Unchained Deck #769535 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Unchained Soul Lord of Yama and Unchained Soul of Anguish or Rage Link-chain into Chaos Angel, Yubel-line Fusions and Sharvara as board pressure (Inferred from card text; no recorded boards); Chaos Angel and Yubel - Terror Incarnate removal-and-attack finishers, with Mulcharmy draw engines converting spare resources into cards (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Mulcharmy or Unchained starter, use Mulcharmy draws and Ash Blossom or Maxx C to protect the first summon chain, then Link Summon into an Unchained Link (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Droll and Solemn Warning or Judgment to stop the opponent's opening, then rebuild through Unchained searches and Yubel recursion (Inferred)
• Recovery: Unchained and Yubel search effects from Deck and GY, plus Solemn and Ash redundancy, to rebuild a board after the first interruption (Inferred)
• After siding: Not applicable: the deck has no Side Deck, so no post-side plan exists

Why it scores here

The list is Illegal because it runs Varudras, the Final Bringer of the End Times, which is Forbidden in OCG, so under the rubric it is capped and scored as a theoretical, structural-only read. Structurally the deck is a Toolbox list: its interaction suite (Ash Blossom x2, Solemn Warning x2, Solemn Judgment, Dominus Impulse x2, Maxx C, Droll and Lock Bird) is the strongest part of the system and earns the most credit on end-board interaction. The Unchained and Yubel engines are real but thin: the archetype core is only about 65 percent likely to show at least one starter in an opening five, and 9 of 55 main-deck cards are Mulcharmy draw engines that go dead when the player controls cards, so the deck is weak on consistency and bricks. Its archetype purity is 8.6 percent, with 64 off-archetype copies, so the engines do not reinforce each other as a single system. The deck has no Side Deck, which removes any post-side adaptation, and there are no recorded boards, no tournament link and no win-rate data, so the score is Inferred and carries low confidence. Averaging card power was not used, and popularity or meta share did not earn points.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 47, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-6); Engine conflicts (-2). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(47) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(35) = 44.6, plus modifiers (-8) = 36.6, then capped to 30 because the list is Illegal (theoretical/structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.65 · 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 negation and hand-trap suite (Ash Blossom x2, Solemn Warning x2, Solemn Judgment, Dominus Impulse x2, Maxx C, Droll and Lock Bird)
• Two Unchained Link monsters give a Link-chain engine with Unchained searches
• Chaos Angel and Yubel Fusions provide late-game board pressure

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Forbidden Varudras must be removed before it can be played in OCG
• Mulcharmy draw engines (9 copies) are dead when the player controls cards, which makes the hand clunky
• No Side Deck, so there is no post-side adaptation
• Low archetype purity (8.6 percent) means engines do not reinforce each other

Critical choke points

• The Unchained Link starter (Lord of Yama x2, Anguish x1, Rage x1) is the only Link route, so a single hand-trap or negation on that line stops the board
• Forbidden Varudras cannot be used, and its slot cannot be replaced by a legal Extra Deck card without a rebuild

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Varudras (Forbidden, 1 copy run, 0 legal copies); Main 55 (within 40-60), Extra 15 (within 0-15), Side 0 (within 0-15); All Limited cards run at 1 copy and all Semi-Limited cards at 2 copies, within limits; Archetype purity 8.6 percent with 64 off-archetype copies
• Inferred: Consistency estimate: P(at least one archetype core card in opening 5) ≈ 0.65; Interaction density is high from negation and hand-trap text; Mulcharmy draw engines go dead when the player controls cards
• Provisional: Meta fit and matchup coverage: no dated metagame sample and no 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 match record are absent No win-rate telemetry (going first or second, matchup, brick or starter rates) Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample No Side Deck supplied, so post-side performance cannot be assessed