Blitzclique Deck #771646 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 60/100 (±7 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Thunder-monster board pressure from Whisker Blitzclique, Lava Golem and Dingirsu, the Orcust of the Evening Star (Inferred from card text); Thunder King, the Lightningstrike Kaiju (1 copy) as a high-ATK closer when its summon condition is met (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with a hand-revealing Thunder starter (Surge, Crackle, Grain or Emi Blitzclique) to destroy a monster or Spell/Trap, then Special Summon a Thunder monster from hand and extend with a searcher (Inferred from text)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 6 hand traps (Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit, Skull Meister) and the hand-revealing starters to answer the opponent's first line, then rebuild the Thunder board (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recur Thunder monsters from the GY with Blitzclique - Breakaway and Blitzclique - Steppleader; use Blitzclique Return Stroke to protect the board from opponent card effects (Inferred from text)
• After siding: None. The deck runs 0 Side Deck cards, so there is no post-side plan (Verified)

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a functional Thunder-summon plan: about 94% of 5-card openings contain at least one of the 23 exact-name Blitzclique core cards, and about 95% contain a searcher-text card, so the engine is live on turn 1 in most hands. Its interaction is dense for a 55-card main (37 removal-text cards, 10 negation-text cards, 6 hand traps), which lets it continue through an opponent's first line and rebuild through GY recursion. Ceiling and median output cannot be verified because the evidence contains no recorded boards, so those scores rest on card text and starter density alone and are marked Inferred. Points were held back for the lack of a Side Deck, four Extra Deck slots that need cards not present (two Odin, Nordic Ascendant; two Fossil monsters, Fossil Fusion), and tribute-gated non-engine cards (Lava Golem, Ra Sphere Mode). Archetype popularity earned no points, and the score comes from the deck as a system, not from averaging individual card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 62.5, Going First ≈ 72, Going Second ≈ 64, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: Engine conflicts (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (no dated meta; Structural is meta-neutral with D13 dropped and weights renormalized over 95)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.94 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.06 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Archetype core is redundant: 23 exact-name copies, P(>=1 in opening 5) ~0.94
• Dense interaction for the main size: 37 removal-text, 10 negation-text, 6 hand traps
• Multiple hand-revealing starters give several restart routes
• Thunder recursion from the GY sustains the board after a single interruption

Weaknesses

• No Side Deck (0 cards), so no post-side plan in best-of-3 OCG
• 4 of 15 Extra Deck slots need cards absent from the list (Odin needs Nordic Ascendant; Fossil monsters need Fossil Fusion)
• Tribute-gated non-engine cards (Lava Golem x3, Ra Sphere Mode x3) become bricks in some hands
• Only 6 hand traps; the going-second hit rate is about 52%
• Archetype staples in the usage data are absent (Mulcharmy Fuwalos 73% inclusion, Blitzclique Overvolt 59%, Ash Blossom 50%, Droll & Lock Bird 50%)

Critical choke points

• Thunder-monster count: most starters and the Whisker/Dingirsu line require a Thunder monster in hand or GY
• Hand-trap count of 6 against a going-second opponent's first line
• Lack of a Side Deck means no adaptation after game 1

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 are all within the GameplayType size rules; No restricted cards: every card the deck runs is Unlimited under the OCG ban list; Archetype core 23 copies; searcher-text 24; hand-trap 6; removal-text 37; negation-text 10; Extra-Deck text requires Nordic Ascendant (Odin) or Fossil Fusion (Fossil monsters), neither present in the list; Usage statistics: 9 of 15 core cards present; 6 core cards absent
• Inferred: P(>=1 starter in opening 5) ~0.94 and full-brick proxy ~5.8% going first, ~3% going second; Going-second hand-trap hit rate ~0.52; Structural and going-first/second scores derive from card-text reads and hypergeometric estimates, not recorded boards; Thunder chain reliability and recursion from text
• Provisional: Meta Power is null: no dated metagame sample; D13 matchup and format fit: no tournament context, excluded from Structural by renormalization
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: ceiling and floor are text-only inference No tournament link: no meta-share or per-pilot match record No win-rate telemetry for going-first/second, matchup, or brick/starter/OTK rates Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Side Deck absent: no post-side evidence