Black Luster Soldier Deck #770019 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 47 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 5 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ritual or Fusion Summon a 3000-ATK boss (Black Luster Soldier, Black Chaos, Chaos Angel or Dark Paladin) and push damage through a one-sided board; Dark Magician Girl / Dark Magician Pharaoh pressure via Dark Magician-named summons and Fusion boss recursion
• Turn 1 (going first): Ragged Records or Light and Darkness Ritual searches a ritual monster, Griffoh or Skull Archfiend recycles the GY into the starter, then Black Chaos or BLS lands a 3000-ATK boss; hand traps protect the T1 line
• Turn 2 (going second): Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle or Maxx C answer the opponent's board-building; Mind Mirror Force or Spell Shattering Sword clear face-up backrow; the ritual boss is then summoned on the next turn
• Recovery: Skull Archfiend and Magician of Dark Chaos can rebuild from the GY and banish zone; Mind Shuffle and Light and Darkness Ritual re-fetch the ritual pieces
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has zero Side Deck cards, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The score reflects the deck as a system and is capped because the list is illegal in OCG: five Forbidden cards (Magicians' Souls, Charmer Quartet in Bloom, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Baronne de Fleur, Albion the Branded Dragon) are run at one copy each. The archetype core (Black Luster Soldier and Black Chaos) is reliably reachable, with about 79% odds of at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred), and about 94% odds of a searcher. Its ceiling comes from several 3000-ATK ritual and fusion bosses backed by four hand traps and removal text, which earns the interaction and closing dimensions. No recorded boards, tournament data or side deck exist, so median output, going-second performance and matchup fit are inferred or provisional and lower confidence. Popularity was not credited, and no card scores were averaged. The illegal copy count and the empty side deck pull the final score down.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 58, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-10); no_side_deck (-2). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 0.80*58 + 0.20*45 - 12 = 43.4, then capped at 35 as an Illegal list (theoretical/structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.79 · 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

• Archetype core and searcher density give high access to the engine
• Four hand traps and layered negate/removal text provide interaction
• Multiple 3000+ ATK ritual and fusion bosses give closing power

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: five Forbidden cards are run
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Heavy Extra Deck and ritual requirements raise pilot complexity

Critical choke points

• Light and Darkness Ritual or a ritual monster in hand for the T1 boss line
• Forbidden Extra Deck cards removed, which would break the fusion and link lines that depend on them

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 47 and Extra 15 within size rules; Five Forbidden cards run at 1 copy each (illegal); Ash Blossom and The Fallen & The Virtuous run 2 copies, within Semi-Limited limit; Side deck is empty
• Inferred: At least one core card in a 5-card opening hand ≈ 0.79; Ritual boss ceiling from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit (no dated meta sample); Median combo output (no recorded boards)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: 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 or matchups No side deck: post-side plan cannot be evaluated Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample