Apophis Deck #771488 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 33/100 (±10 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 45 / Extra 14 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck boss monsters (Divine Serpent Apophis, Galaxy-Eyes Cipher X Dragon, Superdreadnought Rail Cannon Juggernaut Liebe) reached via Temple of the Kings and Apophis Trap engine; Egyptian God recursion (The Winged Dragon of Ra and Immortal Phoenix) with Ancient Chant and The True Sun God
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Temple of the Kings / Treasures of the Kings / Man with the Mark searcher line, set Apophis traps, then Special Summon Apophis monsters into a Fusion or Link boss; hand traps held for the opponent's first board
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence and Maxx C to answer the opponent's first summon, then continue the Temple line through the remaining board
• Recovery: Apophis the Serpent and Metal Reflect Slime recur from the GY and banish zone; Eldlich and Golden Land monsters rebuild a board from Eldlixir set effects
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan; the deck cannot adapt between games in a best-of-3

Why it scores here

The deck's core engine (Temple of the Kings, Treasures of the Kings, The Man with the Mark, and the Apophis traps) is accessible: the 12-copy archetype core has about 81% chance of at least one card in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred), and searcher text is broad. Converting that engine into pressure depends on the Extra Deck bosses, but no combo boards were recorded, so the ceiling and median are text-only inferences and remain uncertain. Interaction is real but thin, with 6 hand traps and 8 negation-text cards, while the 50-card-deep Egyptian God and Apophis cross-archetype spread (only 6.8% exact-name purity) dilutes engine coherence. The deck has no Side Deck, so it earns almost nothing for post-side adaptability, and the Forbidden Saryuja Skull Dread places it outside legal play, which caps the score. Popularity and archetype usage were not counted toward the score, and the 14 dimensions were not derived from averaging card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Balanced (default; strategy blended Midrange primary with Toolbox secondary, not forced). Structural ≈ 47, Going First ≈ 45, Going Second ≈ 42, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 38. Modifiers: banlist exposure (Forbidden card in deck) (-9); banlist exposure (Limited key cards) (-3). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional), then context modifiers total -12, capped low because the deck is Illegal (theoretical/structural only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.81 · 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 is accessible (12 copies, about 81% chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand)
• Layered interaction from Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Maxx C and Nibiru
• Compact 45-card main with a clear searcher chain through Temple of the Kings and The Man with the Mark

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Saryuja Skull Dread is Forbidden and over the copy limit
• No Side Deck, so no post-side plan
• Low archetype purity (6.8%) and 55 off-archetype copies weaken engine coherence
• No recorded boards, so combo output is unmeasured

Critical choke points

• Temple of the Kings must resolve for most lines; a single Temple disruption removes the engine
• Extra Deck boss access depends on Apophis monsters and Fusion or Link material

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is Illegal: Saryuja Skull Dread (Forbidden, 0 legal copies) is run at 1 copy; Main 45 / Extra 14 / Side 0 fall within OCG size rules; Foolish Burial, Maxx C, Monster Reborn, S:P Little Knight and Gustav Max are Limited at 1 copy each (legal); Archetype core 12 copies; 6.8% exact-name purity
• Inferred: Opening-hand probabilities from hypergeometric estimate (0.81 for at least one core card); Engine coherence and brick risk from archetype spread and copy histogram; Going-first and going-second plan estimates from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit and tournament reliability (no tournament link)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied; floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent no win-rate telemetry; going-first and going-second splits are Inferred no Side Deck registered Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied