Dark World Deck #767431 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 12 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fiend-based Dark World board: Reign-Beaux, Grapha Overlord and Number 38 / Photon Lord-style boards pressured through Dark World recursion from the Graveyard.; Danger! beatsticks (Bigfoot, Nessie) and Link-based pressure (Knightmare Phoenix, Masquerena, Security Dragon) from the Extra Deck.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a searcher (Snoww, Genta, Danger! Nessie, Dark Corridor) and reach a Fiend Dark World engine; use Skill Drain / Dimensional Barrier / Feather Duster as the first interaction, then recurse Reign-Beaux or Grapha from the GY.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Artifact Lancea and Evenly Matched (hand traps) to slow the opponent's turn, then rebuild from Graveyard recursion; the four hand traps reach a 6-card opening hand about 38% of the time (Inferred).
• Recovery: Discard-based recursion: Dark World monsters discarded by Dragged Down, Snoww, Genta and Ceruli return from the Graveyard and re-search Dark World cards.
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so no post-side plan is available. Structurally the deck can only adapt by changing main-deck slots, which the evaluation does not model.

Why it scores here

The deck opens reasonably often: three-copy starters appear in the opening five about 25% of the time each, and at least one searcher-text card appears in the opening hand about 87% of the time (Inferred, hypergeometric). Its Graveyard recursion (Reign-Beaux, Grapha, Snoww, Genta, Ceruli, Sillva) and redundant searchers support the resilience and resource scores, and the interaction suite (Skill Drain, Dimensional Barrier, Feather Duster, Lancea, Evenly Matched) gives a real but narrow answer set. Combo ceiling and median are not measurable because no recorded boards were supplied, so those scores are text-only inference with low confidence. The score is capped because the list is Illegal: Called by the Grave and Triple Tactics Talent are Forbidden, and Allure of Darkness is over its Limited copy count, so the result is a structural, theoretical read only. Archetype popularity (core present 52.6%) was not used to add points, and the card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, no secondary weight applied to the structural score. Structural ≈ 54, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-6); no_side_deck (-4). Final formula: Structural 54 -> 0.80*54 + 0.20*50 + modifiers(-10) = 43; capped to 30 because the list is Illegal (theoretical/structural-only, no normal Final Contextual score). Meta provisional.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.25 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.11 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense searcher and recursion text across Dark World and Danger! cards
• Reasonable opening-hand access to the core starters (Inferred)
• Layered interaction suite including two Limited floodgate/negation cards

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: two Forbidden cards and copy-limit overages
• Low exact-archetype purity (29.9%) with many off-archetype singletons
• Empty side deck leaves no post-side plan
• Four Xyz/Link-dependent Extra Deck routes with no Xyz material support

Critical choke points

• Single Dark World engine starter per hand without redundancy beyond the three-copy searchers
• Reliance on Limited interaction (Skill Drain, Dimensional Barrier, Feather Duster) that cannot all run legally at once

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Called by the Grave and Triple Tactics Talent are Forbidden (legal_copies 0); Allure of Darkness over copy limit (2 run, 1 legal); Main 55 and Extra 12 within OCG size rules; side 0; Archetype purity 29.9% exact-name; core present 52.6%
• Inferred: Starter access ≈ 0.25 per 3-copy card in opening 5 (hypergeometric); Searcher access ≈ 0.87 per opening hand; Hand-trap going-second access ≈ 0.38; Graveyard recursion gives resilience and resource value from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (no 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 or brick telemetry in YGOVN Side deck is empty, so post-side scoring is structural only Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied