Darklord Deck #771963 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Darklord Extra Deck boss monsters (The First Darklord 4000 ATK, Darklord Eveningstar 3000 ATK, Darklord Morningstar 3000 ATK, Super Starslayer TY-PHON 2900 ATK) reached through Darklord Gulgolet, Djehuty and Ixchel starters, with Darklord Dance / Eveningstar fusion lines.; Hand-trap and backrow interaction (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Ghost Ogre, Maxx C, Droll, Solemn Judgment, Dominus Impulse) buying time for a Darklord board to stick.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Darklord starter (Djehuty, Ixchel, Gulgolet or Banishment of the Darklords) and chain Darklord searches and Special Summons into a Darklord Dance or Eveningstar Fusion Summon; expected to be less reliable because the on-field hand traps are mostly dead on turn 1.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Ghost Ogre, Infinite Impermanence, Evenly Matched) for the opponent's first big summon or search, then rebuild with the Darklord engine from the GY.
• Recovery: Darklord recursion from the Graveyard (Djehuty, Ixchel, Tezcatlipoca, Darklord Contact) and Darklord searches through Gulgolet and Banishment, plus discard-cost hand traps to keep a second interaction layer.
• After siding: Not evaluable: side_count is 0, so the deck has no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The Darklord core of 16 copies gives an 83% chance of at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand (hypergeometric, Inferred), so the engine is reachable on most openers, although each individual starter sits near 25% per copy-3 card. The deck converts that access into Extra Deck bosses such as The First Darklord and Darklord Eveningstar, but there are no recorded boards, so the ceiling and median are text-only inference. Interaction is dense (13 hand traps, 22 removal-text cards, 15 negation-text cards), which earns the end-board score, while the 33 spells and traps in a 55-card main deck and the mix of Dominus, Power Patron, Forbidden, Branded, Herald, Elemental HERO and Harpie sub-archetypes weaken coherence and consistency. The score is capped because two Forbidden cards (Albion the Branded Dragon and Triple Tactics Talent) are run in the deck, so this is a structural-only read. Popularity and usage statistics confirmed the list is real, but they did not add points, and no card scores were averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 54, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-12). Final formula: Meta provisional: 0.80*Structural(54) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(35) = 50.2; modifiers total -12 gives 38; Illegal hard cap applied gives 25 (structural-only, not a normal Final score)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.83 · 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

• Dense hand-trap and backrow interaction (13 hand traps, 15 negation-text cards)
• Reachable Darklord engine: 83% chance of at least one core card in a 5-card opener (Inferred)
• High-ATK Extra Deck closers including The First Darklord and Darklord Eveningstar

Weaknesses

• Two Forbidden cards in the list, making it illegal in OCG
• Engine conflicts across Dominus, Power Patron, Forbidden, Branded, Herald and Elemental HERO sub-archetypes
• Low archetype purity (35.7%) with 33 non-monster main-deck cards
• No side deck (side_count 0)
• No recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and floor cannot be checked

Critical choke points

• Darklord Gulgolet / Djehuty / Ixchel (3 copies each, about 25% per opener) carry the engine's first step
• Banned cards are unplayable as built, so the list cannot be used until they are removed
• Hand traps need the opponent's action to matter, so turn-1 going-first plays are thin

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Triple Tactics Talent and Albion the Branded Dragon are Forbidden in OCG (legal copies 0, run 1), so the deck is Illegal; Main 55 and Extra 15 are within OCG size rules; side 0 is allowed; Limited and Semi-Limited copy counts are within limits; Archetype purity 35.7% (25 of 70 Darklord-named cards in the deck), off-archetype 45 copies
• Observed: No recorded boards (total_combos 0), so no measured combo output; Usage statistics: Darklord core inclusion 55% to 93%
• Inferred: Opening-hand consistency: 83% at least one Darklord core card, about 25% per copy-3 starter (hypergeometric); Hand-trap coverage: 82% at least one hand trap in a 6-card going-second hand; Midrange-profile structural score 54 from the 14 dimensions, with D13 dropped for a meta-neutral read; Going-second strength is higher than going-first because hand traps need the opponent's action
• Provisional: Meta Power is null: no dated metagame sample or tournament link; D13 matchup and format fit is not scored (dropped from structural); Tournament reliability 35 is an estimate without per-pilot match data
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN (going-first/second, matchup, game-level, brick/starter/OTK rates) — those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied deck title is null, so the name is taken from the archetype only side deck is empty, so the post-side plan cannot be scored