Ashened Deck #767756 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 39/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 57 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Boss monsters from the Ashened and Ryzeal Extra Deck lines: Veidos the Dragon of Endless Darkness, Ryzeal Detonator, Hero of the Ashened City and Queen of the Blazing Domain.; Fusion beaters from Embers of the Ashened, Titaniklad and Mudragon, supported by Super Polymerization and Veidos search.
• Turn 1 (going first): Set Obsidim, the Ashened City in a Field Zone, then Special Summon Priestess, King or Shaman from hand and use the Ashened search and Xyz/Fusion bridge into a boss.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle and Droll & Lock Bird to stop the opponent's first engine, then rebuild through Obsidim recursion and Veidos as the boss.
• Recovery: Recover Obsidim from the GY to the bottom of the Deck for a card, use Ryzeal Cross to draw from Ryzeal GY monsters, and re-search Ashened monsters with Awakening of Veidos or Bonfire.
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan; the list cannot adapt between games.

Why it scores here

The deck can open a functional plan: 29 archetype-core cards give a hypergeometric P(at least one core card in a 5-card hand) of about 0.98, while the three-copy Obsidim starter alone reaches only about 0.24 (Inferred). Its ceiling is credible on paper because Veidos, Ryzeal Detonator and Hero of the Ashened City are strong bosses, and it carries 12 hand traps or negates for interaction. However, the list is illegal (four cards over OCG copy limits) and runs 57 main cards with 14 singletons and 22 Spells, so brick and conditional-summon risk are high. No combo boards, guides, tournament link or Side Deck exist, so median output, going-second adaptation and matchup fit are not measured. Popularity of the archetype did not earn points, and card scores were not averaged; the score is a structural read capped by the illegal list.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 52, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Illegal: copy-limit violations and banlist exposure (-12). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); theoretical only because the list is Illegal (51 before the illegal-list cap)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.24 · 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

• Large archetype core (29 cards) gives high any-core access in the opening hand
• Strong boss bodies on the Extra Deck (Veidos, Ryzeal Detonator, Hero, Queen)
• 12 hand traps or negates provide layered interaction

Weaknesses

• Illegal under OCG copy limits in four cards
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptation
• High conditional-summon and brick risk from 22 Spells and singleton engine pieces

Critical choke points

• Obsidim in a Field Zone is required for the Priestess, King, Hero and Shaman summons
• Veidos and Ryzeal Detonator are the main boss routes; loss of them removes most closing power

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Four copy-limit violations and OCG banlist statuses from the legality check; Main 57 and Extra 15 are within size rules; Side count 0; Card stats and text for the Ashened, Ryzeal and Fusion boss cards
• Observed: Archetype purity 22.2% and sub-archetype spread from the composition data
• Inferred: Opening-hand probabilities and consistency estimates; Interaction and resilience reads from card text; Going-first and going-second plans
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit (no dated metagame sample)
• 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 telemetry; going-first, going-second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown No Side Deck registered; post-side performance unknowable Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied