Lightsworn Deck #771310 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 28/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox
• 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: Boss monsters from the Extra Deck (Judgment Dragon, Red Dragon Archfiend, Dark End Dragon, Goyo Guardian) reached through Lightsworn engine plays, with Wulf and Judgment Dragon Special Summons; Tragoedia steal and Dark Armed Dragon removal lines, if the Lightsworn engine stalls
• Turn 1 (going first): Solar Recharge or Lyla/D.D. Crow to fill the GY, then Lightsworn Special Summons (Wulf, Judgment Dragon) to reach Synchro or boss material. Only one starter is reliably in hand (P of at least one in a 5-card hand is about 0.25 per copy-3 card).
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (D.D. Crow, Tragoedia, Monster Reincarnation as recovery) to slow the opponent, then a Lightsworn or Synchro board. Going-second is the weaker side of this list.
• Recovery: Lightsworn GY-to-deck effects (Lumina, Garoth, Ehren, Jain) and Monster Reincarnation as recovery. Redundancy depends on a single archetype core group, so recovery is fragile.
• After siding: Not applicable: side deck is empty, so there is no post-side plan. This deck is evaluated for structure only.

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system, not as an average of its cards. Its engine is thin: the Lightsworn core (9 copies, about 0.61 chance of at least one in a 5-card hand) is spread over 40 distinct main-deck cards, and only 20 of 55 main-deck copies (28.6%) are exact Lightsworn names. Going first it reaches its boss monsters through Solar Recharge, Wulf and Judgment Dragon, but with no recorded boards there is no measured ceiling or median output. Interaction is broad (26 removal-text cards and 4 hand traps), which earns end-board credit, but going second the hand is largely non-engine and the list has no side deck to adapt. Popularity did not earn points: the Lightsworn archetype usage data confirms the core cards are real, not that this list is strong. The list is Illegal under the OCG ban list (4 Forbidden copies), so the score is a structural-only cap and not a normal final score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 41, Going First ≈ 42, Going Second ≈ 38, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); Illegal cap applied, final shown as structural-only: 0.80*41.25 + 0.20*35 = 40, then banlist modifier -12 = 28

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.25 · 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 negation coverage (26 removal-text and 6 negation-text cards)
• Lightsworn GY-to-deck and recursion effects provide some grind
• High-ATK boss monsters in the Extra Deck (Judgment Dragon, Red Dragon Archfiend, Dark Armed Dragon)

Weaknesses

• Illegal under the OCG ban list (4 Forbidden copies)
• Thin archetype purity (28.6% exact-name Lightsworn) and 40 distinct main-deck cards
• No side deck (0 cards)
• No recorded combos, so ceiling and median are unmeasured

Critical choke points

• Single-card starters (Solar Recharge, Wulf) with about 0.25 chance of being in an opening 5-card hand
• Going-second hand of non-engine cards with no alternative route

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: 4 Forbidden copies run (Royal Oppression x2, Cold Wave, Trap Dustshoot, Tempest Magician); 55 main-deck and 15 Extra Deck cards; 0 side cards; Exact-name Lightsworn purity 28.6% (20 of 55 copies); Archetype core group: 9 copies in deck, P(at least one in hand of 5) about 0.606
• Inferred: Starter reliability about 0.25 for copy-3 starters in a 5-card hand; Brick rate about 39% of hands with no core card; Going-second hand is largely non-engine; Interaction breadth from removal and negation text
• Provisional: Meta power is null; format fit (D13) is provisional without a dated meta sample
• Data gaps: No combos supplied, so combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Deck title is null