Ashened Deck #767291 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ashened Field Zone engine (Obsidim, the Ashened City) enabling Pyro Special Summons and Fusion/Extra Deck pressure from Veidos, Embers of the Ashened and Starving Venom; Link and Fusion pressure through Charmer and Venom Extra Deck monsters, backed by hand-trap interaction
• Turn 1 (going first): Set Obsidim in a Field Zone and use Priestess, King, Shaman, Spearhead or Hero of the Ashened City to extend, aiming for a Pyro Fusion or Link board; hand traps held for the opponent's first sequence
• Turn 2 (going second): Keep hand traps (Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler, Infinite Impermanence, Droll and Lock Bird, Nibiru) to answer the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Awakening of Veidos and Priestess
• Recovery: Recycle Ashened cards from the GY and banish through Shaman of the Ashened City and Infernal Flame Banshee-style recursion (not in this list); Awakening of Veidos and Bonfire refill the hand
• After siding: No side deck present; no post-side plan can be assessed

Why it scores here

The score is structural and capped low because the list is Illegal: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and Super Polymerization are each run three times against a Semi-Limited limit of two, and the deck has no side deck. Within the list, the system reliably sets up its engine. The 31 archetype-core copies give near-certain access to an Ashened card, but the Obsidim Field Zone gate is the real bottleneck, with only about a 34% chance of opening with at least one copy on the play. Hand-trap density (12 cards, about 90% to have one on the draw) gives the deck real interruption and going-second resilience, and the Fusion and Link Extra Deck supplies provide closing pressure. No combo boards, guides or tournament results were supplied, so floor, median and ceiling output are text-only inference and are not averaged from card scores. Popularity in the archetype stats confirms the list is real and accessible, not that it is strong.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: Illegal copy-limit cap (-14); No side deck (-4); Obsidim Field Zone choke point (-4). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(55) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(40) = 52; modifiers -8 gives 44; Illegal deck capped at 30 (structural-only, not a normal Final score)

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

• Dense Ashened core (31 copies) makes an Ashened card almost always available
• Broad hand-trap and negation package (Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler, Infinite Impermanence, Droll, Nibiru) for both going-first and going-second interaction
• Full 15-card Extra Deck covering Fusion, Link and Xyz with strong 2800-3000 ATK threats

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: two cards run over the OCG copy limit
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation
• No recorded boards or win-rate data to confirm the engine works in practice

Critical choke points

• Obsidim in a Field Zone gates most Ashened Special Summons (about one-in-three opening chance on the play)
• Reliance on Spell/Trap hand traps and Super Polymerization that are dead without the right board

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is Illegal: Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization each run 3 copies against a limit of 2 (OCG); Main 40 and Extra 15 meet the OCG size rules; side 0 is within the 0-15 rule; Archetype core copies and Extra Deck breakdown (7 Fusion, 3 Xyz, 5 Link)
• Observed: No recorded combo boards, so no observed floor, median or ceiling exists
• Inferred: Obsidim gating and the one-in-three opening chance (hypergeometric); Going-second hand-trap coverage about 0.90; Engine accessibility and interaction quality from card text and role tags
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit: 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 record absent No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates) No side deck, so post-side performance cannot be assessed No guides attached for the archetype Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied