Nimble Deck #765309 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 22/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 5 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Nimble and Gravekeeper's bodies plus Dark Magician pressure, converting through Skilled Dark Magician and Dark Magician of Chaos, with Wicked Dreadroot as a 4000-ATK board breaker; Fusion beatdown from the Extra Deck, which is largely unsupported by the main deck (see d11)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Nimble Momonga, Gravekeeper's Spy or Skilled Dark Magician starter and build a 2-3 body board; Brain Control or Enemy Controller can take a monster for pressure. Dead-card risk is high because roughly 75% of the deck is not a self-contained engine.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Royal Decree and Heavy Storm-style interaction, but both banned cards are not legal in this build, so the going-second plan rests on Call of the Haunted, Premature Burial and Time Machine recursion and on the board-breaking effects of The Wicked Dreadroot.
• Recovery: Recur from the graveyard with Call of the Haunted, Premature Burial and Time Machine; Dark Magician of Chaos can add a Spell from the GY at End Phase.
• After siding: No side deck is registered (side count 0), so there is no post-side plan; a best-of-3 event would need a list build first.

Why it scores here

This deck scores low because its legal status is Illegal: four cards (Heavy Storm, Delinquent Duo, Pot of Greed, Graceful Charity) are Forbidden with 0 legal copies, so this is a structural-only read rather than a normal contextual score. The main deck has 27 distinct cards but only 3 exact Nimble cards, so it runs a loose mix of generic spells, Dark Magician support and Gravekeeper's bodies rather than a cohesive engine. The Extra Deck holds 15 Fusion Monsters but the main deck contains no Polymerization or other Fusion enabler, and most listed Fusion materials are absent, so the Extra Deck is largely dead weight. Popularity and archetype usage stats (the Nimble core is present but only partly) were not used to add points, and the score did not average individual card strengths; it reflects weak system cohesion, an unsupported Extra Deck, and banlist exposure.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange (primary) with Toolbox as a secondary read; weights taken from the Midrange row. Structural ≈ 32, Going First ≈ 30, Going Second ≈ 28, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 28. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-6); dependence on Extra Deck without enablers (-3). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional); 0.80*32.3 + 0.20*28 - 9 = 22.4, rounded to 22; illegal status caps the score low and it is structural-only

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.25 · 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

• Dark Magician package (Skilled Dark Magician, Dark Magician of Chaos, Dark Flare Knight) gives a coherent core
• Recursion through Call of the Haunted, Premature Burial and Time Machine
• Layered interaction with Brain Control, Enemy Controller and Royal Decree

Weaknesses

• Illegal under the TCG banlist (four Forbidden cards at 1 copy)
• Extra Deck of 15 Fusion Monsters without any Fusion Summon enabler
• Low exact-archetype purity (4.3 percent) and no side deck

Critical choke points

• Any Forbidden card removal forces a rebuild before the deck is playable
• No Fusion enabler, so the entire Extra Deck is effectively unreachable

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality status Illegal: four Forbidden cards at 0 legal copies; main 55 and extra 15 are within size rules; Composition: 27 distinct main cards, 4.3 percent exact-name archetype purity, 15 Fusion Monsters in the Extra Deck; Usage stats: 11 of 25 core cards present (44 percent)
• Observed: Usage stats show the archetype core is partly present (11 of 25 core cards)
• Inferred: Starter hypergeometric odds (0.25 per 3-copy starter in going-first hand 5; 0.93 archetype-core open); Fusion Extra Deck is effectively dead without enablers; Going-first and going-second estimates
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); D13 matchup and format fit
• Data gaps: No recorded combos; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent No win-rate telemetry; going-first, going-second and matchup rates are unknown Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Side deck count is 0