Darklord Deck #767449 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Darklord Extra Deck boss monsters (Darklord Morningstar, Darklord Eveningstar, The First Darklord) reached through the Darklord Djehuty and Darklord Gulgolet engine; Solfachord and Herald pendulum/link pressure with hand-trap disruption
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Darklord starter (Djehuty, Gulgolet, Ixchel or Banishment) and reach a Fusion or Link boss; hand traps are held back as protection
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Herald and Droll to disrupt the opponent's engine, then convert through the Darklord Fusion boss
• Recovery: Darklord Contact and Fallen Angel in Darkness recur Darklord monsters from the GY; Banishment of the Darklords re-searches the engine
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck opens its Darklord engine often: the archetype core has about a 94% chance of at least one card in a 5-card opening hand, and the Darklord starters are triple-copied. Its interaction package (15 hand traps and 20 negation-text cards) gives it real end-board and going-second strength. Its Extra Deck bosses (Morningstar and Eveningstar at 3000 ATK, The First Darklord at 4000 ATK) close games once an engine lands. Conversion and median output are unverified because the export has no recorded boards, and only 36% of the main deck is exact-name Darklord, so the list is loose. Popularity and archetype usage did not earn points, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score. The deck is Illegal (three cards over their OCG copy limits), so the final score is capped low and this evaluation is structural only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, Stun secondary; Midrange weights used for the structural score. Structural ≈ 54, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-6); no_side_deck (-3); no_recorded_combos (-3). Final formula: 0.80*Structural(54) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) = 52.2; modifiers total -12 → 40.2; Illegal cap applied → 35 (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.94 · 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

• High archetype core density gives a 94% chance of at least one core card in the opening hand
• 15 hand traps plus negation and removal text give broad interaction
• Multiple 3000+ ATK Extra Deck bosses provide closing power

Weaknesses

• Illegal: three cards exceed OCG copy limits
• Off-archetype copies (45) dilute the engine
• No side deck

Critical choke points

• Darklord Djehuty and Gulgolet as the only engine starters
• Hand-trap density means several cards are dead without an engine

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: three OCG copy-limit violations; Deck composition: 55 main, 15 extra, 0 side; Card text for hand traps and negation effects; Extra Deck stats (3000/3000 Morningstar and Eveningstar, 4000 First Darklord)
• Observed: Archetype usage: 12 of 17 core cards present (70.6%)
• Inferred: Opening-hand consistency from hypergeometric draws; Interaction quality from card-text reads; Going-first and going-second plans
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit (no dated meta sample)
• 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 are absent No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied