Witchcrafter Deck #767866 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 56/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link, Xyz and Fusion boards built from Endymion, Fairy Tail and Magistus searches, closed by Masquerade V, C104, C32 and TY-PHON (Inferred); Hand-trap-supported grind: searchers and GY recursion (Fairy Tail Snow, Matchgiru, Regulus) keep card advantage over a long game (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Search a Regulus, Verre or Genia starter with Spell Power Mastery, Endymion Empire or Fairy Tail Ball, then extend into a Link or Xyz while holding Ash Blossom, Droll and Maxx C (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Droll and Lock Bird, Maxx C, Effect Veiler, Ghost Ogre) to stop the opponent's first summon, then rebuild through searchers (Inferred)
• Recovery: Fairy Tail Snow and Matchgiru recur from the GY and Once Upon a Fairy Tail re-summons Fairy Tails; Witchcrafter Genni and Verre Magic offer extra recursion (Inferred)
• After siding: No side deck is registered in the export, so there is no post-side plan to score; this is a data gap and the side-deck score is capped accordingly

Why it scores here

The deck opens a live starter reliably: P(at least one searcher in a 5-card opening hand) is about 0.91, and the Endymion, Fairy Tail and Magistus searchers give it several routes into a Link or Xyz board. Its interaction is the strongest part of the system: 16 hand-trap-role cards and about 0.89 odds of at least one going second, backed by Cosmic Cyclone, Forbidden Crown and Evenly Matched, so it can stop a first summon and rebuild. The archetype core is only partly present (7 of 25 usage-core cards, and about a 31 percent proxy chance of no core card in an opening hand), and the list mixes Endymion, Fairy Tail, Magistus, Masquerade and Witchcrafter pieces with almost no exact-name Witchcrafter support, which costs points on consistency and pilotability. No combos were recorded and there is no side deck or tournament data, so the combo and post-side dimensions are inferred or capped. The score reflects consistency, median output and interaction across the whole system; it does not come from averaging card scores, and it gives no credit for the archetype's popularity.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 62.3, Going First ≈ 66, Going Second ≈ 68, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 52. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-2); engine conflict (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.91 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.31 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense searchers (20) give a live starter in most openings
• Hand-trap density (16) supports going-second interaction and repeated disruption
• Varied Extra Deck access across Fusion, Xyz and Link
• Closing power from several 2700 to 3100 ATK Extra monsters

Weaknesses

• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Weak archetype identity: 1.4 percent exact-name purity and only 7 of 25 usage-core cards present
• No recorded combos, so ceiling and median cannot be checked against real boards
• Multi-archetype engine conflicts reduce repeatability

Critical choke points

• Single copies of Ash Blossom-tier and Maxx C-tier answers, all at legal limits
• Rank-Up-Magic Limited Barian's Force needs a rank 4 Xyz on the field, so it is dead without one

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in OCG with 55 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side; all restricted copies within limits; Copy histogram, Extra breakdown and archetype purity from export; Usage-core inclusion: 7 of 25 present
• Inferred: Starter and brick probabilities from hypergeometric estimates; Interaction and going-second strength from card text; Resilience and resource ratings from text roles
• Provisional: Meta and matchup fit (no dated sample); Post-side plan (no side deck)
• 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 and matchup figures are Inferred or Unknown No side deck in the export (Side Deck size 0); post-side dimensions are capped Deck title is null Usage statistics mark 20714553 (Endymion, the Crescent Magistus) as not in deck, but the card list runs 1 copy; treated as a data inconsistency and not used for scoring Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied