Kashtira Deck #771810 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 54 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Special Summon Kashtira Level 7 beaters (Ogre, Unicorn, Fenrir) and Link/Xyz finishers (Borrelend Dragon, Kashtira Shangri-Ira) from the hand and GY once the field is cleared; Link and Xyz boards built off Kashtira recursion (Birth, Preparations, Riseheart) after the opponent's interaction is spent
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Kashtira Birth or a Level 7 starter, search a Kashtira monster or Trap via Fenrir/Ogre/Unicorn, and keep Ash Blossom or Infinite Impermanence up for the opponent's first answer
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird and Infinite Impermanence to stop the opponent's starter, then rebuild through Kashtira Preparations or Riseheart from the banished zone
• Recovery: Rebuild from Kashtira cards banished or in the GY using Kashtiratheosis, Riseheart and Scareclaw Kashtira, which can each Special Summon from the banished zone or hand
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so no post-side plan can be scored; any post-side plan is unverified

Why it scores here

The deck's engine is a Kashtira Level 7 Special Summon loop: nine Kashtira starters (three each of Fenrir, Unicorn and Ogre) plus Birth and Preparations give a roughly 66% chance of at least one archetype core card in a 5-card opening hand, and about 73% for a searcher-text card (Inferred). Interaction is the strongest system trait: ten hand traps, eleven negation-text cards and Dimensional Fissure and Macro Cosmos as floodgates let it stop the opponent's first starter and keep the engine running. Pressure comes from 2500-3500 ATK Kashtira monsters and Link or Xyz finishers, but no recorded boards exist, so median and ceiling output are text-only inferences. Popularity did not earn points: the Kashtira archetype's usage and the guide attached to it confirm the list is real but say nothing about power. The score is the deck's system-level structure under the Control profile with no average of card scores, and it is capped low because the list breaks the OCG copy limits and includes a Forbidden card.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Control. Structural ≈ 56, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 52. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-6). Final formula: Final = min(25, 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers) = min(25, 0.80*56.2 + 0.20*52 - 6). Illegal cap applied (Kashtira Fenrir Forbidden ×3, Ash Blossom over limit, Kashtira Unicorn over limit); theoretical/structural-only.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.66 · 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

• Dense hand-trap and negation package with two floodgates
• Level 7 Special Summon starters that convert into 2500-3500 ATK boards
• Recursion from banish and GY through Kashtiratheosis, Riseheart and Scareclaw Kashtira

Weaknesses

• Illegal under OCG copy limits: Fenrir Forbidden, Ash Blossom and Unicorn over limit
• Low archetype purity (30.4%) and 21 tech slots reduce compactness
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptability

Critical choke points

• Kashtira Fenrir is Forbidden, so the legal engine must function without three of its starters
• Kashtira Unicorn is Limited to one copy, so the starter density drops when it is cut to the legal count

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 54 / Extra 15 / Side 0 sizes are within OCG size rules; Kashtira Fenrir Forbidden ×3, Ash Blossom over limit ×3 vs 2, Kashtira Unicorn over limit ×3 vs 1; Card text and stats for all listed cards; Archetype purity 30.4% and role-tag counts
• Inferred: Starter access probabilities (0.657 archetype core in hand 5); Control profile structural read; Hand-trap and negation density as the interaction strength
• Provisional: Meta Power is null; Matchup fit (D13) with no tournament or meta sample
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN (going-first/second, matchup, game-level, brick/starter/OTK rates) — those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No side deck is registered