Black Luster Soldier Deck #771906 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 40/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 59 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ritual or Fusion/Synchro boss (Black Luster Soldier - Soldier of Light and Darkness, Magician of Dark Chaos - Black Chaos, The Dragon that Devours the Dogma, Chaos Angel, Mirrorjade) summoned off a Light and Darkness Ritual or Fallen of Albaz line; Dogmatika/Despia/Ecclesia Synchro and Fusion pressure through Fallen of Albaz and Ecclesia-named monsters
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on a searcher such as Ragged Records of Rites, Mind Shuffle, Skull Archfiend or Dogmatika Ecclesia, reach Light and Darkness Ritual, then Ritual Summon a boss with Black Chaos or Light and Darkness Ritual.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Solemn Judgment, Solemn Accusation or Kuriboh to stop the opponent's first summons, then rebuild the Ritual or Albaz line on the next turn.
• Recovery: Recover through Light and Darkness Ritual in the GY, Skull Archfiend of Chaos special summon from hand or GY, and Mind Shuffle, which can add a Light and Darkness Ritual monster back to hand each turn.
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so no post-side plan exists. The deck is evaluated as main deck only.

Why it scores here

The deck's score is driven by its system rather than by its individual cards: it has 18 copies of the archetype core, about 85% chance of at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand, and about 89% chance of at least one searcher, which gives it a reasonable chance of going live by turn 2. Its interaction suite (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Solemn Judgment, Solemn Accusation, Kuriboh, Spell Shattering Sword) gives good breadth for going second. The closing power is high because several 2800 to 3500 ATK bosses sit in the Extra Deck. Several dimensions are capped by a missing combo record (no recorded boards), no side deck, and no tournament or win-rate evidence, so the floor and median are estimated from text only. The deck is illegal as submitted (3 copies of Semi-Limited Ash Blossom), so the score is capped at 40 and labelled theoretical or structural-only. Popularity and archetype usage were not used to raise the score, and card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange profile only; the secondary is reflected in D7 and modifiers rather than in a weight blend. Structural ≈ 56.5, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: No side deck (-3); Banlist exposure (-2); Engine conflicts (-3). Final formula: Formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + modifiers = 0.80*56.5 + 0.20*45 - 8 = 46.2; capped at 40 because the deck is Illegal (over copy limit). Meta provisional, so meta_power = null. Result is theoretical / structural-only.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.85 · 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

• Strong closing bosses in the Extra Deck (Chaos Angel, Black Luster Soldier, Dragon that Devours the Dogma, Mirrorjade)
• Good searcher density (20 searcher-text cards), so the hand can usually find the Ritual or Albaz line
• Broad hand-trap and negation coverage for going second (Ash Blossom, Droll, Solemn x2, Kuriboh, Spell Shattering Sword)

Weaknesses

• Illegal as submitted: 3 copies of Semi-Limited Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring (limit 2)
• No side deck, so no post-side plan and no answer to matchup-specific threats
• Engine split across several sub-archetypes (0% exact archetype purity), so many hands contain non-synergistic cards
• No combo record, so consistency and conversion are text-inferred only

Critical choke points

• Light and Darkness Ritual (2 copies) and Black Chaos (3 copies) are the main Ritual route; losing both to hand traps or a single negate leaves few alternate bosses
• Fallen of Albaz / Dragon that Devours the Dogma is the other route and depends on Albaz-named monsters that are not all in the deck
• Droll & Lock Bird and Solemn Judgment are 1-copy Limited cards and are the main going-second interaction

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main deck 59 cards (legal 40–60), Extra 15 (legal 0–15), Side 0; Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring run 3 copies, legal 2 (Semi-Limited): violation; Banlist statuses: Droll & Lock Bird, Solemn Judgment, Bystial Magnamhut, Branded in High Spirits = Limited; Ash Blossom, The Fallen & The Virtuous = Semi-Limited; Card stats and texts from the evidence pack; Usage stats: 14 core cards, 10 present (71%)
• Observed: Core archetype usage stats (inclusion 51% to 64%) confirm the list is an accessible, real build
• Inferred: P(≥1 archetype-core card in hand 5) ≈ 0.85; starter and searcher access estimates; Interaction breadth and hand-trap reliance for going second; Engine conflict across sub-archetypes; Floor and median output, from text only
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); D13 matchup and format fit (neutral 50); Tournament reliability (no tournament link)
• 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 registered (side_count 0) Deck title is null