Forbidden Deck #769024 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 33/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Exosister Xyz Summons (Mikailis, Magnifica, Karmael, Kaspitell) that attack or remove opposing cards, supported by Exosister searchers and draw; Fusion/Synchro bodies (The Dragon that Devours the Dogma, Ecclesia and the Dark Dragon) and Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS as late-game boss threats
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on an Exosister starter (Elis, Martha, Betrayal, Pax), search or special summon a second Exosister, and Xyz into a 2500+ ATK boss while holding hand traps for the opponent's first response
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold up Ash Blossom, Evenly Matched, Infinite Impermanence and Droll & Lock Bird through the opponent's first turn, then convert a surviving Exosister into a boss
• Recovery: Rebuild from the Exosister searchers (Betrayal, Pax, Sophia) and Forbidden Crown or Droplet to clear a board, though the Forbidden and Branded cards are a thin, off-engine layer
• After siding: Not applicable: the deck has no Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The score is set on the deck as a system, not as an average of its cards. The Exosister engine is the only coherent core: three copies of the Elis, Martha and Betrayal starters and a 15-card Extra Deck of Exosister Xyz monsters give it a plausible route to a 2500+ ATK boss, but only 2 of 55 main-deck copies are exact 'Forbidden' archetype cards, and the rest is a mix of Mulcharmy, Branded, Greed, Solemn and Cyclone pieces. The 11 hand traps give strong end-board interaction and a high going-second hand-trap presence (about 0.76 for at least one in a 6-card hand, Inferred), which is what earns the interaction and resilience scores. Combo evidence is absent, so the ceiling and median are text-based only and carry no recorded-board support. The deck is Illegal on two copy-limit violations, so the Final score is capped low and is theoretical/structural only; popularity or archetype label did not earn points.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary with a Toolbox-leaning side-deck and hand-trap read, roughly 80:20. Structural ≈ 46, Going First ≈ 42, Going Second ≈ 38, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-8); engine_conflicts (-4). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); 45 before the illegal-list cap, then -12 modifiers

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ — · 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

• Layered hand-trap and negation suite (11 hand-trap-tagged cards, 12 negation-text cards)
• Real Exosister Xyz ladder with 2500+ ATK boss options
• Full Extra Deck usage (15/15) with multiple boss routes

Weaknesses

• Illegal on two copy-limit violations
• Only 2.9% exact-archetype purity; engine split across Exosister, Mulcharmy, Branded, Greed and Solemn
• No Side Deck, so no post-side plan
• High estimated brick rate from the 68 off-archetype copies

Critical choke points

• Exosister starter access: the archetype core is ≈0.45 to open in 5 cards (Inferred)
• Xyz summons depend on the Exosister starter surviving the opponent's first hand-trap response

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 counts are within OCG size rules; Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and The Fallen & The Virtuous are each run 3 copies against a limit of 2; Exosister Xyz stats (Magnifica 2800, Karmael 2600, Mikailis 2500) and hand-trap card text
• Inferred: Consistency and brick estimates from hypergeometric draws and composition; Going-second hand-trap presence and Xyz conversion; Structural dimensions D1–D11 scores
• Provisional: Meta Power is null; D13 format fit is provisional because no dated metagame sample exists
• 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 records are absent No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN No Side Deck, so D12 is a floor Deck title is null and the archetype label (Forbidden) does not match the cards run