Black Luster Soldier Deck #769816 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 20/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 58 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ritual or Synchro/Xyz/Link boss (Black Luster Soldier, Black Chaos, Magician of Dark Chaos, Ame no Murakumo) finishing through a single 3000-ATK-class body; Stacked Extra Deck summons (Synchro, Link, Xyz) once the board is cleared by Light and Darkness Ritual or Mitsurugi removal
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Ritual starter (Light and Darkness Ritual, Mitsurugi Ritual, Pre-Preparation of Rites) and recover a Mitsurugi or Black Chaos body; the hand trap wall (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C) protects the first turn
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Droll, Maxx C) and Solemn-series negation to break the opponent's first board, then a Ritual or Extra Deck boss
• Recovery: Mulcharmy Fuwalos and Purulia draw on the opponent's summons; Mitsurugi monsters and Black Chaos recover themselves from the GY
• After siding: No side deck in the export (side_count 0); no post-side plan can be scored

Why it scores here

This list is illegal in OCG: it runs three copies of Forbidden Ame no Habakiri no Mitsurugi plus one each of Forbidden Triple Tactics Talent, Cross-Sheep and Number 60, so the score is capped at 20 and labelled structural-only. Structurally it is a four-engine toolbox (Mitsurugi, Light and Darkness Ritual, Mulcharmy, and a Synchro/Xyz/Link Extra Deck) with no side deck. The engines overlap only partly, so a Ritual starter often opens a hand whose follow-up belongs to a different engine. Interaction is the strongest area: seven hand traps and roughly eleven negation-text cards give the deck a real end-board answer. No combo boards or tournament results exist, so floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference, and no points come from the archetype's popularity or from averaging card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 40, Going First ≈ 38, Going Second ≈ 35, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 30. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12). Final formula: Illegal cap: 0.80*Structural(40) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(30) + banlist modifier(-12) = 26, capped to 20 for an Illegal list; theoretical/structural-only; Meta provisional

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.24 · 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 interaction: 7 hand traps, Solemn Judgment, Solemn Warning, Ash Blossom and Droll give several layers against the opponent's first board
• Deep searcher text (20 cards) and Pot of Prosperity keep the hand flowing
• High-ceiling closers (Black Luster Soldier, Black Chaos, Ame no Murakumo) and a full 15-card Extra Deck

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: four Forbidden cards and copy-limit violations make the list unplayable as built
• Four overlapping engines (Mitsurugi, Light and Darkness Ritual, Mulcharmy, Synchro/Xyz/Link) conflict on Ritual and Extra Deck access
• No side deck and no recorded boards, so consistency and matchup claims rest on inference

Critical choke points

• Ritual Spell access (Light and Darkness Ritual, Mitsurugi Ritual) gates most boss lines
• Forbidden Ame no Habakiri x3 is the only copy-heavy engine piece and cannot be legally run

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Four Forbidden cards over the limit (legality block); Main 58 / Extra 15 / Side 0 against OCG size rules; Card text and stats for the 36 main and 15 extra distinct cards; Archetype usage: 8 core cards present (100%)
• Inferred: Starter access and brick rate from the hypergeometric table; Interaction density from role tags and text; Going-first and going-second plans
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit (no dated meta sample; no tournament link)
• Data gaps: Deck title is null; the deck is named only by its archetype 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, going-second and matchup results unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied