Darklord Deck #761887 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion and Link Summon into Darklord and Dogmatika boss monsters (Darklord Morningstar, Darklord Eveningstar, The First Darklord, Granguignol) that rely on Darklord recursion and Fairy-based Fusion access.; Fallen of Albaz / Blazing Cartesia fusion route into Titaniklad and Mirrorjade, plus Herald and Protector link lines when the Extra Deck is accessible.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Darklord Djehuty, Darklord Gulgolet, Fallen of Albaz or Guiding Quem, use the searcher text (Banishment, Gulgolet, Blazing Cartesia) to find the second starter, then fuse or link into a boss.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Herald of Orange Light and the other hand traps (6-card hand, about 58% to hold at least one) to break the opponent's first line, then rebuild through Darklord Contact and Rebellion.
• Recovery: Recover from the GY with Darklord Contact, Darklord Rebellion and Fallen Angel in Darkness, and re-summon Darklord monsters from the GY.
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan. Any sideboard would have to be built before the list can be played in a best-of-3 format.

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system, not as an average of its cards. Its Darklord core (10 copies of the archetype core, about 78% chance of at least one in a 5-card opening) and 14 searcher-text cards give a reasonable chance of a live engine by turn 2, which earns the engine-access score. Interaction is supported by 5 hand traps, 7 negation-text cards and 9 removal-text cards, which lifts the endboard and resilience scores. Conversion is held back because the deck splits across at least four archetype families (Darklord 24 exact-name copies, 43.6% purity), no combos were recorded, and there is no side deck. Popularity and archetype usage did not earn points. Because the list is illegal (four cards over their copy limit, including the Forbidden Albion the Branded Dragon in the Extra Deck), it is capped low and reported as theoretical or structural only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 51, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-12); illegal_deck_cap (-8). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); 49.8 before modifiers, then the illegal-deck cap applied: 49.8 - 20 = 29.8, rounded to 30

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.78 · 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

• Strong archetype core (10 copies) with about 78% opening access
• Dense searcher and recursion text
• Five hand traps plus negation and removal coverage
• High-impact Fusion and Link bosses with 3000 to 4000 ATK

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: four cards over copy limits, including a Forbidden card
• Low exact-archetype purity (43.6%) across four archetype families
• No side deck
• No recorded combos, so the ceiling and median cannot be verified

Critical choke points

• The Darklord core must be present in the opening hand, with no alternate route if it is missing
• Albion the Branded Dragon is Forbidden in the Extra Deck, so the Fusion route through it is unavailable
• Ash Blossom and Herald are limited to 2 and 1 copies, so the hand-trap density is not legal as built

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: four cards over their copy limits, including Albion the Branded Dragon (Forbidden, 1 copy run); Main 40, Extra 15, Side 0; within the TCG size rules; Archetype purity 43.6% exact-name, with 31 off-archetype copies
• Inferred: Opening-hand access to the Darklord core is about 78% with 10 copies (hypergeometric); Interaction density is high from the 5 hand traps plus negation and removal text; Going-second hand-trap access is about 58%
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit: no tournament or meta sample attached
• Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry: going-first and going-second splits are Inferred no side deck registered: post-side adaptability cannot be scored Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied