Temple of the Kings Deck #767770 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Temple of the Kings (untitled) — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Stun
• 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: Temple of the Kings / Apophis engine converting into Extra Deck fusion, link and synchro boss monsters (e.g. Divine Serpent Apophis, Anubis the Last Judge, Lord of the Heavenly Prison); Hand-trap and Spell/Trap negation grinding the opponent's board until the Extra Deck boss takes over
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on the archetype core (Treasures of the Kings, Temple of the Kings, Apophis searchers) to set up the Temple and search Apophis traps, holding hand traps for the first opposing summon
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 15 hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Nibiru, Infinite Impermanence, Droll & Lock Bird) to answer the opponent's first engine, then convert the surviving board into a Fusion or Link boss
• Recovery: Recycle Trap Monsters and Apophis Traps from the GY via Temple of the Kings and Divine Serpent Apophis, and re-search with Treasures of the Kings or The Man with the Mark
• After siding: No side deck is registered (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan; every matchup is played with the main deck unchanged

Why it scores here

The deck's archetype core is reliably reachable: P(at least one archetype-core card in a 5-card opening hand) is about 0.86 across 17 copies, and about 0.87 for searcher text, so the engine usually comes online by turn 1 or 2 (Inferred). Interaction is the strongest part of the system, with 15 hand traps and roughly 17 negation-text cards plus removal-text tech such as Lightning Storm, Harpie's Feather Duster and Dark Ruler No More, which earns the end-board and going-second dimensions (Inferred from card text and hypergeometric draws). Combo conversion and median output could not be measured because the export contains no parseable boards, so the ceiling and floor scores are text-only inference and carry low confidence. The deck is scored as a system: its consistency and interaction count, but its exact-name purity is only 15.7% across roughly 14 related sub-archetypes, its main deck has 24 distinct cards with 23 tech slots, and it has no side deck. Popularity was not credited; the score is capped because the deck is illegal (Ash Blossom at 3 copies against a Semi-Limited limit of 2).

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 57, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 52. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-6); no side deck (-3). Final formula: Illegal cap applied: no-metagame formula 0.80*Structural(57) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(52) = 56, plus context modifiers -9 → 47, then capped to 35 as theoretical/structural-only because the deck is illegal (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.86 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.14 (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: 15 hand traps and about 17 negation-text cards across the Main Deck
• High probability (≈0.86) that the archetype core is present in an opening hand
• Recursion through Temple of the Kings and Apophis Traps supports the interruption-resilience dimension
• Extra Deck covers four summon types (fusion, synchro, xyz, link) with several boss options

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring is over its Semi-Limited copy limit
• No side deck (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan
• Low exact-name purity (15.7%), spreading the engine across related sub-archetypes
• No parseable combo boards, so ceiling and floor cannot be measured from recorded play
• High tech count (23) raises dead-card risk in hands

Critical choke points

• Ash Blossom over-limit must be fixed before the list is playable in OCG
• The Temple of the Kings field spell and Trap-in-GY condition gate most of the recovery and summoning routes
• Divine Serpent Apophis is the main Extra Deck boss and is a single point of failure

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring 3 copies vs Semi-Limited limit of 2; Main Deck size 55 and Extra Deck size 15 are within the OCG size rules; Limited cards Droll & Lock Bird, Harpie's Feather Duster, Pot of Prosperity and S:P Little Knight are each run at 1 copy, within limit; Card texts for hand traps, negation and removal as listed in evidence
• Inferred: Archetype core reachable on turn 1-2 (≈0.86 hypergeometric); Interaction is the deck's strongest dimension on the system level; Going-second answer capacity from 15 hand traps (≈0.87 at hand6); Brick and dead-card risk from 23 tech slots
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit (no dated meta sample; archetype share unavailable)
• 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 for going-first/second, matchup or brick rate Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Deck title is null, so the name is taken from the archetype