Kuriboh Deck #764736 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Going-second board pressure from 2500-ATK monsters (Diabellstar the Black Witch, Dark Magician, Bystial Druiswurm/Magnamhut/Baldrake) after hand traps and Droll & Lock Bird have broken the opponent's first turn; Sky Striker and Yummy link/synchro extension pressure, with Azamina/Red-Eyes Forbidden payoffs as the deck's upside that cannot be played legally
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon or Special Summon a Yummy/Mulcharmy starter, search with Yummy and Mulcharmy searchers, and hold Ash Blossom and Effect Veiler as the only protection; the line is thin because no single starter is reliable
• Turn 2 (going second): Open with the six-card hand, hold 14 hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Effect Veiler, Droll & Lock Bird, Infinite Impermanence, Evenly Matched), then use a Dark Magician or Diabellstar to convert a stalled board
• Recovery: Mulcharmy Fuwalos and Mulcharmy Purulia draw on empty boards, and Magician's Rod and Dark Magical Curtain recover Dark Magician access; Inferred, not a tested recovery line
• After siding: Not assessable: the deck has 0 side cards, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

This list is Illegal in OCG: four Forbidden cards (two Azamina Ilia Silvia, Cupsy★Yummy Way, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon) plus Magicians' Souls, and several Limited and Semi-Limited cards run above their limits. Per the rubric it is capped and scored as a structural read only. The structure is a Toolbox of Yummy, Mulcharmy, Sky Striker and Dark Magician cards with 14 hand traps, which gives it strong going-second interaction and a reasonable chance of a hand trap in the opening six (81%, Inferred). Its ability to open a functional plan is weak: the archetype core is only 8 copies with about 52% chance of at least one in a five-card hand, and purity is 1.3% exact-name, so engine coherence depends on cross-sub-archetype links. No combos were supplied, so combo floor and ceiling are text-only inference. Popularity was not a factor, and the score was not an average of card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 43, Going First ≈ 38, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); engine conflicts (-4). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) = 0.80*43.25 + 0.20*35 = 41.6, then modifiers -12, then Illegal cap applied; reported as 30 (theoretical/structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.82 · 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

• 14 hand traps and 8 negation-text cards give strong going-second interaction
• Several 2500-ATK monsters give closing power without an Extra Deck dependency
• Layered end-board interaction (Lightning Storm, Evenly Matched, Infinite Impermanence, Mask of Restrict)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: four Forbidden cards and several copy-limit violations
• Low engine coherence, with 74 off-archetype copies and 1.3% exact-name purity
• No side deck, so there is no post-side adaptation
• No recorded combos, so floor and ceiling cannot be measured

Critical choke points

• Only 8 Kuriboh-named core copies, so about 48% of hands lack one in the opening five (Inferred)
• Dark Magician and Diabellstar boss access depends on Forbidden or Limited Extra Deck payoffs that cannot be run legally

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Illegal under OCG BanList with four Forbidden cards and several copy-limit violations; Main 60 and Extra 15 are within OCG size rules; Archetype purity is 1.3% exact-name (74 off-archetype copies); Archetype core 8 copies; usage stats show 4 core cards present (100%)
• Inferred: Searcher group at least one in five cards ~0.82; Archetype core at least one in five cards ~0.52; Hand-trap group at least one in six going second ~0.81; Interaction and hand-trap density give going-second strength; Combo floor and ceiling are text-only, with no measured boards
• Provisional: Meta Power is null and TournamentReliability is text-only; Format fit (D13) lacks a dated meta sample
• Data gaps: No combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent No side deck (side_count 0) No win-rate telemetry; going-first and going-second split and matchup data unavailable Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample Deck title is null