Black Luster Soldier Deck #770783 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 18/100 (±6 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 0 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 6 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning (1 copy) as the only boss; its Special Summon needs a LIGHT and a DARK monster banished from the GY, which this list does not reliably fuel.; Single-copy beatdown monsters (Airknight Parshath, Zombyra the Dark, Asura Priest) with no shared engine.
• Turn 1 (going first): Use draw and search spells (Book of Moon, Mystical Space Typhoon, Reinforcement of the Army) to dig for Envoy; no reliable turn-1 starter exists in the list.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold face-down interaction (Mirror Force, Torrential Tribute, Solemn Judgment, Dust Tornado) and try to answer the opponent's board before attacking.
• Recovery: Recur monsters from the GY with Call of the Haunted and Premature Burial; most recovery is card-by-card, not engine-driven.
• After siding: No Side Deck (0 cards); no post-side plan exists for best-of-3.

Why it scores here

This list is Illegal in OCG: three Trap Dustshoot, Solemn Judgment x3, Reinforcement of the Army x2, and four Forbidden cards are in the Main Deck, so the score is capped low and is structural-only, not a normal Final Contextual score. The deck reads as a Toolbox of staples and removal (34 removal-text cards, 6 negation-text cards) with one real engine card, Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning, which has no reliable LIGHT/DARK GY fuel. Interaction density gives the deck its only meaningful strength, while opening-hand starters, recorded combos and the Extra Deck are absent. Archetype popularity earned no points: only 1 card matches the exact archetype name (1.8%), and the 8 core usage-stat cards are all missing. The score comes from the system-level read of consistency, interaction and going-second plan, not from averaging the card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 30.5, Going First ≈ 33, Going Second ≈ 40, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 25. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); no side deck (-3). Final formula: Illegal list: capped structural-only. 0.80*Structural(30.5) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(25) + ContextModifiers(-11) = 18.4, rounded to 18; Meta provisional.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ — · 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 removal and negation text (34 removal, 6 negation) gives real interaction density
• Staple-level draw and search and a 55-card main within the 40-60 size range
• Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning is a real 3000-ATK closer

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: 4 Forbidden cards and 2 Limited overages
• No Extra Deck and no Side Deck
• Only 1 exact archetype card (1.8% purity); 8 core usage cards all missing
• No reliable engine: Envoy's LIGHT+DARK GY fuel is not supported
• 34 level-0 Spell/Trap cards with low redundancy

Critical choke points

• Single-copy Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning is the only boss; without it the deck has no closer
• Envoy summon depends on LIGHT and DARK monsters in the GY, which the list does not fuel

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Illegal with 4 Forbidden and 2 Limited overages in OCG; Main Deck count 55, Extra 0, Side 0; Exact-archetype purity 1.8%; 8 usage-stat core cards all absent
• Inferred: Engine accessibility P(Envoy in opening 5) about 0.09; Removal and negation density (34 and 6) as interaction quality; Going-second and median output estimates from text only
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit: no dated metagame 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 for going-first/second, matchups, or brick rates Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No Side Deck or Extra Deck cards, so those dimensions are scored as absent