Kuriboh Deck #771849 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 46/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 54 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ritual or Extra Deck boss monsters (Black Chaos, Black Luster Soldier, Magician of Dark Chaos, Black Skull Dragon) reached through Dark Time Wizard, Light and Darkness Ritual and Mulcharmy card advantage; Fusion, Xyz and Link bosses (Exceed, Predaplant Dragostapelia, Number 39, Super Starslayer TY-PHON) when the board allows them
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Dark Time Wizard or Mulcharmy starter with a searcher (Mind Shuffle, Light and Darkness Ritual, Witch-style draws) and use Ash Blossom and Droll as protection on the opponent's first activation
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Ghost Ogre and Nibiru as hand traps against the opponent's engine, then rebuild with Mulcharmy draws and a Ritual or Fusion follow-up
• Recovery: Skull Archfiend of Chaos from the GY, Ragged Records of Rites and Mind Shuffle recycle the Ritual and Dark Time Wizard package; Mulcharmy draws refill the hand once the field is empty
• After siding: Not applicable: the deck has no Side Deck, so there is no post-side adjustment

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a search-based starter: a searcher-text card is present in roughly 84% of opening 5-card hands, but the individual engine pieces are thin, with Dark Time Wizard at only about 26% per copy-set in hand. Its interaction layer is the strongest part of the system: seven hand traps and negation effects (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Ghost Ogre, Nibiru, Forbidden Droplet, Chaos Magical Hats and Reversal Box) give it layered answers, and about 59% of going-second hands contain a hand trap. The main weakness is that the deck mixes at least five unrelated engines (Dark Time Wizard, Light and Darkness Ritual, Mulcharmy, Predaplant and Red-Eyes), so many hands hold a piece that does not connect to the rest. No recorded boards exist, so the combo ceiling and median are text-only inferences, and the score does not rest on any combo or win-rate evidence. The score comes from consistency, interaction and resource recovery on the system, not from averaging the card scores and not from the Kuriboh label, which has 0% exact-name purity here.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 52, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: No Side Deck (-3); Engine conflict (-3); Banlist exposure (0). Final formula: 0.80*Structural(52) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) + ContextModifiers(-5) = 46; Meta provisional

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.84 · 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 hand-trap and negation suite (seven cards) gives interaction on both the going-first and going-second turns
• Searcher density (16 searcher-text cards) gives a high chance of a starter in opening 5
• Strong Ritual and Extra Deck bosses (Black Chaos, Black Luster Soldier, Magician of Dark Chaos, Exceed) finish a board once set up

Weaknesses

• Five engines (Dark Time Wizard, Light and Darkness Ritual, Mulcharmy, Predaplant, Red-Eyes) with little shared support; hands often hold a piece that does not connect
• No Side Deck: no post-side adaptation
• Low copy counts for the key engine pieces (Dark Time Wizard at 3 copies, 26% per opening hand) and about 14 single-copy tech or utility slots

Critical choke points

• Dark Time Wizard and Light and Darkness Ritual are both needed for the main engine, and each is in 2–3 copies
• The Extra Deck boss package needs a specific Ritual or Fusion material, with no recorded line showing it reliably
• Opponent's first interruption on a 1-card starter removes the turn's plan with no independent second line recorded

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 54 / Extra 15 / Side 0 are within the OCG size rules (40–60 / 0–15 / 0–15); Droll & Lock Bird and S:P Little Knight are Limited at 1 copy; Ash Blossom, Super Polymerization and The Fallen & The Virtuous are Semi-Limited at 2 copies; all run at legal counts; Archetype purity is 0% for the exact name 'Kuriboh'; the deck is built from 4+ sub-archetypes
• Observed: Usage statistics: 4 of 5 core cards present (80%); S:P Little Knight is core (54%) but absent
• Inferred: Hypergeometric consistency estimates for searchers (0.84), archetype core (0.515) and hand traps on going second (0.58); Strategy classification as Toolbox with a Midrange and Stun secondary, from card text and composition; Interaction density (seven hand traps plus removal text) as a strength of D7
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and matchup fit (D13), since no dated metagame sample exists
• 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 and brick rates are Inferred Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied deck title is null; the archetype label 'Kuriboh' does not match the cards in the list