Darklord Deck #771550 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±10 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 18 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion/Link/Xyz boards led by Darklord Morningstar, Darklord Asmodeus, Darklord Eveningstar, The First Darklord and Power Patron links, converting through piercing and 3000+ ATK bodies; Recursion of Darklord monsters from the Graveyard through Darklord Contact, Fallen Angel in Darkness and Darklord Ukoback
• Turn 1 (going first): Searcher-driven starts (Banishment of the Darklords, Gulgolet, Medius, Theorealize) into an Extra Deck summon, backed by hand-trap and Darklord Rebellion/Enchantment protection
• Turn 2 (going second): Herald of Orange Light and Droll & Lock Bird as hand interaction, then a Fusion or Link summon through the opponent's board
• Recovery: Graveyard recursion with Darklord Contact, Fallen Angel in Darkness and Darklord Ukoback, plus Darklord Tezcatlipoca's discard protection
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has zero Side Deck cards

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens with its searchers: P(at least one searcher-text card in a 5-card opening hand) is about 0.92, and the 18-copy Darklord core has about 0.87 chance of appearing in that hand (Inferred hypergeometric estimates). From there it converts into Extra Deck summons and recursion, and it has a usable interaction suite of negation and removal text plus hand traps. Its closing power comes from several 3000-ATK Fusion and Xyz bodies. Popularity is not what earned points: the archetype core is widely run (usage data), but that only confirms the list is real, and no win-rate or meta sample exists. The score is built from the deck as a system, not from averaging card scores. It is capped low because the list is illegal: the Extra Deck is 3 over the limit, and Herald of Orange Light and Super Polymerization are over their copy limits. Under the rubric the result is theoretical/structural only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 58, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); illegal_extra_deck_size (-5). Final formula: Illegal cap applied: pre-cap 0.80*58 + 0.20*50 - 8 = 48; capped at 35 (theoretical/structural only, Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.92 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.13 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Searcher density (21 cards) gives about 0.92 chance of a search or starter in an opening 5
• Archetype core (18 copies) about 0.87 chance of appearing in an opening 5
• Layered interaction: hand traps, negation text and removal text
• Multiple 3000+ ATK closers and Darklord recursion

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Extra Deck 18 (max 15); Herald of Orange Light 3 copies (limit 1); Super Polymerization 3 copies (limit 2)
• Low archetype purity (38%) with 45 off-archetype copies
• Zero Side Deck
• No recorded boards, so no measured combo output

Critical choke points

• Extra Deck Fusion/Link summons depend on a small set of enablers
• Herald of Orange Light and Droll & Lock Bird are the only hand-trap answers to going-second boards

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 55, Extra 18, Side 0 (sizes checked against OCG rules); Herald of Orange Light 3 copies vs limit 1; Super Polymerization 3 vs limit 2; Searcher-text count 21; archetype-core 18 copies; no side deck
• Observed: Darklord core inclusion 66.7% of core cards present in deck (usage statistics)
• Inferred: Opening-hand probabilities 0.92 searcher / 0.87 core (hypergeometric); Going-second hand-trap probability about 0.38; Strategy classification Midrange with Combo secondary, from text and composition
• Provisional: Meta power (null; no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament link)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry; going-first/second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample Deck title null; deck is illegal as built, so no normal Final score is possible