Apophis Deck #763556 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 55/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Control, Toolbox
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 53 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion/Xyz boards from Apophis and Temple of the Kings engine plays, closing with Divine Serpent Apophis, Number C107 and Kaiju bosses; Trap-based negation and removal (Apophis Trap set-up, Verdict of Anubis, Dominus Purge, Evenly Matched) to keep the opponent's board from forming
• Turn 1 (going first): Search Apophis the Serpent or Treasures of the Kings, use Temple of the Kings and The Man with the Mark to add Apophis/Temple pieces, then Fusion or Xyz Summon a board while protecting with traps
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit or Evenly Matched from hand to break the opponent's first play, then reach Kaiju or Egyptian God boards with the remaining hand
• Recovery: Traps recur from the GY through Treasures of the Kings, Apophis the Serpent and Temple of the Kings; Anubis and Man with the Mark rebuild the search chain
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs zero side cards, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a functional engine: Apophis Trap searchers (Treasures of the Kings, Apophis the Serpent, The Man with the Mark) are about 94% likely to appear in a 5-card opening hand, and the archetype core group is about 90% likely to have at least one piece, so the starter is accessible on turn one or two. Interaction is the deck's strongest layer, with 16 negation-text and 29 removal-text cards plus 6 hand traps, and that layering earns the end-board interaction score on the system rather than per card. Conversion and closing power are credited from Fusion and Xyz threats (Divine Serpent Apophis, Number C107, Kaiju bosses) and from the text of the engine, but no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling and median are Inferred and kept separate and modest. Popularity was not used: the archetype usage stats confirm the core is real but earned no points on their own, and the card scores were not averaged into the deck score. The score is held down by a zero-card side deck (no post-side plan), a 62-card off-archetype spread across Kaiju, Dominus, Serket, Constellar and Galaxy-Eyes that creates engine conflict, and a 22-trap main deck that is clumsy on some hands.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 62, Going First ≈ 64, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 52. Modifiers: Engine conflict / off-archetype spread (-3); No side deck (-2); Banlist exposure (0). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional, no dated sample) + ContextModifiers = 0.80*62 + 0.20*52 - 5 ≈ 55

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.9 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.1 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Layered negation and removal across 16 negation-text and 29 removal-text cards
• Accessible Apophis/Temple searchers (about 90% core presence in opening hand)
• Fusion and Xyz threats cover multiple boss options (Divine Serpent Apophis, Number C107, Jizukiru)

Weaknesses

• Zero side deck, so no post-side plan in best-of-3
• Off-archetype spread creates engine conflicts across Kaiju, Dominus and Galaxy-Eyes lines
• No recorded combos, so the ceiling and median are text-based only

Critical choke points

• Apophis Trap set-up depends on Treasures of the Kings and Apophis the Serpent; if both are absent the engine stalls
• Temple of the Kings is a single copy and gates several searches

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status, 53/15/0 counts, copy histogram and archetype purity from evidence; Banlist: Seventh Tachyon Limited with 1 copy run, legal; Usage stats: Treasures of the Kings 89%, Apophis the Swamp Deity 78%, Temple of the Kings 78%, Apophis the Serpent 67%
• Inferred: Engine consistency from hypergeometric odds (about 0.90 core presence); Interaction quality from card text (negation/removal/hand-trap counts); Combo ceiling and median from card text only (no recorded boards); Going-second hand-trap coverage (about 0.53)
• Provisional: Meta Power and tournament fit (no dated metagame sample; D13 neutral)
• 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/second, matchups or brick rates Meta Power provisional without a dated metagame sample usage_statistics in_this_deck flags conflict with the card list for Extra Deck cards: Divine Serpent Apophis (97800311) and Time Thief Redoer (55285840) are in the deck but flagged in_this_deck=false; Super Starslayer TY-PHON is not in the deck Deck has zero side cards, so post-side performance cannot be assessed