Kuriboh Deck #763552 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 51/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 45 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion, Link and Dark Time Wizard boards closing through high-ATK boss monsters (Red-Eyes Black Dragon Exceed 3400, Red-Eyes Black Fullmetal Dragon 3400, Obelisk 4000, Nibiru 3000, Underworld Goddess 3000) once hand traps have cleared the way (Inferred from card text).; Hand-trap-supported disruption (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Kuriboh - Multiply!, Winged Kuriboh LV9) buying time for a Link or Fusion follow-up.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a searcher (Flute of Summoning Kuriboh, Dark Time Wizard, Alligator's Dragon Knight) and extend into Kuriboh or Dark Time Wizard bodies; the hand-trap suite is less useful without a turn-1 threat (Inferred).
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold a hand trap (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Kuriboh - Multiply!, Kuribohble) against the opponent's first starter, then convert with Super Polymerization or a Fusion/Link line; this is the deck's strongest turn-order plan (Inferred).
• Recovery: Searchers (14 searcher-text cards) and Dark Time Wizard recursion (Foolish Graverobber, Graceful & Skull Dice, Reversal Box) rebuild a starter after a disruption (Inferred).
• After siding: None: the Side Deck is empty, so there is no documented post-side adjustment.

Why it scores here

The deck's score comes from its system-level properties, not from averaging card scores or from the Kuriboh archetype's popularity. Its searchers (14 searcher-text cards) and three copies each of the Dark Time Wizard starters give a moderate chance of a live starter, but the Kuriboh core is only 2 copies, so the engine is less dependable than the card count suggests. Six hand traps and several negation or removal effects give it real interruption resilience and end-board interaction, which is the strongest part of the deck. Its closing power comes from several 3000+ ATK boss monsters across the Main and Extra Decks. The weak points are the empty Side Deck (no post-side plan), a low archetype purity of 23.3%, and no recorded combos, which leaves the combo ceiling and median inferred only from text. Because no metagame data exists, Meta Power stays provisional and was excluded from the score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 57, Going First ≈ 56, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-2); engine_conflicts (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional; Structural is meta-neutral with D13 dropped and weights renormalised over 95)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.3 · 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

• Six hand traps and about eight negation-text cards give real interruption resilience (Inferred)
• Several 3000+ ATK bosses in the Main and Extra Decks give high closing power (Verified stats)
• Fourteen searcher-text cards support consistent access to a starter (Inferred)

Weaknesses

• Kuriboh core is only 2 copies; exact-archetype purity is 23.3% (Verified composition)
• No Side Deck, so no post-side plan (Verified)
• No recorded combos, so ceiling and median are inferred only from text (Verified data gap)

Critical choke points

• Dark Time Wizard and Flute starters: each is 3 copies, but a single lost starter reduces the engine (Inferred)
• Single-copy Max Metalmorph is needed to summon Red-Eyes Black Fullmetal Dragon (Verified text, Inferred impact)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal OCG list: 45 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side; all six restricted cards within legal copies; Archetype exact-name purity 23.3%; Ash Blossom 2 copies matches the usage core; Extra Deck breakdown: 8 link, 6 fusion, 1 xyz
• Inferred: Starter consistency and brick rates from hypergeometric draws and text; Interaction breadth from text roles (hand traps, negations, removal); Going-second plan strength from hand-trap density
• Provisional: Meta Power and D13 matchup fit: no dated metagame sample or tournament link
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchup, or brick and starter rates Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Side Deck is empty, so post-side adaptability cannot be measured