Ice Barrier Deck #769136 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 58 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ice Barrier board presence (Trishula, Lancea, General Raiho / General Wayne) converting after the opponent's board is disrupted by hand traps and Ice Barrier protection; Synchro beatdown from Coral Dragon, Moulinglacia and Ravenous Crocodragon with a 2-card Mulcharmy draw engine
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Mulcharmy or Ice Barrier starters and hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre and Infinite Impermanence for the opponent's first activations
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the six-card hand's hand traps (20 in the Main Deck) to stop the first summon or search, then rebuild through Ice Barrier Synchros
• Recovery: Ice Barrier GY recursion via Freezing Chains, Georgius and Revealer; Mulcharmy draws refill the hand when the board is empty
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has zero Side Deck cards, so there is no post-side plan in the evidence

Why it scores here

The deck's score comes from its system-level structure, not from averaging its cards: 20 hand-trap and 15 removal-text cards give it strong interaction density, and the 11-copy Ice Barrier core gives about a 67% chance of at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred). Its weak point is cohesion: only 36% of the Main Deck uses the exact Ice Barrier name, and 47 of 73 non-Extra copies are off-archetype staples or generic cards, so the engine is loose. No combos were recorded, so ceiling and median output are text-only inferences and both score low. Popularity did not earn points: the archetype usage statistics confirm the list is real, but only 5 of 14 core cards are present. The deck is also Illegal (Ash Blossom at 3 copies against a Semi-Limited limit of 2), so the score is capped and labelled structural-only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Control. Structural ≈ 47, Going First ≈ 42, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: illegal_copy_limit (-12). Final formula: Illegal cap: score = min(0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers, 25); (0.80*47 + 0.20*45) = 46.6, then -12 illegal-copy modifier = 34.6, capped at 25. Meta Provisional. Structural-only, theoretical.

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

• 20 hand traps and 15 removal-text cards give high interaction density
• Ice Barrier core (11 copies) gives about a two-thirds chance of a core card in a 5-card opening hand
• Going-second hand-trap coverage is strong (about 93% for at least one in 6 cards)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring is over the Semi-Limited limit
• Low archetype purity (35.6% exact name) with 47 off-archetype copies
• No side deck and no recorded combos or boards
• Extra Deck depends on single synchro targets such as Trishula and Lancea

Critical choke points

• Ash Blossom at 3 copies: legality must be fixed before any normal score applies
• Trishula and Lancea as Extra-Deck finishers: few alternatives visible in the list

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main Deck 58 and Extra Deck 15 are within OCG size rules; Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring is over the Semi-Limited copy limit (3 run, 2 allowed); Droll & Lock Bird and Foolish Burial are Limited at 1 copy each; Zero Side Deck cards
• Observed: Archetype usage stats show 100%-core Ice Barrier staples, but this deck does not match all of them
• Inferred: About 67% chance of at least one archetype-core card in a 5-card opening hand; About 93% chance of at least one hand trap in a 6-card going-second hand; Interaction density is high from card text; Consistency and brick rate estimates are hypergeometric and text-based
• Provisional: Meta Power is null because no dated metagame sample exists; Matchup fit is unknown without tournament data
• Data gaps: No combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot records are absent No win-rate telemetry; going-first and going-second splits are not measured Side Deck is empty; post-side adaptability is unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied