Performapal Deck #771520 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Tempo
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 18 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra-Deck Odd-Eyes and Dragon boss monsters at 3000 ATK (Odd-Eyes Rebellion Dragon Overlord, Odd-Eyes Raging Dragon, Odd-Eyes Absolute Dragon), reached through Pendulum and Extra-Deck summons; Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon and Odd-Eyes Phantasma Dragon pressure from the Pendulum Zone
• Turn 1 (going first): Pendulum Summon from the Pendulum Zone using Performapal and Magician scales, with Performapal Odd-Eyes Seer or Skullcrobat Joker for search, then extend to an Extra-Deck boss (Inferred from card text; no combo data)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Nibiru, Ghost Ogre) to slow the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Pendulum Summon and searchers (Inferred)
• Recovery: Searchers (31 copies of searcher text) and Mulcharmy Fuwalos draw rebuild the hand; Odd-Eyes Arc Pendulum Dragon and Performapal Gentrude can recur Odd-Eyes monsters (Inferred from text)
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so no post-side plan can be evaluated; OCG best-of-3 requires one

Why it scores here

The deck opens reliably on paper: P(at least one Archetype-core card in a 5-card opening hand) is about 0.80 and 31 searcher-text copies give near-certain search access (Inferred). Its interaction package is the strongest part: 9 hand traps and 18 negation-text cards cover the first board well, with about 0.64 chance of at least one hand trap in a 6-card going-second hand (Inferred). The Extra Deck has several 3000-ATK boss routes, so closing power is credible if the Pendulum engine goes live. The score is held down by an illegal list (three copies of a Semi-Limited card and 18 Extra Deck cards against a limit of 15), by 60 Main Deck cards with 35 Pendulum monsters that create conflicting scales and bricks, and by having no side deck. No combo or tournament data exists, so popularity and archetype usage were not counted toward the score, and card scores were not averaged. Because the list is illegal, the score is capped as a theoretical, structural-only read.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 54, Going First ≈ 56, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: banlist/copy-limit exposure (-4); no side deck (-3). Final formula: Illegal list: 0.80*Structural(54) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(48) + modifiers(-7) = 46 before cap; capped to 30 as a theoretical, structural-only score. Meta provisional.

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

• Hand-trap and negation density (9 hand traps, 18 negation-text cards) gives strong interaction (Inferred)
• Searcher density (31 cards) gives high access to the engine (Inferred)
• Several 3000-ATK Extra-Deck bosses give closing power (verified stats)

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: Ash Blossom at 3 copies (limit 2) and 18 Extra Deck cards (limit 15) (verified)
• No side deck, so no post-side plan (verified)
• Pendulum scale conflicts and sub-archetype split (exact-name purity 10.3%) raise brick risk (Inferred)

Critical choke points

• Pendulum Zone scale pairing: the Pendulum Summon depends on a legal scale pair, which can fail on a bad opening hand (Inferred)
• Extra Deck size: the list must drop 3 Extra Deck cards before it is playable (verified)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring at 3 copies vs Semi-Limited limit 2; Extra Deck count 18 vs OCG maximum 15; No side deck registered (Side Deck size 0); Archetype core group: 16 copies, 0.8012 at least one in a 5-card hand; Hand-trap P(≥1 in 6 cards going second) = 0.6403
• Observed: Usage stats: 17 rows; 40% of core cards present (verified data, not combo observation)
• Inferred: Engine consistency and brick rate from hypergeometric odds and Pendulum scale analysis; Interaction and going-second strength from card text; Going-first and going-second plans from card text; Post-side and recovery plans from text
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament data)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN — going-first/second, matchup, brick and starter rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied no guides attached (guide data total 0) no side deck registered (Side Deck size 0)