Vanquish Soul Deck #770631 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Tempo
• 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 monster beats from Xyz and Link extension, with Vanquish Soul Caesar Valius (3000 ATK) and Heavy Borger (2500 ATK) as the main bodies; K9 Xyz pressure (K9-X Ripper/M 3100 ATK, K9-66X Jacks 2600 ATK) and Divine-free Xyz boards
• Turn 1 (going first): Turn 1 Vanquish Soul search via Vanquish Soul Start!, Dr. Mad Love or Razen, then a Special Summon chain into an Xyz or Link Summon. Structural only: no combo data supplied.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Droll & Lock Bird) and Raigeki/Lightning Storm to answer the opponent's board, then rebuild through Mulcharmy draw effects. Structural only.
• Recovery: Mulcharmy Fuwalos and Purulia draw effects plus Shared Ride and Stake your Soul! recycle the hand; the Xyz extra deck supplies a second board if the first is cleared.
• After siding: Not evaluable: side_count is 0, so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The score comes from the deck as a system: the Vanquish Soul core is very likely to be live in the opening hand (archetype core P≈0.97 at least one in 5 cards), and the searcher text group is similarly reachable, so the engine opens reliably on paper. Interaction is dense (18 removal-text cards, 9 negation-text cards, 7 hand traps, plus Raigeki, Lightning Storm and Feather Duster), which supports a going-second plan and keeps the end-board resilient. The Extra Deck gives two independent boss routes (Vanquish Soul and K9 Xyz), and the Mulcharmy draw engine helps recovery. Popularity was not credited, and no card scores were averaged. Consistency and interaction carry the score; the missing combo data, the empty side deck, and three copy-limit violations hold it down. Because the list is Illegal, the score is capped and is structural-only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 60, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: banlist and copy-limit exposure (-10). Final formula: No metagame sample: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability = 0.80*60 + 0.20*55 = 59; modifiers -10 = 49; Illegal cap applied, so the reported score is 25 (structural-only, not a normal Final score).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.97 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.03 (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 highly likely to be live in the opening hand
• Dense interaction: hand traps, negations, and board wipes such as Raigeki and Lightning Storm
• Two extra-deck boss routes (Vanquish Soul and K9 Xyz) with recovery from Mulcharmy draw effects

Weaknesses

• Three copy-limit violations make the list illegal as built
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptability
• No recorded boards, so combo ceiling and floor are unmeasured

Critical choke points

• Vanquish Soul searchers and monsters are the single engine route for both the Vanquish Soul and K9 lines
• Razen is a Limited card run three times

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Razen 3 copies (Limited, 1 legal), Ash Blossom 3 copies (Semi-Limited, 2 legal), Izuna 3 copies (Semi-Limited, 2 legal); Main 55 and Extra 15 are within size rules; Side 0 is within rules but empty; Card text and stats for all 55 main and 15 extra cards; Archetype usage stats: Vanquish Soul and K9 core inclusion
• Inferred: Opening-hand consistency from hypergeometric odds; Interaction density and hand-trap value from card text; Going-second strength from hand-trap group probability
• Provisional: Meta power and format fit (no dated metagame sample or tournament link)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN, so going-first, going-second and matchup rates are unknown Meta power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No side deck (side_count 0), so post-side plan cannot be evaluated usage_statistics in_this_deck flags conflict with the cards array: K9-X Werewolf, N.As.H. Knight, Number C104, Rock of the Vanquisher, CXyz N.As.Ch. Knight, Number 104 and K9-66X Jacks are flagged in_this_deck=false but appear in the extra-deck list; extra-deck coverage read is unreliable