Lightsworn Deck #771740 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 57 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: No single engine: Extra Deck boss monsters (Judgment Dragon, Chaos Angel, Bystial Dis Pater, Psychic End Punisher, The Zombie Vampire, Super Starslayer TY-PHON) reached through Lightsworn, Bystial, Fiendsmith and Horus bridges; Fiendsmith Desirae / Fiendsmith's Requiem line via Fiendsmith Engraver and Fiendsmith's Tract, competing for the same Extra Deck slots
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Lightsworn or Fiendsmith starter (Lightsworn Dragonling, Weiss, Charge of the Light Brigade, Fiendsmith Engraver) and try to reach any boss; no verified line exists in the evidence, so this is Inferred from card text only
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Evenly Matched) plus Harpie's Feather Duster and Foolish Burial to answer the opponent's board, then a Bystial or Horus boss from the GY; Inferred
• Recovery: Recursion from the GY through Lightsworn Dragonling, Weiss, Bystial Druiswurm/Magnamhut banish-and-summon, King's Sarcophagus; depends on a starter being present, which is roughly a coin flip on a 5-card hand
• After siding: None. The deck runs no side deck, so there is no adaptation path; the legality fix would have to come from the main deck

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system, not as an average of its cards. Its 57-card main deck mixes four or more archetypes (Lightsworn, Fiendsmith, Mulcharmy, Bystial, Horus) with only 22% exact-name Lightsworn purity, so the starters do not share a single line. The hypergeometric numbers are reasonable on paper: about 24% for at least one copy of a 3-copy starter in a 5-card opening hand and about 86% for at least one searcher-text card, but they do not show that any of those searchers leads to a working board. Hand-trap density (7 cards) and a Toolbox-style spread of Extra Deck bosses give some going-second interaction, and the score is held down by the absence of any recorded combos, the empty side deck, and the two copy-limit violations. Popularity of the Lightsworn name in the usage data does not earn points here, and the deck is capped because it is illegal in OCG.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 45, Going First ≈ 40, Going Second ≈ 35, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-6); engine conflicts (-6); illegal cap (0). Final formula: No reliable metagame, so Meta is provisional: Final = 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 0.80*45 + 0.20*35 - 12 = 31; capped at 25 because the deck is Illegal (structural-only evaluation)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.24 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.51 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Strong Extra Deck boss density (Judgment Dragon 3000 ATK, Chaos Angel 3500 ATK, Bystial Dis Pater 3500 ATK, Psychic End Punisher 3500 ATK)
• Seven hand traps and several banish or negate effects give multi-layered interaction
• Three 3-copy searchers and 18 searcher-text cards make the opening hand reasonably likely to find some action

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: Ash Blossom and Fiendsmith Engraver exceed their copy limits, and 9 Limited singletons are present
• Four-archetype core with 22% exact-name purity means the starters do not chain into one line
• No side deck at all, so no post-side or matchup adaptation
• No combos or guides recorded, so the deck's real output cannot be verified

Critical choke points

• Each Limited starter (Fiendsmith Engraver, Tearlaments Scheiren, Bystial Druiswurm) is a single copy, so losing one to a hand trap removes the line it starts
• Extra Deck slots are shared between the Fiendsmith and Lightsworn bosses, so one dead Fusion or Synchro line cannot be replaced

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Ash Blossom 3 copies run vs 2 legal; Fiendsmith Engraver 3 vs 1 legal; 57 main and 15 extra cards are within size rules; Card text and stats for all 57 main and 15 extra cards as supplied; Archetype purity 22.2%; 16 of 57 main cards share the exact Lightsworn name
• Observed: Usage data: Lightsworn core cards 4 of 5 present (80%); Black Rose Dragon missing
• Inferred: Starter consistency from the hypergeometric draw table (24% for a 3-copy starter in 5 cards); Hand-trap and interaction density from card text; Going-first and going-second plans from card text, not from recorded boards; Brick proxy of about 51% for a 5-card hand
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit: no dated metagame sample, no tournament link
• 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, matchup or going-first/second telemetry exists in YGOVN Deck title is null; the deck has no side deck and no recorded guide Meta power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied