Qliphort Deck #767619 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 14 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck boards built from Cyber Dragon, Cyberdark and K9 engine bodies (Fusion Chimeratech, Xyz Nova and K9 Ripper, Link Genius) that the hand-trap and searcher shell tries to keep alive (Inferred from card text); Bystial beatdown with Druiswurm and Magnamhut once the Limited singletons are live (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with a searcher or Normal Summon engine (Cyber Dragon Core, Cyberdark Realm, Chaotic Elements) and convert into an Extra Deck boss; hand traps are held back for the opponent's first activation (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Droll and Ghost Belle to stop the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Cyber Dragon or K9 monsters from the Deck (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recycle via GY-triggered searchers (Cyberdark Claw, Mulcharmy monsters, Cyber Dragon Herz) and Power Bond fusion from hand or field (Inferred)
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no side deck, so there is no post-side plan. The Illegal copy-limit issue must be fixed before a side can be judged.

Why it scores here

This list is Illegal on OCG copy limits (three copies each of Ash Blossom and K9-17 Izuna against a limit of two), so it receives only a theoretical, structural-only read and its score is capped low. The core engine is reliable on paper: the archetype-core group has about 87% chance of at least one card in a 5-card opening hand and the searcher text group about 95% (Inferred hypergeometric estimates from the Main Deck). Interaction is the deck's strongest structural feature, with 12 hand traps and 13 negation-text cards plus Harpie's Feather Duster and Lightning Storm, but it has no combo boards to show how that interaction converts into a win. The 14 Extra Deck cards cover Fusion, Xyz, Link and Synchro, yet the 'Qliphort' label is misleading: the list runs one Qliphort card and 70 off-archetype copies drawn from Cyber Dragon, Cyberdark and K9. Popularity and archetype label did not earn points, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox primary (about 80%), Stun secondary (about 20%) for the hand-trap and interaction emphasis. Structural ≈ 48, Going First ≈ 44, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 42. Modifiers: Illegal copy-limit violation (-10); Banlist exposure (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) = 0.80*48 + 0.20*42 = 46.8, then Illegal copy-limit cap and banlist modifiers total -12 = 35 (theoretical/structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.95 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.13 (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 suite (12 hand traps, 13 negation-text cards)
• High searcher density (24 copies) keeps the engine accessible
• Full Extra Deck coverage across Link, Xyz, Fusion and Synchro

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy limit on two cards (Ash Blossom and K9-17 Izuna)
• No combo data, so conversion and floor are unmeasured
• Archetype label Qliphort does not describe the list; the real core is Cyber Dragon, Cyberdark and K9
• No side deck, so no post-side or matchup adjustment is possible

Critical choke points

• Single-copy Limited cards (Droll, Harpie's Feather Duster, Bystial Druiswurm, Magnamhut, K9-66a Jokul) cannot be replaced once they are drawn
• Extra Deck material requirements across three sub-archetypes depend on the same few Level 5 and Machine bodies

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is Illegal: Ash Blossom and K9-17 Izuna each run 3 copies against a legal limit of 2 (Semi-Limited); Main 56 and Extra 14 are within size rules; Side 0 is legal but gives no post-side plan; Only 1 Qliphort card is run; 70 copies are off-archetype; Extra Deck is 4 Link, 6 Xyz, 3 Fusion, 1 Synchro
• Inferred: Archetype-core group about 0.87 at least one in hand 5 (hypergeometric); Searcher group about 0.95 at least one in hand 5 (hypergeometric); Hand-trap group about 0.78 at least one in hand 6 going second (hypergeometric); Interaction and layering read from card text only
• Provisional: Meta Power is null: no dated metagame sample; Matchup and format fit are unmeasured
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta share and per-pilot record are absent Usage statistics mark 12 Extra Deck cards (Chimeratech x3, Chaos Angel, Cyber Dragon Nova, Imperial Princess Quinquery, K9-17 Ripper, Vallon, Clockwork Knight, Gorgon, Qliphort Genius, S:P Little Knight) as not in this deck, which conflicts with the Extra Deck card list; in this deck flags are unreliable for this evaluation 1 passcode in CardIDList (10443957) could not be resolved to a card and was counted as Main No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN; going-first and going-second splits are Inferred Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied