Black Luster Soldier Deck #768756 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 12/100 (±5 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 0 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 6 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: No reliable win condition; Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning (1 copy) is the only real closer, and its Special Summon needs one LIGHT and one DARK monster in the GY.; Zombyra the Dark (2100 ATK) and Airknight Parshath (piercing, draws) as incidental beaters; no engine supports them.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Book of Moon, Mystical Space Typhoon or Dust Tornado to clear a backrow, but the hand has no reliable follow-up in the 55-card main deck.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Solemn Judgment, Mirror Force, Torrential Tribute or Dust Tornado to answer the opponent's board; the deck has no engine to convert that interaction into pressure.
• Recovery: Jar of Greed and Book of Moon are the only card-advantage or recovery sources that do not depend on an illegal Forbidden card; the rest is one-for-one removal.
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan (Inferred).

Why it scores here

This deck is Illegal: six cards break the OCG banlist or copy limit, so it does not receive a normal Final Contextual score and is capped low as a theoretical, structural-only read. Its main strength is breadth of removal and backrow interaction (Mirror Force, Torrential Tribute, Dust Tornado, Ring of Destruction, Smashing Ground, Mystical Space Typhoon), which earns a middling end-board score. Its engine is effectively absent: 25 of 37 distinct main-deck cards are singletons, only one copy of the Black Luster Soldier Envoy is run, and the exact archetype purity is 1.8%, so the deck does not repeatedly open a functional plan. The score was not derived from averaging individual card scores, and popularity or archetype usage gave no credit because the usage statistics show none of the archetype core cards present. Floor and median output are low and the ceiling is not supported by any recorded board.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox 100% (primary); Control weights not blended. Structural ≈ 24, Going First ≈ 18, Going Second ≈ 22, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 15. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-7); engine conflicts (-3). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) = 0.80*23.9 + 0.20*15 = 22.1, then context modifiers -10, capped low because the deck is Illegal -> 12

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.09 · 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

• Broad removal and backrow interaction (Mirror Force, Torrential Tribute, Dust Tornado, Ring of Destruction, Smashing Ground, Mystical Space Typhoon, Enemy Controller)
• Two hand-independent answers at 3 copies (Solemn Judgment, Sakuretsu Armor), though Solemn is over the limit here

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: six cards break the OCG banlist or copy limit
• No coherent engine; 25 of 37 distinct main-deck cards are singletons
• Envoy is the only closer and needs LIGHT + DARK monsters in the GY, which the deck does not reliably supply
• Very low monster count (20) for a 55-card deck, so draws are often spells and traps with no board

Critical choke points

• Single-copy Envoy as the only closer
• Forbidden Trap Dustshoot and Pot of Greed occupying draw slots

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Illegal, six OCG violations (Forbidden and Limited copy counts); Main Deck size 55 is within the OCG 40-60 range; Extra and Side are 0; Archetype purity 1.8%; 25 singleton cards in 37 distinct; Usage statistics: 0 of 8 core cards present
• Inferred: Consistency: Envoy is the only starter; P(>=1 in 5) = 0.09; Brick rate is high given 20 monsters and 35 level-0 spells/traps; Interaction breadth is high but overlaps and is partly illegal; No second independent line exists
• Provisional: Meta Power is null; no tournament or meta-share data; d13 matchup fit is a rubric default
• 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 and going-second splits are Inferred Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Deck title is null and no side deck is registered