Nouvelles Deck #769153 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 20/100 (±10 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 52 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ritual Summon Nouvelles Ritual Monsters (Baelgrill, Balameuniere, Hungry Burger, Foie Glasya) with Recipe spells and close with 2000+ ATK bodies, supported by Link and Synchro extra-deck boards; Extra-Deck boards (Nephthys, Underworld Goddess, Psychic End Punisher, Chaos Angel) that go over a stalled board after the Ritual line is interrupted
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Nouvelles Pendulum or Ritual starter (Chef de Nouvelles, Poissonniere, Mulcharmy Fuwalos, Diviner of the Herald), use Voici or Recipe Book to find a Recipe, then Ritual Summon a Nouvelles monster and protect the line with Ash Blossom, Solemn Judgment or Solemn Strike
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird and Solemn Strike to interrupt the opponent, then use Chef's Special Recipe or Baelgrill (negates effects of all face-up cards) to answer their board before Ritual Summoning into an Extra-Deck close
• Recovery: Chef de Nouvelles and Poissonniere recur from the Deck and GY, and Recette and Recipe Book reconnect the Ritual route; Nouvelles Restaurant returns Recipe cards from the GY
• After siding: No side deck is listed, so there is no post-side plan; the list cannot adjust its interaction or matchup suite between games

Why it scores here

This deck was scored as a system, not as an average of its card scores. Its Ritual engine is the main consistency concern: a Nouvelles Ritual Monster needs a Recipe spell and there are only two Recipe spells in the Main Deck, backed by two Voici la Carte and one Recipe Book as searchers, so the opening-hand estimate for a Recipe on turn 1 is low (roughly 0.19 for at least one Recipe spell in a going-first 5-card hand, inferred from hypergeometric counts). Interaction is a real strength: Ash Blossom, three Solemn-family traps, Droll and Lock Bird, Harpie's Feather Duster, Lightning Storm and Enemy Controller give layered answers. Its closing power is high because the Extra Deck carries 2400 to 3500 ATK boards, but there are no recorded boards and no tournament data, so the output range is unknown. Because the deck runs Pre-Preparation of Rites three times against a limit of one and Ash Blossom three times against a limit of two, it is Illegal; it is capped and reported as a theoretical, structural-only read. Popularity was not used to earn points, and the deck has no side deck.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 45, Going First ≈ 45, Going Second ≈ 40, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-8); hard_garnet_burden (-3). Final formula: Illegal deck: theoretical/structural-only. Structural 44.85 ~ 45 (Midrange profile). Unmodified 0.80*45 + 0.20*35 = 43; modifiers -11 give 32; capped to 20 because of copy-limit violations (Pre-Preparation of Rites 3/1, Ash Blossom 3/2). Meta provisional.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.27 · 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 interaction: Ash Blossom, three Solemn-family traps, Droll and Lock Bird, Feather Duster, Lightning Storm, Enemy Controller
• High closing bodies in the Extra Deck, including Psychic End Punisher, Chaos Angel and Underworld Goddess
• Recursion through Chef de Nouvelles, Poissonniere and Nouvelles Restaurant
• Extra Deck flexibility across Link, Synchro and Fusion

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy counts: Pre-Preparation of Rites and Ash Blossom are over the OCG limit
• Recipe spells are only two in the Main Deck, with a narrow search chain
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Low exact-archetype purity (19.4%); many cross-archetype cards

Critical choke points

• Recipe spell access for every Nouvelles Ritual Monster
• Ash Blossom and the Solemn-family traps as the only early protection
• Single Ritual line with no independent second engine

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main Deck 52 and Extra Deck 15, within size rules; Pre-Preparation of Rites 3 copies vs OCG limit 1; Ash Blossom 3 copies vs OCG limit 2; No side deck (0 cards); Card text and stats for all listed cards
• Observed: Usage stats show the archetype core as 98% open in a hand of 5, from the export
• Inferred: Opening-hand Recipe access is about 0.19 (hypergeometric); Brick risk from Recipe dependence and spell-heavy build; Interaction quality from card text; Going-first and going-second plans
• Provisional: Meta Power; Matchup fit (no dated meta sample)
• 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 this deck Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No side deck supplied, so post-side plan cannot be evaluated Deck title is null in the export