Lightsworn Deck #770274 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 20/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro beatdown from Dark Armed Dragon, Goyo Guardian, Colossal Fighter, Dark End Dragon and Blackwing Armor Master once a Synchro is summoned, with generic card draw and removal supporting it; Stardust Dragon and Black Rose Dragon as board-wide or removal-backed closers; Blackwing Armed Wing as piercing pressure
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Solar Recharge, Trade-In or Upstart Goblin for density, then hope to land a Tuner (Blackwing - Vayu, Plaguespreader Zombie or Trap Eater) with a Level 4-6 non-Tuner for a T1 Synchro; the hand is more likely to be generic spells than a live engine
• Turn 2 (going second): Use D.D. Crow, Mystical Space Typhoon, Heavy Storm, Nobleman of Crossout and Lightning Vortex to clear the opponent's board, then rebuild with draws and a Synchro. The 6-card hand gives slightly better starter odds than going first
• Recovery: Upstart Goblin, Trade-In and Card Destruction refill the hand; Sangan, Charge of the Light Brigade and Reinforcement of the Army are the only searchers
• After siding: Not assessable: the deck has no side deck (0 cards), so no post-side plan exists

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system and not as an average of its card scores. Only 6 of 55 Main Deck cards are exact Lightsworn names (8.6% exact purity), and the rest is spread across Blackwing, Chaos, Grepher, D.D., Armed Dragon, Cyber Dragon and several one-card synchro targets. The engines therefore conflict. Probability is weak: each 3-copy engine card has about a 25% chance of appearing in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred). The deck has a real interaction suite (Mystical Space Typhoon, Heavy Storm, D.D. Crow, Nobleman of Crossout, Lightning Vortex, Twister), so it can clear boards, and it has enough 2800-ATK synchro closers. Popularity and usage statistics did not earn points: the Lightsworn core is only 40% present. The Giant Trunade copy is Forbidden, so the list is Illegal and the score is capped at 20.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox primary, Midrange secondary (not applied; structural uses Toolbox only). Structural ≈ 39, Going First ≈ 33, Going Second ≈ 38, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 30. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-6); engine conflicts (-4); no side deck (-2). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(39) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(30) + modifiers(-12) = 25, then capped at 20 because the deck is Illegal (theoretical/structural-only)

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

• Dense removal and negation: MST, Heavy Storm, Twister, D.D. Crow, Nobleman of Crossout, Lightning Vortex and Royal Decree
• Several high-ATK synchro closers in the Extra Deck (Dark Armed Dragon-level bodies, Goyo Guardian, Colossal Fighter, Dark End Dragon, Blackwing Armor Master)
• Draw-based refill via Trade-In, Solar Recharge and Upstart Goblin

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Giant Trunade is Forbidden and is run as a copy
• Low archetype coherence (8.6% exact purity), so three to four engines compete
• No Side Deck at all in a format that allows 15
• Low starter access: each 3-copy engine card has about a 25% chance to be in a 5-card opening hand

Critical choke points

• Tuner availability for each synchro (few Tuners in the Main Deck)
• Special Summon-only monsters that need specific GY or hand conditions
• No searcher beyond three low-power searches

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Giant Trunade is Forbidden and over the copy limit; the list status is Illegal; Main Deck size is 55 (legal range 40 to 60), Extra is 15 (legal range 0 to 15), Side is 0 (legal range 0 to 15); Exact archetype purity is 8.6% (6 of 70 archetype-relevant copies); Limited cards (Allure of Darkness, Card Destruction, Foolish Burial, Heavy Storm, Reinforcement of the Army) are run at 1 copy, which is legal
• Inferred: Starter access about 25% per 3-copy card in a 5-card hand (hypergeometric); Engine conflict and brick risk from mixed archetypes and Special Summon conditions; Interaction density is strong from card-text roles (24 removal, 6 negation)
• Provisional: Meta fit and format relevance (no dated metagame sample supplied)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied, so floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link, so meta-share and per-pilot record are absent No win-rate telemetry exists (going-first, going-second, matchup, brick, starter rates) Meta Power is Provisional because no dated metagame sample was supplied The deck has no side deck, so no post-side evaluation is possible