Hieratic Deck #770981 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 54 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro, Link and XYZ boards led by Dragunity Knight - Ascalon / Areadbhair / Gae Dearg / Areus and Tempest or Shiina for pressure, with Dragunity Lord - Georgius and Hieratic Dragon King of Atum as alternate boards; Dragunity Arma Gram and Arma Mystletainn direct pressure through equipped Dragon monsters
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Dragunity searcher (Remus, Quirinus, Divine Wind or Dragon Ravine) and reach a Tuner plus Dragon or Winged Beast board for a Synchro, keeping Ash Blossom or Infinite Impermanence up for the opponent's first effect
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the six-card hand's hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Mourner, Nibiru, Evenly Matched, Infinite Impermanence) to break the opponent's first board, then reconstruct a Dragunity Synchro from the GY or banish
• Recovery: Dragunity recursion: Divine Wind and Dragon Ravine return Dragons from the GY, Quirinus and Legatus re-summon from hand or GY, and Vajrayana equips from the GY to rebuild the field
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan; the main deck must answer everything alone

Why it scores here

The deck opens a searcher (Dragunity Remus, Quirinus, Divine Wind, or Dragon Ravine) in roughly 84% of opening hands (hypergeometric, Inferred), so the Synchro engine is accessible on paper. The list is structurally incoherent: only 2.9% of its cards carry the exact Hieratic name, while 30 cards are Dragunity and 67 are off-archetype, so the 'Hieratic' label does not describe the engine. Interaction is the strongest part of the system: about 12 hand traps and 14 negation-text cards give layered answers to the opponent's first board (Inferred from text). The Extra Deck has a high ceiling through Ascalon, Areadbhair, Gae Dearg and Dis Pater, but no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling is text-only and the median is unknown. The score comes from consistency, interaction, and the top-end closing power on the system, not from averaging the card scores, and not from popularity; the list is illegal in OCG, so the score is capped and theoretical.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary; Toolbox secondary noted but profile weights not blended. Structural ≈ 50, Going First ≈ 48, Going Second ≈ 56, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: Illegal copy-limit violations (-12); Unverifiable power without combo data (-5). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(50) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(35) = 47, then illegal-list cap applied via modifiers to 30 (theoretical only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.84 · 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

• Layered hand-trap and negation suite (Ash Blossom, Ghost Mourner, Nibiru, Infinite Impermanence, Droll & Lock Bird) answers the opponent's first board
• High closing power through several 2900 to 3500 ATK Extra Deck monsters
• Searcher density gives ~84% chance of at least one searcher in a 5-card opening hand

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: Ash Blossom and Foolish Burial Goods each run 3 copies against a limit of 2
• Archetype incoherence: 2.9% exact Hieratic purity; Dragunity is the actual engine
• No side deck; no post-side adaptability
• Core archetype cards Solemn Warning and Solemn Judgment (100% usage in stats) are absent

Critical choke points

• Dragunity Synchro bootstrap depends on a Tuner plus Dragon or Winged Beast in hand or GY
• Many hand traps compete for the same hand slots; a hand of only hand traps is a brick on going first

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 54, Extra 15, Side 0 are within OCG size rules; Ash Blossom and Foolish Burial Goods exceed the Semi-Limited copy limit; Bystial Magnamhut, Droll & Lock Bird, Gold Sarcophagus and Harpie's Feather Duster are each at 1 copy under Limited
• Inferred: P(>=1 searcher in hand5) ≈ 0.84 and P(>=1 hand trap in hand6) ≈ 0.80; Interaction density is high based on negation and removal text; Dragunity is the real engine (30 copies, 2.9% exact Hieratic purity)
• Provisional: Meta Power is null: no dated metagame sample is supplied; Matchup fit (D13) is provisional
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN for this deck Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No side deck registered Deck title is null