Black Luster Soldier Deck #771525 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 41/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Exodia the Forbidden One line: 5 Forbidden One monsters into The Unstoppable Exodia Incarnate (Millennium Ankh / Exodd-style Exodia pieces, 1-of each, Limited); Titaniklad the Ash Dragon and Predaplant / Snake-Eyes extra-deck beaters, plus Millennium searcher chains (Sengenjin, Shield of the Millennium Dynasty, Golem that Guards the Millennium Treasures)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a searcher (Sengenjin / Shield / Golem / Heart of the Blue-Eyes) to reach Millennium Ankh, then Ankh or Wedju into a Millennium-line extender; hold Ash Blossom / Ghost Belle / Infinite Impermanence for the first Quick Effect
• Turn 2 (going second): Six-card hand with hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Droll & Lock Bird, Ghost Sister) and floodgates (Macro Cosmos, Dimensional Fissure, Royal Decree) to stall the opponent, then recover with a searcher
• Recovery: Heart of the Blue-Eyes and Ghost Belle / Ghost Sister recur from GY; Millennium searchers rebuild the hand from the Deck
• After siding: Not supported: the deck registers 0 side cards, so there is no post-side plan (best-of-3 adaptation is absent)

Why it scores here

The deck's score comes from the system, not from its cards or its archetype name. Its searcher density (16 searcher-text cards, P(at least one searcher in a 5-card opening hand) ≈ 0.80) gives it a reasonable route to Millennium Ankh, but the Ankh starter itself is only ≈ 0.23 in an opening hand, so the engine is reliable only after one or two searches. Interaction is the deck's strongest part: 10 hand traps and 7 floodgate-tagged cards, with P(at least one hand trap in a going-second 6-card hand) ≈ 0.68. The Exodia finisher needs five single-copy Forbidden One monsters, which is fragile, and 33 zero-level spells and traps plus 20 tech slots raise the chance of dead draws. Archetype popularity earned no points: exact-name Black Luster Soldier purity is 1.3% and only 2 of 14 core cards are present, so the list is a Millennium/Exodia toolbox, not a Black Luster Soldier deck. No card scores were averaged; the score is the Toolbox structural profile with no meta sample.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 50, Going First ≈ 46, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 42. Modifiers: conflicting engines (-4); self-hindering floodgates (-2); banlist exposure (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional) = 0.80*50 + 0.20*42 - 7 ≈ 41

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.23 · 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 and hand-trap coverage with good going-second interaction
• Several independent answers to a single interaction (10 hand traps)
• Exodia Incarnate is a genuine alternate win condition

Weaknesses

• Five-piece Exodia line is fragile and uses single-copy Limited cards
• No side deck, so there is no post-side plan
• Large share of situational or zero-level dead cards and tech

Critical choke points

• Millennium Ankh access (≈0.23 in opening 5)
• All five Forbidden One monsters must survive together for the Exodia Incarnate line
• A single hand-trap-heavy stall plan with no alternative route if interaction is spent early

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck legality: 60 Main / 15 Extra / 0 Side, all Limited and Semi-Limited copy counts within limit; Card text for every listed card as supplied in evidence; Archetype purity 1.3% and 2 of 14 core cards present
• Inferred: Hypergeometric opening-hand odds for Millennium Ankh and searchers; Dead-draw estimate from zero-level cards and situational tech; Interaction breadth from hand-trap and floodgate counts; Going-first and going-second splits
• Provisional: Matchup and format fit (D13), since no dated meta sample is supplied
• Data gaps: No combos supplied, so combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick or OTK rates) Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Side deck is empty, so post-side adaptation cannot be assessed