Black Luster Soldier Deck #769239 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 24/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 5 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Light and Darkness Ritual boards: Black Luster Soldier - Soldier of Light and Darkness, Black Chaos and Magician of Dark Chaos - Black Chaos (3000/2800 ATK bodies), backed by Master of Chaos and Chaos End Ruler from the Extra Deck.; Dark Magician Fusion/Ritual pressure (Dark Paladin, Dark Magician of Destruction) and Link-based attack pressure (Accesscode Talker, Selene).
• Turn 1 (going first): Search Light and Darkness Ritual (Ragged Records of Rites, Mind Shuffle, Light and Darkness Ritual) and Ritual Summon a boss; the legal copy count of the Forbidden cards is not available in the list as built.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold hand traps (Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring, Maxx "C", Droll & Lock Bird, Infinite Impermanence, Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit, Nibiru) and Solemn Judgment / Solemn Warning to stop the opponent's first summon chain, then Ritual or Fusion into a boss.
• Recovery: Graveyard recursion through Skull Archfiend of Chaos, Griffoh and Kuriboh - Multiply! to re-enter a Light and Darkness Ritual line from the GY.
• After siding: None: the list carries no Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The deck is evaluated as a connected system, not as an average of its card scores. Its engine is the Light and Darkness Ritual package: P(at least one archetype-core card in a 5-card opener) is about 0.78, and the core is 100% present, so the engine opens often (Inferred). Interaction is dense (10 hand traps, Solemn Judgment, Solemn Warning, Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence), which earns the end-board and interruption scores. Closing power is high because the boss monsters are 3000-ATK class. However, the list is illegal as built: five Forbidden cards (Magicians' Souls, Charmer Quartet in Bloom, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Cross-Sheep, Albion the Branded Dragon) are run at 1 copy each where 0 are legal, so the Final Contextual score is capped low and labelled theoretical/structural only. No combos, no tournament link, and no side deck exist, so median output, going-second data and post-side play are unmeasured and rely on inference. Popularity was not credited; the archetype's usage stats confirm the core is accessible but not that the list is strong.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 56, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12); no side deck (0). Final formula: Illegal-list cap: Structural 56 → 0.80*56 + 0.20*45 = 53 before modifiers; capped at 24 because the list runs 5 Forbidden cards (theoretical/structural-only, no normal Final Contextual score)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.78 · 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

• Core engine is accessible on the opener (P ≈ 0.78, Inferred)
• Layered interaction: hand traps plus Solemn Judgment and Solemn Warning
• High-ATK boss monsters for closing

Weaknesses

• Five Forbidden cards are run in the list, so it is illegal as built
• No Side Deck
• Multi-archetype engine with several single-copy pieces raises brick and conflict risk

Critical choke points

• Light and Darkness Ritual searches and Ritual Summons: if the searcher and the boss are not both reached, the line stalls
• Forbidden Extra Deck cards (Albion, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Charmer Quartet, Cross-Sheep) remove Extra access if not replaced

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Five Forbidden cards run at 1 copy each (legal_copies 0); Main 60, Extra 15, Side 0; Archetype core present 8/8 in usage stats
• Inferred: Engine opens P ≈ 0.78; Interaction density is high from card text; Going-second hand-trap strength; Closing power from ATK values and text
• Provisional: Meta power and archetype matchup fit (no dated metagame sample)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second or matchups No Side Deck, so post-side strength is unmeasured Illegal list: Final Contextual score is capped and not a normal read