Apophis Deck #767350 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 55/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 13 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra-Deck boss and Main-Deck Apophis/Temple of the Kings engine pieces (Superdreadnought Rail Cannon Gustav Max, Juggernaut Liebe, Egyptian God Slime, Divine Serpent Apophis, Immortal Phoenix) reached through Treasures of the Kings, The True Sun God and The Man with the Mark.; Trap-based engine pressure via Apophis the Serpent and Temple of the Kings, with Anubis the Last Judge and Merciless Scorpion of Serket as follow-up bodies.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a searcher (Treasures of the Kings, The True Sun God, The Man with the Mark, Apophis the Serpent) to set Apophis traps and reach a Temple of the Kings-based Fusion or Special Summon, while holding Ash Blossom, Ghost Sister or Droll for the opponent's first interaction.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Sister, Infinite Impermanence, Droll & Lock Bird) and Solemn/Judgment/Verdict-style negations to stop the opponent's board, then convert the remaining hand into a Temple or Apophis line.
• Recovery: Recover from interaction with Monster Reborn, Dark Spell Regeneration, Millennium Revelation and Foolish Burial for graveyard recursion, and Terraforming or Treasures for re-search.
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan; the deck cannot adjust between games.

Why it scores here

The deck's score comes from how the whole system behaves, not from its card scores or from Apophis being a known archetype. Consistency is moderate: about 78% of opening 5-card hands contain at least one archetype-core card, and about 83% contain at least one searcher, but many of those hits are conditional on Temple of the Kings or a Trap in the graveyard. Interaction is the strongest part of the system: seven hand traps plus roughly 18 negation-text cards give durable answers to a going-second opponent, which carries most of the Structural score. Closing power is real through Gustav Max, Juggernaut Liebe and the Egyptian God and Divine Serpent bodies, but the deck has no side deck, a single copy of Temple of the Kings as a choke point, and no recorded boards, so the combo floor and median are unknown and held near neutral. Popularity or archetype usage did not earn points, and no card scores were averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 61, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 63, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 52. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-2); Single-copy Temple choke point (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional, no dated metagame sample)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.83 · 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 suite (seven hand traps, roughly 18 negation-text cards) that is durable when going second.
• Several searchers (16 searcher-text cards) give about 83% opening access.
• Strong Extra-Deck closers (Gustav Max, Juggernaut Liebe, Egyptian God Slime) with direct damage or high ATK.

Weaknesses

• No side deck: no post-side adaptation and D12 is near floor.
• Only 5.9% exact-name Apophis purity; much of the engine depends on Temple of the Kings and Egyptian God support cards.
• No recorded boards, so consistency and combo ceiling rest on text and probability inference.

Critical choke points

• Temple of the Kings (1 copy) gates Fusion and Special Summon routes for several Extra and Main-Deck pieces.
• Monster Reborn and Foolish Burial are Limited; losing them would remove the main recovery route.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 55, Extra 13, Side 0 within OCG size rules [40-60], [0-15], [0-15].; All restricted cards are within legal copies (Limited 1/1, Semi-Limited 2/2).
• Observed: Usage stats show Treasures of the Kings, Merciless Scorpion of Serket and Verdict of Anubis as core cards; the deck runs most of them (Observed).
• Inferred: Midrange primary: interaction and Extra-Deck closers without recorded combos.; Hand-trap and searcher access from hypergeometric estimates.
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and D13 matchup/format fit: no dated metagame sample and 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 and matchup rates are Unknown. Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied. Deck title is null in the export.