Performage Deck #769146 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 43 / Extra 18 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Xyz and Link boards (Performage Shadow Maker, Performage Trapeze High Magician, Number 104: Masquerade, Number C104: Umbral Horror Masquerade) with 2500 to 3000 ATK, backed by Pendulum recursion and Performage damage-based protection.; Number F0: Utopic Draco Future and Super Starslayer TY-PHON - Sky Crisis as late-game boss follow-ups from the Extra Deck.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Pendulum starter (Performage Cup Tricker, Fire Dancer, Water Dancer, or Curtain Raiser) and Pendulum Summon, use the Pendulum searchers to find a second Performage monster, then build a Level 4 or 5 Xyz boss. Use Ash Blossom and Effect Veiler as hand traps if the opponent starts a line first.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, or Effect Veiler for the opponent's first starter, then rebuild from the search and Pendulum zones. The six-card hand has more hand-trap access than the five-card hand.
• Recovery: Reuse Pendulum Monsters through Performage Trick Clown and Performage Ball Balancer, and recover Xyz material through Performage Damage Juggler. Foolish Burial is the only recursion-like tool and is limited to one copy.
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered, so no post-side plan can be scored. Any sideboarding would need to be built from scratch.

Why it scores here

This list is illegal in OCG: it runs three copies of Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring where the limit is two, and it carries 18 Extra Deck cards where the maximum is 15. Under the rubric, that caps the result and marks it as a structural-only read. Structurally, the deck has a reasonable Pendulum starter base: three copies of several Performage Pendulum monsters give roughly a 32% chance of at least one starter in a five-card opening hand, and 18 searcher-text cards give about a 94% chance of at least one searcher. Its late game is credible, with 2500 to 3000 ATK Xyz and Link bosses and a hand-trap suite of five cards plus Forbidden Droplet. The score does not come from the Performage archetype being popular, because no meta-share was supplied, and it does not come from averaging card scores. The weaknesses are a low archetype purity of 37.7% (38 off-archetype copies), no side deck, and no recorded combos or guides to confirm how the deck actually plays.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 48, Going First ≈ 45, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: Legality and banlist exposure (-12). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) = 45.4, then -12 legality modifier, capped as theoretical/structural-only because the list is Illegal

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.32 · 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

• 18 Pendulum monsters with searcher text give high P(>=1 searcher) at 94%
• Five hand traps plus Forbidden Droplet and Disablaster give layered negation
• End-board reaches 2500 to 3000 ATK from several Xyz and Link bosses

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: Ash Blossom over the copy limit and Extra Deck of 18 over the 15-card maximum
• Only 37.7% exact-name Performage purity, with 38 off-archetype copies from several sub-archetypes
• No Side Deck registered, so the list has no post-side plan
• No combos, guides or tournament data, so the ceiling and median are unverified

Critical choke points

• Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring is over the copy limit, so the list cannot be played as written
• The Pendulum starter base depends on 3-copy density, and P(>=1 starter in 5) is only 0.316
• Extra Deck of 18 is over the limit, so one Extra Deck card must be cut before the list is legal

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring runs 3 copies against a legal limit of 2 (OCG Semi-Limited); Extra Deck is 18 cards, over the OCG maximum of 15; Main Deck is 43 cards, within the 40 to 60 size rule; Composition: 18 Pendulum, 11 Xyz, 6 Link, 1 Fusion; exact-name purity 37.7%; Limited cards S:P Little Knight and Foolish Burial are each run at 1 copy, which is legal; Archetype stat: 25 Core cards listed, none present in this list (4% present)
• Inferred: P(>=1 starter in 5) = 0.316 per 3-copy card; P(>=1 searcher in 5) = 0.945; Five hand traps and 15 negation-text cards give layered interaction; Going-second hand has more hand-trap access than going-first; Opening-hand brick risk is high from 18 Pendulum monsters and Extra-dependent hands
• Provisional: Meta Power is null: no dated metagame sample supplied; Matchup fit (D13) is unmeasured without a tournament link
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and pilot match record absent No win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchup, brick or starter rates No Side Deck registered: post-side plan cannot be scored No guides for the Performage archetype Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied