Paleozoic Deck #769556 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 52/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Paleozoic Xyz boards (Anomalocaris 2400 ATK, Opabinia) fed by trap-based graveyard recursion of Paleozoic traps re-summoned as Normal Monsters; Link and Xyz boards from Cambroraster, Gorgon, Unicorn, Phoenix and Toadally Awesome; generic Trap interaction carries the board
• Turn 1 (going first): Set and activate Paleozoic traps to fill the GY, then Special Summon recursive Paleozoic monsters to reach Xyz or Link material
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Mirror Force, Drowning Mirror Force, Songs of the Dominators and Dominus Spark to answer the opponent's board, then rebuild with recursive Paleozoic traps
• Recovery: Recycle destroyed or activated Paleozoic traps from the GY as Normal Monsters and use Opabinia's search to refill traps
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered, so no post-side plan exists; the deck cannot adapt between games

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system: a 40-card Midrange shell of 36 traps, most of them Paleozoic recursive traps that can be re-summoned from the graveyard, backed by a 15-card Extra Deck of Xyz and Link finishers. At least one archetype-named card is in the opening 5 about 94% of the time (Inferred), but any single named starter is only about 34% going first, so reliable starts depend on trap activations rather than a guaranteed summon. Interaction is the strongest part: Mirror Force, Drowning Mirror Force, Infinite Impermanence, Songs of the Dominators, Dominus Spark and Trap Holic cover much of the field, and recursive traps make the deck resilient to one interruption. The weaknesses are the absence of recorded combo boards, a zero-card Side Deck that leaves no post-side plan, and Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS, whose Level 12 Xyz route is hard to meet with this main deck. Popularity did not earn points, and no card scores were averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 59, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: No side deck (-3); Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS dead slot (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.94 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.06 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense, layered interaction: Mirror Force, Drowning Mirror Force, Infinite Impermanence, Songs of the Dominators, Dominus Spark, Trap Holic
• Recursive Paleozoic traps give graveyard redundancy after disruption
• High archetype-core presence: at least one core card in about 94% of openings (Inferred)

Weaknesses

• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Trap-heavy hands need activations before they become functional; brick risk is high
• Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS has a Level 12 summon route the main deck cannot meet
• No recorded combo boards, so the ceiling and median are text-only

Critical choke points

• Paleozoic trap activation is needed to reach the graveyard for recursion; a hand without a live trap or summon line stalls
• Opabinia and Anomalocaris as the Xyz finishers; loss of the Xyz route removes the board-breaking plan

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 40, Extra 15, Side 0 are legal under OCG size rules; Linkuriboh is Limited with 1 copy, legal; 36 traps, 4 effect monsters, 15 Extra cards
• Inferred: Starter probabilities from the hypergeometric table; Interaction density from card text; Zeus Level 12 summon route is unmet by the main deck
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit: no dated metagame 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 usage_statistics marks Paleozoic Opabinia, Anomalocaris, Downerd Magician, Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS, Toadally Awesome, Ninja Shadow Mosquito and Paleozoic Cambroraster as in_this_deck:false even though they are in the Extra Deck list; the stat matching appears to ignore Extra cards, so the core-coverage percentage is unreliable No win-rate telemetry in YGOVN; all consistency claims are Inferred Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample