D/D/D Deck #768791 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Midrange, Tech/Hand-trap
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 41 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck D/D/D boss monsters (Wave High King Caesar, Deus Machinex, Gust High King Alexander, Arc Crisis) reached through Pendulum and Dark Contract searches, with hand traps protecting the setup; Battle and effect damage pressure from Xyz and Synchro bosses after the board is established
• Turn 1 (going first): Pendulum Summon a D/D Scale Surveyor or Savant into a Dark Contract search, then use Gryphon, Machinex or Kepler to reach a Synchro or Xyz boss; this is a 2-card bootstrap with about a 0.33 chance of a starter in 5 cards
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Effect Veiler or Ghost Belle to stop the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Dark Contract with the Gate and Necro Slime
• Recovery: Recurse through Necro Slime and Lance Soldier from the GY, and use Dark Contract with the Zero King to revive D/D monsters; recovery depends on the Dark Contract cards surviving
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no side deck (side count 0) and no post-side data is available

Why it scores here

The deck is illegal in OCG as submitted: three copies each of Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse exceed their Semi-Limited limit of two, and a Forbidden Wave High King Caesar sits in the Extra Deck, so the score is capped and the evaluation is structural only. Structurally, the system has a strong engine: 14 Pendulum monsters, 12 searcher-text cards and an archetype core present in about 99% of 5-card hands mean the Dark Contract and D/D search loop is usually reachable, though a clean starter in the opening 5 is only about 0.33 for the three-copy cards. Interaction is broad (10 hand traps, 15 negation-text and 22 removal-text cards), which supports resilience and the going-second hand-trap plan. The Extra Deck (15 cards, 13 distinct, multiple Xyz/Synchro bosses) gives good closing options, but the deck has no sideboard and no recorded combos, so the combo floor and median are inferred from text only. The score does not come from D/D/D popularity or from averaging individual card scores; no tournament or matchup data supports a meta read.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo primary, Midrange secondary (structural weights used as Combo profile only). Structural ≈ 57, Going First ≈ 54, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8). Final formula: Computed 0.80*Structural(56.6) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(40) + modifiers(-8) = 45; Illegal cap applied, final score 35 (theoretical/structural-only, Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.84 · 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

• Archetype core is reachable in almost every opening hand (P >= 0.989)
• Layered interaction: 10 hand traps and 15 negation-text cards
• Deep Extra Deck with multiple Xyz, Synchro and Fusion boss options
• Multiple recursion routes from the GY (Necro Slime, Lance Soldier, Zero King)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: over copy limit on 2 Semi-Limited cards and a Forbidden Extra Deck card
• Zero sideboard, so no post-side plan
• Three-copy engine cards have only 0.33 chance of appearing in an opening 5
• Pendulum and Extra Deck sequencing is complex to pilot

Critical choke points

• Dark Contract with the Gate / Witch / Zero King as the single search and revival line
• Scale Surveyor and Savant as Pendulum starters

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is illegal: Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse exceed the Semi-Limited limit of 2; Caesar is Forbidden; Main 41 and Extra 15 fall within OCG size rules; Droll & Lock Bird is Limited with 1 copy (legal); Archetype core in usage stats: 11 of 23 core cards present
• Inferred: Hypergeometric starter and hand-trap probabilities; Structural dimension scores from card text and composition; Interaction density from text hints
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit (no dated metagame sample); Side-deck adaptability (no sideboard)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link: archetype meta-share and pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry exists for this deck Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied deck title is null