Kashtira Deck #770200 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck K9 / Fur Hire boards (K9-X Werewolf, K9-66X Jacks, Chaos Angel, Super Starslayer TY-PHON, Donner, Folgo) built from a stream of Fur Hire and K9 searches, with hand traps protecting the first summon.; Chaos Angel and Number C104 Masquerade Victory as Extra Deck boss threats once their materials are on the field.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a K9 or Fur Hire starter (searchers cover 88% of 5-card hands), search a second Level 5 body, Special Summon through Fur Hire monster effects, and reach an Xyz or Link boss by turn 2 while holding Ash or Izuna for the opponent's first response.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 6-card hand to present a hand trap (75% chance of at least one in 6 cards: Ash, Izuna, Droll, Kuriboh, D.D. Crow, Ghost Belle) to answer the opponent's first board, then rebuild with Fur Hire summons from hand and GY.
• Recovery: Recover from a broken first turn through Fur Hire GY effects (Rex, Ride Fur Hire, Mayhem Fur Hire, Filo, Beat, Recon, Donpa) that re-Special Summon from the Graveyard, plus Fandora and Forbidden Droplet as a second wave of interaction.
• After siding: No side deck is registered (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan. Best-of-3 play would need a 15-card side built before this list can be scored as a tournament deck.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a functional turn: 20 searcher effects give about 88% odds of at least one searcher in a 5-card opening hand, and the Fur Hire and K9 monsters provide repeatable summons. It converts that opening into Extra Deck pressure through K9 and Link bosses, but the 7 archetype-core K9 copies give only about 47% odds of appearing in the opening hand, and four of the seven typical Kashtira core cards are absent. Interaction is the strongest part of the system: 12 hand traps and several floodgate-style negations give roughly 75% odds of a hand trap on the going-second 6-card hand, and Forbidden Crown, Solemn Accusation and the Bystial banish effects add end-board answers. The score is capped because the list is illegal: three Ash Blossom and Izuna copies exceed OCG Semi-Limited limits, Droll exceeds its Limited limit, and Called by the Grave is Forbidden. Popularity and the Kashtira name earned no points, and the score comes from the system's consistency, interaction and resilience, not from averaging card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Banlist and copy-limit exposure (-8); Fragmented engine (-4). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(55) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) = 53 theoretical; context modifiers total -12; Illegal cap applied to 35 (no normal Final Contextual score)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.88 · 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 engine (20 searcher effects) gives reliable access to Fur Hire and K9 starters
• 12 hand traps with 75% odds of one on going second
• Layered end-board interaction: Forbidden Crown, Solemn Accusation, Bystial banishes and Xyz destroy effects
• Multiple Extra Deck boss routes at 3000+ ATK

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: copy-limit violations on four distinct cards
• Only about half of hands contain a K9 core card
• Four of seven typical Kashtira core cards are missing despite the Kashtira label
• No side deck, so no post-side plan
• Heavy off-archetype spread lowers engine coherence

Critical choke points

• Hand-trap timing for the first summon (Ash, Izuna, Droll, Kuriboh, Ghost Belle)
• Fur Hire GY re-summon effects after a broken first turn
• Single Extra Deck boss lines that depend on specific materials

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 60 and Extra 15 counts meet OCG size rules; Four copy-limit violations: Ash Blossom 3/2, K9-17 Izuna 3/2, Droll 2/1, Called by the Grave 1/0; Searcher text on 20 cards and hand-trap text on 12 cards; Usage shows 4 of 7 core cards absent
• Inferred: Searcher access ≈ 0.88 in 5-card hands; Core K9 odds ≈ 0.47 open; Hand-trap odds ≈ 0.75 in 6-card hands; Structural 55 from D1–D14 under the Midrange profile
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); D13 matchup and format fit
• 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 this deck No side deck, so no post-side evidence Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample