Vanquish Soul Deck #771025 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Vanquish Soul and K9 Xyz/Link boards closing through 2900-3300 ATK monsters (Caesar Valius, K9-X Werewolf, Arc Rebellion, TY-PHON); Mulcharmy draw-and-hand-advantage lock once the board is cleared, with Number 104 / Umbral Horror Masquerade as a negation-backed closer
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on Vanquish Soul searchers (Dr. Mad Love, Razen, Start!) and Stake your Soul! to reach a Vanquish Soul monster, then bridge into a K9 or Vanquish Soul Xyz/Link using the Extra Deck pieces
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 9 hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Droll & Lock Bird, Evenly Matched, Gallant Bandit) to break the opponent's starter, then rebuild through Mulcharmy draws and the Vanquish Soul board
• Recovery: Recover through searchers (18 searcher-text cards), Pot of Sloth and Pot of Prosperity, and recursive K9 / Vanquish Soul summons from the GY
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs no side deck, so there is no post-side plan in the export

Why it scores here

This list is scored on the system only: Illegal legality caps the result at a theoretical structural read, and the individual card scores were not averaged. The deck reliably opens a functional plan, since the archetype core is about 98% likely to show at least one card in a 5-card opening hand and roughly 87% of hands contain a searcher. Its strongest traits are interaction density and a 9-card hand-trap suite that gives it a credible going-second plan, and its closing power comes from 2900 to 3300 ATK Extra Deck threats. It loses points on the 55-card main deck, which runs 3 copies of three restricted cards in violation of OCG limits, and on the absence of any side deck or recorded boards. Archetype popularity was not used as a power signal, and the score remains provisional on meta and combo evidence.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary with Combo as secondary; D13 kept at Midrange weight of 5 and marked Provisional. Structural ≈ 66, Going First ≈ 64, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-10); engine conflicts (-2). Final formula: Illegal list: theoretical structural-only read, capped at 35. Uncapped estimate 0.80*Structural(66) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(58) + modifiers(-12) = about 54, then capped low under the Illegal rule. Meta Power provisional/null.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.98 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.02 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense searcher and archetype-core coverage gives a high chance of a live starter
• Nine hand traps and about 19 removal-text cards give strong interaction on both turns
• Extra Deck threats at 2900 to 3300 ATK close games from a single board

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy counts on three restricted cards (Ash Blossom, Razen, K9-17 Izuna) make the list unplayable as built
• No side deck, so no adaptation for best-of-3
• Split across four sub-archetypes with low exact-name purity (27.1%) raises the pilot load

Critical choke points

• Single Razen or Ash Blossom copy count sits above the legal limit, so the list cannot be played as built
• Vanquish Soul Start! and Stake your Soul! are required to bridge from hand to the Extra Deck, so losing them to a hand trap slows the engine

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main deck 55 cards, Extra 15, Side 0; size rules satisfied; Ash Blossom, Razen and K9-17 Izuna run above their OCG copy limits; Searcher, hand-trap, removal and negation text counts from card text; Archetype core and searcher hypergeometric probabilities
• Inferred: Starter consistency and brick rates from hypergeometric estimates; Going-second hand-trap coverage; Interaction quality read from card text; Closing power from listed ATK values and multi-attack text
• Provisional: Meta and format fit (D13); no dated metagame or archetype share supplied; Tournament reliability
• 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 win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, starter or brick rates) Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Deck has no side deck, so post-side evaluation is not possible