Edge Imp Deck #771375 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 54 / Extra 16 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon a Level 8 or higher boss (Albion, Lubellion, Masquerade, Titaniklad, Mixousia) through Polymerization-family spells and Fallen of Albaz material; Fallen of Albaz-based Fusion lines (Alba-Lenatus, Rindbrumm, Mirrorjade) that reuse Fallen of Albaz and Branded/Despia searchers
• Turn 1 (going first): Turn 1: Normal Summon Fallen of Albaz, Aluber, or Edge Imp Chain to trigger searches, then Polymerization or Super Polymerization into a Fallen of Albaz Fusion boss; Branded Fusion or Branded Opening is the Limited backup
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Effect Veiler, Skull Meister, or Nibiru as interaction for the opponent's first board, then rebuild with a Fusion starter from hand or GY via Branded in Red or Blazing Cartesia
• Recovery: Fallen of Albaz and Despia monsters recur from the GY through Branded in Red, Despian Tragedy and Blazing Cartesia; Frightfur Patchwork and Edge Imp Chain add searches
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan; the list cannot be evaluated as a full best-of-3 deck

Why it scores here

The score comes from the deck as a system and was not averaged from its cards. The engine is accessible in principle: 21 searcher-text cards give a 92.5% chance of at least one searcher in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred), and Fallen of Albaz plus three Polymerization-family spells provide several routes to a Fusion Summon. Its conversion is weakened by an incoherent build: the exact Edge Imp name covers only 4 of 70 archetype copies, and the rest is split across Branded, Despia, Bystial, Springans and Albaz Dragon, so the list has no single engine. The interaction suite (10 hand traps, Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Effect Veiler and Skull Meister) is dense and gives a 72.7% chance of at least one hand trap when going second (Inferred). Popularity did not earn points, and the deck has no combo, tournament or win-rate data, so only a low-confidence structural read is possible. It is also Illegal, with three Super Polymerization over the copy limit and 16 Extra Deck cards over the maximum, so it is capped and labelled theoretical only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 48, Going First ≈ 46, Going Second ≈ 40, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-4); engine conflicts (-4); dependence on one Extra-Deck card (-4). Final formula: Illegal: structural score 47.6 with Meta provisional gives 0.80*47.6 + 0.20*35 = 45.1; context modifiers total -12 gives 33.1; the Illegal cap (copy limit and Extra size) sets the final score to 25 (theoretical/structural only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.93 · 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

• Searcher density is high: 21 searcher-text cards give a 92.5% chance of at least one searcher in a 5-card opening hand
• Fallen of Albaz at 3 copies anchors several Fusion boss routes and triggers searches from the hand
• Interaction suite of 10 hand traps including Ash Blossom and Infinite Impermanence covers the going-second turn
• Fusion boss ceiling is 2500 to 3000 ATK across several monsters

Weaknesses

• Illegal: Super Polymerization at 3 copies over the limit of 2, and Extra Deck at 16 over the 15 maximum
• No Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan
• Exact Edge Imp purity is 5.7%; the engine is split across Branded, Despia, Bystial and Albaz
• Heavy Limited and Semi-Limited exposure in Branded and Bystial cards
• No recorded boards, guides or tournament data to confirm any line

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz (3 copies) is the material for most Fusion bosses; without it the line stops
• Polymerization-family spells (2 Polymerization, 3 Super Polymerization, 2 Fusion Deployment) are the only Fusion Summon routes outside Branded Fusion
• Limited cards (Branded Fusion, Branded Opening) cap each engine card at 1 copy

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Super Polymerization 3 copies vs legal 2 (legality.violations); Extra Deck 16 vs OCG max 15 (legality.size_warnings); Side Deck is empty (composition.total_side = 0); Exact Edge Imp purity 5.7% (archetype purity); Searcher-text group P(at least one in hand of 5) = 0.925 (probabilities); Hand-trap group P(at least one in hand of 6 going second) = 0.7267 (probabilities)
• Inferred: Fallen of Albaz is the central Fusion material; Brick rate is high because of 17 single-copy cards and 16 Fusion Monsters; Interaction density is high (10 hand traps and 9 removal-text cards); Going-second plan relies on hand traps plus a Fusion starter from GY recursion
• Provisional: Meta Power and format fit (no dated meta sample; archetype usage is only a context signal)
• 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 are absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN (going-first, going-second, matchup, brick, starter and OTK rates) no guides attached: guide data total is 0 no Side Deck is registered for this list deck title is null, so the deck is identified only by archetype and id archetype core usage: 2 of 25 core cards are present (12%), so the list is not a standard Edge Imp build