad Dark Magician and generic spread, which lowers main-deck efficiency and pilot tolerance.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 61, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 66, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 52. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-8); illegal_cap (-11). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(61) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(52) = 59.2, plus banlist-exposure modifier -8 = 51.2; the list is Illegal (Ash Blossom 3 copies vs 2 legal), so the final is capped low at 40 and labelled theoretical/structural-only

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.98 · 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 Dark Magician searcher suite (18 searcher-text cards) gives high starter access
• Layered hand-trap and negation coverage (13 hand traps, 17 negation texts) for going second
• Shining Sarcophagus, Soul Servant and Magicians' Souls give GY recursion

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: Ash Blossom is run 3 times against a limit of 2
• Only 5.6% exact archetype purity; generic and off-archetype cards dilute the engine
• No side deck (side_count 0), so there is no post-side adaptability

Critical choke points

• Ash Blossom at 3 copies is itself illegal; any legal build must cut a copy, which weakens interaction
• Dependence on Dark Magician-named cards for the Extra Deck lines (Dragon Knight, Dragoon, Timaeus) means a single disruption can strand the Fusion board

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 57, Extra 15, Side 0 within size rules (40-60, 0-15, 0-15); Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring run 3 copies against Semi-Limited limit of 2 (violation); Limited cards run at 1 copy each; Droll & Lock Bird at 2 copies (Semi-Limited limit 2); Exact archetype purity 5.6%; 68 off-archetype copies
• Inferred: P(>=1 archetype-core card in 5-card hand) ~0.98; P(>=1 searcher-text card) ~0.86; Engine redundancy and interaction density from card text; Going-second hand-trap value from card text
• Provisional: Meta power and archetype meta-share; no dated sample or tournament link; Matchup coverage and format fit (D13)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN (going-first/second, matchup, game-level, brick/starter/OTK rates) — those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied no side deck listed, so post-side performance cannot be assessed deck title is null in the export