Darklord Deck #764259 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 40/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 45 / Extra 6 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Darklord Fusion boss (The First Darklord / Darklord Eveningstar, Fusion-summoned via Darklord Dance or Mutiny in the Sky) backed by Darklord recursion and graveyard setup; Darklord Morningstar / Darklord Nasten / Darklord Ixchel beatdown once a board is established
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Darklord starters (Djehuty, Gulgolet, Indulged Darklord, Ukoback) to search or special-summon a second Darklord, set up Darklord Contact or Banishment for the GY-to-field loop, and hold Herald and Ghost hand traps for the opponent's first response
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Herald of Orange/Green Light, D.D. Crow, Ghost Ogre and Ghost Belle to answer the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Darklord searchers and recursion
• Recovery: Recur Darklord monsters from the GY with Darklord Contact and Monster Reborn, and re-search through Banishment of the Darklords and Indulged Darklord
• After siding: No Side Deck is listed (side_count 0), so the post-side plan cannot be evaluated

Why it scores here

The deck is an illegal list: Herald of Orange Light and Prohibited Power Patron Portal - Terminus are over their Limited copy caps, so the score is capped and reads as structural/theoretical only. Its Darklord core is dense, with 18 archetype-core copies giving about 0.93 odds of at least one core card in a five-card opening hand, and Banishment, Djehuty and Gulgolet give a searcher at about 0.88 odds. Interaction comes from Herald, Ghost Ogre and Ghost Belle, plus D.D. Crow and Forbidden Droplet, with about 0.76 odds of a hand trap in a six-card going-second hand. There are no recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and floor are text-only inferences and stay low. Popularity of the Darklord archetype was not credited, and the score was not built by averaging card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 49, Going First ≈ 46, Going Second ≈ 42, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: Illegal: copy-limit violations (-7). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional), then Illegal cap applied via modifier: 0.80*49 + 0.20*40 = 47.2, minus 7 = 40

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.93 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.07 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense Darklord core with high starter access (≈0.93 for at least one core card in five)
• Layered negation and hand traps (Herald, Ghost Ogre, Ghost Belle, D.D. Crow)
• Fusion bosses with GY recursion give a late-game closing route

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: two cards exceed Limited copy caps
• No Side Deck (side_count 0) so no post-side adaptability
• Weak combo evidence: no recorded boards to confirm the ceiling or median

Critical choke points

• Darklord Contact / Monster Reborn recursion requires a Darklord monster in the GY
• Fusion bosses depend on a DARK Fairy Fusion setup via Darklord Dance or Mutiny in the Sky

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 2 cards over Limited copy caps; main 45, extra 6, side 0; Darklord archetype purity 58.8% exact name; Usage stats: Darklord core inclusion rates
• Inferred: Hypergeometric starter access ≈ 0.93 and searcher ≈ 0.88; Hand-trap access ≈ 0.76 going second; Dimension scores D1–D11, D14 from card text and composition
• Provisional: Meta Power null; no dated metagame sample; D13 matchup fit with no tournament link
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent No Side Deck: post-side plan unevaluable No win-rate telemetry for going-first/second, matchup or brick rates Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied