Performapal Deck #769420 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Tempo, Pendulum/Link/Fusion mechanic
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 11 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Pendulum/Fusion/Link board built on Vaylantz pendulum monsters and Vaylantz field spells, closing through Arktos XII - Chronochasm Vaylantz and Vaylantz Genesis Grand Duke (Inferred from card text).; Link-based pressure through Underworld Goddess of the Closed World and Accesscode Talker (Inferred from card text).
• Turn 1 (going first): Pendulum Summon Vaylantz scales in the Main Phase, use Vaylantz Wakening and the Field Spell to reach a Vaylantz Pendulum or Field payoff, then extend into an Extra Deck Fusion or Link (Inferred).
• Turn 2 (going second): Ash Blossom and Droll & Lock Bird respond to the opponent's first line; then rebuild through the Pendulum Zone and Field Spell (Inferred).
• Recovery: Searchers (14 copies of searcher text) and Vaylantz Monkey/Wakening-style field activations rebuild from hand and Deck (Inferred).
• After siding: No side deck is present, so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The deck's Vaylantz core (9 copies) gives a 74% chance of at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred hypergeometric), which keeps the engine reasonably accessible. Searchers (14 copies) and the Field Spell and Pendulum payoffs give a usable grind, and the 11 negation and removal texts plus 4 hand traps give real interaction density. The score is held down because the list is illegal: Ash Blossom is over the Semi-Limited limit and Varudras is Forbidden, so the result is structural and theoretical only. No recorded boards exist, so the ceiling and median are text-only inference. Popularity of the Performapal archetype and card-level scores were not used, and card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 52, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 45, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-4); illegal-deck cap (0). Final formula: Pre-cap: 0.80*52 + 0.20*45 = 50.6, then modifiers -4 = 46.6. Illegal-deck cap applied: final set to 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

• Vaylantz core (9 copies) gives high access to a live Pendulum engine (Inferred)
• Searchers (14 copies) and recursion-style activations support grind (Inferred)
• Interaction density from Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Crossout Designator and removal text (Inferred)
• Strong Extra Deck closers in Arktos XII and Genesis Grand Duke (Verified stats)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Ash Blossom over the Semi-Limited limit and Varudras Forbidden (Verified)
• Low exact-name purity (7.8%) with 47 off-name copies, so the engine depends on related Vaylantz, Magician and Mulcharmy cards (Verified)
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation (Verified)
• High skill ceiling from Pendulum scale and Field Spell sequencing (Inferred)

Critical choke points

• The Vaylantz Pendulum and Field Spell starter; without one, the engine does not start (Inferred)
• Extra Deck access depends on Pendulum summons (Inferred)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Ash Blossom 3 copies (max 2); Varudras Forbidden; Main 40, Extra 11, Side 0 (legal size); Copy histogram and archetype purity 7.8%; Hypergeometric draw odds (0.3376 per 3-copy card, 0.7418 for the 9-copy core group); Usage stats: 3 of 15 core cards present (20%)
• Inferred: Midrange primary strategy from Pendulum/Field-spell text and Link/Fusion closers; Opening-hand consistency and brick risk estimates; Interaction density from negation and removal text; Going-first and going-second plans from card text
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit (no tournament or dated meta sample)
• 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 absent no win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchup or brick rates Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample no side deck: post-side adaptation cannot be assessed