Gladiator Beast Deck #769934 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 53/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 49 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck Fusion and Link pressure: Gladiator Beast Claudius, Domitianus, Heraklinos and Tri-Brigade Shuraig; Tri-Brigade Link chain through Fraktall, Kerass and Nervall
• Turn 1 (going first): Search with Proving Ground or Flavian, Gistel to set up the Gladiator core, then link or fuse into a boss
• Turn 2 (going second): Use one hand trap (Ash, Droll, Maxx C or Nibiru) to interrupt, then rebuild with Gistel-based Gladiator Beast summons
• Recovery: Gistel shuffles itself back to the Deck, Gladiator Beast's Comeback and Proving Ground re-search the engine from hand or GY
• After siding: None: the deck runs 0 side cards, so there is no defined post-side plan

Why it scores here

The structural score comes from the system, not from averaging card scores. The deck reliably reaches a Gladiator Beast searcher or starter (P(at least one searcher in an opening 5) is about 0.85; archetype core P(at least one in 5) is about 0.77), and its 7 hand-trap-tagged copies plus the Heraklinos, Domitianus and War Chariot negations give real interaction on both turns. The Extra Deck converts into 3000 to 3700 ATK bosses (Claudius, Domitianus, Heraklinos, Shuraig), so the ceiling is high, but no recorded boards exist, so median output and combo conversion are text-only inferences. Points are held back for the 49-card main (46 of 49 copies sit outside the exact Gladiator Beast name, 28% exact purity), the Horus sub-engine that is dead without the two King's Sarcophagus copies, the absence of a side deck, and single-copy Limited restrictions on Maxx C and Droll and Lock Bird. Popularity earned no points: usage stats show only 8 of 25 standard core cards present, which lowers confidence rather than raising the score, and the meta component stays provisional with no dated sample.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 60, Going First ≈ 61, Going Second ≈ 64, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 52. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-1); engine conflicts (-3); no side deck (-2). Final formula: 0.80*60.3 + 0.20*52 - 6 (modifiers; Meta provisional) = 52.6, rounded to 53

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.77 · 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

• Searcher density: 15 searcher-text copies give P(at least one in opening 5) about 0.85
• Interaction density: 7 hand-trap-tagged copies plus negation text on Heraklinos, Domitianus, Photon Lord and War Chariot
• High Extra Deck ceiling: Claudius 3700, Domitianus 3500, Heraklinos 3000, Shuraig 3000
• Legal at every restricted copy limit; 49/15/0 counts fall inside the OCG size rules

Weaknesses

• No side deck (0 cards), so no post-side adaptation
• Engine fragmentation: exact-name purity 28%, with Horus, Tri-Brigade, Springans and Test sub-engines run together
• Horus trio (3 copies) is dead without King's Sarcophagus (2 copies, P about 0.20 in opening 5)
• Mulcharmy Fuwalos (3 copies) needs an empty field, a conditional card in a 49-card main
• Usage-stat coverage is 8 of 25 core cards; standard staples such as Radiant Typhoon Vision and Mystical Space Typhoon are absent

Critical choke points

• King's Sarcophagus x2 gates every Horus Graveyard summon
• Gistel, Proving Ground and Flavian searches are the only route to the Gladiator core
• Limited Maxx C and Droll and Lock Bird (1 copy each) and Semi-Limited Ash (2): restriction exposure on the interaction suite

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 49 main, 15 extra, 0 side within OCG size rules; all restricted copies at legal limits; Copy histogram: 18 singles, 2 doubles, 9 triples; Hypergeometric P(at least one) values computed from the resolved list; Extra Deck stats (ATK, type, link rating); Usage stats: 8 of 25 standard core cards present
• Inferred: Engine consistency and brick rate; Interaction quality; Floor, median and ceiling output (text only); Pilotability; Going-first and going-second power estimates
• Provisional: Meta power and D13 matchup and format fit; Post-side plan (D12)
• 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 exists in YGOVN, so going-first, going-second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied no side deck: post-side performance cannot be assessed deck title is null