Vanquish Soul Deck #770622 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Vanquish Soul boss monsters (Caesar Valius, Heavy Borger, Jiaolong, Rocks in the Extra Deck) and K9 Xyz monsters that close the board after a hand-trap-protected summon chain.; Xyz pressure from K9-X Forced Release and K9-66X Jacks, and Vanquish Soul Hollie Sue control effects.
• Turn 1 (going first): Opening-hand Vanquish Soul searchers (Dr. Mad Love, Razen, Vanquish Soul Start!) to reach Vanquish Soul summons, with Mulcharmy draw monsters as backup.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Droll & Lock Bird) and Solemn Strike/Judgment to stop the opponent's first summon, then a Vanquish Soul board.
• Recovery: Re-searching with Vanquish Soul searchers and Stake your Soul! after hand traps are spent; Mulcharmy monsters refill the hand when the field is empty.
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so no post-side plan can be assessed.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens an archetype starter: the Vanquish Soul core (26 copies) gives about a 97% chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand, though this is a hypergeometric estimate (Inferred). Seven hand traps and two Solemn cards give it a real interruption layer, which supports the endboard and resilience scores. There is no recorded combo data, so the ceiling and median scores are text-only inference and are kept moderate. The side deck is empty and the list breaks three copy limits, so it is scored as a theoretical structure and capped low. Popularity and archetype usage did not earn points, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 51, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Illegal copy limits and banlist exposure (-10). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(51) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) = 49.8; -10 illegal copy-limit modifier gives about 40; capped to 35 because the list is Illegal (theoretical/structural-only score)

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

• Large archetype core (26 Vanquish Soul/K9/Mulcharmy copies) gives high access to a starter in the opening hand.
• Seven hand traps and two Solemn cards give layered interaction.
• Extra Deck bosses reach 2600 to 3300 ATK.

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: three cards exceed their copy limits and one is Limited with three copies.
• No side deck, so no best-of-3 adaptation.
• Only 28.6% exact-name archetype purity, with 50 off-archetype copies, which weakens engine coherence.
• No recorded combos, so the conversion ceiling and median are unverified.

Critical choke points

• Hand-trap and searcher density depends on Ash Blossom and Razen copies that the format does not allow.
• Most Extra Deck bosses need specific Vanquish Soul or K9 material, so one missing engine piece can strand the board.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0 (within TCG size rules); Ash Blossom 3 vs 2, Razen 3 vs 1, Izuna 3 vs 2 copy-limit violations; Exact-name archetype purity 28.6%
• Observed: No combo boards or tournament results recorded
• Inferred: Opening-hand starter access ≈ 0.97 for the archetype core group (hypergeometric); Hand-trap coverage and interaction density; Brick and redundancy estimates
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit (no dated metagame sample)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied, so combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference. No tournament link, so archetype meta-share and pilot results are absent. No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN for this deck. No side deck registered, so post-side adaptability cannot be assessed. Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied.