Black Luster Soldier Deck #768746 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 26/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Toolbox
• Secondary strategies: Midrange, Mechanic: Fusion
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon a large Extra Deck monster (Master of Oz 4200 ATK, The Last Warrior from Another Planet, Gatling Dragon, Dark Blade) or the Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning line, then press with board breaking.; Grind card advantage with Upstart Goblin, Jar of Greed and Card Destruction, then win on the resulting board.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Thunder Dragon or Chaos Sorcerer line and use Mystical Space Typhoon, Heavy Storm or Torrential Tribute to clear the opponent's backrow and monsters. The deck has no combo data to confirm this sequence is reliable.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Mirror Force, Torrential Tribute, Raigeki Break and Night Assailant to answer the opponent's first board, then Fusion Summon through Metamorphosis.
• Recovery: Recover from Thunder Dragon and Chaos Sorcerer searches; Sangan, Magician of Faith and Sinister Serpent are the recursion or search tools. Forbidden Pot of Greed and Graceful Charity cannot be legally run in this format.
• After siding: No side deck is registered (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan. Best-of-3 play would be unadjustable.

Why it scores here

This OCG list is Illegal: Delinquent Duo, Pot of Greed and Graceful Charity are Forbidden and each is run at one copy, so the deck cannot be played under the format's rules and is capped low. The structural read is based on the list itself. Its 22 singleton slots and 3 copies of Thunder Dragon give it a thin, unreliable opening, while Thunder Dragon, Chaos Sorcerer and Sangan provide some search and engine starts. Its interaction is dense (22 removal-text cards, including Mirror Force, Torrential Tribute, Heavy Storm and Ring of Destruction), which earns the best dimension score (D7), but the Fusion route depends on a single enabler (Metamorphosis, 2 copies) for 15 Extra Deck monsters. No recorded combos, tournament results, or side deck exist, so the score comes from consistency, interaction and the deck's internal coherence; it does not come from Black Luster Soldier's popularity, and card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Balanced (default; no single strategy dominates). Structural ≈ 40, Going First ≈ 36, Going Second ≈ 40, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 30. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-12). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional); Structural 40, TR 30 gives 38, then banlist modifier -12 = 26; Illegal cap applied

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

• Dense removal and interaction (22 removal-text cards, including Mirror Force, Torrential Tribute, Mystical Space Typhoon, Heavy Storm and Ring of Destruction).
• Multiple search and recursion tools (Thunder Dragon, Chaos Sorcerer, Sangan, Sinister Serpent, Magician of Faith) that give some consistency.
• Strong Extra Deck closers (Master of Oz 4200 ATK, Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning 3000 ATK, Ojama King).

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: three Forbidden cards at one copy each.
• No side deck (side_count 0), so no post-side adaptability.
• Single Fusion enabler (Metamorphosis x2) for 15 Fusion monsters; Extra access is a choke point.
• Low engine coherence: 1 exact-name Black Luster Soldier card and 49 generic cards; 22 singleton slots raise brick risk.
• No recorded combos, tournament data or metagame sample to validate the plan.

Critical choke points

• Metamorphosis (2 copies) is the only route to the 15 Fusion monsters; losing it to hand disruption or early use leaves the Extra Deck largely inaccessible.
• Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning requires banishing a LIGHT and a DARK monster from the GY; this depends on the GY state built early.
• Thunder Dragon x3 (P >= 1 in 5 cards = 0.2529) is the main opening starter, so the opening is unreliable.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Delinquent Duo, Pot of Greed and Graceful Charity are Forbidden with 0 legal copies, each run at 1 copy.; Main 55 (within 40-60), Extra 15 (within 0-15), Side 0 (no side deck registered).; Limited cards Card Destruction, Heavy Storm and Premature Burial are run at 1 copy, which is legal.; Copy histogram: 22 singletons, 12 two-copy, 3 three-copy distinct cards.; No combo boards, tournament link, guides, or core usage cards present.
• Observed: Archetype spread: 49 generic cards, 1 exact-name Black Luster Soldier card (1.4% exact purity).
• Inferred: P(>=1 Thunder Dragon in 5-card opening) = 0.2529; P(>=1 searcher in 5) = 0.5078.; Removal-text density (22) and symmetric wipes (Torrential Tribute, Heavy Storm) imply strong interaction with self-cost.; Metamorphosis is the single Fusion enabler, implying a choke point on Extra access.; Going-first and going-second estimates are based on text and composition only.
• Provisional: Meta Power is null: no dated metagame sample is supplied.; Matchup and format-fit (D13) is provisional with no tournament link.
• 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 OTK rates are Inferred or Unknown. Meta Power is Provisional: no dated metagame sample. Core usage cards (Droll & Lock Bird, Black Chaos, Ash Blossom, etc.) are absent from this list; the deck deviates from the archetype standard.