Superheavy Samurai Deck #768002 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 55/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Stun, Tempo
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Rescue-ACE board of 2800 to 3000 ATK monsters (Turbulence, Preventer, Arbitrator link) and Link-3/4 FIRE beaters (Promethean Princess, Amblowhale) converting a hand-trap-protected first board into pressure.; Recursion-driven rebuilds: Preventer and Turbulence banish Rescue-ACE cards from the GY, and RESCUE! revives monsters from either GY when the Hydrant lock is online.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a searcher (Air Lifter, Quick Attacker or Hydrant) and use ALERT! or Air Lifter to add a Rescue-ACE monster, then Normal Summon plus HQ extra summon to reach a Link-3/4 Arbitrator or Princess board.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler, Ghost Ogre or Droll to answer the opponent's first starter, then rebuild through EMERGENCY! and the Rescue-ACE searchers into a Link-summoned board.
• Recovery: Banish Rescue-ACE cards from the GY to Set Preventer or Turbulence, use RESCUE! to revive a monster, and re-search with Hydrant or Arbitrator if the Extra Deck is still intact.
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan; the list cannot change its game plan between games of a best-of-3.

Why it scores here

This list is a Rescue-ACE midrange shell with a 15-card Link Extra Deck, not a Superheavy Samurai deck: the archetype tag matches zero Superheavy Samurai cards, so the Superheavy Samurai usage statistics do not describe this list and were not used as evidence for its score. The deck reliably opens a searcher-based engine (P(at least one searcher in 5) is about 0.82, Inferred) and has 12 hand traps for interruption and going-second play, which earn most of the points on interaction (D7) and resilience (D5). Conversion and floor are not measured here because no combo boards were recorded, so D3 and D4 rest on text-only reasoning and are held near the middle. The Side Deck is empty, so the list gets no post-side adaptation (D12 is low) and the final score carries a small modifier for that. The score was built on the system (engine redundancy, interaction breadth, Link Extra coverage), not from an average of the individual card scores, and popularity did not contribute.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 59, Going First ≈ 54, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 52. Modifiers: No Side Deck (-2); Banlist exposure (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); Structural = 58.94 and TR = 52 give 57.6, then modifiers of -3 give 54.6, rounded to 55

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.82 · 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

• Searcher density (11 cards) gives a high chance of an opening engine (Inferred)
• Redundant Rescue-ACE recovery routes via ALERT!, RESCUE!, EMERGENCY! and Hydrant (Inferred)
• 12 hand traps and 8 negation-text cards give strong going-second interaction (Inferred)
• Compact 40-card Main with exactly 15 Link cards in the Extra Deck (Verified)

Weaknesses

• No Side Deck, so no post-side plan (Verified)
• Archetype tag Superheavy Samurai is wrong for the cards, which makes usage statistics unusable here (Verified)
• No recorded combo boards, so ceiling and floor are unmeasured (Verified)
• Several off-theme Link singles (DARK and WATER) dilute the Extra Deck (Verified)
• Hand-trap-heavy Main with many dead cards on going-first (Inferred)

Critical choke points

• Rescue-ACE Hydrant (3 copies) is the lock enabler for several cards' text (Inferred)
• A going-first hand without a searcher or engine starter (about 0.18 in 5 cards) becomes a brick (Inferred)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal OCG status; 40 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side; Banlist status for Droll and Lock Bird, Ash Blossom, S:P Little Knight, Linkuriboh and One for One; Card text and stats for the Rescue-ACE and Link cards; Archetype tag Superheavy Samurai has 0 matching cards
• Inferred: Searcher hypergeometric probability ≈ 0.82; Engine starter probability ≈ 0.34 for 3-copy cards; Going-second hand trap probability ≈ 0.90; Interaction and recovery quality from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit: no dated meta or tournament context
• 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 are absent No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN, so going-first and going-second performance are Inferred Archetype tag does not match the cards, so Superheavy Samurai usage statistics are not valid evidence for this list Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied