Fiendsmith Deck #766038 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±10 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion, Link and Synchro boss monsters from the Extra Deck (Phantasm / Sacred Beast lines, plus Fiendsmith Requiem and Sequence) that end the game through board presence and disruption; Unchained and Egyptian God lines as supporting pressure; no recorded alternate win condition
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on Sacred Beast searchers (Calamity, Infinity, Summoner, Martyr, Sacred Beasts Released) to reach a Level 10 Sacred Beast Special Summon, then extend into Extra Deck bosses; hold Ash Blossom and Droll for the opponent's first search or Special Summon
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Droll and Lock Bird, Nibiru, Evenly Matched) to slow the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Sacred Beast searchers and Fallen Paradise
• Recovery: Recursion through Martyr of the Sacred Beasts, Fiendsmith Engraver GY effect and Summoner of the Sacred Beasts GY-based Defense Summons, plus Mulcharmy draw effects when the hand is empty
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs no Side Deck (0 cards), so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

This deck is scored as a connected system, not as an average of its cards. It reliably opens a Sacred Beast searcher chain: the archetype core of 33 copies has about a 99% chance of at least one copy in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred hypergeometric). Its 12 hand traps and about 79% chance of at least one in a 6-card going-second hand give it real interruption, and its 15 Extra Deck bosses give it closing power. Combo ceiling and floor are weak because the export holds no recorded boards, so both are text-only inferences. The score is capped to 25 because the list is Illegal: Ash Blossom runs 3 copies against a limit of 2 and Fiendsmith Engraver runs 2 against a limit of 1. Popularity and archetype share did not earn points, and the deck has no Side Deck, so it earns no post-side credit.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary; Combo secondary disclosed. Weights taken from the Midrange profile in the rubric. Structural ≈ 52, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: Illegal list cap (-15); Banlist exposure (-6); Engine conflicts (-4); No side deck (-2). Final formula: Uncapped: 0.80*Structural(52) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(50) + ContextModifiers(-12) = 40, then capped to 25 because the list is Illegal (Meta Power provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.99 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.01 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Core archetype density: 33 copies with about a 99% chance of a core card in the opening 5 (Inferred)
• Layered hand-trap package with 12 hand traps and 8 negation-text cards (Verified text, Inferred role)
• Broad Extra Deck coverage across Fusion, Link, Synchro and Xyz bosses (Verified composition)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: copy-limit violations on Ash Blossom and Fiendsmith Engraver (Verified)
• Low archetype purity (7.1% exact name) and 65 off-archetype copies create engine conflicts (Observed)
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptability (Verified)
• Long multi-step Sacred Beast chains reduce pilotability (Inferred)

Critical choke points

• Ash Blossom and Engraver copy limits must be fixed before the list is playable (Verified)
• Sacred Beast Level 10 Special Summons depend on a small number of enablers (Thunderclap, Released, Summoner), so losing them stalls the board (Inferred)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Ash Blossom 3 copies vs 2 legal; Fiendsmith Engraver 2 copies vs 1 legal; Main 55 and Extra 15 are within size rules; Side is 0; Banlist statuses for Engraver, Tract, Called by the Grave, S:P Little Knight, Linkuriboh, Ash Blossom and Droll are as exported; Card counts and archetype_purity values as exported
• Observed: Archetype spread: 65 off-archetype copies; 7.1% exact-name purity; Usage statistics: 16 of 25 core cards present (64%)
• Inferred: Opening-hand core consistency ≈ 0.99 (5-card hand); Hand-trap coverage going second ≈ 0.79; Interaction density and interruption resilience from card text; Ceiling and floor estimates from text only (no recorded boards)
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit (D13): no dated metagame sample or tournament link
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: 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 exists in YGOVN, so going-first and going-second splits are Inferred Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample Usage statistics flag The Chaotic Phantasmal Sacred Beasts and Varudras as not in this deck, but the cards list includes each once in the Extra Deck; this evaluation uses the cards list No Side Deck supplied, so post-side scoring is absent