Vanquish Soul Deck #771962 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 49 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Vanquish Soul monster chain into 2500-3000 ATK boss monsters (Caesar Valius, Heavy Borger) and Xyz/Link boards (Inferred from card text); K9 and Number Xyz boards that negate or remove the opponent's board (Inferred from card text)
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon into searchers (Dr. Mad Love, Razen, Stake your Soul!) to reach a Vanquish Soul boss; hand traps held for the opponent's turn (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Droll & Lock Bird, Infinite Impermanence) to interrupt the opponent's first engine, then rebuild through searchers (Inferred)
• Recovery: Searchers and Mulcharmy draw effects refill the hand after a disruption (Inferred)
• After siding: None: the deck has 0 Side Deck cards

Why it scores here

The list is Illegal: three cards exceed their copy limits (Ash Blossom, Razen and K9-17 Izuna) and nine Limited and two Semi-Limited cards are run, so it is scored on structure only and capped at 35. Structurally (about 57) it reliably opens its Vanquish Soul core, with the archetype core group reaching at least one copy in about 99% of opening 5-card hands and searchers in about 89%. Its interaction (10 hand traps and 9 negation-text cards) and 2500-3000 ATK bosses give it real closing and interaction power, but the Main Deck mixes K9, Mulcharmy, Bystial and Number lines with only 31% exact-name purity, which weakens engine coherence. No recorded boards exist, so combo ceiling and median are text-only inference, and the empty Side Deck leaves no post-side plan. Popularity and usage data did not add points, and the score comes from the system rather than from averaging card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 57, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: Banlist and copy-limit exposure (-8); No side deck (-2); Engine dilution (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural(57) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(50) + Modifiers(-12) = 44 pre-cap; Illegal cap applied -> 35. Theoretical/structural-only; Meta provisional.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.99 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.01 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Archetype core is near-certain to appear in the opening hand (about 0.99 for the 28-copy group)
• Searcher density (17 cards) gives consistent access to the engine
• Interaction breadth: 10 hand traps plus negation and removal text
• High-ATK bosses (2500-3000) provide closing power
• Extra Deck covers Xyz and Link routes

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: three cards over copy limit
• Low exact-archetype purity (31%) and sub-engine conflicts
• No side deck
• No recorded combos, so ceiling and median are unmeasured
• Most hand-trap lines are dead when the player needs to go off

Critical choke points

• Each individual 3-copy starter reaches the opening hand only about 28% of the time going-first
• Legality fix is mandatory before any normal score applies
• Empty Side Deck means no matchup adjustment

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: three copy-limit violations (Ash Blossom 3 vs 2, Razen 3 vs 1, K9-17 Izuna 3 vs 2); 11 Limited/Semi-Limited restricted cards; Main 49 (within 40-60), Extra 15 (11 Xyz, 4 Link), Side 0; Exact-name purity 31.2%, 44 off-archetype copies
• Inferred: Starter reliability from hypergeometric estimates (archetype core about 0.99; per-card about 0.28 going-first); Going-second hand-trap coverage about 0.77; Closing power from ATK stats and text; Interaction quality from text role hints
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament link)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick and starter rates) usage statistics in this deck flags conflict with the cards list: S:P Little Knight, N.As.H. Knight, CXyz N.As.Ch. Knight, Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS, Number 104, Number C104, K9-66X Jacks and Rock of the Vanquisher are present in cards (Extra Deck) but flagged in this deck=false, so the core-card presence and missing core cards list are unreliable Side Deck empty, so D12 has no performance or composition evidence Meta Power is Provisional without a dated sample