Gagaga Deck #771866 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 43 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Xyz pressure from Utopia/Number Xyz monsters (Number 39: Utopia, Number 99: Utopia Dragonar, ZW - Dragonic Halberd) built from the Zubaba/Gagaga/Gogogo/Dododo Level 4 monster chain; Rank-Up-Magic chains (Zexal Force, Utopiforce) upgrading an Xyz monster into a higher-rank Utopia/Utopic boss
• Turn 1 (going first): Summon a Level 4 starter (ZS - Ascended Sage / Armed Sage / Astraltopia), use Onomatopaira or Onomatopickup to search the Dododo/Gagaga/Onomat pieces, then Xyz into Utopia monsters; the plan rests on 2-3 mutually redundant starters, not on one card
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand-only Special Summon and search lines (Utopic Onomatopoeia, Dodododwarf Gogogoglove, Zubababancho Gagagacoat) to rebuild a board; no hand traps or dedicated interaction, so the going-second board relies on Xyz negation text on Extra Deck monsters
• Recovery: Recover through GY-triggered Special Summons (Dodododwarf Gogogoglove) and the Zexal searchers (Zexal Construction, Zexal Entrust); the GY-recursion text is the main recovery route
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan; the list cannot adapt between games

Why it scores here

The deck is Illegal: Number 41: Bagooska is Forbidden in OCG and is run one copy, so the evaluation is theoretical and structural only, and the final score is capped. The structural read is that the Gagaga/Dododo/Onomat main deck reaches a Level 4 starter with about 0.94 probability of at least one core-group card in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred), and the Extra Deck has enough Utopia Xyz bosses to close games once a board exists. Those strengths are offset by the archetype being badly diluted: only 3 of 58 main-deck cards are the exact Gagaga archetype, the sub-archetypes (Zexal, Utopia, Dododo, Onomat, Number) do not form a single coherent engine, and the Extra Deck mixes Number, Galaxy-Eyes and Zexal bosses. Resilience is the weakest area because the deck runs no hand traps, no tech cards and no side deck, so it has almost no answer to going-second disruption or to a single interruption on its starter. No combo boards were recorded, so the ceiling and median are text-only inferences, and the score was not reached by averaging card scores or by the archetype's popularity.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Balanced (default; strategy is mixed). Structural ≈ 48, Going First ≈ 46, Going Second ≈ 40, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); engine conflicts (-4). Final formula: 0.80*48 + 0.20*35 = 45.4; minus 12 total modifiers = 33; capped at 25 because the deck is Illegal (theoretical/structural only). Meta Power is provisional (null).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.94 · 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

• Core Level 4 starter group (about 0.94 for some core card in a 5-card opening hand, Inferred)
• Searcher density: 19 search-text cards
• Extra Deck bosses with strong ATK and negation text

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Number 41: Bagooska is Forbidden and run one copy
• Sub-archetype incoherence: 55 of 58 main-deck copies are off the exact Gagaga name
• No hand traps, tech cards or side deck
• No recorded boards, so the combo floor and median cannot be measured

Critical choke points

• Single forbidden Extra Deck card (Number 41) in the list
• Dependence on a Level 4 starter to open the Xyz chain (3 copies at about 0.32 per card in 5 cards)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Number 41: Bagooska is Forbidden and run one copy (legal copies 0); Main Deck 43 cards (within 40-60), Extra Deck 15 cards (within 0-15), Side Deck 0 cards; Archetype purity: 3 exact-name copies, 55 off-archetype copies
• Observed: Usage statistics show the archetype core is only 6 of 25 cards present (24%)
• Inferred: Starter probabilities from the hypergeometric draw table; Consistency, brick and interaction read from card text; Going-first and going-second splits are text-based estimates
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Format fit (no tournament link)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied, so the combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN, so going-first and going-second results are Inferred Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied no side deck is registered