Nouvelles Deck #767023 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 34/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Stun
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Nouvelles Ritual Monsters (Baelgrill, Balameuniere, Foie Glasya, Poeltis) and Fiendsmith Link/Fusion boards, reached through Recipe ritual summons; Fiendsmith's Desirae and Fiendsmith's Lacrima via Fiendsmith Engraver and Fiendsmith's Tract
• Turn 1 (going first): Use Chef de Nouvelles or Voici la Carte to find a Recipe, then Ritual Summon a Nouvelles monster; Ash Blossom and Ghost Ogre protect the line (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold 13 hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Ghost Ogre, Nibiru, Evenly Matched) to interrupt the opponent's board before a Recipe line (Inferred)
• Recovery: Nouvelles Restaurant and Nouvelles Recipe Book return Recipes and Ritual Spells from the GY to hand or deck (Inferred from text)
• After siding: Not assessable: the side deck is empty, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

This list is Illegal in OCG: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring (3 vs 2), Fiendsmith Engraver (3 vs 1) and Pre-Preparation of Rites (2 vs 1) all exceed their copy limits, so under the rubric it is scored only structurally and capped low, and the score is theoretical. Structurally, the Nouvelles core is very reliable: the archetype core reaches at least one copy in a 5-card opening hand 98.9% of the time, and 24 searcher-text cards help the Recipe engine come online. Interaction is the strongest area: 13 hand traps and 7 negation texts give a 81% chance of at least one hand trap in a 6-card going-second hand (Inferred). The deck has no recorded boards, so its combo ceiling and median are text-only estimates, and it has no side deck, which caps post-side and matchup scoring. Scores come from consistency, median output, and interaction across the system; the archetype's popularity and the cards' individual strength were not averaged in.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary; Stun weights not applied (no clear secondary profile). Structural ≈ 50, Going First ≈ 45, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 30. Modifiers: Illegal copy-limit violations (-8); Archetype incoherence (-4). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (-12); Meta provisional; illegal cap applied (theoretical only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.99 · 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

• Core Nouvelles engine is almost always accessible in the opening hand (0.989)
• Dense interaction package: 13 hand traps and 7 negation texts
• Recursion via Nouvelles Restaurant and Recipe Book

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: three cards exceed OCG copy limits
• Empty side deck: no post-side plan
• Low archetype purity (15.5%) with a scattered Extra Deck
• No recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and median are unknown

Critical choke points

• Recipe summons depend on Chef de Nouvelles or Voici la Carte finding a Recipe; if both are missing the engine stalls
• Fiendsmith Engraver is a Limited card at 3 copies, so the Fiendsmith line cannot be run as built

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 56 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side; three copy-limit violations (Ash Blossom 3/2, Fiendsmith Engraver 3/1, Pre-Preparation of Rites 2/1); Archetype purity 15.5% (11 exact-name Nouvelles cards of 71 total); Side deck is empty
• Inferred: Archetype core P>=1 in opening 5 = 0.989; 81% chance of at least one hand trap in going-second 6; Recipe ritual engine is the main consistency route
• Provisional: Meta Power is null: no dated metagame sample; Matchup fit (D13) is unknown: no tournament data
• 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 (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates) Empty side deck: post-side plan cannot be assessed Deck title is null