S-Force Deck #771952 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±5 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: S-Force Link and Fusion boards (Mystify, Justify, Lapcewell, Pla-Tina) that banish or lock the opponent's monsters in the columns of S-Force monsters, then attack through the cleared columns; Column-based floodgates (S-Force Dog Tag, S-Force Edge Razor) that stop opponent Link Summons and monster effects in the same columns
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon an S-Force monster (Signify, Retroactive or Rappa Chiyomaru), search another S-Force card with its effect, then build a Link board with Nightchaser or Nightcatcher into a 3-Link or Lapcewell
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Maxx C and Droll & Lock Bird to stop the opponent's first search or summon, then rebuild the column board on the next turn using the same searchers
• Recovery: Recover S-Force monsters from the GY through Lapcewell, Pla-Tina and Retroactive's hand-return effect, and rebuild the column setup
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan. Best-of-3 play is not supported by this list as built

Why it scores here

This list is Illegal in OCG (two Forbidden cards are run), so it is capped and scored as a structural read only. The S-Force core (7 archetype copies, P(at least one in a 5-card opening hand) about 0.64, and 14 searcher-text cards with P(at least one) about 0.90) makes the engine reliably accessible. Column-based floodgates and 9 hand traps give the deck real end-board interaction, which is the strongest part of the score. Coherence is the main weakness: exact-name purity is only 45.5%, the main deck is mostly singletons with 10 tech cards, and there is no side deck, so post-side adaptation scores near zero. No combo boards, win-rate data, or tournament data exist, so the floor, median and ceiling are estimates. The score was not built by averaging card scores, and archetype popularity earned no points.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 54, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12); no Side Deck (0). Final formula: Illegal cap: legal-equivalent 0.80*Structural(54) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(48) + modifiers (-12) = about 41, capped to 30 because the list runs two Forbidden cards. Meta provisional; structural-only.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.64 · 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

• Reliable searcher density (14 searcher-text cards) makes the engine accessible
• Column-based floodgates and 9 hand traps give strong end-board interaction
• Multiple revival and recursion routes give some resilience after disruption

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: two Forbidden cards are run
• Low exact-name purity (45.5%) and a loose singleton main deck
• No side deck, so no post-side plan
• No combo or win-rate data; ceiling and median are unverified

Critical choke points

• The archetype core (7 copies) must be drawn, with about 0.64 odds in the opening hand
• Extra Deck Link-3 access depends on specific S-Force Link monsters in hand or GY

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 40 and Extra 15 meet OCG size rules (40-60 main, 0-15 extra); Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon and D/D/D Wave High King Caesar are Forbidden with 0 legal copies, run 1 each; Copy limits met for all Limited and Semi-Limited cards
• Inferred: Opening-hand starter probability about 0.64 (core group, hypergeometric); Searcher access about 0.90 with 14 searcher-text cards; Hand-trap access about 0.81 going second; Interaction breadth from column-based text on 9 hand traps and 13 removal cards
• Provisional: Meta power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit and archetype meta share
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta share and pilot match record are absent No win-rate telemetry (going-first, going-second, matchup, brick and OTK rates) Meta power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No side deck registered