Archfiend Deck #771584 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 56/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Red Dragon Archfiend and Red Dragon Archfiend-linked Synchro boards (Red Hypernova Dragon, Red Nova Dragon - Burning Soul, Storm-Bane Dragon Destorbim, Bystial Dis Pater) that attack through a field of negations; Synchro boards that remove or negate the opponent's board and then pressure with 3000+ ATK monsters
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon a Tuner (Soul Resonator or Power Vice Dragon), search or summon a Fiend/Resonator, then Synchro Summon into a 3000+ ATK monster while holding Ash Blossom or Infinite Impermanence
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 6-card hand's hand traps (Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Maxx C, Droll & Lock Bird) to break the opponent's starter, then rebuild a Synchro board from Resonator searches
• Recovery: Recover GY Resonators via Synkron Resonator, Vision Resonator and Crimson Call, and re-Synchro through Power Vice Dragon and Soul Resonator
• After siding: None. The deck runs zero Side Deck cards, so there is no evidence-backed post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens its engine: 13 Tuners across 40 cards give about an 0.88 chance of at least one Tuner in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred, hypergeometric), and three copies each of Soul Resonator, Bone Archfiend and Power Vice Dragon give redundant starters. Its interaction is the main reason for the score: eight negation-text cards and twelve removal-text cards, including two Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence and Maxx C, cover both turns, and this earns the interaction and going-second points. Synchro boards with 3000 to 4500 ATK close games, and the Resonator recursion (Synkron, Vision, Crimson Call) keeps the engine going after an interruption. Points are held back because no recorded boards exist, so the floor and median are text-only inference; the deck has no Side Deck, so post-side adaptability is near zero; and no tournament or meta sample exists, so Meta Power stays provisional. The score comes from consistency, median output and interaction on the whole system, not from Archfiend's popularity and not from averaging individual card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 65, Going First ≈ 68, Going Second ≈ 66, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: no Side Deck (-3); banlist exposure (-2); engine_dispersion (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional): 0.80*65 + 0.20*55 - 7 = 56

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ — · 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

• Starter redundancy: Soul Resonator, Bone Archfiend and Power Vice Dragon at 3 copies each
• Interaction density: 7 hand traps and 8 negation-text cards across both turns
• High-ATK Synchro closers in Extra Deck (Red Hypernova Dragon, Red Nova Dragon - Burning Soul, Bystial Dis Pater)
• Recursion: Synkron Resonator, Vision Resonator and Crimson Call give GY-to-hand routes

Weaknesses

• No Side Deck (0 cards): no post-side adaptability
• No recorded boards: combo floor and median are inferred only
• Several conditional Resonators (Chain Resonator, Synkron Resonator, Vision Resonator, Crimson Resonator) need specific board states
• Engine spread across three archetype families, lowering exact-name purity to 14.5%

Critical choke points

• A single Synchro-enabling board: if the opponent clears the Tuner and the non-Tuner, the deck relies on the GY recursion lines to rebuild
• Ash Blossom and Infinite Impermanence as the only hand-trap answers at 2 and 3 copies

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 40, Extra 15, Side 0; legality Legal under the OCG ban list; Restricted-card copy counts: Droll & Lock Bird 1, Foolish Burial 1, Maxx C 1, Ash Blossom 2, Dominus Impulse 2; Extra Deck composition: 15 Synchro cards (14 distinct); Hand-trap and negation text counts from the cards list
• Observed: Archetype usage stats: core inclusion percentages (usage statistics)
• Inferred: Hypergeometric starter and Tuner probabilities (about 0.88 for at least one Tuner in opening 5); Interaction quality from card text; Going-first and going-second estimates from hand-trap probability
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (D13)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record are absent No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Data inconsistency: usage statistics marks The Crimson King, Bystial Dis Pater, Hot Red Dragon Archfiend Abyss, Red Dragon Archfiend, Scarred Dragon Archfiend and Zalen as in this deck false, but the cards list includes all of them in the Extra Deck with copies 1. Scoring used the cards list. The usage-stat flags need checking.