Gem-Knights Deck #769728 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 20/100 (±6 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, FTK / Alternate-Win
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 16 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion and Link pressure from Gem-Knight and Darklord Extra Deck monsters, backed by Power Patron and Melodious boss monsters (theoretical, structural read only); Vidolium the Unstable Power Patron of Unity 5000 ATK and Darklord Morningstar / Eveningstar 3000 ATK bodies
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Gem-Knight searcher with Gem-Knight Dispersion or Gem-Knight Nepyrim, then Fusion Summon from the Extra Deck; hand traps are held for the opponent's turn
• Turn 2 (going second): Ash Blossom, Herald of Orange Light, Maxx C and Droll & Lock Bird as the interaction layer, with Gem-Knight Hollowcore and Quartz as bodies
• Recovery: Gem-Knight Fusion and Brilliant Fusion recur from the GY; Banishment of the Darklords and Darklord Dance refill the hand
• After siding: Not assessable: the list has no Side Deck (0 cards), so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

This list is illegal in OCG: it runs one copy of Saryuja Skull Dread, which is Forbidden, and its Extra Deck holds 16 cards against a limit of 15. Under the rubric it therefore gets only a capped, structural-only score. The main deck splits across three sub-archetypes (Gem-, Darklord and Melodious) with no exact-name core, so the engine has several starters but weak cohesion between them. Starter access is reasonable on paper (about 0.34 to open a copy-3 starter in five cards), but the 19 zero-level cards and the 18 spells push brick risk up. No combo boards, tournament link, or side deck were supplied, so the floor, median and ceiling are text-only inferences. Popularity and archetype standing did not earn points, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: balanced. Structural ≈ 42, Going First ≈ 42, Going Second ≈ 38, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: Illegal list cap (-8); Banlist exposure (-4). Final formula: Illegal cap: theoretical structural-only. Unclamped 0.80*Structural(42) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(35) = 40.6, with modifiers -12 gives 28.6; capped to 20 because the deck is Illegal (Forbidden card and Extra Deck over limit).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.34 · 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 text (20 cards) and a 0.98 chance of at least one searcher in five cards
• Multiple negation and hand-trap options (Ash Blossom, Herald of Orange Light, Maxx C, Droll & Lock Bird, Herald of Mirage Lights)
• High-ATK closers available in the Extra Deck (Vidolium 5000 ATK, Morningstar and Eveningstar 3000 ATK)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: a Forbidden card and an Extra Deck one over the OCG limit
• Three archetypes with no exact-name core; only 0% exact Gem-Knight purity
• No side deck, so there is no best-of-3 adaptation
• 18 spells and 19 zero-level cards raise brick risk

Critical choke points

• Extra Deck fusion materials, which are mostly one-of cards
• Gem-Knight Fusion and Brilliant Fusion as the single Fusion route
• Forbidden Saryuja Skull Dread must be removed before the list is playable

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Saryuja Skull Dread (Forbidden) run 1 copy; Extra Deck 16 vs OCG limit 15; Main 40 with 27 distinct cards; 18 Spells; 19 zero-level; No side deck (0 cards); Hypergeometric: copy-3 at least one in hand5 = 0.3376
• Inferred: Starter consistency and brick rate; Floor, median and ceiling estimates; Interaction density from card text (5 hand traps, 7 negation texts); Going-second and recovery plans
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit and format fit
• 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 No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates) Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No side deck, so post-side performance cannot be assessed