Code Talker Deck #768126 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 51 / Extra 19 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link-chain board built from Extra Deck Link and Synchro monsters (Light Dragon, Firewall Dragon Singularity, Dark Templar, Transcode Talker) that pressures the opponent's field; Mathmech and Ignister sub-archetype Synchro and Xyz boards used as backup finishers
• Turn 1 (going first): Starter from hand (Cynet Mining, Mathmech Circular, Backup, Achichi or Pikari), search through the Ignister and Code Talker chain, then Link Summon into the Extra Deck boss
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Droll and Lock Bird, Maxx C, Red Reboot) to stop the opponent's first summon or search, then rebuild the engine from the remaining hand
• Recovery: Recursion from the GY through Link Monsters and Ignister effects, and the Mathmech GY-revive chain
• After siding: Not assessable: the list has no Side Deck (side_count 0)

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system, not as an average of its cards. Its core engine is reasonably accessible: P(at least one archetype-core card in a 5-card opening hand) is about 0.91, and P(at least one searcher text card) is about 0.79 (Inferred). The engine rests on overlapping Ignister and Code Talker starters, which gives some redundancy. Interaction is layered across eight hand-trap-type cards, which lifts the endboard and going-second scores somewhat. Combo conversion and the median output are unscored in practice because the export has no parseable boards, so those scores are text-only inference. Popularity was not credited: the archetype-standard core is only partly run (52% present), and exact-name Code Talker purity is 4.3%. The list is illegal: Link Decoder is Forbidden and the Extra Deck is 4 over the limit. Under the rubric, that caps the result at a low structural-only score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 48, Going First ≈ 45, Going Second ≈ 42, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-6); engine conflicts across sub-archetypes (-3). Final formula: Illegal cap applied. Uncapped: 0.80*48 + 0.20*40 + modifiers (-9) = 37.4, capped to 25 because the deck is Illegal (Forbidden Link Decoder, Extra Deck 19 > 15). Structural-only; Meta provisional.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.91 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.09 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Redundant Ignister and Code Talker starters give a reasonable chance of a live engine on turn 1
• Layered interaction: eight hand-trap-type cards plus Ash Blossom x2 and Infinite Impermanence x3
• Multiple Link, Synchro and Xyz bosses with 2300 to 3500 ATK in the Extra Deck

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Forbidden Link Decoder is run, and the Extra Deck is 19 cards against a 15-card limit
• No Side Deck, so no post-side plan
• Low exact-name archetype purity (4.3%) with several sub-archetypes competing for slots
• No recorded combos, so the combo floor and median are unmeasured

Critical choke points

• The Extra Deck must be cut from 19 to 15, and Link Decoder must leave the list before it can be played legally
• Starter access relies on a small set of 2-copy and 3-copy Ignister cards; a bad opening hand has few alternatives on turn 1

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Link Decoder is Forbidden with 1 copy run; Extra Deck is 19 > 15; Main Deck is 51 (within 40 to 60); Seven cards are Limited and two are Semi-Limited, all run within their legal copies; No Side Deck (side_count 0); Extra Deck breakdown: 13 Link, 2 Synchro, 2 XYZ, 2 Fusion
• Inferred: Archetype-core P(at least one in 5-card hand) = 0.914; searcher P = 0.786; hand-trap P (going second) = 0.662; Interaction and resilience read from card text; Turn-1 and turn-2 plans derived from the starters present
• Provisional: Meta fit and matchup coverage (no dated metagame sample); Tournament reliability (no tournament_context)
• Data gaps: No parseable combos: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent No win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchup or brick rates Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample No Side Deck supplied, so D12 cannot be measured