Archfiend Deck #770017 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 55/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 46 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro Summon Red Dragon Archfiend, Red Nova Dragon, or a Red Supernova/Hypernova into a 3000+ ATK board; Synchro Summon is driven by the 13 Tuners in the Main Deck.; Crimson King and Bystial Dis Pater recursion and extra pressure from the Red Nova and Supernova Dragons once the Extra Deck is open.
• Turn 1 (going first): Turn 1: Soul Resonator, Bone Archfiend, or Crimson Gaia (searcher) to add a Red Dragon Archfiend or Resonator, then a Tuner plus a non-Tuner into a Synchro Summon on turn 2.
• Turn 2 (going second): Six-card hand with a Synchro-enabling Tuner and a searcher; Dominus Impulse or Red Dragon Archfiend's Chains to interact with a single Special Summon, then Synchro through the board. No hand traps means the going-second plan depends on the Synchro chain surviving.
• Recovery: Resonator monsters return from the GY through Synkron Resonator, Vision Resonator, Resonator Command, and Crimson Call, while Crimson Gaia and Power Vice Dragon refill the hand.
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered, so no post-side plan can be evaluated; the deck has no sideboard slots to adapt.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Synchro plan: 13 Tuners and 18 searcher-text cards give a 0.93 chance of at least one searcher in an opening hand of 5, and the Resonator core is present in about 80 percent of opening hands. Conversion is judged from text only because the export has no recorded boards, so the ceiling and median stay near the middle and are labeled Inferred. Its closing power is strong, with 3000 to 4500 ATK Synchro monsters in the Extra Deck, and it has layered recursion through the Resonator GY effects. Its weaknesses are the lack of hand traps, the limited on-board interaction (Heavy Storm, Feather Duster, Dominus Impulse, Red Zone), the conflicting Extra Deck summon restrictions that many Resonator effects impose, and the absence of any Side Deck. The score comes from consistency, closing power and resilience on the system, not from Archfiend being a popular archetype or from averaging card scores; archetype purity is only 18 percent, so the deck is a mixed Resonator and Archfiend build.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo primary, Midrange secondary; structural weights taken from the Combo profile. Structural ≈ 60.5, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-1); Engine conflicts (-2); No side deck (-2); Synchro density (1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional); 0.80*60.5 + 0.20*55 = 59.4, then -4 modifiers = 55

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.3 · 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 Tuner base (13) and Synchro count (15) give a compact engine
• Searcher density (18 text cards) gives 0.93 access to at least one searcher per opening hand
• Strong closing bodies: 3000 to 4500 ATK Synchro monsters
• Layered GY recursion for the Resonator engine

Weaknesses

• Zero hand traps and no floodgate, so going-second interaction is thin
• No Side Deck, so no adaptability
• Engine conflicts from Extra Deck summon restrictions
• Five Limited cards cap the build at single copies

Critical choke points

• A Tuner-plus-non-Tuner Synchro needs a live Tuner, so a hand without one is a brick
• Red Dragon Archfiend copies gate most of the closing plan

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status and copy limits (main 46, extra 15, side 0); Card text and ATK/DEF for Red Dragon Archfiend, Red Hypernova, Red Nova Dragon, Crimson King; Extra Deck composition: 15 Synchro
• Inferred: Starter access from the hypergeometric estimate; Interaction density from card text; Conversion ceiling from text only
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit (no dated meta sample)
• 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; going-first/second and matchup signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied usage statistics in this deck flags conflict with the card list: The Crimson King, Bystial Dis Pater, Hot Red Dragon Archfiend Abyss and Scarred Dragon Archfiend are in the deck but flagged in this deck false