Performapal Deck #769506 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 59/100 (±7 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Pendulum/Fusion/Link/Xyz/Synchro mechanic tags
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Pendulum-summon a large Extra Deck board (Supreme King Z-ARC 4000 ATK, Master Spirit Tech Force 3500, Crystal Clear Wing 3500, Odd-Eyes Rebellion 3000) built from Pendulum-zone scale pairs; Link, Xyz and Synchro follow-ups (Odd-Eyes Override, Odd-Eyes Absolute, Clear Wing) that negate or destroy opposing cards once the board is established
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon or search a Pendulum monster with a searcher (23 searcher-text cards), set two scales in the Pendulum Zone, Pendulum Summon, then use a searcher or Extra Deck summon for follow-up; no combo evidence exists to confirm the exact sequence
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Horoscope Sorcerer or Magician of Hope style negations and Pendulum Summon the board back up, since the list has no hand traps to answer the opponent's first Normal Summon or Spell
• Recovery: Searchers (Duelist Alliance x3, Star Pendulumgraph, Supreme King Dragon Lightwurm, Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon) and Pendulum Evolution re-fill the hand; Master Spirit and Exceed the Pendulum recur Pendulum monsters from Extra Deck and GY
• After siding: None: the deck runs a 0-card Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan in a best-of-3 format

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens into a live Pendulum engine: 30 of 40 Main Deck cards are Pendulum-frame monsters, so two Pendulum-zone scale monsters are very likely in a 5-card opener (about 0.99 by hypergeometric count, Inferred), and 23 searcher-text cards give the hand a redundant route to a starter. Conversion is strong on paper because the Extra Deck holds 15 singleton cards with high-ATK payoffs and several on-field negation or destruction effects, but there is no recorded board, so the ceiling is a text read (Inferred) and the median is unknown. Survival rests on negation and removal text (11 negation-text and 26 removal-text cards) and Pendulum recursion, yet the deck runs zero hand traps and zero floodgates, so the interaction is almost entirely on-field. Popularity did not earn points: the archetype-core cards that are present were credited only as evidence of a real list, and the deck's labelled archetype (Performapal) does not match its dominant Magician core. The score comes from the system's consistency, recovery and endboard, not from averaging the cards' individual power, and the empty Side Deck caps the best-of-3 read.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange (meta-neutral: D13 dropped and remaining weights renormalised over 95). Structural ≈ 65.3, Going First ≈ 70, Going Second ≈ 64, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 57. Modifiers: weak post-side plan (-2); banlist exposure (-1); engine conflicts (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural(meta-neutral, 65.3) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(57) + ContextModifiers(-5) = 58.6, rounded to 59; Meta provisional

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.34 · key two-card combo ≈ 0.99 · 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

• Pendulum-frame density (30/40) and 23 searchers make a starter in hand very likely
• Extra Deck is fully used with high-ATK payoffs and several on-field negation or destruction effects
• Pendulum recursion (Master Spirit, Shade the Obscure, Exceed the Pendulum) gives route redundancy after disruption
• Legal in format: 40/15/0 sizes within OCG rules, Limited cards at legal single copy

Weaknesses

• Zero hand traps and zero floodgates in the Main Deck; going-second interaction is almost all on-field
• Side Deck is empty, so there is no best-of-3 adaptation
• Deck label (Performapal) does not match the dominant Magician core; archetype purity 0%
• No recorded boards, so consistency, median output and ceiling are all Inferred

Critical choke points

• A Pendulum-zone pair is the single gate to the whole Extra Deck engine; losing both zone monsters to on-field removal stalls the board
• Astrograph Sorcerer (Limited, one copy) is a key starter; losing it to banlist or single-copy draw reduces the Magician line

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in OCG: 40 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side, Astrograph Sorcerer and S:P Little Knight at 1 copy each; Composition: 30 Pendulum-frame Main monsters, 8 spells, 2 traps, 0 hand traps, 0 floodgates; Extra Deck breakdown: 4 Fusion, 3 Xyz, 6 Link, 2 Synchro, all singletons; Usage stats: 17 rows; 15 core cards with inclusion from 50% to 87.5%
• Inferred: P(at least 2 Pendulum-frame monsters in 5 cards) ≈ 0.99 (my hypergeometric from 30/40); Engine is live on T1-T2 most of the time, based on Pendulum density and 23 searchers; Going-second interaction is mostly on-field; no hand trap, so no early disruption; Ceiling read from ATK values and card text (Z-ARC, Master Spirit, Clear Wing)
• Provisional: Meta Power is null; no dated metagame sample; Matchup and format fit (D13) is a neutral placeholder
• Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference (d3 and d4 are not measured) no tournament link: archetype meta-share and pilot match record absent; Meta Power stays null usage_statistics in_this_deck flags read false for 7 Extra-Deck core cards (Exceed the Pendulum, Odd-Eyes Vortex, Odd-Eyes Absolute, Beyond the Pendulum, S:P Little Knight, Odd-Eyes Override, I:P Masquerena) that are present in cards[] with zone extra; core_present_pct 26.7 undercounts (about 11 of 15 present). Treated as an evidence-pipeline gap, not a deck fact Shade the Obscure archetype field is malformed ('| supports_archetypes Power Patron') deck.title is null and the deck label (Performapal) does not match the list's dominant archetype tag no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN