Kuriboh Deck #771019 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 20/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 53 / Extra 17 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion, Link and Xyz boards led by Dark Magician-tagged starters, finished by high-ATK Extra Deck monsters such as Quintet Magician and Master of Chaos (Inferred from card text; no recorded boards); Recurring Dark Magician pressure via Dark Magical Circle and Magician's Rod searches (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Dark Magician-tagged starter or searcher, then use Dark Magical Circle / Magician's Rod to set up a Fusion or Link line while holding hand traps for the opponent's first response (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Droll & Lock Bird, Ash Blossom, Maxx C, Kuriboh and Nibiru to answer the opponent's first summon chain, then convert with Fusion or Xyz summons (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recover from disruption through search-based Spells and Dark Magician recursion via Eternal Soul and Palladium Oracle Mahad (Inferred)
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan; the deck cannot adjust between games (Verified)

Why it scores here

This list is illegal in OCG: three Forbidden cards (Magicians' Souls x2, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon x2, Charmer Quartet in Bloom x1) exceed their copy limit, and the Extra Deck holds 17 cards against a maximum of 15. Under the rubric it is capped low and scored structurally only. The system reads as a Dark Magician-centred Fusion/Link/Xyz deck with a dense hand-trap and negation suite (Droll & Lock Bird, Ash Blossom, Maxx C, Kuriboh, Nibiru, Infinite Impermanence, Solemn Accusation, Mind Mirror Force), which earns the interaction and closing dimensions. Consistency is held back by the 3-copy archetype core (about 26% to open at least one in a 5-card hand), a high proportion of reactive and non-engine cards, and no side deck. No recorded boards, guides or tournament results exist, so the floor, median and ceiling are inferred from card text alone, and Meta Power stays provisional. Popularity did not earn points: only 2 of 5 usage-core cards are present, and the score comes from the list's structure, not from averaging card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 52.7, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12); illegal_cap (-18). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) = 0.80*52.7 + 0.20*40 = 50.2 before modifiers; modifiers -12 (banlist exposure, the maximum allowed) give 38; the Illegal cap then sets the final score to 20 (theoretical/structural only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.26 · 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 negation and hand-trap suite: Droll & Lock Bird, Ash Blossom, Maxx C, Kuriboh, Nibiru, Infinite Impermanence
• Multiple high-ATK Extra Deck closers (Quintet Magician, Master of Chaos, Red-Eyes Flare Metal Dragon)
• Searcher density (15 text hits) gives a high chance of at least one search in the opening hand

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: 3 Forbidden cards over the copy limit and 17 Extra Deck cards (max 15)
• No Side Deck, so no adaptation between games
• Low archetype purity (2.9% exact-name) and a spread across many sub-archetypes weakens engine coherence
• Reactive-heavy list with a 3-copy core that often fails to open

Critical choke points

• Dark Magician-tagged starters: low probability of opening one of each core card
• Fusion material availability for the 12 Fusion Monsters

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: 3 Forbidden cards over the copy limit; Extra Deck 17 > 15; Main Deck 53 cards within the 40-60 range; No Side Deck registered; Core usage: 2 of 5 usage-core cards present (40%)
• Inferred: Hypergeometric opening-hand estimates for starters, searchers and hand traps; Interaction and closing quality read from card text and printed stats; Going-first and going-second plans from text
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and matchup/format fit (D13) without a dated metagame sample
• 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 this deck Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied deck title is null, so the archetype label Kuriboh is inferred from the export