Charmer Deck #769649 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 50/100 (±7 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Xyz end-boards (K9 Jacks, K9 Hound, Umbral Horror Masquerade, Vallon, Durendal) backed by Charmer fusion and K9 Xyz follow-up; Charmers of the Grand Circle and Possessed Destiny - Wynn fusion boards that take control of opponent monsters
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon Spellbook Magician of Prophecy or K9-66b Lantern to search, use Spellbook of Secrets or Spellbook of the Grand Circle to add Charmers and Spellbook spells, then Xyz or Fusion Summon into a 2500-3000 ATK board
• Turn 2 (going second): Normal Summon K9 Lantern or K9-66a Jokul without Tribute once the opponent holds 2 or more cards, answer with Pair Bear Scare, Possessed Destiny, or a Xyz removal effect, and rebuild through searchers. No hand traps, so the going-second plan rests on the searcher chain.
• Recovery: Spellbook of the Grand Circle can banish from GY to Fusion Summon, Spellbook of Knowledge draws 2, and searchers rebuild the hand from the 23 searcher-text cards. Recovery is limited by the singleton Charmer supply.
• After siding: None. The deck runs 0 side cards, so there is no post-side plan and the deck cannot adapt between games.

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system: its five-plus families (Spellbook, K9, Charmer, Possessed, Rescue-ACE) share a searcher layer, so 13 starter cards across Spellbook Magician, Spellbook of Secrets, Spellbook of the Grand Circle, Chaotic Elements and Spellbook of Knowledge give roughly 88% odds of at least one live starter in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred). Its ceiling comes from Xyz and Fusion finishers at 2300-3000 ATK, but there are no recorded boards, so the median is scored low and the ceiling is not reported as the average. Interaction is layered (about 13 removal-text cards plus Xyz-based removal and one negation), which earns the end-board score. The deck loses points for having no hand traps, no side deck, Charmer support limited to singleton copies, and only 8 exact-name Charmer cards (14.5% purity), with 47 off-archetype copies. Popularity and archetype share earned nothing, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: 100% Midrange; D13 dropped and weights renormalised over 95. Structural ≈ 57, Going First ≈ 64, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 46. Modifiers: engine conflicts (-3); unrecoverable choke point (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + modifiers (Meta provisional; no dated meta sample)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.88 · 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 searcher layer: 23 searcher-text cards and 13 starters across several families
• Xyz finishers at 2300-3000 ATK with multiple removal and negation effects on the Extra Deck
• Spellbook of the Grand Circle can add 4 Charmers and recur banished Charmers to the Extra Deck
• Legal in OCG format with all restricted cards at their legal limit of 1

Weaknesses

• No side deck (0 cards), so the deck cannot adapt between games
• No hand traps or floodgates, weakening going-second interaction
• Four of four archetype core cards (Droll & Lock Bird, S:P Little Knight, Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring, Mulcharmy Fuwalos) are absent
• Only 8 exact-name Charmer cards (14.5% purity); the Charmer name is not the deck's engine
• Rescue-ACE cards (4) have little connection to the rest of the deck

Critical choke points

• Spellbook of the Grand Circle requires 4 different-attribute Charmer monsters outside the Extra Deck; main-deck Charmers are singletons
• K9 Xyz summons require 2 Level 5 materials; 9 Level 5 main-deck monsters, with several of them singletons

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal OCG list: 40 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side; no violations; A Case for K9 and K9-66a Jokul are Limited, each run at legal limit 1; Card text for 26 main and 13 extra distinct cards; Four core usage cards absent (0 of 4)
• Observed: Usage stats show the archetype core is absent from this list
• Inferred: P(at least one starter) = 0.88 in 5 cards, 0.92 in 6 cards; Engine accessibility, brick risk, and interaction density read from card text; Going-second strength from hypergeometric draws and card text
• Provisional: D13 matchup and format fit (no dated meta sample); Meta Power (null); D4 combo median (no combos)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied, so combo floor, median, and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot records are absent No win-rate telemetry; going-first/second and matchup rates are unknown Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample