Adamancipator Deck #769405 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±10 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro and Link boards led by Adamancipator Risen - Tiamite (3300 ATK) and Dragunity Knight - Areus or Stardust Warrior, with excavate-driven access to the field; Nibiru, the Primal Being special summon through a 5-monster summon trigger, followed by Synchro pressure
• Turn 1 (going first): Hand-summon a Level 2 or 4 Adamancipator or Rock monster (Researcher, Seeker, Analyzer, Conductor), excavate with its Main Phase effect for a Level 4 or lower Rock, and build toward a Tiamite or Tuner-plus-non-Tuner Synchro
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence and Nibiru as hand traps to answer the opponent's first board, then rebuild through excavate and searcher text (Mates, Crystal, Gallant Granite)
• Recovery: Mates and Crystal recursion from the GY, Signs to revive a Rock from the GY, and Gallant Granite searches to refill the hand
• After siding: None. The deck runs a 0-card Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

This is an Illegal OCG list: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring is run three times against a limit of two, so it receives a capped theoretical score, not a normal Final Contextual score. Structurally, the deck reliably opens a Rock starter. Three copies of each hand-summon Level 2 or 4 Adamancipator give roughly a 0.34 chance per copy of at least one in a 5-card opening hand, and the 12 searcher-text cards lift the chance of a searcher at least once to about 0.85 (Inferred). The deck converts a live board through excavate into Synchro and Link threats, with Risen - Tiamite and Areus giving real closing pressure. Its interaction is hand-trap heavy (Ash, Impermanence, Nibiru) with little end-board protection, and it has no Side Deck, so there is no post-side adaptation. Popularity and archetype usage did not earn points, since the 18.2 percent core presence shows the list is off the archetype standard, and the score was built from the system rather than an average of card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-12). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(55) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) = 53; modifiers -12 = 41; Illegal cap applied = 30 (theoretical/structural only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.34 · 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

• Multiple hand-summon Rock starters give redundant openings
• Searcher and recursion text (12 cards) keeps resources flowing
• Strong Synchro and Link closing ATK with Tiamite and Areus
• Hand-trap density (Ash, Impermanence, Nibiru) gives early interaction

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: Ash Blossom run 3 copies against a limit of 2
• Low archetype purity (43.6 percent) with off-theme Extra Deck slots
• No Side Deck, so no post-side plan
• Tuner-heavy composition (15 Tuners) risks Tuner-only hands

Critical choke points

• Ash Blossom is Semi-Limited and the list is illegal until one copy is removed
• Excavate-driven Synchro lines depend on the Main Phase excavate and a non-Tuner partner

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 40 main, 15 extra, 0 side; Ash Blossom 3 copies over the OCG limit of 2; Archetype purity 43.6 percent; 13 triple-copy main cards and one Signs; Extra Deck contains 9 Synchro, 5 Link and 1 Xyz; Tiamite 3300 ATK, Areus 2900 ATK, Stardust Warrior 3000 ATK; Side Deck is empty
• Observed: Usage stats: core present 18.2 percent of the archetype standard (11 core cards)
• Inferred: Opening-hand starter probabilities (0.34 per copy, 0.58 archetype core, 0.85 searcher); Hand-trap availability as a going-second plan (0.81 in a 6-card hand); Excavate-based recovery and resilience reads
• Provisional: Matchup and format fit (no dated metagame sample); Median output (no 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 record absent No win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchup or brick rates Meta Power provisional; no dated metagame sample