Darklord Deck #762526 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Combo
• 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: Extra Deck boss monsters (Darklord Eveningstar, The First Darklord, Titaniklad, Mirrorjade) summoned through Fusion/Link lines fed by Darklord and Dogmatika starters.; Darklord Morningstar and Darklord Ixchel as large beaters once Darklord recursion has refilled the field.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Darklord starter (Djehuty, Ixchel, Banishment, Gulgolet) or Ecclesia/Fallen of Albaz, search or summon a second Darklord, then convert into a Fusion or Link boss. No combo boards were supplied, so this is a text-derived route (Inferred).
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom and Herald of Orange Light for the opponent's first Quick Effect or Spell/Trap, then rebuild through Darklord Contact and Gulgolet recursion. Hand-trap access is about 58% by hand 6 (Inferred).
• Recovery: Recur Darklord monsters from the GY with Darklord Contact, Gulgolet, Eveningstar and Fallen Angel in Darkness, and reuse the Darklord searchers to rebuild the starter.
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan. Best-of-3 play is unsupported by this list.

Why it scores here

This deck is scored as a structural, theoretical read only, because the list is illegal: four cards exceed their copy limits, including the Forbidden Albion the Branded Dragon. The core Darklord starters have a reasonable opening chance (about 78% to open at least one archetype-core card in hand 5, Inferred), and the searcher density (14 searcher-text cards) keeps the engine accessible. Interaction comes from five hand traps and removal text, but two of those hand traps are over the copy limit and the list has no side deck, so resilience and post-side scores stay moderate. No combo boards, tournament data, or matchup data were supplied, so the combo floor and median are text-based estimates and meta fit remains provisional. Popularity and archetype usage did not earn points, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 56, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-6); illegal list cap (0). Final formula: Illegal cap: 0.80*Structural(55) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) + modifiers(-6) = 47, capped at 35 for an illegal list. Structural-only theoretical score; Meta provisional.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.34 · 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

• Searcher density (14 searcher-text cards) keeps the engine accessible from a 5-card hand.
• Five hand traps and several removal effects give layered interaction on the opponent's turn.
• Strong Extra Deck closers (Eveningstar, The First Darklord, Morningstar, Ixchel) reward a successful engine line.

Weaknesses

• The list is illegal: four cards exceed their copy limits, one of them Forbidden.
• Only 43.6% of the main deck is exact-name Darklord, so the engine is spread across several sub-archetypes.
• No side deck, so there is no post-side adaptation.

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz is a material for several Extra Deck monsters, so losing it to a single removal effect cuts off multiple lines.
• Ash Blossom and Herald are the main hand traps; the list cannot legally run as built.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality status is Illegal with four copy-limit violations, including Albion the Branded Dragon as Forbidden.; Deck has 40 main and 15 extra cards and no side deck.; Card stats and text for listed monsters and spells come from the evidence pack.
• Observed: Archetype-core inclusion data shows Darklord core cards at 100% inclusion in usage statistics.
• Inferred: Opening-hand probabilities (starter ≈ 0.34 per 3-copy card; core group ≈ 0.78) are hypergeometric estimates from the main deck.; Engine conversion and resilience are derived from card text rather than recorded boards.; Going-second hand-trap access is about 0.58.
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit are not measurable without a dated metagame sample.
• Data gaps: No combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference. No tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent. No win-rate telemetry exists for going-first, going-second, matchup, or brick rate. No side deck registered, so post-side performance cannot be assessed. Meta power is provisional without a dated metagame sample.