Dark World Deck #771073 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 57 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 5 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Dark World recursion loops (Reign-Beaux, Grapha, Snoww, Sillva) and Danger! Special Summon chains building a large board of 2500+ ATK monsters, closed by Dark World Extra Deck fusions and links.; Link-based boards (Firewall Dragon Singularity, Topologic Blaster Dragon, Underworld Goddess) once the Extra Deck is populated.
• Turn 1 (going first): Hand Danger! monsters and Dark World starters, discard-for-value via Danger! reveal effects, then Dark World Accession or Dark Corridor to find a Level 5+ Dark World engine piece.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Artifact Lancea as a Tribute hand trap and Dark World recursion from the Graveyard to rebuild a board after the opponent's first play.
• Recovery: Recover from the GY through Reign-Beaux and Grapha special summon conditions, and reuse Danger! monsters that re-summon from hand after discard.
• After siding: Not evaluable: the list runs no Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system, not as an average of its cards. Its consistency comes from 20 Dark World archetype-core copies (P at least one in a 5-card opening hand is about 0.90) and 15 searcher-text cards (about 0.80), so the engine is usually live by turn 2 (Inferred). Recursion (Reign-Beaux, Grapha, Snoww, Sillva) and Danger! discard-to-summon give it real resilience and resource regeneration, and interaction is layered through Lightning Storm, Harpie's Feather Duster and Card Destruction, though it has no side deck to adapt. Only 18 of 75 cards are the exact archetype name (25% purity), and the list runs five Forbidden cards, so the deck is illegal as built. Under the illegal-deck rule the final score is capped low and the evaluation is theoretical and structural only. Popularity or meta-share did not earn points, because no tournament data exists.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 48, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12); no side deck (0). Final formula: Structural 54.8 → 0.80*55 + 0.20*45 = 53 (Meta provisional); modifiers −12 total; illegal-deck cap applied → 35 (theoretical/structural only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.9 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.1 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dark World archetype core is consistently accessible (about 0.90 at least one in hand)
• Layered recursion and Danger! re-summons give strong resource regeneration
• Layered removal and negation text across the main and Extra Deck

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: five Forbidden cards, with three Limited cards at 1 copy each
• Only 25% exact-name archetype purity; many off-archetype slots
• No Side Deck, so no post-side plan
• No parseable combos, so the floor and median are unknown

Critical choke points

• Dark World starters and Level 5+ engine pieces in the Deck
• Triple Tactics Talent is Forbidden and cannot be played, so its slot has no legal substitute in the list

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is illegal: five Forbidden cards over the copy limit; Main 57 and Extra 15 are within the OCG size rules; Dark World exact-name purity is 25% (18 of 72 archetype-matching copies)
• Observed: No Side Deck present (0 cards)
• Inferred: Engine accessibility about 0.90 for the Dark World core; Recursion and Danger! re-summons give resilience and resource regeneration; Layered interaction through removal and negation text
• Provisional: Meta power is null: no dated metagame sample; Matchup fit is unknown: no tournament data
• Data gaps: no combos supplied: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent no win-rate telemetry for OCG: going-first/second, matchup and brick/starter rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No Side Deck present: post-side plan unassessable