Witchcrafter Deck #768609 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 41/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck link and fusion boards (Endymion, Magistus, Fairy Tail) that get pressure through hand-trap and negation protection; Witchcrafter and Magistus follow-up through Spellcaster searches and Verre Magic recursion
• Turn 1 (going first): Search a searcher (Fairy Tail Ball, Mulcharmy, Spenta), develop a Level 4 Spellcaster into Verre or Regulus, and hold Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler, and Maxx C for the opponent's first activation
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler, Droll and Lock Bird, Ghost Belle, Ghost Ogre) to stop the opponent's first Summon or search, then rebuild with Mulcharmy draw and Super Polymerization
• Recovery: Mulcharmy Fuwalos and Purulia draw on Summon; Witchcrafter Genni and Verre Magic recur Spellcasters from the GY
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs 0 side cards, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The score comes from the deck as a system, not from averaging its cards. Its strongest feature is access to its engine: about 86 percent of opening five-card hands contain at least one of 17 searcher-text cards, and about 78 percent open with at least one of the 14-copy archetype core (Inferred). Interaction is dense, with 21 negation-text and 16 removal-text cards plus 11 hand traps, which supports the defensive plan on both turns. Pressure and conversion are limited because there are no recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and median cannot be measured, and the four archetype sub-lines (Magistus, Fairy Tail, Endymion, Mulcharmy) only partly cohere. Popularity did not add points: Witchcrafter core usage confirms the list is real but says nothing about its strength. The deck runs two Forbidden cards and has no Side Deck, which caps the final score despite a structural read near 55.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Stun primary; Midrange secondary, disclosed as a weight profile choice only. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) = 0.80*55 + 0.20*45 = 53, then banlist-exposure modifier -12 = 41; illegal status caps the score low and the evaluation is structural-only

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.86 · 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

• Searcher density (17 cards) gives high access to the engine on the opening hand
• Layered negation and hand traps (11 hand traps, 21 negation-text cards) cover both turns
• Core Witchcrafter and Mulcharmy cards are the archetype-standard list (usage data)

Weaknesses

• Two Forbidden cards make the list illegal as built
• No side deck, so no post-side plan
• Mixed sub-archetypes (Magistus, Fairy Tail, Endymion, Mulcharmy) weaken engine coherence
• No recorded combos, so the combo ceiling and median are unmeasured

Critical choke points

• Extra Deck link and fusion monsters: a missing Endymion or Magistus link stalls the main board
• Single Extra copies of Crowley-linked and Fairy Tail fusions reduce recovery after a hit

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is Illegal: Charmer Quartet in Bloom and Borreload Savage Dragon are Forbidden and over the copy limit; Main Deck is 55 cards, within the 40-60 size rule; Extra Deck is 15, within 0-15; Side Deck is 0; Witchcrafter core usage stats: Genni 89.3%, Droll and Lock Bird 89.3%, Verre 82.1%, Ash Blossom 82.1%
• Inferred: Searcher access about 0.86 at 5-card opening; Core access about 0.78 at 5-card opening; Interaction density is high from card text (21 negation, 16 removal); Four sub-archetype lines reduce engine coherence
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Format fit (no tournament data)
• 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 in YGOVN: going-first, going-second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or unknown Side Deck empty, so post-side performance cannot be assessed Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample