Witchcrafter Deck #767803 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Witchcrafter Fusion and Link boards (Witchcrafter Madame Rilliona 3800 ATK, Witchcrafter Vice-Madame, Starving Venom-style Fusion beats) built from Witchcrafter searches and Spellcaster recycling; Magistus / Endymion Link and Fusion pressure (Crowley, Artemis, Zoroa-style boards) when those sub-archetype cards are present
• Turn 1 (going first): Search a Witchcrafter engine monster with Walpurgis, Creation or Verre Magic, Normal Summon or Special Summon through Madame Verre / Genni / Schmietta, then Fusion or Link into a Witchcrafter boss; hand traps (Ash Blossom, Maxx C, Droll & Lock Bird, Infinite Impermanence) protect the line
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit, Effect Veiler, Solemn Accusation and Maxx C to interrupt the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Witchcrafter searchers from the GY (Celebration, Unveiling, Creation)
• Recovery: Recycle Witchcrafter Spells and Spellcaster monsters from the GY through Terracottan, Pittore, Seed and Pupils; Mulcharmy draw effects refill the hand when the field is empty
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no Side Deck (side_count 0)

Why it scores here

The Witchcrafter core is reasonably accessible: about 83% of openings include at least one of the 16 searcher-text cards by hypergeometric estimate (Inferred), and the archetype core group is open in about 96% of 5-card hands. Interaction is dense for an OCG list, with 11 hand traps and 14 negation-text cards, which lifts the end-board and interruption scores. Conversion and median output could not be measured because no combos were supplied, so the ceiling and floor scores are text-only reads (Inferred). The deck has no Side Deck and runs three Forbidden cards, so it is capped as an illegal, theoretical structural read. Popularity signals (72% of archetype core cards present) were not credited as power, and no card scores were averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 54, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 46, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12). Final formula: min(Illegal cap 30, 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers) = min(30, 0.80*54 + 0.20*40 - 12) (Meta provisional)

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

• Dense searcher text (16 cards) gives a high chance of a live engine start
• Eleven hand traps and 14 negation-text cards provide layered interaction
• Fusion and Link bosses (Madame Rilliona 3800 ATK) give real end-board pressure

Weaknesses

• Illegal under the OCG ban list: three Forbidden cards at 1 copy each
• No Side Deck, so no post-side plan
• Only 31% exact-name purity; 48 of 55 main-deck copies are off-archetype, so engine coherence is diluted
• No combos supplied, so conversion and median output are unmeasured

Critical choke points

• Fusion or Link access to a Witchcrafter boss depends on a small set of Extra Deck monsters
• Searcher text is high, but the engine still needs Spellcaster/Witchcrafter bodies on the field to convert

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: three Forbidden cards at 1 copy each (legal copies 0); Main 55 and Extra 15 are within OCG size rules; Side is 0; Composition counts: 16 searcher-text, 14 negation-text, 11 hand-trap cards, 36 distinct main cards; Madame Rilliona 3800 ATK, Vice-Madame 2700 ATK and Golem Aruru 2800 ATK in the list
• Observed: Usage stats show 72% of archetype core cards present (18 of 25)
• Inferred: Starter access ≈ 0.83 and archetype-core open ≈ 0.96 from hypergeometric estimates; Brick and interaction reads from card text; Combo ceiling and floor from card text only
• Provisional: Meta and format fit (no dated metagame sample); Tournament reliability (no tournament link)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN — those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied no Side Deck, so post-side adaptability cannot be assessed