Performapal Deck #771706 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 63/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Midrange, Pendulum Summon / Link-Xyz-Fusion extra deck engine
• Format: ocg

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Pendulum Summon into a Link, Xyz or Fusion board (Odd-Eyes Absolute, Odd-Eyes Rebellion Dragon Overlord, Master of Chaos, Dark Magician of Destruction) built from searched Pendulum monsters (Inferred); Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon of the Four Heavenly Dragons and Odd-Eyes Arc Pendulum Dragon recursion/search chains that rebuild the Pendulum Zone (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Set Pendulum scales from a Magician or Odd-Eyes starter, search a second Pendulum monster with Performapal Skullcrobat Joker, Horoscope Sorcerer or Astrograph Sorcerer, then Pendulum Summon into an Extra Deck engine (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the Pendulum Zone negations (Horoscope Sorcerer, Odd-Eyes Override Dragon, Performapal Synchron) and Spiral Flame Strike removal to answer the opposing board before rebuilding through Pendulum Summon (Inferred)
• Recovery: Searchers (31 copies of searcher-text cards) and Odd-Eyes Arc Pendulum Dragon's GY revival rebuild a Pendulum Zone and Extra Deck line after a board wipe (Inferred)
• After siding: No side deck is registered (Side Deck size 0), so there is no post-side plan; the deck cannot adapt between games in a best-of-3 (Verified from legality)

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Pendulum starter: the 31 searcher-text cards put a searcher in opening hands almost always, and 3-copy starters such as Performapal Skullcrobat Joker and Astrograph Sorcerer give about a 34% chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred). Its 15-card Extra Deck has real ceiling (Odd-Eyes Absolute Dragon, Odd-Eyes Rebellion Dragon Overlord, Master of Chaos, Dark Magician of Destruction, Avramax), which earns the conversion and closing scores. The score does not come from the card-level strength of the Pendulum staples or from Performapal being a popular archetype: exact archetype purity is only 12.7%, and no popularity or meta-share credit is given. The main weaknesses are the absence of hand traps, the lack of any recorded boards to confirm median output, and the empty side deck, which removes all post-side adaptation (D12 = 10). No combos were supplied, so floor and median remain inference-only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 65, Going First ≈ 66, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: Pendulum scale spread (engine conflict) (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional; Structural 65.06 -> 52.05, TR 58 -> 11.60, modifiers -1)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.82 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.18 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense searcher package (31 searcher-text cards) makes a starter in hand almost every game
• Extra Deck offers high-ATK bosses with several independent summon routes (Link, Xyz, Fusion, Pendulum)
• Odd-Eyes GY recursion and Pendulum-zone negations give some resilience after disruption
• Legal list with no copy-limit violations; the two Limited cards are run at 1 copy

Weaknesses

• No hand traps or floodgates, so there is little interaction before the opponent's first turn
• No side deck (Side Deck size 0), so there is no post-side adaptation
• Pendulum scales are mixed (1 and 8), so some Pendulum Zone pairs are conflicting
• Exact archetype purity is 12.7%, so engine coherence depends on sub-archetype cross-support

Critical choke points

• Pendulum Zone pairing: an illegal or conflicting scale pair stops the Pendulum Summon line
• Going second with no hand trap: the opponent's first-turn board is answered only by Pendulum-zone negation or Spiral Flame Strike
• Extra Deck bosses depend on specific Pendulum or Odd-Eyes material in the GY or on the field

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status; main 40, extra 15, side 0; copy histogram 15x1 / 5x2 / 5x3; Limited cards Astrograph Sorcerer and S:P Little Knight run at 1 copy each (legal copies 1); Extra Deck composition: 7 Link, 4 Xyz, 3 Fusion, 1 Synchro; Archetype exact-name purity 12.7%
• Observed: Usage statistics show 17 archetype rows; no recorded boards to observe frequencies
• Inferred: Hypergeometric starter access: 0.82 for the core group, 0.34 per 3-copy starter in 5 cards; Searcher density yields high opening-hand access and recovery; Extra Deck ceiling from ATK and summon routes; Interaction layering from negation and removal text; Pilotability from scale management and Extra Deck decisions
• Provisional: Meta Power (null); D13 matchup and format fit (held at 50); Tournament reliability inputs that depend on post-side or matchup data
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates) Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample usage statistics.core cards in this deck flags conflict with the cards array: Exceed the Pendulum, Odd-Eyes Vortex Dragon, Odd-Eyes Absolute Dragon, Beyond the Pendulum, S:P Little Knight, Odd-Eyes Override Dragon, I:P Masquerena are listed in the Extra Deck in cards[] but flagged in this deck=false; core-card presence 33.3 is therefore understated (about 12 of 15 core cards are present) Deck title is null, so the deck is identified by archetype only