Scareclaw Deck #768207 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 54 / Extra 16 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link-summoned Scareclaw boss monsters (Scareclaw Tri-Heart 3000 ATK, Light-Heart, Vicious Astraloud) pressing through a Defense-Position-focused board, with Visas Starfrost and Chaos Angel as secondary attackers; Synchro/Xyz beaters (Chaos Angel, Swordsoul Supreme Sovereign - Chengying, Super Starslayer TY-PHON) once the Extra Deck is accessible
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a starter from the Scareclaw monsters (Acro, Reichheart, Astra, Belone), search a Scareclaw Spell/Trap or Primitive Planet Reichphobia, and Link Summon Light-Heart or Tri-Heart into the Extra Monster Zone; hold Ash Blossom, Evenly Matched and Ghost Ogre for the opponent's first activation.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 14 hand traps and Solemn Judgment to interrupt the opponent's first Summon or activation, then rebuild a Scareclaw Link board from the remaining hand.
• Recovery: Recover through Scareclaw Reichheart and Mulcharmy draw effects, then re-Link from the GY-recursion pieces (Scareclaw Belone, Scareclaw Arrival, Visas Starfrost shuffle-and-summon).
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system: its Scareclaw Link engine (three-copy starters plus Light-Heart and Tri-Heart) gives a reasonable chance of a live starter by turn 2, and the 14 hand traps give good interruption coverage on the going-second side. Its consistency is held back by low archetype purity (35.7% exact-name Scareclaw) and by the mixing of four unrelated sub-engines (Kashtira, Bystial, Visas, Mulcharmy), which creates dead cards and conflicting Normal Summon needs. No combo boards were supplied, so the floor, median and ceiling are text-only inferences. Usage and meta-share were not counted as power: the archetype's core cards are absent from this list. The score is capped because the list is illegal (Forbidden Kashtira Fenrir x3, Ash Blossom x3 against a limit of 2, and 16 Extra Deck cards), and the deck has no Side Deck.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 47, Going First ≈ 45, Going Second ≈ 42, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-6); engine_conflicts (-3); illegal_deck_cap (-7). Final formula: Uncapped: 0.80*Structural(47.4) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(40) + modifiers(-9) = 36.9; Illegal-deck cap applied -> 30. Meta Power provisional (null).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.61 · 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 hand-trap suite (14) for going-second interaction
• Multiple Scareclaw starters at 3 copies give early access
• High-ATK Link and Synchro finishers (Tri-Heart 3000, Astraloud 3000, Chengying 3000)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Forbidden Kashtira Fenrir x3 and Ash Blossom x3 exceed the copy limit
• Extra Deck has 16 cards against a limit of 15
• Low archetype purity (35.7%) with four competing sub-engines
• No Side Deck, so no post-side plan
• No combo evidence to confirm a reliable conversion line

Critical choke points

• Any turn-1 Link Summon depends on a Scareclaw starter plus a Link material in the Main Monster Zone; no starter means no board
• Forbidden Kashtira Fenrir is a removal and search piece that cannot be legally played

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Kashtira Fenrir Forbidden x3; Ash Blossom Semi-Limited x3 (limit 2); Extra Deck size 16 > 15; Main Deck size 54 within the OCG range 40-60; Side Deck is empty; Card text and stats for each listed card; Archetype purity 35.7% exact-name Scareclaw
• Observed: No combo boards observed (combos_evidence total_combos = 0)
• Inferred: Starter access and 2-card bootstrap estimates from hypergeometric draw odds; Hand-trap interruption coverage from card text; Going-first and going-second plan descriptions; Resource and recursion sustain from card text; Pilotability estimate from the number of conditional once-per-turn steps
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (D13) (no tournament link); Side-deck adaptability (no Side Deck)
• 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 — going-first/second, matchup, brick and starter rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No Side Deck supplied; post-side adaptability cannot be scored from data Deck is Illegal: score is a theoretical/structural-only capped read