Performapal Deck #771769 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 59 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Pendulum-summoned and Link/Xyz/Fusion boards led by Odd-Eyes Rebellion Xyz Dragon, Dark Magician of Destruction and Supreme King Gate Zero (structural read, not a measured line); Link beatdown via Link Monsters in the Extra Deck (Promethean Princess, Worldsea Dragon Zealantis, Amphibious Swarmship Amblowhale)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Pendulum starter (Magician or Performapal), set scales, and Pendulum Summon into a Link or Xyz board, with Mulcharmy draw engines and Astrograph search as continuity (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Ash Blossom, Maxx C, Droll and Lock Bird, Nibiru) and Solemn negations to stop the opponent's first board, then Pendulum follow-up (Inferred)
• Recovery: Pendulum monsters recycle through Pendulum Zones and Magician searchers (Star Pendulumgraph, Horoscope Sorcerer) to rebuild scales (Inferred)
• After siding: Not evaluable: side deck is empty (0 cards), so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system: its Pendulum starters (3 copies each of several Magician and Performapal monsters) give a 0.94 chance of at least one searcher in the opening hand, and the archetype core gives about 0.78 for at least one core card, so it opens functional hands reasonably often. Interaction is dense (5 hand traps, 5 Solemn-family and Ash/Maxx/Droll-style negations, Harpie's Feather Duster, Crossout Designator), which supports the Control secondary read. Conversion and median output cannot be measured because combos_evidence has no parseable boards, so those scores are text-only Inferred estimates and are kept near the middle. The deck spreads across at least six sub-archetypes (Magician 26 copies, Mulcharmy, Kaiju, Solemn, Odd-Eyes, Supreme King), which lowers engine coherence and pulls down the consistency and pilotability reads. Popularity did not earn points, nothing was averaged from individual card scores, and the score is capped low because four banned or over-limit cards make the list illegal in OCG.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, Control secondary (structural weights from Midrange profile). Structural ≈ 50, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 45, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); engine conflicts (-3). Final formula: Pre-cap: 0.80*Structural(50) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(40) + Modifiers(-11) = 37; Illegal cap applied, so final = 30 (theoretical/structural only, Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.24 · 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

• Searcher density high (about 0.94 for at least one searcher in the opening 5)
• Layered negation and hand-trap suite (5 hand traps plus Solemn family and Ash Blossom)
• Extra Deck covers Link, Xyz and Fusion lines with several high-ATK bodies

Weaknesses

• Deck is illegal in OCG: 3 Forbidden cards and 1 over-limit Limited card
• No side deck, so no post-side plan in a best-of-3 format
• Engine spread across several sub-archetypes reduces coherence and makes the starter count thin per line

Critical choke points

• Pendulum Zone scale setup: both scales must be set before Pendulum Summon, so an unset scale stops the turn
• Single Extra Deck Odd-Eyes Xyz line depends on Odd-Eyes material being present

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Triple Tactics Talent, Charmer Quartet in Bloom and Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon are Forbidden in OCG; Astrograph Sorcerer runs 3 copies against a Limited limit of 1; Main 59 and Extra 15 are within size rules; side is 0; Ash Blossom and Solemn Warning run 2 copies, within Semi-Limited limits
• Observed: No observed combo boards or win-rate telemetry exist for this deck
• Inferred: Starter consistency from the hypergeometric draw table; Midrange primary and Control secondary strategy read from interaction density and Extra Deck mix; Going-first and going-second plans from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament link)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and pilot match record absent No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN for this deck Usage statistics mark Odd-Eyes Absolute Dragon, Odd-Eyes Vortex Dragon, Exceed the Pendulum and I:P Masquerena as not in the deck, but they appear in the cards list, so core_present_pct (40) is unreliable Deck title is null, so the deck is identified only by id and archetype Side deck is empty, so post-side behaviour is unevaluable