Witchcrafter Deck #769335 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 5 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Witchcrafter and Magistus Fusion/Link monsters (Vice-Madame, Zoroa, Artemis) that take over the board and pressure with 2400-2700 ATK bodies; Recursion of Witchcrafter and Magistus monsters from GY and banish zones into repeated Fusion and Link summons
• Turn 1 (going first): Search a Witchcrafter or Magistus monster or Spell, then open with Witchcrafter Creation, Walpurgis or Verre Magic - Lacrima of Light, using Genni or Schmietta to put a second body on board (Inferred from card text)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Ghost Ogre and Droll & Lock Bird to stop the opponent's first engine, then rebuild through Terracottan or Pupils from the GY (Inferred)
• Recovery: Witchcrafter GY effects (Terracottan, Haine, Schmietta, Genni banish) restore a monster and a searcher after a board wipe, though this depends on copies that are not in the deck (Inferred)
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs no side deck, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system, not as an average of its card scores. Its consistency rests on a dense searcher layer (19 searcher-text cards, P(at least one searcher in a 5-card opening hand) ≈ 0.89, Inferred), so the engine usually comes online by turn 2. Interaction is the strongest part: 12 hand-traps and 14 negation-text cards cover the opponent's first play. Conversion and closing are weaker. There is no combo or board data, so the ceiling and median are text-only estimates, and the Fusion and Link bodies are good but not decisive. The deck runs 33 distinct main-deck cards with only 27% exact-name archetype purity, which hurts coherence, and it has no Side Deck. Popularity did not earn points: archetype usage stats and popular cards were not counted as power. The deck is Illegal, with five Forbidden cards (two Triple Tactics Talent and one each of Charmer Quartet, Borreload, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon and Cross-Sheep), so its score is capped and the evaluation is theoretical and structural only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: 0.85 Midrange / 0.15 Toolbox (Inferred). Structural ≈ 54, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-12). Final formula: Uncapped: 0.80*Structural(54) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(40) + Banlist modifier(-12) = 31; Illegal cap applied, final = 25 (theoretical/structural only; Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.89 · 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 searcher layer (19 searcher-text cards) gives high engine access (Inferred)
• Layered interaction: 12 hand-traps and 14 negation-text cards (Inferred semantic)
• Fusion and Link bodies with 2400-2700 ATK and recursion give a credible closing route (Inferred)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: five Forbidden cards must be removed before the deck can be played
• Low archetype purity (26.8%) and 33 distinct main cards hurt coherence (Verified)
• No side deck, so no post-side plan (Verified)
• No combo or tournament data, so the ceiling and median are unverified (Verified gap)

Critical choke points

• Witchcrafter Schmietta and Genni are the main engine bridges; losing them to hand-traps cuts access to Fusion/Link summons (Inferred)
• Once-per-turn choices across many Witchcrafter and Magistus effects make the line depend on exact sequencing (Inferred)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: five Forbidden cards in the main and extra decks; Main deck 56 and Extra deck 15 are within size rules; side deck is 0; Searcher and interaction text counts from the composition data; Archetype purity 26.8% from the composition data
• Inferred: Hypergeometric engine access ≈ 0.89 from searcher counts; Interaction quality read from card text (hand-traps, negations); Going-first and going-second plans from card text; Dimension scores and structural score of 54
• Provisional: Meta fit (D13) and Meta Power are Provisional: no dated metagame sample or tournament link
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent No win-rate telemetry: going-first/second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Deck title is null, and the deck has no side deck