Ice Barrier Deck #771512 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck beatsticks and Synchro/Fusion boards (Ashtraja Susanoo, Ashtraya Mikumari-no-Mikoto, Adamancipator Risen - Dragite, Azamina Sol Erysichthon) once a Synchro or Fusion line is established; Dark Paladin - Wave-Motion and Dark Magician of Destruction as fusion finishers; Ekhajar and Stardust Dragon as Synchro pressure
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on Ashtra or Diabellstar starters that Special Summon from hand (Yoa, Mikumari, Akasuna, Kuzuha, Diabellstar), then use Sinful Spoils or Azamina searchers to find a Synchro/Fusion finisher. Without a Tuner and non-Tuner pair the line stalls, and this plan is theoretical because the list is illegal.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Solemn Judgment, Solemn Warning and Dominus Impulse to protect the first Special Summon, then convert with an Ashtra or Azamina board. Hand-trap density (9) is the main strength on this side.
• Recovery: Ashtra Traps and monsters in the GY can be re-used through Ashtraja Susanoo and Ashtrashen; Sinful Spoils recursion via WANTED and Deception recovers searchers. Recovery depends on the Forbidden cards being removed.
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered (0 cards), so no post-side plan exists. A legal rebuild would need a side deck.

Why it scores here

This list is Illegal in OCG: four cards (Snake-Eye, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Azamina Ilia Silvia, Baronne de Fleur) are Forbidden with zero legal copies, and three Extra Deck slots are wasted on them, so the score is a theoretical, structural-only read capped low. Structurally the deck runs several engines that do not share a plan: Ashtra (Special Summon by revealing a face-down card), Azamina/Sinful Spoils, Diabellstar and Solemn/Dominus interaction. Only one card of the 21 Ice Barrier core cards is present, so the archetype name does not earn points. The interaction package (9 hand traps, 3 Solemn-family cards, Ash Blossom x2, Dominus Impulse) gives the strongest dimensions, D7 and D5. Floor, median and ceiling are scored separately, and no recorded boards exist, so the combo dimensions are Inferred from text. The score was not produced by averaging card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 51.6, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 56, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 42. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); engine conflicts (-4). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability = 49.7 before modifiers; modifiers -12 (capped) gives 37.7; Illegal deck capped to 30 (theoretical, structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.85 · 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

• Layered interaction: 9 hand traps, 3 Solemn-family cards, Dimensional Barrier, Harpie's Feather Duster and Ash Blossom x2
• Searcher density (17 searcher-text cards) gives high P(at least one searcher in hand)
• High-ATK Synchro and Fusion finishers (Ashtraja Susanoo 3300, Ashtraya Mikumari-no-Mikoto 3000, Dragite 3000)

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: four Forbidden cards, three of them in the Extra Deck
• Four engines (Ashtra, Azamina/Sinful Spoils, Diabellstar, Solemn/Dominus) with only 1.4% exact archetype purity
• No Side Deck registered (0 cards)
• No recorded combos or guides, so every combo claim is text-only

Critical choke points

• Ashtra Special Summon requires a face-down card to reveal, so a single set-up disruption can cut the line
• Synchro summons need a Tuner plus non-Tuners; Tuner count is 5 and Synchro count 9 with a Tuner-reliance gap
• Forbidden Azamina and Baronne cards cannot be run, so the Azamina line must be rebuilt before it is playable

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Four Forbidden copies: Snake-Eye, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Azamina Ilia Silvia, Baronne de Fleur; Main 56, Extra 15, Side 0; Synchro 9 and Fusion 6 in the Extra Deck; Archetype purity 1.4% exact; 70 off-archetype copies; Ice Barrier core present 1 of 21 (4.8%)
• Inferred: Hypergeometric searcher and hand-trap estimates; Engine conflicts and Ashtra face-down dependence; Dimension scores D1 to D14 from card text and composition; Going-first and going-second power estimates
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and D13 matchup/format fit; Tournament reliability
• Data gaps: Deck is Illegal: 4 Forbidden copies; theoretical, structural-only score 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 side deck registered; post-side plan is unscored no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN; going-first/second and matchup signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied