Vanquish Soul Deck #768692 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Vanquish Soul board presence and K9 Xyz pressure (K9-X Ripper/M, K9-17 Ripper, K9-66X Jacks) backed by Vanquish Soul Caesar Valius and Heavy Borger; Direct damage and tempo from Vanquish Soul Snow Devil and Calamity Caesar negations
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Vanquish Soul Dr. Mad Love or Razen, search via Vanquish Soul, Start! or Stake your Soul! into a Vanquish Soul or K9 Xyz line
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Evenly Matched, Infinite Impermanence and Ghost Belle to answer the opponent's first board, then Xyz through the surviving K9 or Vanquish Soul monsters
• Recovery: Recursion through K9-66b Lantern and K9-17 Izuna Special Summon effects, Mulcharmy Fuwalos draw, and Vanquish Soul Hollie Sue or Jiaolong returning to hand
• After siding: Not assessable: the deck has no Side Deck, so no post-side plan exists

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system and not as an average of its card scores. Its engine accessibility is moderate: the archetype core group has about 98% chance of at least one copy in a 5-card opening hand, and searcher text has about 83%, though the list runs 44 off-archetype copies and only 37% exact-name purity. Interaction is dense (16 hand traps, 13 negation-text cards, 19 removal-text cards), which supports resilience and going-second play, but no combo data exists to confirm conversion. Closing power depends on Xyz monsters at 3000+ ATK and a single-Extra-Deck-slot layout. Popularity and archetype usage stats were not treated as evidence of power, and the deck is capped because it is illegal: three cards exceed their copy limits (Razen 3 vs 1, Ash Blossom 3 vs 2, Izuna 3 vs 2) and the deck has no Side Deck.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary with Toolbox secondary; the Toolbox profile is used only to inform D9 and D11 weight. Structural ≈ 51, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-6); no_side_deck (-4). Final formula: Illegal deck: pre-cap 0.80*51 + 0.20*45 + (-10 modifiers) = 40; capped at 30 as a theoretical/structural-only score. Meta Power is null (provisional).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.99 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.02 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Core archetype group is accessible in the opening hand (about 98%)
• Dense hand-trap and negation package for going second
• Multiple Xyz finishers at 3000+ ATK

Weaknesses

• Three cards exceed copy limits, so the list is illegal
• No Side Deck
• 44 off-archetype copies lower engine coherence

Critical choke points

• Single Limited Razen starter line, which is run 3 times against a 1-copy limit
• Xyz summons rely on a limited number of Level 5 and Level 9 materials

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is Illegal: three cards exceed their copy limits (Razen, Ash Blossom, Izuna); Main 55 and Extra 15 are within OCG size rules; Side is 0; Archetype purity 37.1%, 16 hand traps, 13 negations, 19 removal-text cards
• Inferred: Archetype core group P(at least one in 5-card hand) = 0.985; Interaction density supports resilience and going-second play; Structural Midrange score 51 from the weighted dimensions
• Provisional: Meta Power and format fit (no dated metagame sample)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied, so 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, matchup, or brick rate No Side Deck: post-side plan cannot be assessed Title is null