Witchcrafter Deck #771313 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 5 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Witchcrafter Vice-Madame and Zoroa boards built from the Witchcrafter and Magistus searcher chain (Inferred from card text; no recorded combos); Witchcrafter Pupils and Magistus Chorozo follow-up boards after hand-trap interaction (Inferred from card text)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on a searcher (Witchcrafter Creation, Walpurgis, Terracottan) into a Level 4 or lower starter, then bridge into Witchcrafter Schmietta or Genni for a Fusion or Link follow-up (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Droll and Infinite Impermanence as hand traps to break the opponent's first summon, then rebuild from the searcher chain (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recover through Witchcrafter Distortion from the GY and Witchcrafter Celebration or Haine as removal, backed by Mulcharmy draw effects (Inferred)
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan; the deck can only adjust inside the Main Deck after the four Forbidden Extra Deck and Main Deck cards are removed

Why it scores here

The deck is illegal in OCG: five cards (Triple Tactics Talent x2, Charmer Quartet in Bloom, Borreload Savage Dragon, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon and Cross-Sheep) exceed a legal limit of zero, so the score is capped at 25 and labelled theoretical and structural only. Before that cap, the system reads as a coherent Midrange shell: 19 searcher-text cards and 23 archetype-core copies give a high chance of an engine piece in the opening hand, and 12 hand traps plus 14 negation-text cards give it layered interaction. The score is not a function of the individual card scores and does not come from Witchcrafter being a popular archetype; no usage share or tournament result was used. Its weak points are the lack of a side deck, the lack of recorded combos to measure median output, and fourteen-plus decision points that lower pilotability. Once the Forbidden copies are removed, the structure should be re-evaluated with a legal list.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, Toolbox secondary; structural weights used as-is. Structural ≈ 61, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 64, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); no side deck (-4). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) = 60 before modifiers; modifiers -12 gives 48; Illegal cap sets the reported score to 25

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.94 · 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

• Archetype core and searchers give a high chance of a live engine piece in the opening hand (Inferred)
• Layered hand traps and negation text cover summons, activations and the first board (Inferred)
• Fusion and Link extra-deck bridges give several ways to convert a starter (Inferred)

Weaknesses

• Five Forbidden cards make the list illegal in OCG as built (Verified)
• No side deck and no post-side plan (Verified)
• Low exact-name purity with many generic and off-archetype slots dilutes the engine (Verified from composition)
• No recorded combos, so median output and realistic ceiling cannot be measured (Verified gap)

Critical choke points

• Searcher chain through Witchcrafter Creation, Walpurgis and Terracottan is needed for most conversions (Inferred)
• Witchcrafter Vice-Madame and Zoroa are the only closers identified from card text (Inferred)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Five Forbidden cards over the OCG copy limit of zero; Main Deck count 56 and Extra Deck count 15, both within size rules; Side deck count is zero; Ash Blossom at 2 copies is within its Semi-Limited limit
• Inferred: Searcher and engine accessibility from hypergeometric draws; Hand-trap and interaction density from role flags and text; Ceiling from card text on Vice-Madame and Zoroa; Going-second hand-trap hit rate
• Provisional: Meta power is null; Matchup fit and tournament reliability
• Data gaps: No combos supplied, so floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record are absent No side deck registered No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN for this deck Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied