Silent Swordsman Deck #771960 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 50 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Shining Sarcophagus and Gandora-G / Archfiend's Advent board building, with Dark Magician support, converting a stabilised board into attacks (Inferred from card text; no recorded boards); Extra Deck link and fusion beaters (Accesscode Talker, Perfectron Hydradrive Dragon, Chaos Angel, Dark Magician of Destruction, Timaeus) once the board is stable (Inferred from card text)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a searcher (Dark Magician Girl, Gadget Trio, Mulcharmy Fuwalos, Future Silence) to fetch Shining Sarcophagus, then add Ties That Bind or Gandora-G pressure (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold hand traps (Ash Blossom and Joyous Spring x2, Infinite Impermanence x3, Maxx C, Droll and Lock Bird) to protect the first board, then rebuild through Shining Sarcophagus (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recursion through Gandora-G's banished-card scaling and Dark Magician Girl's GY ATK text, plus Shining Sarcophagus searches (Inferred from card text)
• After siding: Not evaluable: the side deck is empty (0 cards), so there is no post-side plan (Verified)

Why it scores here

This list cannot receive a normal score because it is illegal: four Forbidden copies are in the deck (Triple Tactics Talent, Charmer Quartet in Bloom, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Cross-Sheep), and the score is capped low as a theoretical, structural-only read. The deck has a usable starter network: Shining Sarcophagus (3 copies, about 0.28 per copy to appear in a 5-card opening), an 18-card searcher text group (about 0.91 to find one in a 5-card opening), and a 98% chance that the archetype core group is present in the opening hand. Its interaction suite (two Ash Blossom, three Infinite Impermanence, Maxx C, Droll and Lock Bird, Turn Silence, Crossout Designator) gives the strongest structural signal. The deck is a mix of Dark Magician, Shining Sarcophagus, Gadget, Mulcharmy, Forbidden, and Endymion cards; off-archetype copies are 64 of 66 non-generic copies, so engine coherence is weak. With no recorded boards, no side deck, and no tournament or win-rate data, floor, median, and ceiling are not measured. The score comes from consistency, interaction, and structural engine cohesion on the system, not from averaging card scores or from archetype popularity.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 50, Going First ≈ 46, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 42. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); engine conflicts (-4). Final formula: Illegal: theoretical only. 0.80*Structural(50) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(42) = 48.4; modifiers -12 gives 36.4; capped at 30 for the illegal list. Meta provisional (null).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.91 · 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

• Starter density: 18 searcher-text cards and 3 Shining Sarcophagus give a high chance of a searcher in the opening hand
• Layered interaction: Ash Blossom x2, Infinite Impermanence x3, Maxx C, Droll and Lock Bird, Turn Silence, Crossout Designator
• Recursion and GY scaling from Gandora-G and Dark Magician Girl

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: four Forbidden copies and no legal score until corrected
• Weak engine coherence: 1.5% exact archetype purity, with conflicting sub-archetypes
• No side deck and no recorded boards, so the deck cannot be scored on post-side or combo output
• Many narrow interaction cards (hand traps, negates) that can be dead when no board is present

Critical choke points

• Shining Sarcophagus (3 copies) is the single engine starter for most lines; if it is not drawn, the searchers do little (Inferred)
• The four Forbidden cards occupy main and extra slots that must be replaced before the list is playable

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 50 / Extra 15 / Side 0; size rules (40-60, 0-15, 0-15) met; Four Forbidden copies run; status Illegal; Card text and stats for each deck card; Archetype purity 1.5%; core group 56% present
• Inferred: Starter access probabilities (hypergeometric) and searcher-text proxy; Strategy classification (Midrange primary, Stun and Toolbox secondary); Dimension scores from card text and composition; Going-first and going-second plans from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (D13) with no tournament data
• 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 side deck (0 cards): post-side plan and D12 unmeasurable No win-rate telemetry in YGOVN: going-first/second, matchup, brick and OTK rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Usage stats: 11 of 25 core cards for the archetype are missing from the list