Witchcrafter Deck #768860 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 6 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Witchcrafter Fusion and Link boards (Witchcrafter Madame Rilliona, Witchcrafter Vice-Madame, Witchcrafter Haine) built from the Witchcrafter recursion engine; Endymion and Magistus Link boards from Verre, Genni and Selene, with Mulcharmy draw pressure
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Witchcrafter searcher or Genni/Verre starter, search a Witchcrafter monster or Spell, and build toward Vice-Madame or Rilliona while holding Ash Blossom, Maxx C and Droll as protection
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Ghost Belle, Effect Veiler, Droll and Infinite Impermanence to stop the opponent's first summon or activation, then continue through Witchcrafter monsters on the board
• Recovery: Recycle Witchcrafter Spells and monsters from the GY through Creation, Celebration, Walpurgis, Terracottan and Seed, and rebuild a Witchcrafter board
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan in the evidence

Why it scores here

The score reflects the deck as a system, not an average of its cards. The 24 exact Witchcrafter copies give a 94.7% chance of at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred, hypergeometric), and 19 searchers plus Terracottan, Seed and Walpurgis give a consistent path into the Witchcrafter Fusion and Link boards. Interaction is the deck's strongest area: 12 hand traps, Solemn Judgment, Witchcrafter Distortion, Haine and Crossout Designator let it answer an opponent's first plays and stay on board (Inferred from card text). Recursion from the GY keeps resources flowing after disruption. Popularity was not credited: the archetype core inclusion rate is 64% and the deck does not add the high-inclusion Endymion or Magistus Links. The combo ceiling and median stay mid-range because no recorded boards exist. Six Forbidden cards make the list illegal, so the final score is capped at 30 and the result is structural and theoretical only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-12). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability = 53 before modifiers; deck is Illegal, so the result is capped at 30 (theoretical and structural only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.95 · 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 Witchcrafter searchers and recursion keep the engine accessible
• Layered hand traps and Spell/Trap negation give strong end-board interaction
• High-ceiling Fusion and Link finishers (Rilliona, Vice-Madame, Haine)

Weaknesses

• Six Forbidden cards make the list illegal as built
• Only 34% of the Main Deck is exact-name Witchcrafter, so the engine is diluted by off-archetype cards
• No Side Deck at all
• No recorded combos, so the floor and median are unmeasured

Critical choke points

• Witchcrafter monster on the field is needed for many Spell effects; losing the first starter stalls the turn
• Opponent's hand-trap or Droll-style lock on the first summon

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 within size rules; Six Forbidden cards over copy limit (legal copies 0); Archetype purity 33.8% (24 of 71 copies exact Witchcrafter); Core-card inclusion 64% of archetype stats
• Inferred: Hypergeometric P(at least one core card in 5-card hand) = 0.947; Hand-trap and interaction density from card text; Recursion and Fusion/Link ceiling from card text
• Provisional: Meta and matchup fit (no dated metagame sample); Side-deck adaptability (no Side Deck registered)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied, so combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN (going-first, going-second, matchup, brick and starter rates) Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Side Deck is empty, so post-side evaluation is not possible