Prophecy Deck #765206 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Combo
• Format: tcg

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck boss monsters (Black Chaos, Black Luster Soldier, Lava Golem, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Dark Magician of Destruction) backed by Dark Magician and Light and Darkness Ritual disruption; Link Monster and Fusion board development from Dark Magician and Magician's Rod card flow
• Turn 1 (going first): Dark Magician Girl or Magician's Rod or Dark Magical Curtain to find Dark Magical Circle or Shining Sarcophagus, then convert to a Ritual or Fusion boss; hold hand traps for the opponent's first interaction
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Droll and Lock Bird, Ghost Ogre and Snow Rabbit, Ghost Belle and Haunted Mansion, Ash Blossom) to slow the opponent, then Nibiru or Black Chaos to break a board
• Recovery: Magicians' Souls and Soul Servant draw and recycle Dark Magician and Spells from the GY; Dark Magical Circle and Magician's Rod refill the hand
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs no side deck, so no post-side plan exists

Why it scores here

The deck is Illegal as built: three copies of Ash Blossom and three of Secret Village of the Spellcasters exceed their copy limits, so the score is capped and reported as theoretical and structural only. The structural read is that it reliably opens a Dark Magician or Magician's Rod starter (archetype-core group P(at least one in a 5-card hand) is about 0.91, Inferred) and has a strong interaction suite (12 hand traps, 9 negation-text cards, 21 removal-text cards). Its conversion ceiling is credible through Ritual and Fusion bosses at 3000 ATK, but no recorded boards exist, so median output is an Inferred estimate and is set low because the engines (Dark Magician, Light and Darkness Ritual, Magician, Prophecy, Link Cyberse) only partly cohere (exact archetype purity 5.3%). Secret Village also conflicts with the many Spell cards the engine needs, and the empty side deck leaves no best-of-3 plan. Popularity and archetype usage were not counted as power, and no card scores were averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, Toolbox secondary (structural only; deck is Illegal). Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 56, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Illegal copy limits (-6); Engine conflicts (-4); No side deck (-2). Final formula: Illegal: theoretical structural-only. Uncapped 0.80*55 + 0.20*45 = 53, minus 12 modifiers = 41, capped to 35. Meta Power provisional (null).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.91 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.09 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Consistent entry through multiple 3-copy starters and archetype-core group
• Dense interaction: 12 hand traps, 9 negation-text, 21 removal-text cards
• Strong Extra Deck bosses at 2500 to 3000 ATK
• Redundant draw and recursion (Magicians' Souls, Soul Servant, Dark Magical Circle)

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy counts (Ash Blossom x3, Secret Village x3)
• Mixed sub-archetype engines lower cohesion (exact archetype purity 5.3%)
• Secret Village conflicts with the deck's Spell count
• No side deck and no best-of-3 plan
• No recorded combos to confirm median output

Critical choke points

• Secret Village of the Spellcasters (illegal copy count and Spell lock on own side)
• Dark Magician or Magician's Rod as the single entry for many lines
• Lava Golem needs opponent-field Tribute setup, a conditional line

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 60, Extra 15, Side 0 against tcg size rules 40-60 / 0-15 / 0-15; Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring run 3 vs legal 2 (Semi-Limited); Secret Village of the Spellcasters run 3 vs legal 1 (Limited); Extra Deck: Fusion 5, Link 9, Synchro 1; Archetype purity: exact name 5.3%
• Observed: Archetype-standard core: 14 of 24 core cards present (58.3%) per usage statistics
• Inferred: P(at least one archetype-core card in hand of 5) = 0.908; P(at least one hand trap in hand of 6 going second) = 0.755; Engine coherence is mixed; median output is low-confidence; Going-second interaction is strong by card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament link)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median, and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: no meta-share or per-pilot record No win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchup, brick, or starter rates Meta Power provisional without a dated metagame sample No side deck, so post-side and best-of-3 cannot be evaluated