Temple of the Kings Deck #767309 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 36/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Special Summon Temple of the Kings boss monsters (Anubis the Last Judge, Merciless Scorpion of Serket, Divine Serpent Apophis) from the Graveyard-trap and Set-trap engine, then close with the Extra Deck boss monsters.; Hand-trap and negation control (16 hand traps, 17 negation-text cards) to stop the opponent's board while the Apophis/Temple engine builds an endboard.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Treasures of the Kings or Temple of the Kings starter with Apophis traps set, use Set-trap activations and searchers (The Man with the Mark, Gallant Granite) to reach a boss, and hold up hand traps.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the six-card hand's hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Infinite Impermanence, Droll & Lock Bird, Nibiru) to break the opponent's first Extra Deck summon, then rebuild through Apophis and Temple of the Kings.
• Recovery: Recover through the Graveyard Trap count (Anubis needs 3 different Trap names in the GY) and the searchers, since the deck has 12 searcher-text cards.
• After siding: Not assessable: the deck has an empty Side Deck (0 cards), so no post-side plan exists in the evidence.

Why it scores here

The deck's engine is the Temple of the Kings and Apophis Trap cluster, with 15 core copies giving about an 81% chance of at least one core piece in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred, hypergeometric). Its real strength is interaction on the system level: 16 hand traps and 17 negation-text cards let it stop the opponent's first summon or activation, and the hand-trap group reaches roughly 89% at least one in a going-second 6-card hand (Inferred). The deck's weaknesses are structural. Only 8 of 55 main-deck cards are exact Temple of the Kings names, and 33 are generic, so the engine's brick rate is high. The list is also illegal because Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring is run 3 copies against a 2-copy limit, and the Side Deck is empty. No combo boards, tournament record, or guides were supplied, so the combo ceiling and floor are text-only inferences. The score was built from consistency, interaction, and combo structure on the whole deck. It was not built from the archetype's popularity, which was not used, or from averaging card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 51.5, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: Illegal copy-limit violation (-8); No side deck (-4). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) = 48.2 base, then illegality and no-side-deck modifiers (-12) = 36

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.81 · 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

• Layered interaction: 16 hand traps and 17 negation-text cards (Inferred from text and flags)
• Going-second hand-trap density near 0.89 at least one per hand (Inferred, hypergeometric)
• Extra Deck coverage across Fusion, Xyz, and Link with 15 slots used (Verified)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring run 3 copies against a 2-copy limit (Verified)
• Low exact-archetype purity at 11.4%, with 33 generic and many off-archetype cards (Verified)
• Empty Side Deck, so no post-side adaptation (Verified)
• No combo, tournament, or guide evidence, so output and meta claims are unverified (Verified gap)

Critical choke points

• Temple of the Kings and Apophis Trap engine depends on a few starters; only 8 exact-name copies (Inferred)
• Going-first plan depends on Set Traps surviving the opponent's Ash Blossom or Ghost Ogre interaction (Inferred)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main deck 55 cards, Extra 15, Side 0; within OCG size rules; Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring run 3 vs 2-copy OCG limit (Illegal); Exact-name archetype purity 11.4% (8 of 70 archetype-tagged copies); Hand-trap group 16 copies; searcher-text 12 copies; negation-text 17 copies
• Inferred: P(at least one core piece in 5-card hand) ~0.81 (hypergeometric); P(at least one hand trap in 6-card going-second hand) ~0.89 (hypergeometric); Interaction density from card text and role flags; Engine brick risk from generic copies and interaction-heavy hands
• 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 match record absent no win-rate telemetry; going-first and going-second splits are Inferred Side Deck is empty; no post-side evidence Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample