Ancient Warrior Deck #770947 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ancient Warriors beaters (Lu Feng 2800, Zhang De 2700, Guan Yun 2500) backed by high-ATK Extra Deck boss monsters (AA-ZEUS 3000, Utopic Draco 3000, TY-PHON 2900); Link and Xyz board presence via Ancient Warriors Oath - Double Dragon Lords and the Utopia / Gusto / Cyclone extra-deck options
• Turn 1 (going first): Search an Ancient Warriors or Beast-Warrior monster with Ancient Warriors Saga - Three Visits or Fire Formation - Tenki, extend into a Link or Xyz, and hold Ash Blossom / Infinite Impermanence for the opponent's first response
• Turn 2 (going second): Open a hand-trap-heavy hand (Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Evenly Matched, Nibiru, Artifact Lancea, Droll & Lock Bird) to stop the opponent's first Summon or search, then rebuild a board from the search effects
• Recovery: Search effects from Saga, Tenki, Deception and Betrayal and Masterful Sun Mou, plus Mulcharmy draw effects when the field is empty
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered, so no post-side plan can be executed in this list

Why it scores here

The list cannot be scored as a normal legal deck: it runs 3 copies of Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring against a Semi-Limited limit of 2, so the legality gate caps the final score and the result is structural-only. Structurally the deck reliably opens a search or hand-trap line: the searcher-text group has a ~0.81 chance of at least one card in a 5-card opener, and the 16 hand traps give it strong end-board interaction and some recovery. Its conversion ceiling is high on paper through Lu Feng, Zhang De and the 3000-ATK extra-deck bosses, but no recorded boards exist, so the median output cannot be measured and is held well below the ceiling. Brick risk and engine conflicts (Mulcharmy needs an empty field while Ancient Warriors builds one) lower consistency and pilotability. Archetype popularity earned no points, and the score is not an average of card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 54, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-2); engine conflicts (-2); illegal list legality cap (0). Final formula: Uncapped: 0.80*54 + 0.20*40 = 51.2, then context modifiers (-4) = 47; Illegal legality gate caps to 30 (theoretical/structural-only). Meta Power provisional (null).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.81 · 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

• Broad interaction suite: 16 hand traps and 10 negation-text cards cover both going-first and going-second disruption
• Searcher density (15 cards) gives reliable access to Ancient Warriors and Beast-Warrior monsters
• High-ATK boss options (Lu Feng 2800, Zhang De 2700, AA-ZEUS 3000, Utopic Draco 3000) give closing power
• Extra Deck covers both Link and Xyz routes, so Extra-Deck access is not single-threaded

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring is over the Semi-Limited limit (3 copies vs 2)
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptation and no best-of-3 plan
• Mulcharmy and Ancient Warriors effects conflict over whether the field should be empty or full
• Five Limited single-copy cards add dependence on specific draws
• No recorded boards, so the combo floor and median cannot be measured

Critical choke points

• Ash Blossom over-limit: the list cannot be played in its current form until it runs at most 2 copies
• Single-copy Limited cards (Pot of Prosperity, Harpie's Feather Duster, Droll & Lock Bird) carry dependence without redundancy
• Extra-Deck boss access depends on single-copy Extra cards such as S:P Little Knight and Daigusto Emeral

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 55 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side; Ash Blossom 3 copies vs 2 legal (Semi-Limited) = Illegal; Five Limited cards each at 1 copy (within limit); Card attack values and link/Xyz ranks from card data; Extra Deck breakdown: 7 Link, 8 Xyz; Side Deck 0
• Inferred: Primary strategy Midrange (secondary Stun, Toolbox) from the hand-trap and interaction density, not from boards; Probabilities: searcher group 0.81 at least one in opener; core 0.51; Brick risk moderate-to-high from conditional hand traps and Mulcharmy empty-field requirements; Ceiling 45 and floor/median 35 from text only; no boards
• Provisional: Meta Power null (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (D13) unscored for lack of tournament or meta data
• 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 without a dated metagame sample no guides attached for the archetype deck title is null