Light and Darkness Ritual Deck #770039 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 50/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro Summon Red Dragon Archfiend (3000 ATK) or Hot Red Dragon Archfiend Abyss / Bystial Dis Pater, supported by Resonator tuners that search and recur each other; Ritual Summon Black Chaos or Black Luster Soldier via Light and Darkness Ritual, with Magician of Dark Chaos as the backup ritual boss
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Resonator and searcher cards, use Mulcharmy or Pot draw effects to find a Tuner and a Red Dragon Archfiend route, then Synchro Summon into a 3000-ATK boss while holding Ash Blossom or Droll as protection (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Maxx C, Droll & Lock Bird and Dominus Impulse for disruption on the opponent's turn, then convert with Synchro or Ritual Summons once the board is stable (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recover Resonators and Archfiend monsters from the GY through their GY-trigger effects (Vision Resonator, Crimson Call, Synkron Resonator) and rebuild the Extra Deck boss line over two turns (Inferred)
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan; the deck cannot tune against the opponent between games (Verified)

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a connected Midrange system, not as an average of its card scores. Its consistency rests on 18 searcher-text cards and nine Resonator tuners that redirect into each other, so a starter is live in roughly 80% of opening five-card hands by the archetype-core proxy (Inferred). Its ceiling comes from Red Dragon Archfiend, Hot Red Dragon Archfiend Abyss and Bystial Dis Pater, but no recorded boards exist, so conversion and median output are text-only inferences and are kept modest. Interaction is broad (Ash Blossom x2, Maxx C, Droll, Dominus Impulse, Solemn Accusation, Gozen Match), yet the Ritual branch depends on a single Light and Darkness Ritual, which caps resilience. Popularity: the archetype core is present in the list at a high rate, which confirms the deck is real and accessible but did not earn points on its own. Meta power is null because no dated metagame sample exists, and the absence of a Side Deck holds down the adaptability score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 55.3, Going First ≈ 56, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 52. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-2); Unrecoverable choke point (-3). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers = 0.80*55.3 + 0.20*52 - 5 ≈ 50

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.8 · 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 searcher and Resonator network gives high access to the starter set
• Layered negation and hand traps (Ash Blossom x2, Maxx C, Droll, Dominus Impulse)
• Multiple 3000+ ATK Synchro and Ritual bosses give closing power
• Legal under the OCG banlist with all Limited and Semi-Limited cards at legal copy counts

Weaknesses

• No recorded combo boards, so conversion and median output are unverified
• Single-copy Light and Darkness Ritual is a fragile enabler for the Ritual branch
• No Side Deck, so the deck cannot adapt between games
• Six one-copy Limited cards increase fragility to restrictions

Critical choke points

• Light and Darkness Ritual (1 copy) for the Ritual bosses
• Red Dragon Archfiend access through Resonator and Archfiend searches

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 60 and Extra 15 legal under OCG size rules; Six Limited and two Semi-Limited cards run at legal copy counts; Extra Deck is 15 Synchro monsters including two Red Dragon Archfiend; Archetype core present at 10 of 13 usage-stat core cards
• Observed: Archetype usage statistics: Black Chaos 70%, Griffoh 73%, Mulcharmy Fuwalos 66% inclusion
• Inferred: Starter availability ≈ 0.80 in opening five; Going-first and going-second plan quality; Interaction density and brick risk from text reads
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit (no dated metagame sample); Side Deck adaptability (no post-side data)
• 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 — going-first/second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No Side Deck registered (side_count 0), so post-side performance cannot be assessed