Apophis Deck #767769 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Apophis monsters, Temple of the Kings fusion and link boards, backed by Nibiru and Anubis the Last Judge as 3000-ATK closers; Link and Xyz extra-deck boards (Avramax, Zeus, Ty-Phon) once the main-deck negations have cleared the way
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a searcher (The Man with the Mark, Apophis the Serpent, Treasures of the Kings) to build the Temple of the Kings and Apophis trap line, and hold Ash Blossom and Ghost Belle to protect the starter
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Nibiru, Droll and Lock Bird) to answer the opponent's first engine, then rebuild through the GY searchers
• Recovery: Recycle Apophis traps from the GY (Divine Serpent Apophis, Apophis the Serpent) and reuse searchers to rebuild hand after a broken opening
• After siding: Not defined: the deck has no Side Deck, so no post-side plan exists in the evidence

Why it scores here

The deck is Illegal as built: it runs 3 copies of Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring against an OCG limit of 2, so the score is capped and the evaluation is structural-only. Structurally, the Apophis core is reliably accessible: the hypergeometric estimate for at least one archetype-core card in a 5-card opening hand is about 0.93, and 15 hand traps plus 18 searcher-text cards give the deck several independent openings and recovery routes. Interaction is the strongest part of the system, with negations, Harpie's Feather Duster, Dark Ruler No More, Lightning Storm, Solemn Accusation and Verdict of Anubis layered across the main deck. The deck has no recorded boards, so its combo ceiling and median output are text-only inferences and are scored with low confidence. The score comes from consistency, redundancy and interaction on the system as a whole, not from averaging card scores, and not from Apophis being a known archetype. The empty Side Deck and the 65 off-archetype copies cost points on adaptability and coherence.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 56, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-6); empty_side_deck (-3); illegal_legality_cap (-15). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) = 53.8, then modifiers; Illegal cap applied to 30

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.93 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.07 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Archetype core is highly accessible (about 0.93 in a 5-card opening hand)
• Layered interaction: 15 hand traps, multiple negations and board-wide destruction
• Redundant searchers and GY recursion keep the engine alive after disruption
• Extra Deck covers Link, Fusion, Synchro and Xyz, so the deck has several closing routes

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: Ash Blossom is run 3 times against a limit of 2
• Empty Side Deck, so no post-side adaptability
• 65 off-archetype copies and 33 level-0 spells and traps lower main-deck coherence
• No recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and median cannot be verified

Critical choke points

• The Temple of the Kings and Apophis Trap engine needs a specific set of cards, so a broken opening has few fallback lines
• Ash Blossom over-limit makes the list illegal until one copy is removed

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring 3 copies vs legal 2 (OCG Semi-Limited); Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0; sizes within OCG rules; Limited cards: Droll & Lock Bird, Harpie's Feather Duster, Pot of Prosperity, S:P Little Knight, each run at 1; Archetype core group of 22 copies; exact-name purity 7.1%; Usage stat: core cards present 10 of 15 (66.7%)
• Inferred: At least one archetype-core card in 5-card opening hand ~0.93; Brick rate ~0.07 from the core-group proxy; Interaction density and end-board quality from card text; Going-first and going-second scores from starter reliability and hand-trap density
• Provisional: Meta Power is null (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (D13) and tournament reliability are provisional, with 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 match record absent no win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates) Side Deck is empty, so no post-side evidence exists Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied