Nordic Deck #768036 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 40/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Nordic/Aesir Synchro and Link boards: Odin, Thor, Loki, Fenrir (4000 ATK) and Gullveig Link monsters, summoned off the Nordic Alfar and Nordic Tuner engine; Adventurer Token board (Rite of Aramesir, Water Enchantress) and Icejade Synchro Gymir as alternate pressure lines
• Turn 1 (going first): Alviss of the Nordic Alfar, Nordic Smith Ivaldi and Nordic Beast Gullinbursti chain Normal and Special Summons into a Nordic Tuner for an Aesir Synchro
• Turn 2 (going second): Effect Veiler and Droll & Lock Bird (hand traps) plus Nordic Relic Svalinn negation to contest the opponent's board, then Aesir Synchro on the following turn
• Recovery: Nordic Relic Hlidskjalf banished from the GY to search a Nordic monster, and GY-based Special Summons of Aesir monsters via Alviss and Svalinn
• After siding: None. The deck runs 0 side cards, so there is no post-side plan (lowers D12).

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Nordic starter: P(at least one core Nordic/Aesir card in a 5-card opening hand) is about 0.82, and P(at least one searcher-text card) is about 0.90 (Inferred, hypergeometric). Conversion is moderate because the combos evidence is absent, so the ceiling and median are text-only reads, and the Aesir Synchro closing power (Odin, Thor, Loki, Fenrir) is real but depends on a multi-step Extra Deck chain. Interaction is decent for a Synchro deck (Svalinn, Thor and Loki negation text, Effect Veiler and Droll & Lock Bird), but only 3 hand traps are present, so going-second board breaking is thin. The deck scores low on side deck adaptability because it has no side cards, and a split engine (Nordic/Aesir, Adventurer Tokens, Icejade) plus Extra-lock conflicts from Hippo Carnival and Hlidskjalf lower the system score. Archetype popularity (usage stats) confirms the list is real and accessible but did not add points, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 51, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 45, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: No side deck (-3); Engine conflicts (-4); Dependence on Extra Deck Aesir Synchros (-2); Thin hand traps (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers = 0.80*51 + 0.20*48 - 10 ≈ 40

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

• Core Nordic starters (Alviss, Ivaldi, Gullinbursti, Hlidskjalf) at 3 copies each give high P(>=1) in opening hands
• Aesir Synchro closers (Odin, Thor, Loki, Fenrir) reach 3300 to 4000 ATK
• Svalinn and Thor/Loki negation text provide board-wide interaction

Weaknesses

• No side deck, so there is no post-side adaptation
• Three engines (Nordic/Aesir, Adventurer Tokens, Icejade) split the Main Deck
• Only 3 hand traps for going second

Critical choke points

• Aesir Synchro summon needs a Nordic Tuner on the field; losing the Tuner to interruption ends the main line
• Hippo Carnival and Hlidskjalf Extra-Deck restrictions can block the Extra-based closing line

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal OCG list: 40 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side; Droll & Lock Bird Limited at 1 copy (legal_copies 1); Card stats and text excerpts from the resolved card records; Archetype usage stats: 5 of 12 core cards present (41.7%)
• Inferred: P(>=1 core Nordic card in a 5-card hand) ≈ 0.82; P(>=1 searcher-text card in a 5-card hand) ≈ 0.90; Going-second hand-trap P(>=1 in 6 cards) ≈ 0.39; Engine conflict between Hippo Carnival/Hlidskjalf Extra restrictions and the Aesir Extra line
• Provisional: Meta Power is null; D13 uses a neutral provisional value; Archetype meta-share is unknown (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 and starter rates) Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample usage statistics show 7 of 12 core archetype cards missing from this list (Mulcharmy Fuwalos, Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Nibiru, Odin is present, Thor/Gullveig listed as missing in usage data but present in extra deck)