Vampires Deck #771044 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · 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: Call of the Haunted and Zombie-engine boards (Pumpking the King of Grave Ghosts, Army of the Haunted, Great Mammoth) converted into Xyz pressure from the Extra Deck (Pumpking the Great Ghost King, Gustav Rocket, The Undying Legion); Hand-trap and removal-supported board control (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Evenly Matched, Dominus Impulse, Deadly Zombie Breath, Vortex of Time) that lets the Xyz board survive
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with a searcher (Delta of Invitation, Hubrow, Ectoplasmic Fortification) into Call of the Haunted or Pumpking, then Xyz Summon through the Zombie-engine board while holding hand traps
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Dominus Impulse or Forbidden Droplet to answer the opponent's first Special Summon or board, then rebuild through Zombie searchers and the Extra Deck
• Recovery: Recycle through Officiating Reverie, Glow-Up Bloom and Curse of the Ancient Turtle from the GY, and Vortex of Time or Deadly Zombie Breath for removal once the board is cleared
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered (side_count 0); no post-side plan exists in this list

Why it scores here

This list is Illegal under the OCG ban list: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and Dominus Impulse are each run three times against a limit of two, so the normal Final Contextual score is capped and the figures below are theoretical/structural only. Its structural strength is an interaction-dense Zombie shell: seven hand traps, roughly twenty removal or negation effects, and fourteen searchers give it a reasonable chance to keep an engine alive through disruption, and the Extra Deck (ten Xyz, three Link, two Fusion) offers several closing routes. Consistency is only moderate: the Call of the Haunted engine has two copies (about a 17% chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand, Inferred) and the 30 level-0 spells and traps make some hands dead, so the score does not rely on the engine opening reliably. No combo boards, guides, or win-rate data exist, so the combo floor and ceiling are text-only inference and are scored conservatively. Archetype popularity (Vampires usage stats) confirms the list is real and accessible but earned no points, and card-by-card scores were not averaged into this deck score. No side deck is registered, which costs points on the side-deck and best-of-three dimensions.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 57, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-6); no_side_deck (-4); illegal_cap (-15). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 0.80*57 + 0.20*50 - 10 = 45.6, then capped at 30 because the deck is Illegal (copy-limit violations); theoretical/structural only

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.24 · 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

• Layered hand-trap and removal suite (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Evenly Matched, Dominus Impulse, Solemn Accusation, Forbidden Droplet, Deadly Zombie Breath, Vortex of Time)
• Redundant searchers (14 copies) and GY recursion give multiple routes after disruption
• Deep Extra Deck with Xyz, Link and Fusion closers, including Gustav Rocket at 5000 ATK

Weaknesses

• Illegal under the OCG ban list: two cards are over the copy limit
• Weak engine accessibility: Call of the Haunted (2 copies) is rarely in the opening hand
• 30 level-0 spells and traps and a 57-card main deck make the list crowded and prone to dead draws
• No Side Deck registered

Critical choke points

• Call of the Haunted (2 copies) is the engine's entry point and is hard to draw on the first turn
• Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse are over the limit, so the list cannot be played as built in OCG

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and Dominus Impulse are each run 3 times, against an OCG limit of 2; Main deck 57, Extra 15 and Side 0 are within OCG size rules; Banlist status: Droll & Lock Bird, Foolish Burial, S:P Little Knight and Gustav Max are Limited at 1 copy each, and all are run at 1 copy; Composition: 7 hand traps, 14 searchers, 14 negation texts and 20 removal texts from text role hints; Usage statistics: Vampires archetype core is present (13 of 25 core cards, 52%)
• Inferred: Starter hypergeometric estimates (Call of the Haunted about 17% in opening 5; searchers about 77%; hand trap about 56% going second); Interaction breadth and layering scored from card text; Going-first and going-second strength estimates from interaction and closers; Midrange as the primary strategy (Call of the Haunted engine with Xyz closers and interaction)
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (D13), and tournament reliability
• 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 are absent No win-rate telemetry exists: going-first/second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No Side Deck is registered, so post-side adaptability cannot be measured