Edge Imp Deck #769142 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 52 / Extra 18 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion boards from the Edge Imp and Fluffal material engine: Frightfur Cruel Whale, Frightfur Kraken, Frightfur Sabre-Tooth, Frightfur Tiger and Frightfur Sheep; Tuner/Link pressure and off-theme Extra Deck threats (Guardian Chimera, Garura, Favorite HERO Shining Flare Wingman, TY-PHON) if the Frightfur route is blocked
• Turn 1 (going first): T1 Fluffal Dog or Toy Vendor search and Frightfur Patchwork or Edge Imp Chain to find Polymerization, then fuse into a Frightfur monster. Ash Blossom and Artifact Lancea are held up for the opponent's response.
• Turn 2 (going second): Six-card hand with a hand trap (Ash Blossom, Artifact Lancea) or Forbidden Droplet to break the opponent's board, then rebuild through Fluffal Owl or Fluffal Octopus recursion and a fusion.
• Recovery: Fluffal Wings and Frightfur Repair recover fusion monsters from the GY to the Extra Deck. Toy Vendor, Fluffal Bear and Edge Imp Sabres add cards back to hand and place Toy Vendor from the Deck.
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no Side Deck (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system and no card scores were averaged. Its opening access is strong: the 33-copy Edge Imp and Fluffal core gives P(at least one core card in a 5-card hand) of about 0.996 (Inferred), and 18 searcher-text cards add redundancy. Conversion to a board is credible in text: Polymerization-type enablers feed Frightfur fusions with board-destruction and double-attack effects, but no recorded combo boards exist, so ceiling and median are text-only estimates. Interaction is layered (6 hand traps, 6 negation-text cards, 10 removal-text cards), which lifts going-second value. The score is capped low because the list is illegal: three cards exceed their OCG limit and the Extra Deck has 18 cards against a maximum of 15, so this is a theoretical, structural-only read. Popularity and archetype usage confirm the list is real and accessible, but they did not earn points, and there is no Side Deck and no tournament or meta data.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 62, Going First ≈ 64, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: Copy-limit violations (-6); Extra Deck over size (-4); No Side Deck (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural(62) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(50) + modifiers(-12) = 48 pre-cap; Illegal-list cap applied -> 35 (theoretical/structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 1 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Very high core access: 33 archetype-core copies and 18 searchers
• Layered interaction: 6 hand traps, negation text and removal text
• Recursion and GY recovery through Fluffal Wings, Frightfur Repair and Fluffal Owl
• Frightfur fusion boards are strong when they land

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: 3 cards over their copy limit and an 18-card Extra Deck
• No Side Deck, so no best-of-3 plan
• No recorded combos, so the ceiling and median are unmeasured
• Several Extra Deck picks sit outside the engine (HERO, Garura, Mudragon, Eyes Restrict, Knightmare, Spright)

Critical choke points

• Polymerization-type enabler access: Polymerization x2, Super Polymerization x3 (illegal count), Frightfur Fusion x1 and Instant Fusion x1 are all the fusion access in the list
• Hand traps: 6 total, so an opponent's first interruption can end the turn if the hand traps are not drawn

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 52 (within 40-60), Extra 18 (over 15), Side 0; Copy violations: Ash Blossom, Foolish Burial Goods, Super Polymerization at 3 copies vs limit 2; Foolish Burial and Instant Fusion Limited (1 copy each, legal); Core card stats and card text from the evidence cards list
• Inferred: P(at least one core card in a 5-card hand) ~0.996; Frightfur fusions (Cruel Whale, Kraken, Sabre-Tooth) as the main board-breaking route; 6 hand traps and 10 removal-text cards giving layered interaction
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit: no tournament or dated metagame sample
• Data gaps: Legality: 3 copy-limit violations and an 18-card Extra Deck (OCG maximum 15); the deck is Illegal No combos supplied: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No Side Deck (side_count 0): post-side adaptability is unscored No tournament link: archetype meta-share and pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry for this deck Usage statistics conflict with the card list: Guardian Chimera, Frightfur Tiger, Frightfur Sabre-Tooth, Frightfur Cruel Whale, Underworld Goddess, I:P Masquerena and Frightfur Kraken are in the deck list but marked in_this_deck=false in usage_statistics, so the in-deck flag may come from a different card reference set Title is null, so the deck is evaluated by its archetype and composition only