Apophis Deck #770675 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 13 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion, Xyz and Link boss monsters (Superdreadnought Rail Cannon Gustav Max, Juggernaut Liebe, The Winged Dragon of Ra - Immortal Phoenix, Egyptian God Slime) reached through Apophis traps, Temple of the Kings and Fusion/Xyz summons; Negation-backed board control: hand traps and Continuous/Counter traps that protect the engine and punish the opponent's summons
• Turn 1 (going first): Search a Field Spell or Apophis trap, set the Temple of the Kings line, and Special Summon Apophis monsters from traps while holding hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Sister, Droll) for the opponent's first answer
• Turn 2 (going second): Open with a hand trap on the opponent's first summon or activation, then use the remaining hand to rebuild the Apophis trap engine and Fusion summon a boss
• Recovery: Recover through Apophis the Serpent and Apophis the Swamp Deity GY effects, Monster Reborn and Foolish Burial, with Temple of the Kings resetting the engine after a board wipe
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs no side cards, so there is no defined post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens its engine through redundant searchers (P of at least one searcher in a 5-card hand is about 0.85) and 14 archetype-core copies (about 0.78 to hit at least one in hand); this is Inferred from the hypergeometric draw table. It converts that access into a long, layered chain of negations and hand traps (18 negation-text cards, 7 hand-trap copies) backed by recursion through the Apophis trap GY effects and Monster Reborn, which earns the interruption, resource and interaction scores. Its ceiling comes from a set of 3000-4000 ATK bosses, but no recorded boards exist, so the combo ceiling and median are text-only Inferred reads and are scored moderately. The deck has no side cards, so it earns almost nothing for post-side adaptability, and its low exact-name archetype purity (5.8%) is a sign of a multi-archetype toolbox rather than a pure engine. Popularity and archetype usage were not used as a substitute for strength; the score comes from the consistency, interaction and resilience of the system, not from an average of the card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: 70% Midrange / 30% Control. Structural ≈ 59, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 63, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-3); weak_post_side_plan (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); 0.80*59 + 0.20*48 = 56.8, then context modifiers total -5 = 51.8, rounded to 52

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.85 · 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

• Redundant searchers (17 text cards) and archetype-core access (about 0.78 to hit in hand 5)
• Layered interaction: 7 hand traps plus 18 negation-text cards
• Recursion through Apophis trap GY effects and Monster Reborn to recover after disruption
• High-ATK closing bosses with Gustav Max direct damage

Weaknesses

• No side deck: no best-of-3 adaptation
• Exact archetype purity of 5.8%: many off-archetype support cards dilute the engine
• No recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and median are text-only reads
• Eight restricted cards at or near copy limits leave no room for error if the banlist shifts

Critical choke points

• Temple of the Kings (1 copy) gates much of the Apophis trap-to-Fusion engine
• Monster Reborn and Foolish Burial (1 copy each, Limited) are the main GY-to-board routes
• Hand traps (7 total) are the only answer to a going-second opponent's first play

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in OCG with 56 Main, 13 Extra, 0 Side; all 8 restricted cards at or under legal_copies; Card text for Apophis traps, Temple of the Kings, Gustav Max and the hand traps; Composition: 39 distinct Main names, 12 distinct Extra names, 8 Fusion, 3 Xyz, 1 Synchro, 1 Link
• Observed: Archetype usage stats show 9 of 15 core cards present (60%)
• Inferred: Starter access (0.85 searcher, 0.78 core) from hypergeometric estimates; Interaction density and recursion scores from card text; Going-second hand trap reliability (0.57)
• Provisional: Format fit and matchup coverage: no tournament link or dated meta sample
• 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: going-first/second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Usage statistics conflict with the card list: Divine Serpent Apophis (2 copies in Extra) and Silhouhatte Rabbit (1 copy in Extra) are marked in_this_deck=false; the score uses the card list Deck title is null, so the name falls back to archetype Apophis