Unchained Deck #771230 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 42 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link and Fusion Extra Deck boss monsters (Unchained Abomination, Unchained Enma Lord Yama, Unchained Soul Rage Abominator, Fiendsmith's Lacrima) built from a self-Special-Summon Unchained engine and Fiend recursion.; Unchained recursion (Reincarnation of the Unchained, Abominable Chamber) to rebuild the board after interaction.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Abomination's Prison / Reincarnation of the Unchained or an Unchained Ogre / Soul self-summon, convert to a Link boss, and hold Ash Blossom and Infinite Impermanence for the first answer.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit, Maxx "C" and Droll & Lock Bird to answer the opponent's first summon or search, then rebuild from the GY through Unchained recursion.
• Recovery: Recurse Unchained monsters from the GY with Unchained Twins / Soul of Shyama and Reincarnation of the Unchained, then re-Link through the Link Monsters in the Extra Deck.
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs 0 side cards, so there is no post-side plan. The list must be legalised before any post-side reading applies.

Why it scores here

This is an Illegal list: three Forbidden cards (Aerial Eater, D/D/D Wave High King Caesar, Albion the Branded Dragon) are run at 1 copy each, and the deck has no side deck, so it is scored as a structural read only and capped at 30. Structurally the list is coherent around the Unchained self-summon engine: about 83% of opening hands (5-card, going first) contain at least one archetype core card, and the nine hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Maxx C, Droll & Lock Bird and others) give it a real first-interaction layer. Its ceiling and median are not measured: no recorded boards exist, so combo conversion is an inferred text read, and the 14 non-archetype Main Deck copies plus 44% exact-name purity across Fiendsmith, Branded and Dominus pull consistency down. Popularity and archetype share earned no points, no card scores were averaged, and the missing side deck and banned cards keep it from any normal contextual score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 56.4, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-4); no side deck (-2); engine conflicts (-1). Final formula: Uncapped: 0.80*Structural(56.4) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) + modifiers(-7) ≈ 47. Illegal cap applied (Forbidden cards at 1 copy each; no side deck): final score set to 30, theoretical/structural-only. Meta Power provisional/null.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.83 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.17 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Self-summon Unchained engine gives a high starter hit rate (≈ 0.83 for at least one core card in an opening 5)
• Nine hand traps and eight negation-text cards cover the first interaction step
• Unchained recursion (Reincarnation, Abominable Chamber, Shyama, Twins) rebuilds after disruption

Weaknesses

• Three Forbidden cards are run, so the list is Illegal
• No side deck (0 cards), so no post-side plan
• Only 44% exact-name archetype purity: Fiendsmith, Branded, Dominus and D/D/D pieces dilute the engine

Critical choke points

• Forbidden copies must be removed before the list can be played at all
• A single Unchained starter in hand (≈ 0.32 for a 3-copy card) is still needed to open most lines

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: three Forbidden cards at 1 copy each; Main 42, Extra 15, Side 0 counts; Exact-name purity 43.9%; Nine hand-trap cards and 22 removal-text cards in composition
• Inferred: P(at least one core card in an opening hand of 5) ≈ 0.83; Going-second hand-trap coverage ≈ 0.79; Structural scoring of the 14 dimensions; Engine coherence and pilot burden reads
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit (no dated meta sample); Tournament reliability (no tournament link)
• 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, matchup, brick and OTK rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied deck has 0 side cards, so no post-side evidence exists