Light and Darkness Ritual Deck #762472 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ritual or Fusion/Synchro boss beatdown (Magician of Dark Chaos - Black Chaos, Black Luster Soldier, Chaos Angel, Granguignol) after a Light and Darkness Ritual or Fallen of Albaz line; Dogmatika and Albaz Dragon fusion boards through Fallen of Albaz
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Mulcharmy or Griffoh starter, search via Mind Shuffle or Ragged Records toward Light and Darkness Ritual, then Ritual Summon a boss. Skipped the Forbidden Called by the Grave and Albion from the plan.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Droll & Lock Bird (one legal copy only in-format) and Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit as hand interaction, then rebuild through Mulcharmy draw effects and Fallen of Albaz.
• Recovery: Recurse Light and Darkness Ritual and Ritual monsters from the GY through Skull Archfiend of Chaos and Mind Shuffle, then re-enter Fallen of Albaz for Dogmatika and Albaz Fusion/Synchro follow-ups.
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has an empty Side Deck (0 cards), so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The deck's score comes from the system as a whole: the archetype core (Light and Darkness Ritual, Mulcharmy draw engines, Fallen of Albaz routes) has a high chance of at least one live starter in the opening hand (about 0.90 for the archetype core group, Inferred), and its boss monsters (Magician of Dark Chaos - Black Chaos, Black Luster Soldier, Chaos Angel, Granguignol) give real offensive ceiling. Consistency is held back by a low exact-archetype purity (19.4%), many single-copy and Normal-Summon-restricted pieces, and a 57-card main with 30 distinct cards. The list is Illegal: two Limited cards are run at 2 copies, and two Forbidden cards (Called by the Grave, Albion the Branded Dragon) are included, so the score is capped and labelled structural-only. No combo boards, tournament link, or win-rate data were supplied, so floor, median, and meta claims are Inferred or Provisional. Popularity of the archetype did not earn points, and card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 53.6, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 45, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 38. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-13); no_side_deck (-4); engine_conflicts (-4). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); Illegal deck capped by modifiers: 0.80*53.6 + 0.20*38 = 50.5, then -21 modifiers = 29.5, rounded to 30

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.9 · 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

• Archetype core is well represented (14 exact-name copies, 20 core-group copies) with high opening-hand access
• Boss monsters have high ATK and several have text-supported board-breaking effects
• Extra Deck has flexible Fusion and Synchro access across 15 slots
• Recursion and searchers (18 searcher-text cards) give recovery across turns

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy-limit and Forbidden-card violations: the list cannot be played in its format as built
• Low exact-archetype purity (19.4%) with 58 off-archetype main copies
• Empty Side Deck removes post-side adaptability
• Many single-copy and Normal-Summon-restricted cards raise brick and conflict risk

Critical choke points

• Light and Darkness Ritual is a single copy and gates the main boss line
• Fallen of Albaz is a single copy and gates the Dogmatika and Albaz Fusion routes
• Droll & Lock Bird and Branded in High Spirits are over the copy limit and must be cut to legal counts

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main deck 57 cards, Extra 15, Side 0; size rules satisfied; Four copy-limit violations against the banlist (Albion and Called by the Grave Forbidden, two Limited cards at 2 copies); Archetype usage: Light and Darkness Ritual core cards at 100% and 96.9% inclusion for Magician of Dark Chaos and Mulcharmy Fuwalos; Exact-name purity 19.4%
• Inferred: Opening-hand starter access about 0.90 for the core group; Ritual and Fusion/Synchro chain reliability and brick rate; Going-first and going-second plans from card text and probabilities
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit (no dated metagame sample, no tournament link)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied, so floor, median, and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link, so archetype meta-share and pilot match record are absent No win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchups, or brick rate Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Side Deck is empty, so post-side scoring is not evaluable