Eldlich Deck #771043 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 57 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Zombie-field board pressure from Extra Deck Xyz/Fusion/Link monsters (Pumpking, Gustav Rocket, Mercurium) with Call of the Haunted as the only recurring engine; Eldlich the Mad Golden Lord and Eldlich the Golden Lord as a Fusion/Extra-Deck finisher line, which is thin (1 copy each)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Call of the Haunted or a Zombie starter with Hubrow / Stare of the Snake Hair / Pumpking, search with Ectoplasmic Fortification or Stare, and build a Xyz or Link board while holding Ash/Evenly Matched/Dominus Impulse for interaction
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold hand traps (Ash, Droll & Lock Bird, Evenly Matched, Solemn Accusation, Dominus Impulse) to answer the opponent's first summon, then rebuild from the GY via Glow-Up Bloom, Curse of the Ancient Turtle and Changshi
• Recovery: Zombie recursion through Changshi, Officiating Reverie, Curse of the Ancient Turtle and Call of the Haunted reset, with Vortex of Time/Deadly Zombie Breath for disruption
• After siding: Not evaluable: side deck is empty (0 cards), so no post-side plan exists

Why it scores here

This list is capped at 25 because it is Illegal: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and Dominus Impulse are each run three times against an OCG limit of two, so the score is structural-only and not a normal Final. Within that cap, the Midrange structural read is about 49: a searcher-text density of 14 gives roughly a 0.77 chance of at least one searcher in the opening five, but only 2 copies of Call of the Haunted and 2 exact-name Eldlich cards are present, so the archetype engine is thin. The 14 negation/removal-text cards and 7 hand traps supply real interaction, and the Extra Deck has strong Xyz/Link finishers, but there is no combo evidence to show what the deck converts to. The 57-card main deck with 33 distinct cards, 70 off-archetype copies and no side deck is inefficient and pilot-heavy. The score is not the average of individual card strengths and it does not rely on archetype popularity; no tournament or meta data exists, so Meta Power stays null.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 49, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 48, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: Illegal deck override (0). Final formula: Illegal cap: normal formula 0.80*Structural(49) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(40) ≈ 47, capped to 25 because the list is Illegal; structural-only reading, Meta provisional

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.77 · 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 searcher text (14 cards) and a 0.77 chance of at least one searcher in the opening five
• Layered interaction: 7 hand traps, 14 negation-text and 20 removal-text cards
• Strong Extra Deck closing bodies: Gustav Rocket, Pumpking, Mercurium, Yuki-Onna

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse are each over the OCG copy limit
• No side deck, so no best-of-3 adaptation
• Bloated 57-card main with 70 off-archetype copies and 2.8% exact-name purity
• Thin archetype core: only 2 Call of the Haunted-line and 2 Eldlich cards in the deck

Critical choke points

• Legality: the deck cannot be played as listed until Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse drop to 2 copies each
• Call of the Haunted line is a single 2-copy engine, so an early disruption removes most of the Zombie-GY plan
• Eldlich Fusion finisher is 1 copy each and depends on specific Extra Deck access

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 57, Extra 15, Side 0 against OCG size rules (40–60, 0–15, 0–15); Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and Dominus Impulse: 3 copies each vs OCG Semi-Limited limit 2; Limited cards (Droll & Lock Bird, Foolish Burial, S:P Little Knight, Gustav Max) each run at 1 copy, which is legal; Composition: 70 off-archetype copies, 2.8% exact-name purity, 14 searcher-text, 14 negation-text, 20 removal-text, 7 hand-trap
• Inferred: P(≥1 searcher in opening 5) ≈ 0.77 and archetype core ≈ 0.24 from hypergeometric draw tables; Going-first/second and brick estimates from card-text and composition only; Structural score 49 (Midrange profile) from dimension scores
• Provisional: Meta Power is null; no dated metagame sample supplied; Matchup fit (D13) is provisional without tournament data
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates) — inferred or unknown Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Side deck is empty, so post-side adaptability cannot be assessed Deck title is null; the label 'Eldlich' comes from the archetype field only