Nordic Deck #770196 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 34/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 10 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro Summon a large Extra Deck monster (Odin, Thor, Loki, Leo, Ascension Sky Dragon) from a Nordic/Aesir board built by searcher-driven Normal Summons.; Board pressure from Nordic Beast and Alfar Synchro plays with Tyr and The Nordic Lights to protect the field.
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon a Nordic searcher (Dverg, Svartalf, Ljosalf) to add a second Nordic, then Synchro Summon from the field. Set Nordic Relic traps as backup.
• Turn 2 (going second): Respond to the opponent's board with Forbidden Chalice, Forbidden Lance, Dark Hole, or Nordic Relic Laevateinn, then rebuild through Monster Reborn or Mimir's GY recursion.
• Recovery: Recursion through Mimir (GY revive), Nordic Relic searchers returning relics from the GY, and Dverg/Draupnir's GY add-to-hand effects.
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so no post-side plan is possible. Best-of-3 play is unsupported as built.

Why it scores here

The deck is Illegal in OCG because Beelze of the Diabolic Dragons is Forbidden and is run as a Synchro in the Extra Deck, so it receives a capped structural-only read rather than a normal final score. Its Nordic searchers (eight searcher-text cards, P(at least one in a 5-card hand) ≈ 0.69) give a reasonable chance of a live T1 plan, but the core Nordic engine is only partly matched by exact-name cards (52% purity) and two Aesir/Nordic lines split the engine. Interaction is the strongest area: Dark Hole, Forbidden Chalice and Lance, Laevateinn, Gungnir, and Loki's negate give real end-board breadth. The deck has no recorded combos, no side deck, and no tournament data, so the floor and median are text-based inference only. The score was not obtained by averaging card scores, and the Nordic archetype's usage data does not raise it because only one of its 12 core cards is present.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 45, Going First ≈ 45, Going Second ≈ 40, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 38. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-10); no Side Deck (0). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) = 43.6, then Illegal banlist modifier -10 → 34 (capped low, structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.24 · 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

• Eight searcher-text cards give a reasonable chance of a live first turn
• Broad interaction suite: Dark Hole, Laevateinn, Gungnir, Forbidden Chalice/Lance and Loki's negate
• Strong Extra Deck end-boards at Level 8–10 (Odin, Thor, Loki, Leo, Ascension Sky Dragon)

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG because Beelze of the Diabolic Dragons is Forbidden
• Only 52% exact-name Nordic purity; the Aesir/Nordic split weakens the engine
• Eleven set-only Traps and 22 level-0 Spell/Trap slots raise dead-draw risk
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation

Critical choke points

• Forbidden Beelze occupies an Extra Deck slot and makes the list illegal until it is replaced
• Nordic searchers are the only route to a live turn; a small number of searchers means the start depends on drawing them

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is Illegal: Beelze of the Diabolic Dragons (Forbidden, 1 copy in the Extra Deck); Main 40 / Extra 10 / Side 0; sizes are within OCG size rules; Monster Reborn is Limited, 1 copy, legal; Exact-name purity 52%; 8 searcher-text cards
• Inferred: Opening-hand searcher probability ≈ 0.69 (hypergeometric); Interaction density is broad from card text (Dark Hole, Laevateinn, Gungnir, Chalice/Lance, Loki negate); Dead-draw risk from 11 set-only Traps and 22 level-0 Spell/Trap slots
• Provisional: Meta Power is null: no dated metagame sample; Matchup and format-fit scores have no tournament data
• Data gaps: No combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent No side deck; post-side adaptability cannot be measured No win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchup or brick rates