Code Talker Deck #767241 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 53 / Extra 17 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Cyberse Link chains into Link boss monsters (Firewall Dragon Darkfluid, Firewall Dragon Singularity, Code Igniter, Allied Code Talker @Ignister); Inferred from card text, no recorded boards; Hand-trap and negation pressure (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Effect Veiler, Infinite Impermanence, Red Reboot, Droll & Lock Bird) to stall the opponent while the Link engine comes online; Inferred
• Turn 1 (going first): Search and summon the @Ignister core (Backup, Achichi, Pikari, Wizard) through searchers, then Link Summon a Link-3 or Link-5 boss; Inferred, the deck has no recorded boards
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre and Effect Veiler as hand traps against the opponent's first summon, then rebuild the Link board; Inferred
• Recovery: Searchers (16 copies) and recursion through Dark Infant and Transcode Talker to refill the hand after a disruption; Inferred from card text
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan; the Side Deck score is capped accordingly

Why it scores here

The deck is Illegal as submitted: Link Decoder is Forbidden in OCG and the Extra Deck holds 17 cards against a maximum of 15, so it is scored as theoretical and structural only with a low cap. Its main consistency signals are moderate: the archetype core group has about a 62 percent chance of at least one copy in a 5-card opening hand, and the 16 searchers give about an 85 percent chance of one searcher in that hand (Inferred). Its interaction density is high, with 13 hand traps and 13 negation-text cards, which lifts end-board and resilience scores. The deck has no recorded boards, so ceiling and median output cannot be measured and are scored from card text only, which keeps conversion low. Popularity and archetype usage did not earn points: the list runs only 7.1 percent exact-name Code Talker cards, and 4 of 10 core archetype cards are absent. No card scores were averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 49, Going First ≈ 46, Going Second ≈ 44, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-6); Extra Deck over limit (-4); no side deck (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); Illegal list: theoretical/structural-only, low cap applied

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.62 · 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 interaction: 13 hand traps and 13 negation-text cards
• Searcher density: 16 searcher-text cards, about 0.85 chance of one in hand 5
• Strong Link boss bodies in the Extra Deck (3000 to 3500 ATK)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Forbidden Link Decoder and 17 Extra Deck cards
• Low exact-name purity (7.1 percent) with 65 off-archetype copies
• No recorded boards, so ceiling and median are unmeasured
• No Side Deck

Critical choke points

• Single-card Link Decoder slot is a Forbidden card and must be removed before the list is legal
• Extra Deck overflow means at least two Extra Deck cards must be cut

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Link Decoder is Forbidden (0 legal copies) and the Extra Deck has 17 cards against a maximum of 15; Limited and Semi-Limited copy counts are all respected; Main Deck is 53 cards, inside the 40-60 range; Core card presence: 6 of 10 archetype core cards; No Side Deck (side_count 0)
• Inferred: Opening-hand consistency from hypergeometric estimates; Engine and interaction roles read from card text; Going-first and going-second plans from card text; Score ranges and dimension scores
• Provisional: Meta Power is null because no dated metagame sample exists; D13 format fit
• Data gaps: no combos supplied; floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link; archetype meta-share and pilot record absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied no Side Deck registered