Icejade Deck #768420 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck Synchro/Xyz boards (Lancea, Trishula Zero, Chengying, Gymir, Dragite) built off Ice Barrier and Icejade starters, with 3000+ ATK end-boards; Hand-trap and negation-driven interaction that trades 1-for-1 and lets the Synchro board stick
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a 2-3 card starter from Revealer, Georgius, Hexa Spirit, Icejade Ran, or Ghost Ogre, Synchro into a 3000-ATK board while holding Ice Barrier/Ghost Ogre/Skull Meister as protection
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold 9 hand traps (D.D. Crow, Ghost Ogre, Skull Meister, Ice Barrier, Ice Dragon's Prison-style disruption) to answer the opponent's board, then rebuild through Ice Barrier GY effects
• Recovery: Recursion through Ice Barrier GY effects (Speaker, Freezing Chains, Winds, Ice Barrier trap banish) plus Georgius and Hexa re-summons
• After siding: No Side Deck registered; no post-side plan is possible from this list

Why it scores here

This list is Illegal in the OCG format: Pot of Greed and Trishula, Dragon of the Ice Barrier are both Forbidden and each is run at one copy, so the rubric caps the result and the score is theoretical/structural only. Structurally the deck is a coherent Ice Barrier midrange system: about a dozen distinct three-copy starters (Revealer, Georgius, Hexa Spirit, Icejade Ran, Ghost Ogre) give a real engine with several independent openers, and the hypergeometric draw odds per three-copy card are about 0.25 in a five-card opening hand (Inferred). Its interaction is dense (removal text on 25 cards, negation text on 11, nine hand traps), which lifts the end-board and going-second dimensions. Its end-board ceiling is high (Lancea 3300, Trishula Zero, Chengying, Gymir, Dragite). The score does not come from the archetype's popularity, because the usage stats show none of the archetype core (0 of 12 core cards present), and it does not come from averaging card scores. The consistency and combo floor are unmeasured because the export has no recorded boards, which pulls confidence down to Low.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary with a Stun secondary; D13 kept in the Structural sum because no meta-neutral re-normalization was requested. Structural ≈ 53, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12). Final formula: Illegal-list cap (rubric Step 2): the formula 0.80*Structural(53) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(40) = 50.4 with banlist exposure applied is not used; the deck is capped low and labeled theoretical/structural-only, final = 25

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.25 · 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

• Several distinct three-copy starters from Ice Barrier and Icejade give multiple independent openers
• Dense interaction: nine hand traps and 25 removal-text cards
• High end-board ATK in the Extra Deck (Lancea 3300, Trishula Zero, Chengying 3000, Gymir 3000)

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: two Forbidden cards at one copy each
• Low archetype purity (5.7% exact Icejade) and 31 generic cards dilute the engine
• No Side Deck registered
• No recorded boards, so the combo floor and median are unmeasured

Critical choke points

• Ice Barrier monster count drives most engine effects; a thin Ice Barrier hand reduces the plan
• Two Forbidden cards must be removed before the list is playable

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: OCG legality: Pot of Greed and Trishula, Dragon of the Ice Barrier are Forbidden and run at one copy each; Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0; Main and Extra counts within size rules; Card text for the 9 hand traps and the removal/negation cards; Exact archetype purity 5.7%; 4 Icejade copies; 24 Ice Barrier copies; Usage stats: 0 of 12 archetype core cards present
• Inferred: Starter access P(>=1 three-copy starter in 5) ≈ 0.25 per card, with broad coverage across distinct starters; Going-second hand-trap chance P(>=1 in 6) ≈ 0.68; Midrange primary and Stun secondary classification from composition and interaction density; Structural score 53 from the Midrange weight profile
• Provisional: Meta power (null) and matchup fit, since no dated metagame sample or tournament link exists; Median output estimate, since no recorded boards exist
• 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 are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample no Side Deck registered; post-side performance cannot be assessed