Unchained Deck #770720 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link Summon chains into high-ATK Link monsters (Evil★Twin's Trouble Sunny 3300, A Bao A Qu 2800) backed by the Unchained and Live☆Twin/Evil★Twin recursion package; Fiendsmith Lacrima / Desirae board pressure through Fiendsmith's Tract and Engraver recursion
• Turn 1 (going first): Search and summon through Secret Password and Live☆Twin Sunny's Snitch toward Lil-la / Ki-sikil starters, then Link Summon into a Link-3 or Link-4 board; the Forbidden Extra Deck monsters are unplayable and must be removed before this line is real
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx "C" and Red Reboot to disrupt the opponent's first summon or search, then rebuild through Live☆Twin Ki-sikil Frost and Lil-la Sweet recursion
• Recovery: Unchained recursion (Reincarnation of the Unchained, Abominable Chamber, Unchained Soul Lord of Yama from GY) and Fiendsmith Engraver GY effects restore the board after one clean interruption; no recorded lines confirm this
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan; the deck cannot adapt between games

Why it scores here

The deck's Structural score is built from its system rather than from card scores: a searcher-dense core (13 searcher-text cards, P(≥1 in opening 5) ≈ 0.88) gives reasonable starter access, and 12 negation-text cards plus 5 hand traps give it interaction depth on both turns. Its conversion is the weak point: 12 Link monsters and a Live☆Twin/Evil★Twin/Fiendsmith split with only 9 exact-name Unchained copies means the engine is spread across several sub-archetypes, and no recorded boards exist to confirm a median or ceiling output. Popularity and archetype stats do not earn points here: the archetype's core cards are mostly absent (3 of 17 core cards present), which lowers confidence rather than raising power. The legality failure is decisive: two Forbidden Extra Deck monsters are run, which caps the deck and makes the score a theoretical, structural-only read. Structural Power is 49.6 under the Midrange profile; the Final of 30 applies the banlist exposure modifier and the absence of any side deck.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 49.6, Going First ≈ 46, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-12); weak_post_side_plan (-6). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers = 0.80*49.6 + 0.20*40 - 18 ≈ 29.7, capped as Illegal, rounded to 30

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.88 · 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 searcher text (13 cards) gives high starter access on turn 1
• Layered interaction on both turns: 12 negation-text cards, 5 hand traps, and Ash Blossom ×2
• Strong Link-4 closers (Evil★Twin's Trouble Sunny 3300 ATK) in a compact recursion engine

Weaknesses

• Illegal: two Forbidden Extra Deck monsters must be removed before the list is playable
• Low archetype purity (16.4% exact name) across several sub-archetypes weakens engine coherence
• No side deck, so the deck cannot adapt between games
• Core archetype cards mostly missing (3 of 17 present), so the list does not match the archetype standard

Critical choke points

• Lil-la / Ki-sikil starter chain: the Live☆Twin loop needs its specific starter to open the engine
• Single copies of the Limited Link and Fusion cards (Fiendsmith's Lacrima, Fiendsmith Engraver) are one-card dependencies

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: 2 Forbidden cards run (Knightmare Gryphon, D/D/D Wave High King Caesar); Main 40 and Extra 15 counts are within OCG size rules; Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring is Semi-Limited with 2 copies (legal); Exact-name purity 16.4%; 46 off-archetype copies; No side deck registered
• Inferred: Consistency: P(≥1 searcher in 5) ≈ 0.88, core P ≈ 0.43; Interaction depth from negation/hand-trap text counts; Recovery through Unchained recursion cards; Pilotability estimate from Link chain complexity
• Provisional: Meta Power is null (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format-fit (D13) is provisional; Median output (D4) is provisional
• Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo floor/median/ceiling is 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) no side deck registered, so post-side performance cannot be assessed Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied