Skull Servant Deck #767124 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 10 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: King of the Skull Servants and Wightprincess / Lady in Wight GY recursion to Special Summon large Zombie bodies, plus Link Monsters (Yuki-Onna, Vampire Sucker) for the closing board; Link Summons (Yuki-Onna x2, Vampire Sucker, Linkuriboh, Almiraj) off Level 1 and Normal Summoned bodies
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon Skull Servant / Wightbaking / Moissa Wight, use GY-trigger recursion and Wight searchers to find the next Skull Servant body, then Link Summon through the Extra Deck
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand-trap the opponent's first interaction (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Maxx C, Evenly Matched) then rebuild through the GY, aiming to Special Summon KoSS from the GY
• Recovery: Skull Servant and Wight bodies in the GY feed banish-cost recursion (KoSS, Wightlord, Moissa Wight, Mezuki); Foolish Burial and Wight Reanimator reload from the Deck
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan; the rubric treats this as a structural gap

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system: the Skull Servant and Wight engine is a graveyard-recursion loop whose starters (Skull Servant x3, Wightprince x3, The Lady in Wight x3, Wight Reanimator x3) carry enough copies to make the engine live often but not reliably in the opening hand, with a 0.34 chance of at least one 3-copy starter in 5 cards going first (Inferred). Interaction is real but thin: two Ash Blossom, one Maxx C, one Ghost Ogre, Solemn Judgment, Evenly Matched, Storming Mirror Force and Lightning Storm give layered answers that are each single-copy except Ash. Closing power comes from King of the Skull Servants, Wightprincess and link bodies such as Yuki-Onna at 2400 and 2900 ATK. Popularity of the archetype (core cards in 100 percent of stat rows) confirms that the list is real and accessible but did not add points by itself, and no card scores were averaged into this deck score. The final score is capped low because the list is Illegal in OCG due to a Forbidden Ultimate Offering, and the deck has no sideboard and no combo records.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 55.6, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 53, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-6); No side deck (-3); Illegal list cap (-14.5). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability = 53.5 before modifiers; legality is Illegal, so the result is capped to 30 as theoretical structural-only

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.34 · 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

• GY recursion gives several independent routes to re-enter the engine after a loss of board
• Layered hand traps (2 Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Maxx C, Evenly Matched) answer common going-second openings
• Link Summon options cover Zombie, Mayakashi and Level 1 bodies, so the Extra Deck is mostly coherent with the Zombie core

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG because of Ultimate Offering, a Forbidden card
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Engine depends on a GY starter, which can make the going-first hand inconsistent
• Many singleton utility slots and off-archetype copies (exact-name purity 28%) lower coherence

Critical choke points

• Skull Servant or KoSS in the GY is the trigger for most recursion, so a hand without a GY-ready starter has no engine
• Ultimate Offering cannot be run in this format, so its slot is dead weight and must be replaced before the list is playable

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main deck 40, Extra 10, Side 0 are within OCG size rules; Ultimate Offering is Forbidden in OCG, 1 copy run, status Illegal; Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring is Semi-Limited and run at 2 copies (legal); Core cards (KoSS, Skull Servant, Wightprince, Lady in Wight, Wightlord) appear in 100 percent of usage stat rows
• Observed: No recorded combo boards exist for this deck or archetype in the evidence
• Inferred: Hypergeometric P(at least one 3-copy starter in 5) = 0.3376 for going-first; GY recursion and link routes read from card text give a ceiling but not a floor; Interaction density estimated from role_hint tags, not from measured boards
• Provisional: Meta Power and D13 matchup fit, with 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 match record absent no win-rate telemetry exists: going-first/second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown no side deck: post-side behaviour cannot be evaluated Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied