Darklord Deck #771021 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Darklord Morningstar / Darklord Asmodeus / Darklord Eveningstar / The First Darklord board pressure via Darklord recursion and Fairy-chain Fusion or Tribute Summons (Inferred from card text); Link-based board pressure from Purification Power Patron, Mediclius and Borreload Liberator Dragon (Inferred from card text)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on Darklord starters (Djehuty, Gulgolet, Ukoback, Ixchel, Indulged Darklord) and use Banishment, Contact or Fallen Angel in Darkness to reach a Darklord Tribute or Fusion board (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 10 hand traps (Ash Blossom x2, Effect Veiler, Droll and Lock Bird, Herald of Orange Light, Maxx C, Red Reboot, Infinite Impermanence, Dark Bribe, Solemn Judgment) to disrupt the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Darklord recursion (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recover from GY through Darklord Contact, Banishment of the Darklords, Gulgolet and Fallen Angel in Darkness to re-enable the Darklord engine (Inferred)
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs zero side cards, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck is a Darklord list with roughly 18 archetype-core copies, and the hypergeometric estimate gives about an 87% chance of opening at least one core card in a 5-card hand (Inferred). Its Darklord recursion and 10 hand traps support continued play after disruption and a reasonable going-second plan. Offensive closing power comes from Darklord Morningstar, Asmodeus and Eveningstar, while the 15-card Extra Deck is spread across several unrelated sub-archetypes (Power Patron, Borrel, Code Talker, Supreme King, Phantom Knights, Vampire), which lowers engine coherence. Score is capped low because the list is Illegal: Archlord Kristya and Ultimate Offering are Forbidden in OCG and are run at one copy each. No combos, tournament data, guides or side deck were supplied, so the ceiling and floor are text-only inference. Popularity was not credited, and card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange 80 / Stun 20 (Structural uses Midrange weights only; secondary informs narrative). Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12); illegal_cap (-11). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability = 53 before modifiers; banlist exposure -12 gives 41; Illegal cap applied, final 30 (theoretical, structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.87 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.13 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Large archetype-core density (18 copies) gives high starter access (Inferred)
• Ten hand traps and broad negation text give layered interaction (Verified text, Inferred quality)
• Multiple Darklord recursion routes support recovery (Inferred)

Weaknesses

• Two Forbidden cards make the list illegal in OCG (Verified)
• Zero side deck, so no post-side plan (Verified)
• Extra Deck spans several sub-archetypes with little mutual synergy (Verified composition, Inferred)
• Main deck contains 15 tech and many off-archetype cards, lowering compactness (Inferred)

Critical choke points

• Darklord core starters (Djehuty, Gulgolet, Ukoback, Ixchel) are the first-turn gate (Inferred)
• Fallen Angel in Darkness and Banishment are needed to reach Darklord Fusion and Tribute lines (Inferred)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Two Forbidden cards in main deck (legality); Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0 vs OCG size rules; Copy limits for Limited and Semi-Limited cards are respected; Card text for all 55 main and 15 extra cards; Archetype core inclusion 92% for Djehuty and Morningstar (usage stat)
• Inferred: Starter access ≈ 0.87 (hypergeometric); Brick rate ≈ 0.13 (hypergeometric proxy); Going-second hand-trap coverage ≈ 0.72; Offensive and interaction quality from text reads; Recovery through recursion
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Format fit (D13)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record are absent no side deck, so post-side performance cannot be assessed no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied