Artifact Deck #771330 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 37/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: X-Saber Synchro boards (Souza, Hyunlei, Goyo King, Juraishin) built through X-Saber recursion and Synchro Summons, with the Saber/X-Saber engine as the core; Goyo/Saber Synchro beaters and Commander Souza; Naturia Barkion as a trap-negation Synchro
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a searcher (Triple Tactics Thrust, Small World, X-Saber Bruno, X-Saber Ragigura, Fire Formation - Tenki), set up a Tuner and X-Saber Level 4 or lower bodies, then Synchro into an X-Saber boss while holding hand traps for the opponent's first interaction
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 9 hand traps (Infinite Impermanence, Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit, Ghost Belle & Haunted Mansion) to answer the opponent's first board, then rebuild X-Saber bodies from the Graveyard through Gottoms' Second Call and Gottoms' Emergency Call
• Recovery: Recover from the Graveyard with X-Saber Ragigura, XX-Saber Darksoul, XX-Saber Garsem and Gottoms' Emergency Call, with Saber Combination and the X-Saber Synchro ecosystem supplying follow-up bodies
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no Side Deck (Side Deck size 0), so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

This list is illegal as submitted: it runs 3 copies of Pot of Extravagance where OCG Semi-Limited allows 2, so it receives a structural-only read rather than a normal contextual score. Structurally, the 15 searcher-text cards give roughly an 80% chance of at least one searcher in a 5-card opening hand, which supports the engine's reliability, but the X-Saber core is only about 25% likely to be in an opening hand because it is spread across many distinct cards. Interaction is the strongest area: 9 hand traps and 31 removal-text cards give about a 67% chance of at least one hand trap in a 6-card going-second hand, which earns the going-second and endboard scores. The deck has no recorded boards, so combo ceiling and median output are text-only inference and carry low weight in the score. No Side Deck and no tournament or meta data mean post-side adaptability and matchup fit are provisional. The score is not an average of card scores; it reflects the system (engine access, interaction, recursion, and the copy-limit violation).

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, Combo secondary (~80/20 by emphasis on D5/D6 over D1/D3). Structural ≈ 51, Going First ≈ 48, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: Illegal: copy-limit violation (-12). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(51) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(40) = 48.8; Illegal copy-limit violation applied as a -12 modifier to 36.8, rounded to 37 (theoretical/structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.8 · 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

• Dense searcher coverage (15 searcher-text cards) gives a high chance of at least one engine piece in the opening hand
• Nine hand traps and 31 removal-text cards give real interaction on both turns
• X-Saber Graveyard recursion and Synchro bosses give repeatable board presence
• Compact, coherent Synchro/X-Saber theme with an Extra Deck that covers several boss profiles

Weaknesses

• Illegal as submitted: Pot of Extravagance is run 3 copies against a limit of 2
• The X-Saber core is only about 25% likely to appear in an opening hand
• Archetype label 'Artifact' does not match the card pool (0% exact-name purity; X-Saber/Saber dominate), which hurts coherence reads
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptability
• Many conditional effects and summon restrictions raise error rate

Critical choke points

• Opening-hand X-Saber access: the core is spread across many distinct cards, so a hand without a Saber/X-Saber engine piece has no clear route to a board
• Pot of Extravagance overage: the third copy makes the list illegal and must be cut before any normal score applies

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 56 and Extra 15 within size rules (40–60 main, 0–15 extra); Pot of Extravagance run 3 copies against an OCG Semi-Limited limit of 2 (violation); Harpie's Feather Duster, Foolish Burial and S:P Little Knight are each run 1 copy, within their Limited caps; Card text and banlist status from the resolved card list; Usage stat: Infinite Impermanence in the core list (70% inclusion, 3 copies)
• Inferred: Searcher access P(≥1 in 5-card hand) ≈ 0.80 and X-Saber core ≈ 0.25 (hypergeometric); Hand-trap access P(≥1 in 6-card hand) ≈ 0.67; Interaction and recursion strength from card text; Structural score 51 and going-first/second splits
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit and post-side adaptability (no tournament or side-deck data)
• 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: going-first/second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No Side Deck (Side Deck size 0): post-side adaptability cannot be evidenced Deck archetype label 'Artifact' does not match the card pool (X-Saber/Saber dominate)