Earthbound Deck #771922 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro beatdown through Red Dragon Archfiend (2 copies) and high-ATK Synchro finishers such as Chaos Angel, Bystial Dis Pater and Hot Red Dragon Archfiend Abyss; Chip damage and board control from Resonator and Mulcharmy draw effects feeding Synchro Summons
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Resonator or Archfiend starter, keep Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre or Droll & Lock Bird up as interaction, then Synchro into a single boss
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand-trap the opponent's first summon or activation (10 hand traps and 15 negation texts), then rebuild a Synchro board from whatever survives
• Recovery: Recur Resonators from the GY with Vision Resonator, Synkron Resonator and Soul Resonator; Red Dragon Archfiend and Scarred Dragon Archfiend can return from the GY
• After siding: None. The deck runs 0 side cards in an OCG format that allows up to 15, so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

This is a multi-engine toolbox rather than one coherent archetype. Searchers (14 copies) give a 0.78 chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred), so the deck usually finds a starter, but it has no single reliable engine: Resonators, Archfiends, Bystials and Mulcharmy each need different starters and extra-deck access. Interaction is the strongest part of the system, with 22 removal-text cards, 15 negation-text cards and 10 hand traps, and a going-second hand-trap probability of 0.72 (Inferred). The closing power comes from Synchro finishers with high ATK, but the 55-card main deck is diluted, with 70 of 55 copies outside the Earthbound name and no combo evidence to show the ceiling is reached. The score was not earned from popularity or from averaging card scores; the list is also Illegal (two copy-limit violations) and is capped to structural-only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 53, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-8); No side deck (-2). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + modifiers = 0.80*53 + 0.20*45 - 10 = 41 uncapped; capped at 35 because the list is Illegal (structural-only, not a normal Final score)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.78 · 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 interaction suite: 22 removal-text cards, 15 negation-text cards and 10 hand traps
• Searchers (14) give a high chance of finding a starter in the opening hand
• Synchro finishers with high ATK (Chaos Angel 3500, Bystial Dis Pater 3500, Hot Red Dragon Archfiend Abyss 3200)
• Recursion through Resonators in the GY gives some route redundancy

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and Dominus Impulse are over the Semi-Limited copy limit
• No single engine: Resonator, Archfiend, Bystial and Mulcharmy lines each need different starters
• Diluted main deck: 0% exact Earthbound purity and 19 tech slots
• No side deck, so there is no post-side adaptation
• Many conditional hand traps (Mulcharmy, Ghost Ogre, Droll) that are dead when the board is empty

Critical choke points

• Red Dragon Archfiend x2 as the main Synchro boss; without it, the closing line weakens
• Resonator Tuner availability for Synchro Summons (Soul Resonator x3, Vision Resonator x1, Synkron x1, Darkness x1)
• Hand-trap overlap: 10 hand traps in a 5- or 6-card hand with no board to protect

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and Dominus Impulse each run 3 copies against a Semi-Limited limit of 2; Limited cards (Droll & Lock Bird, Solemn Judgment, Harpie's Feather Duster, Bystial cards, The Bystial Lubellion) are each run at 1 copy; Archetype usage stat: 5 of 16 core cards present (31.2%); Composition: 55 main, 15 extra, 0 side; 0% exact Earthbound purity
• Inferred: P(at least one searcher in 5 cards) about 0.78; Going-second hand-trap P about 0.72; Hand-trap and empty-field dead-card risk; Interaction density from text-role counts
• Provisional: Meta Power and format fit (no dated metagame sample)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record are absent No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN (going-first/second, matchup, brick and starter rates) Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Deck title is null and the name 'Earthbound' does not appear on any card; archetype label may be a user tag No guides for the archetype (guide data total 0)