Gladiator Beast Deck #772127 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 45 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Repeated Gladiator Beast Fusion, Link and Special Summon pressure (Claudius 3700, Heraklinos 3000, Domitianus 3500) built from the archetype's GY recursion; Mulcharmy and Speedroid card-advantage lines that draw off opponent summons
• Turn 1 (going first): Search with Gistel, Proving Ground or Terrortop, Special Summon via Gladiator Beast effects, then Link or Fusion into a board while holding Ash Blossom, Droll and Infinite Impermanence for the opponent's turn
• Turn 2 (going second): Open on a hand trap (Ash, Droll, Maxx C, Nibiru) to answer the first summon, then stack Solemn and War Chariot as the board is rebuilt
• Recovery: Recycle Gladiator Beast monsters from the GY through Gistel, Attorix and Equeste's GY-recovery effects, then rebuild with Flavian and Test Bear
• After siding: Not applicable: the deck runs no Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The list is illegal in OCG: Cross-Sheep is Forbidden and is run once, so the deck is scored as theoretical and structural only, and the final score is capped at 25. Structurally the engine is reasonably accessible: the archetype core gives an inferred 96.5% chance of at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand, and 13 searcher-text cards give about 83.5%. Interaction is dense (9 hand traps, 15 negation-text cards, 3 Solemn-family traps), which lifts end-board quality. The score is not driven by Gladiator Beast being a popular archetype, and it does not average the individual card scores. Purity is weak at 33% exact-name archetype copies, and the deck has no Side Deck, so it earns little for coherence or post-side adaptability.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary; Toolbox secondary, not weighted separately. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-12). Final formula: No metagame sample: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability = 0.80*55 + 0.20*48 = 53.6; banlist exposure modifier -12 gives 41.6; capped at 25 because the list is Illegal (Cross-Sheep Forbidden, over copy limit). Theoretical/structural only.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.97 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.03 (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 dense: 21 core copies give an inferred 96.5% chance of at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand
• Interaction density is high: 9 hand traps, 15 negation-text cards and 3 Solemn-family traps
• Extra Deck has strong bodies (Claudius 3700, Domitianus 3500, Heraklinos 3000) and balanced Fusion/Link coverage

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Cross-Sheep is Forbidden in OCG and over the copy limit
• Low archetype purity (33.3% exact-name copies) with 40 off-archetype copies, weakening engine coherence
• No Side Deck, so no post-side plan and no adaptability
• No combos, median or matchup data, so floor and reliability rest on inference

Critical choke points

• Cross-Sheep must be removed before the list is legal; the score is not valid until it is
• Dependence on Gistel and Gladiator Proving Ground as first searchers for the 3-copy engine

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Cross-Sheep is Forbidden in OCG and run once (legality); Main 45 and Extra 15 are within OCG size rules (legality); Exact-name archetype purity 33.3% with 40 off-archetype copies (composition); Side count is 0 (legality)
• Observed: No observed recorded boards or combo frequencies
• Inferred: At least one archetype-core card in opening hand ≈ 0.97 (hypergeometric proxy); Searcher-text group at least one in 5 ≈ 0.84; Full-brick proxy ≈ 0.035; Interaction density from negation and hand-trap text
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Tournament reliability and matchup coverage (no tournament link); Median and floor (no combos supplied)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and pilot match record absent No win-rate telemetry: going-first, going-second, matchup and brick rates unknown Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample Usage-stat core matching is inconsistent with the card list: Dragases, Heraklinos, Test Panther and Gyzarus appear in the Extra Deck list but are reported as not in deck, so core_present_pct (48%) is unreliable