Darklord Deck #771944 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 34/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Power Patron / Ars Magna Link and Fusion boards, with Darklord Morningstar and The First Darklord as the Darklord-side closers (structural read, Inferred); Darklord Eveningstar and Number 90 / Chaos Angel as Extra Deck boards (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on Darklord Djehuty, Darklord Contact or Gulgolet to reach Power Patron / Ars Magna searchers, then convert into Link or Fusion summons while holding hand traps (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Ghost Belle, Nibiru and Droll to answer the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Darklord and Medius searchers (Inferred)
• Recovery: Searchers (21 searcher-text cards) and Darklord Dance / Banishment of the Darklords refill the hand after a broken opening (Inferred)
• After siding: Not assessable: the deck has no Side Deck (Side Deck size 0), so no post-side plan exists in this list

Why it scores here

The deck is illegal in OCG as submitted: three copies of Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring against a limit of two, so the normal Final Contextual score is capped and the result is structural-only. Its consistency reads as moderate. The archetype core is 12 copies, the probability of at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand is about 0.72, and the 21 searcher-text cards give about 0.92 for at least one searcher in the opening hand (Inferred). Interaction is the strongest part of the system: 10 hand traps, 13 negation-text cards and 32 removal-text cards give strong end-board and mid-turn coverage (Inferred). The weaknesses are the spread of engines and the lack of recorded results. Only 14 of 55 main cards match the exact Darklord name (20%), and the rest come from Ars Magna, Power Patron, Medius, Artmage, Mulcharmy and Theorealize, so the engines compete for space. No combo boards are recorded, so floor, median and ceiling rest on text reading only. The score does not come from Darklord popularity, and card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 48, Going First ≈ 45, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: illegal_copy_limit_cap (-12). Final formula: Illegal cap: 0.80*Structural(48) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(40) = 46.4, then the illegal-deck cap of -12 gives 34 (Meta provisional, structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.72 · 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 interaction: 10 hand traps, 13 negation-text and 32 removal-text cards
• Searcher density: 21 searcher-text cards give about 0.92 to hit one in the opening 5
• Extra Deck coverage: 6 Link, 6 Fusion, 2 Xyz and 1 Synchro with multiple routes

Weaknesses

• Illegal as submitted: Ash Blossom copies exceed the OCG limit
• Low archetype purity (20%): the engines split across Ars Magna, Power Patron, Medius, Artmage and Theorealize
• No Side Deck, so the best-of-3 plan is absent
• No recorded boards, so the combo floor and median are unmeasured

Critical choke points

• The copy-limit violation blocks any normal score until the third Ash Blossom is removed
• Starter access depends on the 12-card Darklord core (P >= 1 in 5 about 0.72), so an early hand without a core card is a brick

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 55 main, 15 extra, 0 side; Ash Blossom 3 copies vs 2 legal (OCG Semi-Limited); status Illegal; Exact-name Darklord purity: 14 of 55 main cards (20%); Role-tag counts: 10 hand trap, 13 negation text, 32 removal text, 21 searcher text
• Observed: Usage statistics: Darklord Djehuty, Morningstar and Contact are core cards with inclusion of 74% or more; 10 of 15 core cards present
• Inferred: Core group opening probability 0.72 and searcher-text opening probability 0.92 (hypergeometric); Midrange structural read of about 48, with interaction as the strongest dimension; Going-first and going-second plans from card text
• Provisional: Meta power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit (D13) and tournament reliability
• Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent no win-rate telemetry: going-first/second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown no Side Deck in the list: post-side plan cannot be assessed Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied