Lightsworn Deck #769920 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck boss monsters (Judgment Dragon, Punishment Dragon, Michael, Minerva, Scarlight Red Dragon Archfiend) reached through Lightsworn search and recursion engines; Fiendsmith Fusion pressure via Fiendsmith's Tract and Fiendsmith's Lacrima, which are restricted and cannot be run at this copy count
• Turn 1 (going first): Solar Recharge or Raiden or Dragonling to fuel the GY, then Weiss or Felis to reach a level-matched Synchro or Xyz boss
• Turn 2 (going second): Skull Meister (x2) as a hand-trap negation on the opponent's setup, then the same Lightsworn engine as the going-first line
• Recovery: Lightsworn GY-recursion (Dragonling, Weiss, Raiden, Michael) and Charge of the Light Brigade to rebuild a searcher-to-boss line
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so no post-side plan can be evaluated

Why it scores here

The deck's Midrange engine is built on Lightsworn searchers and GY recursion: 16 searcher-text cards give about 0.83 odds of at least one searcher in an opening 5, and the 9-card archetype core gives about 0.61 odds of at least one core card in hand. The Lightsworn GY effects (Dragonling, Weiss, Raiden) keep resources recycling after an interruption, and the Extra Deck of Synchro and Xyz bosses supplies 3000-ATK closing pressure. Interaction is broad, with 9 negation and 19 removal-text cards plus two Skull Meister hand traps that matter on the going-second turn. The score comes from the system: engine access, recursion, and interaction on the list as a whole, not an average of card scores, and popularity in the archetype did not earn points. The deck is illegal in OCG on four counts (two Limited cards over limit and two Forbidden Extra Deck monsters), so the score is capped at 25 and the evaluation is structural only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, Toolbox secondary; disclosed as 100% Midrange weights for scoring. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-12). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(55) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) = 53; modifiers -12 (banlist exposure) = 41; Illegal cap applied, final = 25

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.61 · 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 Lightsworn searcher and recursion engine (16 searcher-text cards)
• Broad interaction package including two Skull Meister hand traps
• Multiple 3000-ATK Extra Deck boss options

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: two Limited cards over limit and two Forbidden Extra Deck monsters
• No side deck registered, so best-of-3 adaptability is unscored
• High off-archetype density (about 67% of Main cards outside the exact Lightsworn name)

Critical choke points

• Lightsworn searchers and GY recursion as the single route to each Extra Deck boss
• Skull Meister as the only going-second hand-trap answer

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 55 and Extra 15 counts are within the OCG size rules; Four copy-limit violations (Engraver, Tract, Crystal Wing, Caesar); Forbidden status on Crystal Wing and Caesar; Limited status on Engraver, Tract and Lacrima
• Inferred: Core set P(at least one in 5-card hand) about 0.61; Searcher density gives about 0.83 odds of a searcher in opening hand; Interaction density from card text (9 negation, 19 removal); Going-first and going-second scores from hand-trap and plan read
• Provisional: Meta and format fit (D13) lacks a dated sample; Side deck adaptability (D12) cannot be scored without a side list
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchup, or brick rate Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample No side deck registered