Black Luster Soldier Deck #771929 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 53 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ritual and Fusion boss monsters (Black Luster Soldier - Soldier of Light and Darkness, Black Chaos, Magician of Dark Chaos - Black Chaos, Fallen of Albaz line Fusions) backed by Light and Darkness Ritual engine; Synchro boss monsters (The Crimson King, Red Dragon Archfiend, Chaos Angel is absent) and Albaz Dragon Fusions
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Ritual or Fallen of Albaz starter, search Light and Darkness Ritual or a Ritual monster, and reach a Ritual or Fusion boss while protecting the line with hand-trap style negations and removal
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Droll and Lock Bird, Ghost Ogre, Ghost Belle, Evenly Matched and Nibiru to break the opponent's first combo, then rebuild through GY and banish recursion into a boss
• Recovery: Ritual recursion through Ragged Records of Rites, Light and Darkness Ritual GY effect, Skull Archfiend of Chaos and Mind Shuffle to re-search the Ritual engine
• After siding: No side deck is registered (0 side cards); post-side plan is not supported by the evidence (Inferred)

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system, not as an average of its cards. Its Light and Darkness Ritual core (18 copies, about 89% chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand, Inferred) gives it a reasonably reliable way to reach a 3000-ATK ritual or Fusion boss. Twelve hand traps and several negation and removal effects give it solid interaction density and some resilience to disruption. Closing power is high, since most bosses are 2500 to 3000 ATK. However, the list is illegal as built: Ash Blossom and The Fallen and The Virtuous each run 3 copies against a limit of 2, so the score is capped low and labelled theoretical and structural-only. The deck has no side deck, no recorded combos, no tournament data and no guides, so the post-side and matchup dimensions are Provisional and confidence is Low. Archetype popularity (usage stats show the core is standard) confirms the list is real but earns no power points by itself.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, Toolbox secondary (not separately weighted; Midrange profile applied). Structural ≈ 54, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 56, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist exposure (over copy limit) (-6); no side deck (-2). Final formula: Uncapped: 0.80*Structural(54) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) = 52; modifiers -8 gives 44. Illegal cap applied: theoretical/structural-only, final 30 (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.89 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.11 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Light and Darkness Ritual core with 18 copies gives a high chance of a live starter
• Twelve hand traps and multiple negation and removal effects
• High-ATK bosses (2500 to 3000) with several ritual and Fusion routes

Weaknesses

• Two cards run over the copy limit, making the list illegal
• No side deck
• Heavy off-archetype and tech load dilutes the engine
• Three summon mechanics raise decision load

Critical choke points

• Ritual monster reliant on Light and Darkness Ritual being in hand
• Fallen of Albaz as the shared Fusion material for several bosses
• Single-copy key ritual and Fusion monsters

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Ash Blossom and The Fallen and The Virtuous over copy limit (3 vs 2); 53 main, 15 extra, 0 side counts; Card text and stats for all listed cards; Archetype core inclusion stats from usage statistics
• Observed: Usage stats show the archetype-standard core is mostly present (10 of 14 core cards)
• Inferred: Starter reliability from hypergeometric estimate (0.89); Interaction density from role hints; Going-first and going-second estimates
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (D13); Post-side plan
• 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 absent no win-rate telemetry; going-first, going-second and matchup rates unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied no guides for the archetype no side deck present