ABC Deck #771695 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 41/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 14 / Side 0 — status: Legal with warning.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Union Equip engine (Union Hangar, Union Activation, X-Cross Cannon, Unauthorized Reactivation) building LIGHT Machine Union monsters into large boss monsters such as ABC-Dragon Buster and Psychic End Punisher; Extra Deck boss monsters (Juraishin, Underworld Goddess, XYZ-Hyper Dragon Cannon) and Barbaros Tribute Summon board wipe
• Turn 1 (going first): Search with Union Hangar or Union Activation, Normal Summon a LIGHT Machine, then equip a Union monster to build an ABC or A-to-Z boss; Pot of Sloth and Dragon Ravine provide follow-up
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Evenly Matched, Droll & Lock Bird) and Lightning Storm or Harpie's Feather Duster to clear the opponent's backrow, then rebuild through Union searchers
• Recovery: Union Driver and Union Pilot recursion plus Terraforming, Therion Discolosseum and Dragon Ravine searches; Unauthorized Reactivation re-equips from the GY
• After siding: Not defined: the deck runs no Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan (Inferred)

Why it scores here

The deck opens a functional plan reasonably often: searchers (16 copies) give about 83% odds of at least one in an opening 5-card hand, and the 3-copy engine starters (Union Hangar, Union Activation, X-Cross Cannon, Unauthorized Reactivation) each show roughly 25% odds of appearing in the opening hand. Its strength is the interaction suite on the system level: Lightning Storm, Harpie's Feather Duster, Magical Mid-Breaker Field, Metalhold, Simul Archfiends, Evenly Matched and Droll & Lock Bird give layered answers, and Union recursion sustains the plan after disruption. The main weaknesses are structural: only 10 of 56 main copies carry the exact ABC name (14.3%), 60 copies are off-archetype spread across roughly ten other engines, and the list has no Side Deck, so best-of-3 adaptation is absent. Floor and median output cannot be measured because no recorded boards exist, so the score rests on text and probability inference (Inferred) and was not built from averaging card scores or from ABC's popularity.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 53, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 54, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: No Side Deck (-4); Off-archetype spread (-3); Banlist exposure (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers (-9)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.25 · 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

• Layered interaction suite (Lightning Storm, Harpie's Feather Duster, Magical Mid-Breaker Field, Metalhold, Simul Archfiends, Evenly Matched, Droll & Lock Bird)
• Dense searcher count (16) supports a 5-card opening hand finding a plan
• Union recursion (Union Driver, Union Pilot, Unauthorized Reactivation) lets the deck rebuild after disruption
• High-ATK bosses reachable through Union equips and Extra Deck summons

Weaknesses

• No Side Deck: no post-side plan for best-of-3
• Engine is spread across roughly ten archetypes, so starters and bricks compete for slots
• Exact-name ABC purity only 14.3%
• No recorded boards; floor and median output are unmeasured
• One unresolved passcode (10443957) counted in main with no card text

Critical choke points

• Union Hangar or Union Activation plus a LIGHT Machine Union monster in hand is required for the engine to go online
• Interaction-heavy hands can lack a Union starter; no secondary engine for those hands

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 56, Extra 14, Side 0 within OCG size rules; Five Limited cards each run at legal maximum (1 copy); Exact ABC name purity 14.3% (10 of 70 copies)
• Inferred: Starter and searcher odds from hypergeometric draws; Interaction density and negation semantics from card text; Going-first and going-second estimates
• Provisional: Meta Power and format fit (no dated sample or tournament link); Floor and median output (no recorded boards)
• Data gaps: No recorded combos; floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent No side deck list exists One passcode (10443957) in the main deck could not be resolved No win-rate telemetry; going-first, going-second and matchup rates unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied