Skull Servant Deck #771022 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 57/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 11 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Graveyard recursion of Skull Servant / King of the Skull Servants / Wightprince into a large Zombie board, closed by King, Wightprincess and Link Zombies (Yuki-Onna, Vampire Sucker).; Mezuki and Zombie Master reviving Level 4 or lower Zombies from the GY, with Yuki-Onna or Knightmare Phoenix as Link pressure.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with an archetype starter (Wightprince, Moissa Wight, Wightbaking or Lady in Wight) to fill the GY, then recur Skull Servants into King of the Skull Servants for board and piercing damage.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Droll or Maxx C to stop the opponent's first Special Summon or search, then rebuild the board from the GY through Wightprince or Moissa.
• Recovery: The GY engine is the recovery: Wightlord, Wightbaking and Moissa Wight each put Skull Servants back in play after a board wipe or a negated starter.
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered, so no post-side plan can be evaluated; the rubric cannot credit one.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens an archetype starter: 27 archetype-core copies give a near-certain core in the opening hand, and each of the five main starters has a 34% single-copy chance of appearing in a 5-card hand. Its strength comes from the system rather than from any individual card: Graveyard recursion (Wightprince, Wightlord, Moissa, Wightbaking) keeps the engine running after a negated or wiped first turn, and the 6 hand traps and 13 removal-text cards convert that into layered interaction (D7, D5). Median output and the recorded combo ceiling are not measured because no boards were supplied, so D3 and D4 are Inferred from card text and were scored conservatively. Popularity and the archetype's usage stats confirm the list is a real, accessible build but earned no points on their own, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score. The lack of any Side Deck, the absence of tournament and matchup data, and the seven Limited cards keep the final score in the mid-50s.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Primary Combo profile; interaction-heavy secondary noted but not blended into weights. Structural ≈ 63.5, Going First ≈ 64, Going Second ≈ 63, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: No Side Deck (-3); Banlist exposure (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) = 0.80*63.5 + 0.20*58 = 62.4, then modifiers -5 = 57.4 -> 57

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.34 · 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

• Archetype core is near-certain to appear in the opening hand (0.998 for the 27-copy core group)
• Layered interaction: 6 hand traps and Solemn Judgment, Mirror Force and Lightning Storm
• Graveyard recursion keeps the engine running after a disruption

Weaknesses

• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Engine pieces are GY-only and dead in hand
• No combo boards, so the ceiling and median are text-inferred

Critical choke points

• A single starter in hand with no GY archetype pieces leaves the engine waiting for a recursion source
• Limited single copies (Foolish Burial, Maxx C, Solemn Judgment) each cost one card of redundancy

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status: 40 Main, 11 Extra, 0 Side; no violations; all restricted cards within legal copy counts; Archetype core is 27 copies; exact-name purity 27.5%; Usage stats: 24 rows, 13 core cards present (54.2%)
• Observed: Usage-stat inclusion rates for the Skull Servant archetype (Lightning Storm 60% typical 3 copies, Moissa Wight 60% typical 3)
• Inferred: Opening-hand starter probability and brick rates from hypergeometric draw tables; Interaction density and recursion value from card text; Going-first and going-second plans from card text
• Provisional: Matchup fit (D13) and meta position: no tournament link or dated meta sample; Post-side plan and D12: no Side Deck present
• Data gaps: No combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN; going-first, going-second and matchup signals are Inferred No Side Deck registered; post-side plan cannot be evaluated Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied