Spellbook Deck #769100 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck boss monsters reached through Spellbook/Charmer/K9 searches and Fusion, Xyz and Link summons (e.g. Dark Magician of Destruction, K9-X Werewolf, Number 38, Imsety) — realistic only if the list were legal; Mulcharmy and Horus draw/board pressure after a successful hand-based starter
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Spellbook/Charmer searcher, convert the Spellbook Spell search into a Spellcaster or Charmer body, then Link or Xyz into a boss; the forbidden cards in the list would have been extra engine pieces
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Maxx "C" and Droll & Lock Bird as hand interaction and use Dharc or Lyna flip-control effects to take a board; hand-trap density (about 35% to hold one in six cards) is the core plan
• Recovery: Recurring Spellbook spells from the GY, Mulcharmy draw effects and Charmer GY recursion rebuild a hand after a broken turn
• After siding: Not assessable: the deck has no Side Deck (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck is Illegal as submitted: four cards exceed their OCG copy limits, including three Forbidden cards (Jowgen, Magicians' Souls, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon) and two copies of a Limited card. Under the rubric it is therefore scored as a theoretical, structural-only read and capped at 25. Its consistency is decent on paper: 29 searcher-text cards give a 97% chance of at least one searcher in the opening five, and the 18-copy Spellbook/Charmer/K9 core is present in about 84% of opening hands. Those numbers reflect search density, not a coherent engine. Only 17% of the Main Deck is the exact Spellbook archetype, with 62 off-archetype copies spread across K9, Charmer, Mulcharmy, Dark Magician, Horus and others, so the list plays as a toolbox rather than one engine. No combos were supplied, so the combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inferences and kept at moderate values. Popularity and archetype usage did not earn points, and the score was not built by averaging individual card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox primary; Midrange used only as a secondary read and not blended into the weights. Structural ≈ 48, Going First ≈ 45, Going Second ≈ 40, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); engine conflicts (-4); illegal-list cap (-8). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 0.80*48 + 0.20*35 - 12 = 33.4, then capped to 25 because the deck is Illegal (theoretical/structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.97 · 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

• Very high searcher density (29 cards, ~97% to see one in a 5-card hand)
• Four hand traps and multiple removal and negation effects give interaction on both turns
• Several high-ATK boss options across the Extra Deck (K9-X Werewolf, Imsety, Dark Magician of Destruction, Dingirsu)

Weaknesses

• Illegal as submitted: 4 copy-limit violations including 3 Forbidden cards
• Low archetype purity (17.3%): the list mixes at least 10 sub-archetypes
• No Side Deck, so no post-side plan
• No recorded combos, so the combo ceiling and median are unverified

Critical choke points

• The Forbidden Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon and Magicians' Souls would be lost to the legal list, removing key Extra Deck and Dark Magician engine pieces
• Reaching Extra Deck bosses depends on a small number of Xyz/Link starters (K9-17 Ripper, S:P Little Knight)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 4 copy-limit violations, Illegal status, 60 Main / 15 Extra / 0 Side; Banlist status: Jowgen, Magicians' Souls, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon Forbidden; A Case for K9 Limited (1 legal copy); Archetype purity 17.3% and copy histogram (28/4/8); Stats of named boss monsters (e.g. K9-X Werewolf 3300 ATK, Imsety 3000 ATK)
• Inferred: Opening-hand searcher probability (~0.97) and archetype core presence (~0.84); Going-second hand-trap probability (~0.35); Consistency, brick and recovery reads from card text; Strategy classification as Toolbox with Midrange secondary
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit (no dated metagame sample); Side Deck adaptability (no Side Deck)
• 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 No win-rate telemetry for this deck No Side Deck: post-side plan cannot be assessed Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample