Darklord Deck #768289 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 36/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 57 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Darklord and Power Patron boss monsters (Morningstar, Ixchel, Vidolium, Eveningstar, First Darklord) converting a board through Darklord Contact and Fallen Angel in Darkness recursion; Odd-Eyes and Melodious Fusion or Xyz boards, plus Trickstar and Herald Link pressure
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Darklord starter (Djehuty, Banishment, Dance, Contact), reach Morningstar or Ixchel, and protect the board with Ash Blossom, Herald and Ghost Ogre effects
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Herald of Orange Light, Ghost Ogre, Effect Veiler) to answer the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Darklord recursion
• Recovery: Recur Darklord monsters from the GY with Contact and Fallen Angel in Darkness, then use Banishment or Gulgolet to refill hand
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs no side deck, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck is Illegal in OCG: three cards exceed their copy limits (Ash Blossom 3 of 2, Herald of Orange Light 3 of 1, Dominus Impulse 3 of 2), so this is a theoretical, structural-only read and not a normal contextual score. The Darklord core (23 exact-name copies, with Djehuty, Banishment, Contact and Fallen Angel in Darkness) gives a real opening engine, and the hypergeometric estimate of roughly 0.90 for at least one core-group card in a 5-card opener is Inferred. Interaction is dense (10 hand traps, 20 negation-text cards, 28 removal-text cards), which supports stun-style disruption on the going-second side. Consistency is pulled down by a 31.9 percent exact-name purity: 49 of 57 main-deck copies belong to Melodious, Herald, Power Patron, Dominus, Odd-Eyes, Trickstar or generic cards, so the engines compete for the same hand slots. No side deck, no recorded combos and no tournament data leave the floor, median and matchup scores at the rubric's neutral-to-low end. The score comes from consistency, interaction and closing power evaluated on the whole system, not from averaging card scores, and not from the archetype's popularity.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary; Stun secondary contributes via D7/D14 emphasis, not reweighted. Structural ≈ 50, Going First ≈ 48, Going Second ≈ 56, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 42. Modifiers: Illegal copy-limit violations (-12). Final formula: Theoretical structural-only: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) = 48.2, then Illegal modifier -12 = 36; not a normal contextual score

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.9 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.1 (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 and negation suite (10 hand traps, 20 negation-text cards) for going-second disruption
• Strong boss ceiling in Morningstar, Ixchel, Eveningstar, First Darklord and Vidolium
• Darklord recursion through Contact, Fallen Angel and Banishment gives repeatable GY-based resource

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: 3 cards exceed copy limits
• Exact-name Darklord purity of 31.9 percent; engines compete for hand slots
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptability
• No recorded combos or tournament data to validate any line

Critical choke points

• Starting a Darklord line depends on a small set of starters (Djehuty, Contact, Banishment, Dance)
• Hand-trap answers rely on Ash Blossom and Herald of Orange Light, which are the illegal over-limit cards

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 3 cards over OCG copy limits, status Illegal; Main 57 and Extra 15 are within size rules; side 0 is within 0-15; Archetype purity 31.9 percent; 23 exact-name Darklord copies; Boss ATK values (Morningstar 3000, Eveningstar 3000, First Darklord 4000, Vidolium 5000)
• Inferred: Core-group opener probability about 0.90 and brick proxy about 0.10; Hand-trap going-second probability about 0.70; Interaction density from negation and removal text; Going-first and going-second power splits
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and Matchup/Format Fit (D13) without a dated metagame sample
• 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/second, matchup, brick and starter rates) No side deck, so no post-side evidence usage_statistics.in_this_deck is false for Darklord Eveningstar, Herald of Mirage Lights, The First Darklord and Rahamu, although cards[] lists them in the Extra Deck; the usage join appears to ignore the Extra zone, so core-present is recounted as 15 of 17 rather than 11 of 17 Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied