Apophis Deck #770658 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 52/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Apophis-engine trap and Special Summon chain into Divine Serpent Apophis, Anubis the Last Judge, Merciless Scorpion of Serket or an XYZ boss, supported by Call of the Haunted recursion.; Attrition through interaction (Dark Hole, Mask of Restrict, Verdict of Anubis, Nibiru) followed by 2400-3000 ATK XYZ or Fusion bosses.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a starter (Treasures of the Kings, The Man with the Mark, or Apophis the Swamp Deity) and search or Set an Apophis Trap, then convert into an Apophis Normal-Summon or Temple of the Kings line; hold hand traps for the opponent's Turn 1.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (D.D. Crow, Skull Meister, Nibiru, Artifact Lancea, Annihilate Retroglight) to slow the opponent's first summon, then rebuild with a searcher and an Apophis Trap or Call of the Haunted.
• Recovery: Recur Apophis traps and Call of the Haunted from the Graveyard, and use Ectoplasmic Fortification or Dark Hole to reset the board when the engine is blocked.
• After siding: Not applicable: the deck registers no Side Deck, so no post-side plan exists in the evidence.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens its Apophis starter package: the hypergeometric estimate for at least one archetype-core card in a 5-card opening hand is about 0.80, and 16 searcher-text cards put a search effect in hand about 0.83 of the time (Inferred). Interaction is the strongest part of the system, with 9 hand traps, 13 negation-text cards and 23 removal-text cards, which earns the high D7 and D8 scores. Conversion and median output could not be measured because there are no recorded boards, so D3 and D4 rest on card-text reads and are capped accordingly. Popularity did not earn points: the Apophis archetype's exact-name purity is only 5.6%, with 67 off-archetype copies, and the Extra Deck spreads across 13 unrelated XYZ monsters, which costs D11 and the coherence part of D10. The score comes from consistency, interaction and resilience on the system, not from averaging the card scores, and the lack of a Side Deck, no tournament link and no win-rate data keep the score in the mid-range.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 57, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: single-copy engine choke point (-3); engine fragmentation / Extra Deck conflicts (-3); broad interaction suite (2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.8 · 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 interaction suite: 9 hand traps, Dark Hole, Mask of Restrict, Verdict of Anubis, Nibiru
• Searcher density (16) gives high starter access for Apophis engine pieces
• Multiple Graveyard recursion routes through Apophis Traps and Call of the Haunted
• Strong 2800-3000 ATK boss options in the Extra Deck

Weaknesses

• Low archetype purity: 67 off-archetype copies and a scattered 13-XYZ Extra Deck
• No Side Deck, so no post-side plan
• No recorded combos or win-rate data to confirm conversion
• Extra Deck mixes unrelated XYZ engines (Utopic, Evol, Constellar, Gagaga, Time Thief, Jinzo)

Critical choke points

• Temple of the Kings (1 copy) gates the Apophis Normal-Summon and Fusion lines
• Hand-trap dependence on the going-second side (P(>=1 in hand 6) ≈ 0.67)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal OCG list: 56 Main (40-60), 15 Extra (0-15), 0 Side; Every card within copy limits; restricted_cards empty; Archetype core P(>=1 in opening 5) ≈ 0.80 from the hypergeometric table
• Observed: Usage statistics show 8 of 15 core cards present in the deck export
• Inferred: Consistency, brick-risk and interaction scores from text role hints and hypergeometric estimates; Starter and recursion reads from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated sample); Matchup and tournament reliability (no tournament link)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: 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/OTK rates) Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample Data inconsistency: usage_statistics marks Divine Serpent Apophis, Super Starslayer TY-PHON and Time Thief Redoer as in_this_deck=false, but the cards list includes all three (2, 1 and 1 copies in the Extra Deck). Core presence of 8/15 is likely understated; the export should be checked No Side Deck: side_count=0 leaves D12 scored from composition only