Tistina Deck #770293 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 49/100 (±7 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Tistina Level 10 Xyz pressure: Crystal God Tistina and Miasma Dragon/Demigod enable Tistina, the Divinity that Defies Darkness and other Xyz boss monsters.; Backup Xyz bosses from the Extra Deck (Mercurium, Super Dora, Garura) and direct-attack or piercing pressure.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Tistina starter (Divine Domain Baatistina or Play of the Tistina) plus a searcher, reach a Level 10 monster, and go to Xyz; the archetype core is about 78% likely to have at least one piece in the opening five.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Battle Fader, Artifact Lancea, Forbidden Droplet or Vodnika as hand interaction on a 6-card hand (about 45% for at least one hand trap), then rebuild through Tistina searchers.
• Recovery: Recover from the GY through Fallen of the Tistina, Returned of the Tistina, Mulcharmy draw effects and Sandwich Day.
• After siding: Not applicable: the deck registers no side deck, so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The deck's consistency rests on the Tistina engine: the archetype core has 14 copies and about 78% chance of at least one in the opening five, and 13 searcher-text cards add redundancy, so the opening is functional more often than not. Its interaction layer (Battle Fader, Artifact Lancea, Forbidden Droplet, Discordance, Crystal God's mass-change effect) gives real board control on both going first and second. Its closing power comes from Level 10 Xyz bosses (Tistina Divinity x2, Mercurium, Super Dora, Galaxy-Eyes Cipher X), which convert a stabilised board. The score is lowered by a diluted build (only 40% exact-archetype purity, 42 off-archetype copies), a complete absence of recorded boards, and no side deck; popularity and archetype usage were not counted as power, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: engine conflicts and dilution (-3); no side deck (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.78 · 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

• Engine has 14 archetype-core copies with about 78% opening-five coverage.
• Multiple Level 10 Xyz bosses give closing power.
• Layered interaction: hand traps, Droplet, Discordance, Crystal God mass-change, Daruma.

Weaknesses

• Only 40% exact-archetype purity; many off-archetype cards dilute the engine.
• No recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and median are unmeasured.
• No side deck registered.

Critical choke points

• Reaching a Level 10 monster to start the Tistina Xyz line depends on a small number of Level 10 cards.
• Going second, a 6-card hand has about a 45% chance of at least one hand trap.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 is within the OCG size rules (main 40-60, extra 0-15, side 0-15).; Monster Reborn is Limited with 1 copy, which is legal.; Card text and levels for the Level 10 Tistina monsters were read from the export.; Composition counts (28 exact-archetype copies, 42 off-archetype copies, 13 Xyz) were read from the export.
• Inferred: Opening-hand consistency for the Tistina engine (hypergeometric estimates).; Interaction density and resilience are read from card text, not from play data.; Going-second hand-trap coverage at about 45%.
• Provisional: Tournament reliability and meta/matchup fit scored as priors without dated data.; Meta Power left null.
• 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 absent no win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates) exists in YGOVN usage_statistics flags Tistina, the Divinity that Defies Darkness (87676171) as in_this_deck:false, but the card list has 2 copies of it; the usage flag is inconsistent with the deck and was not relied on no side deck registered, so side-deck performance cannot be assessed Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied