Code Talker Deck #772013 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 44/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Stun, Toolbox
• 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: Link-based Cyberse board (Code Talker link line, Firewall Dragon Darkfluid, Transcode/Accesscode Talker) built from Ignister/Mathmech/Mulcharmy starters; Hand-trap disruption (17 hand traps / negates) buying time for a Link Summon
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a starter from Cyberse draw/search effects (Cynet Mining, A.I. Connect, Backup/Pikari @Ignister) and Link Summon into a Code Talker or Firewall Link; hold hand traps for the opponent's first interaction
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the six-card hand's hand traps (Ash, Ghost Ogre, Ghost Belle, Skull Meister, Nibiru, Infinite Impermanence) to stop the opponent's board, then rebuild through Mulcharmy draw effects
• Recovery: Mulcharmy Fuwalos/Purulia draw triggers and Mathmech Circular or Achichi searches refill the hand after a board is negated
• After siding: Not applicable: the list has no Side Deck, so no post-side plan exists in OCG best-of-3

Why it scores here

The deck is a three-engine hybrid (Code Talker, Ignister and Mathmech, with Mulcharmy as draw support), and its exact archetype purity is only 8.6%, so the 14 Code Talker core copies are spread across several sub-archetypes rather than one engine. The starter reliability is reasonable: P(at least one archetype-core card in a 5-card opening hand) is about 0.78 (Inferred), and 15 searcher-text cards help it find a starter. Interaction is the strongest part of the system, with 17 hand traps, 16 negation-text cards and 15 removal-text cards giving a high probability (about 0.90) of at least one hand trap in a going-second 6-card hand (Inferred). The deck has no recorded boards, so its combo ceiling and median output are text-only inference and carry low confidence. The score was not raised by Code Talker's popularity or by averaging card scores, and it is capped by the copy-limit violation: the deck runs 3 copies of Ash Blossom against an OCG limit of 2, so this is a theoretical, structural-only read.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 57, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: Illegal copy-limit violation (cap) (-12). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability = 0.80*57.3 + 0.20*50 = 55.8; Illegal copy-limit cap applied as a -12 modifier → 44. Theoretical/structural-only.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.78 · 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 negate package (17 hand traps, 16 negation-text cards)
• Real starter access: 14 archetype-core copies and 15 searcher-text cards
• Draw-engine support from Mulcharmy Fuwalos and Purulia

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy limit: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring runs 3 copies against an OCG limit of 2
• Low archetype purity (8.6%): three overlapping engines compete for the same hand slots
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptability
• No recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and median are unverified

Critical choke points

• A Link Summon depends on Cyberse material; if the starter is a hand trap, there may be no board to convert
• Three-engine hybrid can leave hands with a starter from one engine and the payoff of another

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0 are within OCG size rules; Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring: 3 copies, legal 2 (Semi-Limited), violation; Mathmech Circular: 1 copy, Limited, legal; Archetype purity 8.6%, Cyberse race spread 31 cards
• Inferred: P(≥1 archetype core in hand5) ≈ 0.78; P(≥1 hand trap in hand6) ≈ 0.90; Hand-trap density gives going-second interaction strength; Three-engine conflict lowers D1 and D14
• Provisional: Matchup fit (D13) and Meta Power: no dated metagame sample or tournament link; Post-side plan: no Side Deck
• 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 win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates) Meta Power provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No Side Deck, so D12 has no post-side data