Vaalmonica Deck #770875 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Vaalmonica Link pressure: Varar, Vaalmonican Concord (3000 ATK) and Zebufera / Duralume once 3+ Resonance Counters sit on Pendulum-zone Fiend or Fairy monsters.; Fiendsmith Fusion and Link follow-up (Lacrima, Desirae, Agnumday) through Fiendsmith's Tract and Engraver, plus Super Starslayer TY-PHON as a generic Xyz finisher.
• Turn 1 (going first): Set Pendulum Vaalmonica Angello and Dimonno, use Selettrice or Vaalmonica the Agathokakological Voice to search a Vaalmonica card, then build Resonance Counters toward a Link Summon.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler, Maxx C and Infinite Impermanence as hand traps against the opponent's starter, then rebuild the Pendulum zone with Versare or Scelta.
• Recovery: Search with Vaalmonica Versare, Vaalmonica Scelta, Fiendsmith's Tract and Terraforming; recover Pendulum scales through the Pendulum Zone and Disarmonia.
• After siding: Not applicable: the export lists 0 side-deck cards, so there is no post-side plan. Removing Caesar is the only structural fix before any side construction.

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system, not as an average of its cards. Its core Vaalmonica group (26 copies) is near-certain to appear in an opening hand (p about 0.997 for at least one), and 15 searcher-text cards give strong access to the engine (Inferred). Its eight hand traps, with about 76 percent chance of at least one going second, give real interruption and interaction. The Link finishers (Varar 3000, Zebufera, Duralume) provide closing power once Resonance Counters are built. However, D/D/D Wave High King Caesar is Forbidden in OCG, so the list is illegal and receives only a capped structural score of 25. The Fiendsmith cards (8 copies) and generic cards pull the archetype purity to 43.6 percent, which creates some engine conflict. No combo or matchup data exists, so the median and matchup scores are low-confidence. Popularity was not rewarded: the archetype stats confirm the list is real, but they add no points to power.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: 0.8 Midrange / 0.2 Toolbox. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 56, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); engine conflicts (-3). Final formula: Structural 55 with the no-meta formula 0.80*55 + 0.20*48 = 53.6, then context modifiers -11 = 42.6, then the illegal cap to 25 (theoretical/structural only; Illegal decks get no normal Final score)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 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

• Near-certain engine access: the 26-copy Vaalmonica core appears in hand almost every time
• Eight hand traps and interaction (Ash, Veiler, Maxx C, Impermanence, Ereditare) cover going second
• Compact Pendulum-Link engine with 15 searcher-text cards
• Link finishers at 2500-3000 ATK give real closing power

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: D/D/D Wave High King Caesar is Forbidden in OCG
• No side deck (0 cards): no post-side plan and no answers to a changed format
• 22 Spell/Trap slots out of 40 main cards raise brick and redundancy risk
• Fiendsmith and generic cards dilute the Vaalmonica engine (exact-name purity 43.6 percent)

Critical choke points

• Pendulum zone: Resonance Counters require specific Fiend or Fairy scales to be placed and kept
• Caesar's removal leaves the Xyz slot thin, so Extra Deck access depends on Link and Fusion routes
• Most engine lines run through Vaalmonica searchers; losing them to hand traps or floodgates stalls the turn

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 40 main, 15 extra, 0 side; Caesar Forbidden with 1 copy run (illegal); Copy limits: Ash Blossom 2, Foolish Burial Goods 2, Lacrima and Engraver 1 all legal; Card stats: Varar 3000 ATK, Zebufera 2500, Duralume 2500, TY-PHON 2900; Archetype usage: 21 stat rows, 13 of 20 core cards present (65 percent)
• Inferred: Engine consistency at about 0.997 for the Vaalmonica core in hand of 5; Hand-trap coverage about 76 percent going second; Brick risk from 22 Spell/Trap slots; Engine conflict between Vaalmonica and Fiendsmith routes
• Provisional: Meta power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup coverage (no matchup data)
• Data gaps: Deck is illegal (Forbidden Caesar), so the score is capped and theoretical No combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link; archetype meta-share and pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick and starter rates) Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample Side deck is empty, so post-side adaptability cannot be assessed