Gladiator Beast Deck #767171 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 57 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Gladiator Beast Extra Deck fusion/link boss (Claudius, Domitianus, Gyzarus, Heraklinos) reached through the Gladiator Beast recursion loop and summoned on a board that already has hand-trap protection; Gladiator Beast Augustus / Attorix / Noxious beatsticks and Link Dragases / Dareios pressure once the field is established
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Gladiator Beast starter (Gladiator Proving Ground or Gistel), search a second Gladiator Beast, and set up a Fusion/Link route while holding Ash Blossom or Ghost Belle for the opponent's response
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Infinite Impermanence, Droll & Lock Bird, Ghost Belle) to stop the opponent's first play, then establish the Gladiator Beast board through Extra Deck summons
• Recovery: Recycle Gladiator Beast monsters from the GY through Gladiator Beast's Comeback, Attorix and Equeste, and rebuild the Extra Deck boss through Test Panther and Dareios links
• After siding: Not evaluable: side deck is empty (0 cards), so no post-side plan exists

Why it scores here

The list is illegal in OCG: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring is run 3 copies against a limit of 2, and Kashtira Fenrir is run 2 copies while Forbidden, so the evaluation is structural only and the final score is capped low. Structurally the deck is a Gladiator Beast midrange shell: its core engine (Gistel, Proving Ground, Beast's Comeback) becomes live in roughly 71% of five-card openings (Inferred), and 11 hand traps plus 13 searchers support interruption and continuity. Its end-board is strong, with Claudius, Domitianus and Augustus giving high ATK and interaction density, but its power is not measured by combos because no recorded boards exist, so combo ceiling and median are text-only estimates. Usage data shows the deck runs only 24% of its archetype's core set, and 30.6% exact-name purity means the score is built on the system and not on popularity or averaged card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 53, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 56, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-6). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) = 51.7 pre-cap; capped to 25 because the list is Illegal (over copy limit on Ash Blossom and Forbidden Kashtira Fenrir)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.71 · 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

• Dense hand-trap and negation coverage (11 hand traps, 12 negation texts)
• Strong Extra Deck boss ceiling with Claudius, Domitianus and Heraklinos
• Multiple searchers and recursion routes for continuity

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: Ash Blossom over limit by 1 and Kashtira Fenrir Forbidden
• Low exact-archetype purity (30.6%) with many off-archetype tech cards
• No side deck; no post-side adaptability

Critical choke points

• Extra Deck fusion/link summons depend on a small number of Gladiator Beast monsters on the field
• Forbidden Kashtira Fenrir and over-limit Ash Blossom must be removed before the list is playable

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 57 / Extra 15 / Side 0 count against 40-60 / 0-15 / 0-15 size rules; Ash Blossom at 3 copies vs 2 legal (Semi-Limited); Kashtira Fenrir at 2 copies vs 0 legal (Forbidden); Card text and stats for all listed cards
• Observed: Usage statistics: 6 of 25 core cards present (24%)
• Inferred: Starter access ≈ 0.71 for the 12-card core group in a 5-card hand; Hand-trap and searcher density gives functional hands; Interaction density is high relative to the deck's combo potential
• Provisional: Meta Power: no dated metagame sample; Matchup fit: no tournament link
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN — going-first/second, matchup, brick and starter rates are Inferred Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No side deck supplied (0 cards)