Vanquish Soul Deck #772201 — 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 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Vanquish Soul and K9 monsters, searched by Vanquish Soul Spell/Trap and monster searchers, attack through hand-revealing summons and Xyz/Link boss monsters (text-inferred); Xyz boss monsters (K9-X Werewolf is not in this list; Caesar Valius, Heavy Borger, AA-ZEUS, Arc Rebellion, Jacks, Number 104 and Number C104 are the boss options present)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with a Vanquish Soul starter, use Vanquish Soul, Start! or Stake your Soul! to search or set up a second Vanquish Soul monster, and build toward a 3000-ATK boss
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 13 hand-trap and tech cards (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Ghost Belle, Nibiru, Droll and Lock Bird, Solemn Judgment) to disrupt the opponent's first line, then convert with the Vanquish Soul engine
• Recovery: Rebuild the hand with searchers (Razen, Dr. Mad Love, Start!, Lantern, Jokul) and Mulcharmy draw effects, which fire when the hand is emptied
• After siding: Not applicable: the deck runs 0 side cards, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system, not as an average of its cards: its engine (Vanquish Soul searchers and summons, backed by K9 and Mulcharmy) is reasonably reachable, since the archetype core is about 98% likely to appear in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred). It has real interaction density, with 13 hand traps and several negation or removal effects, and it has strong closing bodies at 3000 ATK and above. The score is held down by an illegal list (three copy-limit violations), a 55-card main deck with 17 singletons and 52 off-exact-name copies, and no side deck. There are no recorded boards, guides, or tournament data, so the combo floor and median are estimates. Archetype popularity did not earn points, and the card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-8); engine_conflicts (-4). Final formula: Illegal list: theoretical only. Pre-cap 0.80*Structural(55) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) + modifiers(-12) = 41, capped to 35 for copy-limit violations

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.98 · 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

• Archetype core is almost always present in an opening hand (Inferred)
• 13 hand traps and several negation or removal effects give broad interaction (Verified text, Inferred use)
• Closing bodies at 3000 ATK and above, plus Xyz boss monsters (Verified stats)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: 3 cards exceed their copy limits (Verified)
• 52 of 55 main-deck copies are off the exact archetype name, which weakens engine coherence (Verified)
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation (Verified)
• No combos, guides, or tournament data to test the floor or median (Verified gap)

Critical choke points

• Over-limit cards (Razen, Ash Blossom, Izuna) must be cut before the list is playable
• Engine depends on Vanquish Soul searchers and summons; if they are absent the deck has no clear route (Inferred)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality status Illegal with 3 copy-limit violations; Banlist status for Vanquish Soul Razen, Ash Blossom, K9-17 Izuna and the other Limited cards; Card stats, text excerpts and role tags from the evidence pack; Main deck count 55 and Extra deck count 15, both within size rules
• Inferred: Archetype core opening-hand probability ~0.98 and starter probabilities (hypergeometric); Hand-trap coverage and interaction density from text; Engine coherence from archetype spread; Structural dimension scores and weights
• Provisional: Meta Power and format fit (no dated metagame sample); Tournament reliability
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent No guides supplied for the archetype No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN Usage-statistics in_this_deck flags conflict with the card list: N.As.H. Knight, CXyz N.As.Ch. Knight, Rock of the Vanquisher, S:P Little Knight, Number 104, Number C104 and K9-66X Jacks are in the card list but flagged in_this_deck=false, so core_present_pct is likely understated Side deck is empty, so post-side scores cannot be evaluated Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample