Black Luster Soldier Deck #771288 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 21/100 (±5 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Unclear. Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning (1 copy) is the only exact-archetype closer; the rest of the deck is generic staples, so there is no defined win condition.; Thunder Dragon / Twin-Headed Thunder Dragon and Dark Blade / Last Warrior from Another Planet as beatsticks; their lines are not supported by the deck's own engine.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on draw/search staples (Upstart Goblin, Jar of Greed, Sangan, Thunder Dragon searcher) and hope to hit Envoy through a GY that is not yet populated; the 1-copy Envoy gives a weak first-turn plan.
• Turn 2 (going second): Answer the opponent's board with removal and disruption (Mystical Space Typhoon, Dust Tornado, Mind Control, Heavy Storm, Torrential Tribute, Mirror Force) and then rebuild with staple draw.
• Recovery: Search and draw staples (Sinister Serpent, Magician of Faith, Card Destruction, Upstart Goblin) to replace interaction used early; fusion monsters have no Fusion Spell to reach them.
• After siding: Not applicable: the deck has no Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

Scored as a system: the deck runs about 32 staple-style spells and traps, a small set of monsters, and 15 Fusion cards with no Fusion Spell in the main deck, so its engine is weak and most of its power comes from generic interaction. Its interaction density is high (about 24 removal-text cards), which lifts end-board and interruption scores. Engine access is poor: Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning is a single copy with about a 9% chance of appearing in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred), and only one card matches the archetype name. Four forbidden cards (Trap Dustshoot x3, Delinquent Duo, Pot of Greed, Graceful Charity) make the list illegal, which caps the score low; the popularity of the Black Luster Soldier name earned no points, and card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 34, Going First ≈ 30, Going Second ≈ 38, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 30. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); dependence_on_unreachable_extra_deck (-4). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); Illegal cap applied

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.09 · 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

• Broad removal and disruption: about 24 removal-text cards
• Staple draw and search support consistency for the non-engine part of the deck
• Mind Control and Dust Tornado give flexible answers on both turns

Weaknesses

• Only one archetype-named card (Envoy); the deck does not run its own engine
• 15 Fusion monsters with no Fusion Spell in the main deck, so the Extra Deck is mostly dead
• Illegal in OCG: four forbidden cards, including three Trap Dustshoot
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Weak closing power: few threatening bodies beyond Envoy

Critical choke points

• The single copy of Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning is the only archetype closer
• Fusion monsters need a Fusion Spell that is not present in the main deck
• Forbidden cards must be removed before the deck is legal in OCG

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0 (within OCG size rules); Four Forbidden violations (Trap Dustshoot x3, Delinquent Duo, Pot of Greed, Graceful Charity); Archetype purity 1.4% (1 of 70 main and extra cards named Black Luster Soldier); Fifteen Fusion monsters, no Fusion Spell in the main deck; Card text for removal and draw cards from the evidence
• Inferred: Engine accessibility P(>=1 Envoy in 5) = 0.0909; Brick and dead-card risk from target-dependent staples; Going-second and going-first plans from card text and composition; Ceiling and median output from text only (no combo boards)
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit (no tournament data)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied; combo floor, median, and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent No win-rate telemetry; going-first, going-second, and matchup rates are unknown Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample Side Deck is empty, so post-side performance cannot be assessed