Forbidden Deck #769443 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

• Primary strategy: Toolbox
• Secondary strategies: Midrange
• 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: Extra Deck Xyz, Link and Fusion boards (Zalen, Griare, Volcasaurus, Ragnaraika, Nova Master) reached through searchers and negations; no single reliable finisher.; Hraesvelgr and Linkerbell direct pressure once the board is established.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a searcher (Ancient Gear Advance, Fortune Vision, Fusion Draft, Lacrima) or a Normal Summon engine and look for a Xyz or Link line; success depends on drawing one of 10 searchers.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom and Infinite Impermanence as hand traps, then rebuild from Zalen or Herald of the Arc Light if the opponent's board is stopped.
• Recovery: Card Destruction (Limited 1) and Jar of Greed refill hand; Latency and Fortune Lady recursion provide some extra card flow.
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

This is an Illegal list: Number 67: Pair-a-Dice Smasher is Forbidden in OCG and is run once, so the structural score is capped and the result is theoretical only. The 38 distinct Main Deck cards share no archetype core (exact-name purity 0%, 55 off-archetype copies across 23 sub-archetypes), so the deck has no reliable starter and the probability of a core combo in the opening 5 is about 12.5% (Inferred). Interaction is the strongest part of the system: Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Zalen and Herald of the Arc Light give layered negations, and the 10 searcher-text cards raise the chance of a live hand to about 78% (Inferred). No combo boards were recorded, so floor, median and ceiling are text-only estimates, and no side deck or tournament data exists. The score comes from consistency and interaction across the system, not from averaging the card scores, and no popularity or meta-share was credited.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 47, Going First ≈ 42, Going Second ≈ 48, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: Illegal list: Forbidden card in Main Deck (-12); Illegal cap (0). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(47) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(40) = 45.6; modifier -12 gives 33.6; Illegal cap applied, final score 25 (theoretical/structural only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.13 · 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

• Layered negation and hand-trap package (Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Zalen, Herald of the Arc Light)
• High searcher density (10 cards), so a hand usually has some route to a Main Deck card
• Extra Deck covers all four summon types with boss monsters of 2500 or more ATK

Weaknesses

• Illegal: Number 67 is Forbidden in OCG
• No archetype core; starter reliability is low
• 38 distinct Main cards with 36 singletons create brick and conflict risk
• No side deck and no recorded boards

Critical choke points

• Any single starter (Ancient Gear Advance, Fortune Vision or Fusion Draft) is needed to start most lines
• Herald of the Arc Light and Card Destruction are Limited 1; losing either removes a key card

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Number 67: Pair-a-Dice Smasher is Forbidden and run once, so the list is Illegal; Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 is within the OCG size rules; Card Destruction and Herald of the Arc Light are Limited 1; Ash Blossom is Semi-Limited 2; each is run once and legal; Searcher text appears on 10 cards and negation text on 4
• Inferred: P(at least one searcher in 5) ≈ 0.78 and P(core in opening 5) ≈ 0.125; Engine consistency is low because no archetype core exists; Interaction density is high based on card text
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit; no dated metagame sample is supplied
• 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 Side Deck registered No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN