Prophecy Deck #766682 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 9 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Board pressure from 3000-ATK ritual and fusion boss monsters (Black Skull Dragon, Black Chaos, Lava Golem, Black Luster Soldier, Magician of Dark Chaos) once the Prophecy / Dark Magician engine lands.; Link-based pressure and Extra Deck recursion through Link and Fusion monsters, with Dark Magician of Destruction as a backup boss.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Dark Magician or Dark Magical Curtain engine starter, search through Dark Magical Circle or Shining Sarcophagus, and protect the line with Ash Blossom and the Ghost hand traps.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Ghost Ogre, Droll & Lock Bird) to break the opponent's first board, then rebuild through the Ritual or Link route.
• Recovery: Recover through Light and Darkness Ritual or Illusion of Chaos to rebuild the field from the GY, and use Soul Servant and Magician's Rod to recover searches.
• After siding: No side deck is present, so no post-side plan is evaluable. The deck would need a side to be playable in best-of-3.

Why it scores here

This list cannot be scored as a normal legal deck. It runs nine Forbidden or over-limit copy violations in TCG (including three Secret Village of the Spellcasters and two Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon), so the score is a theoretical, structural-only read capped at 30. The engine itself is coherent: the archetype core has about a 0.91 chance of at least one copy in the opening hand (Inferred), and the 12 hand traps and 21 removal-text cards give the deck real interaction density on paper. Floor and median output are unmeasured because the deck has zero recorded boards, so any ceiling claim is text-only (Inferred). Archetype popularity earned no points, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score. The deck has no side deck, so its post-side and best-of-3 adaptability is scored as near zero.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: 0.8 Midrange + 0.2 Combo (disclosed). Structural ≈ 56, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-12); no_side_deck (0). Final formula: No reliable metagame, so Meta is provisional: Final = 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + modifiers = 0.80*56 + 0.20*50 − 12 ≈ 43; capped at 30 because the list is Illegal (theoretical/structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.91 · 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

• High archetype-core consistency: about 91% chance of at least one core card in the opening five
• Layered interaction: 12 hand traps, 9 negation-text cards and 21 removal-text cards
• Boss ceiling of 3000+ ATK from Ritual and Fusion monsters

Weaknesses

• Illegal in TCG: seven Forbidden cards and two copy-limit overages
• No side deck, so there is no best-of-3 plan
• No recorded combos, so floor and median output are unknown

Critical choke points

• Forbidden Secret Village of the Spellcasters and Magicians' Souls remove core engine redundancy once the list is made legal
• Ash Blossom and Droll are over the copy limits, so the hand-trap suite shrinks after legalization

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status with nine copy/banlist violations in TCG; Main 60 and Extra 15 are within size rules; Side is 0; Archetype-core group P(≥1 in opening 5) = 0.9081
• Inferred: Engine consistency and brick estimates come from the hypergeometric probabilities and text reads; Ceiling read from the 3000-ATK ritual and fusion bosses in the card text; Interaction quality is a semantic read of the negation and removal text
• Provisional: Meta-share and matchup fit (D13) lack a dated metagame sample
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record are absent No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates) exists in YGOVN No side deck: post-side plan cannot be evaluated Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied