Atlantean Deck #765236 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 40/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Stun, Tempo
• Format: tcg

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Poseidra Abyss, the Atlantean Dragon Lord and the Abyss-/Mermail/Atlantean Xyz and Link board, turned on by Atlantean and Mermail searches (Inferred); Moulinglacia the Elemental Lord (2800) and Super Starslayer TY-PHON (2900) as extra-deck boss threats (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a core Atlantean/Mermail monster, search a second Atlantean or Mermail through Neptabyss, Mermail Abyssteus or Abysspike, then build a Xyz or Link board while holding Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse (Inferred from text)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the six-card hand's hand traps (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit, Solemn Warning) to stop the opponent's first Summon, then continue through the Atlantean searchers (Inferred from text)
• Recovery: Rebuild from Mulcharmy Fuwalos and Purulia draw effects plus Atlantean and Mermail searchers in the Deck and GY (Inferred from text)
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan; the deck cannot adapt between games (Observed from list)

Why it scores here

The score is set by how the list functions as a system, not by averaging its cards. The archetype core is dense (30 copies, about 98% chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand, Inferred), so the engine usually becomes live early. Interaction is the strongest part of the list: 7 hand traps and 14 negation-text cards let it stop the opponent's first Summons and key activations, and that is worth more on the going-second side. Conversion is only moderately supported because no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling and median come from text reading alone and stay near the middle. The list is illegal as submitted (3 copies each of Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse against a limit of 2), which caps the result at a theoretical, structural-only read. Popularity and archetype usage confirm the list is real, but they did not add points, and no side deck is present.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, Stun secondary for the interaction read only. Structural ≈ 62, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 68, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-2); no side deck (-3). Final formula: Illegal cap: uncapped 0.80*Structural(62) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(55) = 60.6, plus modifiers (-5) = 55.6; capped to 40 as a theoretical/structural-only read, not a normal Final Contextual score. Meta Power is null (Provisional).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.98 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.02 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense archetype core with about 98% chance of at least one core card in the opening five (Inferred)
• Layered interaction: 7 hand traps and 14 negation-text cards (Verified text + Inferred semantics)
• Multiple independent starter families give redundancy (Inferred)
• Strong going-second hand-trap plan (Inferred)

Weaknesses

• Illegal as submitted: 3 copies each of Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse exceed the TCG limit of 2 (Verified)
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation (Verified)
• No recorded combos, so ceiling and median are unmeasured (Verified gap)
• Low exact-name purity (18.6%) across many sub-archetypes (Verified)

Critical choke points

• The Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse copy limit must be fixed before the list is playable
• Searcher density (15 cards) is the main path to a live engine; a missing searcher lowers consistency (Inferred)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal copy-limit violations: Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse at 3 copies each against a TCG limit of 2; Main Deck size 55 and Extra Deck size 15, both within the TCG size rules; No side deck registered; Limited and Semi-Limited statuses on 8 restricted cards; No recorded combo boards and no tournament link
• Observed: Archetype usage stats show the Atlantean core is standard (100% inclusion for several core cards)
• Inferred: Opening-hand core access ≈ 0.98 and searcher access ≈ 0.81 (hypergeometric); Going-second hand-trap plan and interaction density read from text; Starter diversity and resilience across Atlantean, Mermail and Mulcharmy lines; Ceiling and median are inferred from text only
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (D13 dropped from the structural score)
• 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 win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN — going-first/second, matchup, brick and starter rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No side deck supplied, so D12 cannot be measured