Darklord Deck #768766 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 40/100 (±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. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck Darklord Fusion/Link boards (The First Darklord, Darklord Eveningstar, Morningstar line) built off Darklord Djehuty and Gulgolet tokens; Super Starslayer TY-PHON and Secreterion Dragon as non-Darklord pressure
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Darklord starter (Djehuty, Gulgolet, Ixchel, Banishment) and extend through Darklord Dance or Contact into a Fusion or Link board, keeping Ash and Herald up for the opponent's first activation
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Herald of Orange Light, Ash Blossom, Ghost Mourner and Nibiru as hand traps to break the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Gulgolet tokens and Contact
• Recovery: Recycle Darklord monsters from the GY through Darklord Contact and Ixchel effects, and rebuild with Darklord Dance over the remaining hand
• After siding: No side deck is listed, so there is no post-side plan in the evidence

Why it scores here

This list would reliably open a Darklord starter at about 0.91 for the core group in a five-card hand, and the hypergeometric estimates for the three-copy starters sit near 0.25 each, so the engine is reachable but not dependable (Inferred). Its interaction package is dense, with three hand traps, Droplet, Crown and Rebellion, which lifts the endboard and going-second scores. Offensive closing power is strong on paper through the 3000-ATK Fusion and Link bosses, but the evidence contains no recorded boards, so the median and ceiling are text-only reads. The deck is Illegal: three cards exceed their OCG copy limits, so it does not receive a normal Final score and the 40 is a theoretical, structural-only read. Popularity and archetype share were not used to raise the score, and card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 54, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: Illegal copy-limit overages (-12); No side deck (0). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers(-12); theoretical only because status is Illegal

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.91 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.09 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense Darklord starter and recursion package
• Large hand-trap and negate suite (13 hand traps, 20 negation-text cards)
• Multiple high-ATK Fusion and Link finishers

Weaknesses

• Three cards exceed OCG copy limits, making the list Illegal
• No side deck
• Low archetype purity (34% exact-name) with Solfachord, Herald, Forbidden and generic cards mixed in
• No recorded combos or tournament data to validate consistency

Critical choke points

• Single-copy Darklord Contact and Morningstar as recursion and boss enablers
• Reliance on Darklord Dance for the Fusion route

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Copy-limit violations for Ash Blossom, Herald of Orange Light and Super Polymerization; Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 counts within format size rules; Single-copy Darklord Contact, Morningstar and Solfachord Solfegia counts; Extra Deck breakdown: 7 Fusion, 7 Link, 1 Xyz
• Inferred: P(≥1 archetype-core card in hand of 5) ≈ 0.91; Brick risk from 13 hand traps and 16 tech slots; Interaction density from negation and removal text roles; Offensive pressure from 2400–4000 ATK Fusion and Link bosses
• Provisional: Meta Power is null: no dated metagame sample; D13 matchup fit: no tournament link or meta share
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no side deck supplied — post-side plan cannot be evaluated no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN — going-first/second and matchup signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied