Evol Deck #767307 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Evol (untitled OCG list) — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Board-control through hand traps and negations, then closing with Extra Deck boss monsters (Lord of the Heavenly Prison, Nibiru, Jinzo - Layered, Divine Serpent Apophis) that are not reliably reached by the listed lines; Mulcharmy draw-engine pressure and Temple of the Kings / Apophis trap-based summons (inferred from text, no combo data)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on hand traps and searchers (Treasures of the Kings, Terraforming, The Man with the Mark) to reach a Temple of the Kings or Apophis line; hold Ash Blossom and Ghost Ogre for the opponent's first activation
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 6-card hand's 88.75% chance of holding at least one hand trap to disrupt the opponent's first summon chain, then convert with Mulcharmy draws and Extra Deck summons
• Recovery: Recursion is weak: Mulcharmy Fuwalos and Purulia recur draws rather than board, and Temple/Apophis trap recursion is text-only; expect the board to be rebuilt slowly
• After siding: Not evaluable: the side deck is empty, so there is no post-side plan at all

Why it scores here

This list is scored as a system and not as an average of its cards. It opens a functional plan reasonably often: the archetype-core group has a proxy 96.6% chance of at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand, and 88.75% of six-card hands hold at least one of its 16 hand traps when going second (Inferred, hypergeometric). Interaction is the strongest feature, with 21 removal-text cards and 17 negation-text cards, so the deck can answer a first activation or summon. Conversion is the weakness: the 1.4% exact-name archetype purity and a spread across Temple of the Kings, Mulcharmy, Apophis, Serket, Utopic, Time Thief and Jinzo means the engines do not share a single line, and there is no combo or board data to show a median or ceiling. The list is also Illegal, since Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring is run at 3 copies against an OCG limit of 2, and it carries no side deck, so the score is capped at a low theoretical value. Popularity did not earn points: the archetype core is present (92.3%), but that confirms the deck is real and accessible, not that it is strong.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox 85 / Stun 15. Structural ≈ 43, Going First ≈ 40, Going Second ≈ 45, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-6); no side deck (-3); engine conflicts (-3). Final formula: Illegal list: no normal Final formula applies. Structural 43 computed with the Toolbox/Stun blend; 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability = 42.4 before modifiers; modifiers -12 gives 30.4; illegal cap sets final to 25 (theoretical/structural only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.25 · 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 package (16 hand traps, 17 negation-text cards) that answers most first activations and summons
• Broad removal text (21 cards) gives multiple answers to a single board
• Archetype-core presence is high (92.3% of the standard core list), so the deck is accessible and internally recognisable

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy count on Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring (3 vs 2 allowed)
• Engine conflicts across Evol, Temple of the Kings, Apophis, Mulcharmy, Serket and Jinzo
• Low exact-name purity (1.4%) and a 55-card main with 28 distinct names
• No side deck at all
• No recorded combos to validate any conversion claim

Critical choke points

• Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring is over the copy limit, so the list cannot be played as built
• Evolzar Lars (core, 75% inclusion) is absent, weakening the Evol engine's closing line
• Temple of the Kings is the shared hub for several sub-engines; losing it to a Floodgate or removal breaks multiple lines

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 55 cards, Extra 15 cards, Side 0 cards; Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring run 3 copies against a legal limit of 2 (OCG Semi-Limited); Archetype core present 92.3% (12 of 13 core cards); Limited cards (Droll & Lock Bird, Harpie's Feather Duster, Pot of Prosperity, S:P Little Knight, Solemn Judgment, Terraforming) each run 1 copy, which is legal
• Inferred: Hypergeometric opening-hand odds (0.2529 per 3-copy card; 0.9659 archetype-core proxy; 0.8875 hand-trap group going second); Brick and dead-hand risk from the 21 monster / 21 trap / 13 spell split; Interaction quality from negation and removal text and the hand-trap count; Going-first and going-second scores from the listed hand traps and searchers
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament link)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent no win-rate telemetry (going-first, going-second, matchup, brick and starter rates) Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample side deck is empty, so post-side performance cannot be assessed no guides attached for this archetype