Darklord Deck #771259 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Darklord Fusion and Link boss monsters (The First Darklord, Darklord Eveningstar, Darklord Morningstar, Darklord Ixchel) reached through the Darklord searchers and Herald/Solfachord link routes (Inferred from card text).; Ty-Phon Xyz and Majesty Hyperion as additional end-board threats, both gated by level and summon conditions (Inferred).
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Darklord Djehuty or Gulgolet, search with Banishment of the Darklords or Gulgolet, and use Herald or Solfachord to build a Link or Fusion board; hand traps are held for the opponent's first response (Inferred).
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Herald of Orange/Green Light, D.D. Crow and Evenly Matched to answer the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Darklord Contact and Fallen Angel in Darkness (Inferred).
• Recovery: Darklord Contact and Fallen Angel in Darkness recover a Darklord from the GY, and Gulgolet tokens and Mulcharmy draws refill the hand (Inferred).
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan; this is a structural gap, not a tuned choice.

Why it scores here

The list is Illegal: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring is run 3 times against an OCG limit of 2, and Herald of Orange Light is run 3 times against a limit of 1, so the structural score is shown but the final score is capped low and labelled theoretical. The structural read comes from the system: the archetype core (21 copies) gives a high chance of at least one Darklord piece in a 5-card opening hand (about 0.92, Inferred), and 12 hand traps plus 17 negation-text cards give strong interaction density. The top-end Fusion and Link bosses (Eveningstar, The First Darklord, Morningstar, Ixchel) give closing power. Points are lost for a brick-prone mix of off-archetype Herald, Solfachord and Mulcharmy cards (exact-name purity 34%), an empty side deck, and no recorded combos to measure median output. Archetype popularity earned no points, and no card scores were averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 57, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-6); no_side_deck (-3); engine_conflicts (-2). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability = 0.80*57 + 0.20*48 = 55.2; context modifiers -11 gives 44; capped to 30 because the list is Illegal (theoretical/structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.92 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.08 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense interaction: 12 hand traps and 17 negation-text cards, with several negates that work on the opponent's turn
• Deep Darklord core (21 copies) with a high chance of a starter in an opening hand
• High-impact Extra Deck top end: The First Darklord 4000 ATK, Eveningstar and Morningstar 3000 ATK

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: two cards are over the copy limit
• Empty side deck, so the deck has no post-side plan
• Off-archetype spread (Herald, Solfachord, Mulcharmy, Forbidden, Harpie) weakens engine coherence

Critical choke points

• Fusion and Link boss access depends on Darklord Djehuty, Gulgolet and the Darklord searchers
• Ty-Phon Xyz needs two Level 12 monsters, which the Fusion bosses may not provide
• The illegal copy counts of Ash Blossom and Herald of Orange Light must be fixed before the list is playable

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Ash Blossom 3 vs 2 legal and Herald of Orange Light 3 vs 1 legal; Main 55 and Extra 15 are within size rules; Side is 0; Usage stats: Darklord Djehuty 92.6%, Darklord Morningstar 88.9%, Herald of Orange Light 74.1%; Card stats and text as listed in the evidence
• Inferred: Starter access: ≈ 0.92 for the core group in a 5-card hand; Brick risk and going-second hand-trap estimates; Interaction density and resilience from card text; Pilotability and combo-route reading from text
• Provisional: Meta power and format fit (no dated metagame or tournament link)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: 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: going-first/second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Side deck is empty, so D12 has no post-side evidence Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Deck title is null