Vanquish Soul Deck #770233 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Vanquish Soul boss monsters (Caesar Valius, Heavy Borger, Vanquish Soul Rocks) and K9 Xyz monsters, reached through Vanquish Soul starters and Stake your Soul! / Start! searches.; Hand-trap-supported interaction (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Droll & Lock Bird) that protects the board while the engine assembles.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Vanquish Soul Dr. Mad Love or Jiaolong, search a Vanquish Soul monster or Start!, then Special Summon through Stake your Soul! toward a Rank 4 or Link 1 Vanquish Soul.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Infinite Impermanence or Droll & Lock Bird to answer the opponent's first summon, then rebuild through Vanquish Soul searchers.
• Recovery: Recover from a negated starter by using a second Vanquish Soul hand-revealing Special Summon (Hollie Sue, Pantera) and K9-X Forced Release to rebuild a board.
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan; the deck cannot change its answers between games.

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system: an Illegal OCG list (four copy-limit or banlist violations, including one Forbidden card) caps the result at 30 and makes the evaluation theoretical and structural only. Its strongest reliable feature is the Vanquish Soul starter package: the hypergeometric estimate puts the archetype core at about 98% to have at least one card in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred), so the engine usually becomes live. Interaction is dense, with 13 hand traps, 9 negation texts and 15 removal texts, which earns the going-second and endboard interaction scores. Those scores are held back by a 31% exact-archetype purity (48 off-archetype copies across K9, Mulcharmy, Bystial, Greed, Harpie and others), which creates engine conflicts and brick risk, and by the lack of any Side Deck or recorded combo boards. Popularity and archetype usage did not earn points; the usage statistics only show that the core is real and accessible, and card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 53, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-10); no side deck (-2). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability = 51.4 before modifiers; modifiers total -12 gives 39.4, then capped to 30 because the list is Illegal (Triple Tactics Talent is Forbidden; four copy-limit violations).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.25 · 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 is almost always present in the opening hand (≈98%, Inferred), so the engine usually comes online.
• Dense hand-trap and negation package (13 hand traps, 9 negation texts) gives good going-second interaction.
• Broad Xyz and Link Extra Deck coverage with several 3000-ATK boss options.

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: four copy-limit violations and one Forbidden card.
• Low exact-archetype purity (31%) with 48 off-archetype copies, creating engine conflicts and brick risk.
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adjustment and no matchup flexibility.
• No recorded combos or tournament data, so the score rests on text and probability inference.

Critical choke points

• Any opening that lacks a Vanquish Soul starter, since most lines depend on a Level 4 or 5 Vanquish Soul search.
• Forbidden Triple Tactics Talent and over-limit Razen, Izuna and Ash Blossom must be removed before the list can be played.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Illegal (four violations, one Forbidden card).; Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0; within OCG size rules for Main and Extra.; Archetype core ≈ 0.977 in a 5-card hand (hypergeometric).; Archetype purity 31.4% (22 of 70 exact-archetype copies).
• Inferred: Starter access and brick risk from probability and card text.; Interaction quality from negation and removal text counts.; Going-second and endboard quality from hand-trap group probability.; Combo ceiling and floor from text only (no recorded boards).
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample).; Matchup and format fit (D13).
• 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 are absent. No win-rate telemetry: going-first, going-second and matchup rates are unknown. Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied. No Side Deck, so post-side performance cannot be assessed.