Black Luster Soldier Deck #767643 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 53 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Black Luster Soldier - Soldier of Light and Darkness and Black Chaos boards, backed by Extra Deck beaters (Chaos Angel, The Crimson King, Titaniklad) once the Light and Darkness Ritual engine lands; Albaz Dragon / Fallen of Albaz fusion and synchro pressure (Mirrorjade, Rindbrumm, Alba-Lenatus), with Albion as a Forbidden line that cannot be played
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Light and Darkness Ritual starter or Fallen of Albaz, search with Mind Shuffle / Incredible Ecclesia / Ragged Records, and hold Ash and Droll for the first interruption (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Ash, Ghost Belle, Ghost Ogre, Droll, Evenly Matched) answer the opponent's first board, then Black Chaos or Skull Archfiend recovers the engine (Inferred)
• Recovery: Mulcharmy Fuwalos and Light and Darkness Ritual recursion from the GY, plus Ghost Belle and Griffoh as recovery bodies (Inferred)
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has zero Side Deck cards, so there is no post-side plan at all

Why it scores here

The deck's engine is the Light and Darkness Ritual and Black Luster Soldier package, which the usage data shows is the archetype core (82.5% of opening hands contain at least one core card, Inferred from the hypergeometric estimate). Its 13 hand traps and 8 negation-text cards give it real interruption resilience and end-board interaction, and the going-second hand-trap density is what earns most of the points. Median output and floor are unmeasured because the export has no parseable boards, so those scores are text-only inference and carry a wide band. Popularity of the archetype did not earn points on its own, and the card scores were not averaged into the deck score. The list is illegal in OCG (Albion is Forbidden and three other cards exceed their copy limits), so the score is capped and is structural only, with no post-side plan because the Side Deck is empty.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, Stun secondary (about 80/20 by weight, Inferred from the hand-trap density). Structural ≈ 53, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 42. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-4); empty_side_deck (-2); illegal_list_cap (0). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(53) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(42) = 50.8, then modifiers -6 = 44.8, then illegal cap applied to 30 (theoretical/structural-only)

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

• Strong interaction density: 13 hand traps and 8 negation-text cards give broad answers to going-second boards
• Deep Extra Deck with Black Luster Soldier and Black Chaos boss threats at 3000 ATK
• Good recursion through Mulcharmy Fuwalos and Light and Darkness Ritual from the GY

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: Albion is Forbidden and three other cards exceed their copy limits
• No Side Deck at all, so no post-side plan in best-of-3 play
• Low archetype purity (68 off-archetype copies) and a 53-card main that dilutes the engine
• No recorded boards, so the combo floor and median are unmeasured

Critical choke points

• The Light and Darkness Ritual starter, which is only about 0.18 likely in an opening 5
• Reliance on Droll & Lock Bird and Ash Blossom as the only first-turn interruption, both at the copy limit

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Albion is Forbidden; Droll & Lock Bird is Limited; Ash Blossom and The Fallen & The Virtuous are Semi-Limited; Composition: 53 main, 15 extra, 0 side; 68 off-archetype copies; 13 hand traps and 20 removal-text cards; Card text for Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Black Chaos, Black Luster Soldier and The Crimson King
• Observed: Archetype usage: 7 of 8 core cards present (87.5%), with S:P Little Knight missing
• Inferred: Consistency figures from hypergeometric odds (0.83 core, 0.18 Ritual starter); Interaction quality and going-second plan from card text; Ceiling read from card text because no boards exist
• Provisional: Matchup fit (D13) and meta power, because no dated metagame sample exists; Tournament reliability, because no per-pilot record exists
• 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 exists in YGOVN: going-first, going-second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Side Deck empty: no post-side evidence at all