Darklord Deck #768959 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 36/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: 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: Fusion Summon Invoked monsters (Hyperinvoked Aeon 3800 ATK, Invoked Elysium 3200 ATK) off an Aleister-based engine, converting the first resolved board into a 3000+ ATK end board; Link and tech-driven interaction (Aleister the Invoker of Madness, Endymion, Artemis) that keeps the opponent from establishing a board
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Aleister/Aiwass/Invocation searchers and Mulcharmy draw engines, reach an Aleister-named fusion material, and Fusion Summon an Invoked monster with a hand-trap backup, but only if the opening hand is not dominated by tech cards
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 12 hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Ghost Ogre, D.D. Crow, Droll) to break the opponent's starter, then rebuild through Invocation and Magical Meltdown recursion
• Recovery: Recover from interruption by re-searching Aleister or Aiwass and rebuilding from the GY; Invocation and Magical Meltdown can return Aleister-named monsters and Fusion Monsters to play
• After siding: No side deck is registered (0 side cards), so there is no post-side plan; sideboarding is a structural weakness of this list

Why it scores here

This list is Illegal in OCG: three copies of Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization exceed their Semi-Limited limit of two, Droll & Lock Bird is over its Limited limit, and Called by the Grave and Triple Tactics Talent are Forbidden yet present. Under the rubric it therefore receives a theoretical, structural-only score of 36 with low confidence rather than a normal final contextual score. Its structural read (about 48.5) comes from the system: a 3-copy Aleister/Aiwass/Invocation searcher package with about 85% at least one searcher in an opening 5, a 12-card hand-trap suite that gives about 78% at least one hand trap on going second, and a Fusion/Link Extra Deck with 3800 and 3200 ATK ceilings. It is held back by a tech-heavy main deck (21 tech cards among 56), no side deck, an unresolved passcode, the 'Darklord' label not matching any Darklord card in the list, and the absence of any recorded combo boards. Popularity and card-level power were not averaged into the score, and the 14 dimensions were scored on the deck as a system.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 48.5, Going First ≈ 45, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); engine_dependence_conflicts (-2). Final formula: Theoretical only (Illegal list): 0.80*Structural 48.5 + 0.20*TournamentReliability 35 = 45.8, then context modifiers -10 = 35.8, rounded to 36. Meta Power provisional/null.

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 searcher package (17 searcher-text cards) that makes the engine findable on most openings
• 12 hand traps give strong going-second interaction
• High-ceiling Fusion Extra Deck with 3800 and 3200 ATK options
• Redundant recursion through Invocation and Magical Meltdown

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy limits and two Forbidden cards
• Tech-heavy main deck (21 tech cards) that competes with engine cards
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Archetype label 'Darklord' does not match the list, which contains no Darklord cards

Critical choke points

• Aleister-named material for almost every Invoked Fusion Summon
• Ash Blossom and Droll are both needed as hand-trap backup but are over the legal limit

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is Illegal in OCG: copy-limit violations and two Forbidden cards present; Main 56 (within 40-60) and Extra 15 (within 0-15); side 0; Card text and banlist status for resolved cards; Archetype usage stats: 13 core Darklord cards, none present in the list
• Inferred: Hypergeometric starter and hand-trap probabilities from the Main Deck; Structural estimates for D1-D11 and D14 from card text; Going-first and going-second power estimates
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and matchup fit (D13) without a dated metagame sample
• 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 1 passcode in CardIDList could not be resolved to a card (counted as main) No side deck registered, so post-side performance cannot be assessed Archetype 'Darklord' label does not match any Darklord card in the list; true archetype appears to be Invoked/Aleister No win-rate telemetry for going-first/second, matchup, or brick/starter rates Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied