Adamancipator Deck #766706 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Excavate-based Synchro and Link pressure from Adamancipator starters into 3000+ ATK Risen/Tiamite-type boss monsters, with hand-trap protection; Mulcharmy and Koa'ki Meiru board pressure through Special Summons and draw-based card advantage
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Rock or Adamancipator starter (Analyzer, Conductor, Seeker, Researcher) and excavate for a Level 4 or lower Rock, then synchro toward a Risen boss while holding hand traps
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash, Ghost Belle, Ghost Ogre, Infinite Impermanence) on the opponent's first key summon or activation, then rebuild through Mates and Signs
• Recovery: Recover from the GY with Adamancipator Crystal - Tiamite, Adamancipator Mates and Signs, and Gallant-type searches; the deck has no recorded line data to confirm recovery rates
• After siding: Not applicable: the deck has an empty Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system: the Adamancipator core (45 copies, archetype-core group open in opening hand at 0.9999 by the proxy estimate) gives reliable starter access, and the excavate-Synchro chain is a real midrange engine. Interaction is dense (17 hand traps, 17 negation-text cards), which supports going-second play. The score is held down by the illegal list (three over-limit cards, Forbidden Called by the Grave and Crystal Wing), a 34% exact archetype purity with a sprawl of off-archetype and tech cards, an empty Side Deck, and no recorded boards to measure median or ceiling output. Popularity and archetype usage stats confirm the list is real but do not raise the score, and card scores were not averaged. Because the list is illegal, the structural result is capped to a theoretical-only value.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 51, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 43. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12); empty side deck (0). Final formula: Illegal: 0.80*Structural(51) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(43) = ~49 before modifiers; banlist modifier -12 applied, then capped to a theoretical 30 per rubric Step 2 (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 1 · 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

• Large Adamancipator core with a reliable excavate starter chain
• Dense hand-trap and negation coverage for going second
• Strong 3000+ ATK synchro bosses with Extra Deck coverage

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: three over-limit cards and two Forbidden cards
• Low exact-archetype purity with a heavy off-archetype and tech package
• No Side Deck, so no adaptation

Critical choke points

• Limited and Forbidden cards must be removed before the deck is playable
• Synchro summon chains depend on Tuner counts and Level matches

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality status Illegal: 4 copy-limit violations and 2 Forbidden cards; Main 56, Extra 15, Side 0; Exact-name purity 33.8%; Archetype core inclusion rates from usage_statistics
• Inferred: Opening-hand starter and brick estimates from the hypergeometric proxy; Hand-trap access on going second; Interaction quality from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power and format fit (no dated metagame sample)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link: archetype meta-share and pilot results absent no win-rate telemetry for this deck Side Deck empty, so post-side plan cannot be evaluated