Vampires Deck #769307 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 49 / Extra 14 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Call of the Haunted engine recurs Zombies from the GY (Pumpking the King of Grave Ghosts, Army of the Haunted, Changshi) into a board that ends in Extra Deck boss monsters (Pumpking the Great Ghost King, The Undying Legion, Officiator of Doom Samuel).; Hand-trap and removal disruption (Ghost Belle, Nibiru, Stare of the Snake Hair, Vortex of Time, Deadly Zombie Breath) to stall and convert the board.
• Turn 1 (going first): Search Call of the Haunted or Pumpking via Ectoplasmic Fortification, Hubrow, or Stare, then set Call of the Haunted and revive a Zombie from the GY to reach a 2400-2700 ATK boss.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ghost Belle, Droll-type hand traps and Nibiru for the opponent's summon or search, then use Vortex of Time and Deadly Zombie Breath to clear the field and rebuild through the GY.
• Recovery: Call of the Forgotten and Army of the Haunted recover Call of the Haunted from the GY; Officiating Reverie and Changshi return Zombies from the GY.
• After siding: Not applicable: the deck runs an empty Side Deck, so no post-side plan is evidenced.

Why it scores here

The deck's power rests on the Call of the Haunted engine as a system: a searcher layer (about 77% chance of at least one searcher in a 5-card opening hand), recursion through the GY, and Zombie-based summons into strong Extra Deck bosses. Its closing power is real (Pumpking the Great Ghost King at 2400 ATK, The Undying Legion at 2700, Eldlich at 3800), and its disruption (Ghost Belle, Nibiru, Vortex of Time, Forbidden Droplet) gives it some resilience when going second. Consistency is the weak point: each Call of the Haunted copy is only about 28% likely in an opening hand, the 21 non-monster slots include tech cards that are often dead early, and there is no side deck. Popularity or archetype share did not earn points, no recorded boards exist to set a floor or median, and the score was not built by averaging card scores. The deck is illegal in OCG (two Droll & Lock Bird, one Forbidden Called by the Grave), so the score is capped at 30 and is theoretical/structural only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 57, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 42. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-8); empty_side_deck (-4); illegal_cap (0). Final formula: Illegal deck: min(0.80*57 + 0.20*42 + modifiers(-12), 30) = 30; theoretical/structural only, Meta provisional

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.28 · 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

• Strong searcher density (12 cards, P(>=1) ≈ 0.77 in an opening 5).
• Recursion and summon loops through the GY via Call of the Haunted, Army of the Haunted and Officiating Reverie.
• High-ATK Extra Deck bosses (Pumpking 2400, Undying Legion 2700, Eldlich 3800).

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Droll & Lock Bird over the copy limit and Forbidden Called by the Grave.
• Low chance of drawing the engine starter in an opening hand (≈ 0.28 for each 3-copy card).
• No side deck, so no post-side plan is evidenced.
• Large tech and dead-card footprint (21 non-monster slots, 12 tech-tagged cards).

Critical choke points

• Call of the Haunted is the single engine starter; without it the Zombie recursion and Extra Deck boss lines do not start.
• Eldlich and Fallen Angel require the Eldlich engine that appears only once in the Extra Deck.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Droll & Lock Bird 2 copies vs limit 1; Called by the Grave Forbidden; main 49, extra 14, side 0.; Card stats and text for all 33 distinct cards, and the extra-deck breakdown (8 Xyz, 4 Link, 2 Fusion).; Hypergeometric draw probabilities from the main deck.
• Inferred: Engine consistency and brick estimates from copy counts and card text.; Strategy classification as Combo with Midrange and Toolbox secondaries.; Offensive and interaction ratings from card text and stats.
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and D13 matchup fit, lacking a dated metagame sample.; D4 median output, lacking recorded boards.
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference. No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record are absent. No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN for this deck. Usage statistics flag several Extra Deck cards that are present in the card list (Vampire Sucker, Flying Mary, S:P Little Knight, Eldlich, Fallen Angel, The Undying Legion, Wollow, Officiator of Doom Samuel, Pumpking the Great Ghost King) as in_this_deck false; the extra-deck breakdown agrees with the card list, so the usage flags are treated as unreliable. Deck title is null; the archetype recorded as Vampires conflicts with the Call of the Haunted/Zombie engine actually run (exact-name purity 0%). Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample.