Hecahands Deck #769214 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 18 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion/Xyz boss monsters (Hecahands Xeno 3400 ATK, Hecahands Dandalos control steal, Hecahands Jauzah 2400 ATK indestructible in battle) reached through Hecahands searchers and Fusion Summons; Chimera Fusion / Gazelle / Mirror Swordknight line converting Illusion and Beast materials into a second board
• Turn 1 (going first): Search and Special Summon Hecahands Ibtel, Nightmare Apprentice or Gazelle, reach a Level 5+ Illusion for Fusion, and keep Ash Blossom and Infinite Impermanence up for the opponent's first interaction
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird and Infinite Impermanence to slow the opponent's search or summon, then Fusion Summon a Hecahands boss from the Extra Deck with the surviving hand
• Recovery: Hecahands Tartaros and Yadel recycle from the hand or GY to rebuild the Fusion starter after a hand trap or board break; Yad'al-Hecahands and Ib'al-Hecahands protect the rebuilt board
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no Side Deck (Side Deck size 0), so there is no post-side plan in the evidence

Why it scores here

The score comes from the deck as a system, not from its cards: a 12-copy Hecahands core gives about an 85% chance of at least one core card in the opening five (Inferred), and three-copy Ibtel, Gazelle and Nightmare Apprentice give several independent T1 starts. Interaction is the strongest area: Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Droll & Lock Bird, Yad'al-Hecahands and Ib'al-Hecahands cover hand, field and monster-effect negation, which supports a going-second plan. Conversion is plausible on paper, since Hecahands Xeno, Dandalos and Jauzah can each take over the board, but the deck has no recorded boards, so floor and median output are the weakest-evidenced claims. The deck is Illegal (Extra Deck 18 over 15, Ash Blossom 3 over 2, Jauzah 5 over 3) and has no Side Deck, so the score is capped at 35 and stays theoretical/structural-only. Popularity was not credited: the Hecahands archetype usage data confirms the list is real, not that it is strong, and no card scores were averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, Combo secondary as a Fusion-engine tiebreak; no separate weight table used. Structural ≈ 55.6, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 63, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: banlist_or_legality_exposure (-12). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) gives ≈54; the Illegal status (Step 2) caps the result at 35 as theoretical/structural-only

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.85 · 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

• Dense Hecahands searcher and recursion package (Tartaros, Yadel, Mankibuel, Breus, Godos, Gaigas)
• Layered interaction: 7 hand traps plus 5 negation and removal traps and monsters
• Several Fusion bosses with indestructible-in-battle text and steal or control effects
• Real archetype with 87.5% of the usage-core cards present

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: Extra Deck over size, and two cards over copy limit
• No Side Deck, so best-of-3 adaptation is absent
• Heavy reliance on Extra Deck Fusion access; no recorded boards to confirm conversion
• High hand-trap and searcher density raises the risk of dead cards without an opponent play

Critical choke points

• Fusion Summon access: Extra Deck over size means a legal build must drop Extra cards
• Ash Blossom and Droll & Lock Bird copy counts must be cut to legal before the list can play

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Extra Deck 18 over 15; Ash Blossom 3 vs legal 2; Hecahands Jauzah 5 vs legal 3; Card text for all 40 Main and 18 Extra cards; Archetype usage: 7 of 8 core cards present (87.5%)
• Inferred: P(≥1 core starter in opening 5) ≈ 0.85 (hypergeometric); Consistency, brick and interaction ratings from card text and composition; Going-second hand-trap coverage ≈ 0.71
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit and side-deck adaptability (no tournament link, no Side Deck)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN — those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No Side Deck (Side Deck size 0): post-side performance cannot be evaluated