Forbidden Deck #769576 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 12 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck Fusion, Xyz and Link boss monsters (Predaplant Triphyoverutum, Super Starslayer TY-PHON - Sky Crisis, Starving Venom Fusion Dragon) reached through Fusion Summon and tech/hand-trap interaction (Inferred); Floodgate and hand-trap control via Inspector Boarder, There Can Be Only One and the hand-trap suite (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a playable hand with a Fusion or Xyz starter where possible, keep one hand trap (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx "C") up for the opponent's first Special Summon or search, then develop through Pot of Extravagance or Pot of Desires for card flow (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the six-card hand to hold one or two hand traps and respond to the opponent's first board; floodgates and Solemn Accusation carry the middle game (Inferred)
• Recovery: Rebuild through Pot draws and remaining hand traps; there is no searcher or recursion text in the main deck, so recovery depends on draw effects (Inferred)
• After siding: None: the deck runs 0 side cards, so there is no post-side plan (Verified from composition)

Why it scores here

The deck is illegal in its format: Number 60: Dugares the Timeless is Forbidden in OCG and sits in the Extra Deck, so the list is capped and scored as a theoretical, structural-only read. Structurally it is a toolbox of seven hand traps, four floodgate or tech cards and a Fusion-heavy Extra Deck with Predaplant, Venom and Starslayer bosses, which earns the interaction and resilience dimensions (D5, D7, D8) rather than any combo credit. There are no recorded boards, so the ceiling and median scores (D3, D4) are text-only inference and are kept low. Popularity did not earn points: the archetype usage rows only confirm that the core hand traps are common, and the card scores were not averaged into the deck score. The zero-card Side Deck removes any post-side plan (D12), which costs the Tournament Reliability and the modifiers.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 50.3, Going First ≈ 48, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 38. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-8); weak_post_side_plan (-4). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); 0.8*50.3 + 0.2*38 = 47.8, context modifiers -12 (clamped to the -12 floor), pre-cap 35.8, Illegal cap applied, final 30

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ — · 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

• Seven hand traps and four floodgate or tech cards give broad interaction
• Fusion, Xyz and Link Extra Deck bosses provide high-ATK closers
• Hand traps remain live when going second

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Number 60 is Forbidden and must be removed
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptation
• No combo evidence, so ceiling and median are unverified
• Heavy Fusion dependence (9 Fusion monsters) with no searcher or recursion text

Critical choke points

• Forbidden Number 60 occupies an Extra Deck slot and makes the list illegal
• Fusion-heavy Extra Deck needs Fusion Summon enablers that the main deck does not reliably supply

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Number 60: Dugares the Timeless is Forbidden and in the Extra Deck, making the deck illegal; Main 40, Extra 12, Side 0; Main and Extra sizes are within the OCG size rules; Four Limited cards and four Semi-Limited cards are within their copy limits; Composition: 7 hand traps, 4 floodgates, 18 tech, 9 Fusion, 2 Xyz, 1 Link
• Observed: Archetype usage rows show the core hand traps as common (Ash Blossom 78%, Droll & Lock Bird 56%)
• Inferred: Hand-trap and floodgate interaction is the primary plan; Starter and brick estimates from probability tables and text; Going-second hand-trap availability at P = 0.71
• Provisional: Format fit and meta position, which need a dated metagame sample; Tournament reliability, which has no match record
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN for this deck Deck title is null and the archetype field reads Forbidden, which does not match the card archetypes Side Deck is empty, so post-side plans cannot be evaluated Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied