Kuriboh Deck #763302 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 28/100 (±6 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 53 / Extra 17 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 5 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion and Xyz boards led by Dark Magician-named monsters (Dark Magicians, Dark Magician Girl, Dark Paladin, Master of Chaos) and Nibiru/Quintet Magician-style pressure; Negation-backed board conversion through Red-Eyes Flare Metal Dragon and Ebon Illusion Magician
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Dark Magician searcher (Magician's Rod, Dark Magical Circle, Eternal Soul) and extend into a Fusion/Ritual payoff; the 3-copy core is the main risk (P of at least one in 5 cards is about 0.26)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Infinite Impermanence, Kuriboh - Multiply! and Effect Veiler to stop the first summon or the first search, then rebuild through Fusion
• Recovery: Recursion from the GY through Magician's Rod, Soul Servant, Secrets of Dark Magic and Palladium Oracle Mahad, which is plausible but is not evidenced by any recorded board
• After siding: No side deck is present, so no post-side plan exists; this is a structural gap, not a tuned deck

Why it scores here

The list runs a dense interaction suite (about 10 hand traps and 16 negation-text cards), which gives it real answers to the first summon and to a going-second board. Its engine is fragile: the core Dark Magician set has only 3 copies of its main searcher across 53 cards, so a 5-card opener reaches it about 26% of the time. Median output is not evidenced, because the export holds no recorded boards. The deck cannot be scored as a normal legal list: three Forbidden cards are over the copy limit and the Extra Deck has 17 cards against a cap of 15, so the score is capped and labelled structural-only. Archetype popularity and meta share contributed nothing, and card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 49, Going First ≈ 48, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: Illegal list cap (-12); Banlist exposure (-4); Empty side deck (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional); illegal-list cap applied

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.26 · 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 hand-trap and negation suite for both turn orders
• Multiple Dark Magician-named payoffs and high-ATK Fusion/Xyz closers

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: three Forbidden cards and an over-size Extra Deck
• Fragile engine: the 3-copy core has about a 26% chance of appearing in a 5-card opener
• No side deck

Critical choke points

• The Dark Magician searcher line depends on 2-copy cards, so losing it to one interruption leaves few routes

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Forbidden status and over-limit copies for Magicians' Souls, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon and Charmer Quartet; Extra Deck count of 17 against the OCG cap of 15; Side Deck count of 0
• Inferred: Starter access about 26% for the 3-copy core; Hand-trap and negation coverage; Going-second interaction plausibility; Turn-1 and turn-2 plans
• Provisional: Meta Power; Matchup fit and tournament reliability
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: 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 in YGOVN Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No side deck is present