Black Luster Soldier Deck #770088 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ritual-summon Black Luster Soldier - Soldier of Light and Darkness or Magician of Dark Chaos - Black Chaos via Light and Darkness Ritual, then convert the 3000-ATK body into board pressure (Inferred from card text; no recorded boards).; Dark Magician package (Dark Magician, Dark Magician Girl, Dark Magician of Destruction, Skull Archfiend of Chaos) and Link/Fusion finishers such as Perfectron Hydradrive Dragon and Underworld Goddess of the Closed World (Inferred).
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Light and Darkness Ritual or Chaos Mystic Box with searchers (Mind Shuffle, Ragged Records of Rites, Dark Magical Curtain), ritual-summon Black Chaos or Black Luster Soldier, and hold Ash Blossom / Droll / Maxx C for the next opponent response (Inferred).
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C, Nibiru, Red Reboot) respond to the opponent's first summon or search while Solemn Judgment and Skull Archfiend of Chaos rebuild the engine (Inferred).
• Recovery: Skull Archfiend of Chaos and Light and Darkness Ritual recycle from the GY, and Pot of Sloth or Dark Magical Curtain refill the hand (Inferred).
• After siding: Not available: the deck runs no Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The deck's main engine is the Light and Darkness Ritual package: the archetype core is present in about 76% of opening 5-card hands (hypergeometric, Inferred), and searchers push that to about 81%. Interaction is dense for OCG, with six hand traps, Solemn Judgment, Maxx C, Droll & Lock Bird and Red Reboot, which lifts end-board interaction quality. Conversion is the weak point: no combo boards were recorded, so the ceiling and median are text-only inferences, and the list splits across roughly 20 sub-archetypes, with 70 of 85 archetype-tagged copies outside the exact archetype name, which lowers coherence and brick tolerance. Pilotability is low and there is no Side Deck, so post-side adaptability scores near the floor. The score comes from consistency, interaction and median output on the system, not from Black Luster Soldier's popularity and not from averaging card scores. The deck is Illegal (three Forbidden cards run at full copies), so the score is capped low and the evaluation is structural-only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary; Toolbox secondary applied as a context modifier, not a weight blend. Structural ≈ 49.5, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 48, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12); illegal_deck_cap (0); hard_garnet_burden (0). Final formula: Illegal-deck cap applied: 0.80*Structural(49.5) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(40) = 47.6; modifiers -12 gives 35.6; capped to 25 because three Forbidden cards are run (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.76 · 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 (Black Chaos, Black Luster Soldier, Light and Darkness Ritual) is present in about 76% of opening hands (Inferred)
• Dense interaction: six hand traps, Solemn Judgment, Maxx C, Droll & Lock Bird, Red Reboot (Verified card text, Inferred fit)
• Searchers (15) give strong consistency to the ritual engine (Inferred)

Weaknesses

• Illegal: three Forbidden cards run at full copies (Verified)
• No Side Deck: no post-side adaptability (Verified)
• Low archetype coherence: 70 of 85 archetype-tagged copies sit outside the exact archetype name (Verified composition)
• No recorded combo boards, so conversion ceiling and median are unmeasured (Verified data gap)

Critical choke points

• Light and Darkness Ritual is the single ritual-spell route to both headline Ritual monsters; losing it to the opponent's first interaction collapses the main engine (Inferred)
• Forbidden Extra Deck cards removed from play leave the Link/Fusion finishers thin (Verified legality)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is Illegal: three Forbidden cards at full copies (legality); Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0 (within size rules); Archetype core group present at 13 copies (probabilities); Side Deck is empty (composition); No combos, tournament link or guides supplied (data gaps)
• Inferred: Consistency: P(>=1 core) ~0.76 and searcher ~0.81 (hypergeometric); Interaction density from card text (hand traps, negations, removal); Ritual conversion ceiling from card text; Pilotability estimate from step complexity
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit (D13 provisional)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link, so archetype meta-share and pilot record are absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN Meta Power is Provisional No Side Deck supplied, so post-side plan cannot be evaluated