Vanquish Soul Deck #772222 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 51 / Extra 19 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 5 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Xyz and Link pressure from Vanquish Soul and K9 monsters, backed by Vanquish Soul attackers (Caesar Valius 3000 ATK, Heavy Borger 2500 ATK, Jiaolong 2400 ATK) and Number-based Xyz boards; Vanquish Soul, Start! and Stake your Soul! chains that put tuners and attackers onto the field from hand, with K9-X Ripper/M piercing damage as a closer
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Stake your Soul! or Vanquish Soul Dr. Mad Love to search Vanquish Soul monsters, reveal attributes to Special Summon from hand, then build a Rank 5 Xyz or Link boss by the second main phase
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, or Barian's Seal to answer the opponent's first starter, then rebuild through Vanquish Soul hand summons and K9 Xyz Summons
• Recovery: Recover from a single disruption by searching a second Vanquish Soul monster from the Deck (Dr. Mad Love, Razen, Start!), since the Vanquish Soul core has many independent summon routes
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs no Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan to assess

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens its Vanquish Soul core: 28 archetype-core copies give about 98.6 percent odds of at least one in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred), and 17 searcher-text cards give about 88 percent for at least one (Inferred). Its conversion is credible on paper, since Vanquish Soul hand-summons and K9/Number Xyz routes turn a starter into a 2400 to 3000 ATK board, but there are no recorded boards, so the ceiling and median are text-only estimates and the median is scored conservatively. Interaction is layered (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Barian's Seal, Number 101, Vallon) and gives a reasonable end-board read. The score comes from consistency, interaction and closing power on the system, not from Vanquish Soul being a popular archetype and not from averaging the individual card scores. Because the list is illegal (Extra Deck 19 over 15, three copy-limit violations, no Side Deck), the result is a theoretical, structural-only read and is capped low.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary (Toolbox secondary, not blended in numerically). Structural ≈ 56.5, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-6); extra_deck_overflow (-2); illegal_list_cap (0). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 0.80*56.5 + 0.20*45 - 8 = 45.8, then capped to 35 because the list is Illegal (theoretical, structural-only read)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.99 · 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

• Core archetype density: 28 Vanquish Soul or K9 copies make the opening hand almost always functional
• Layered interaction: Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Barian's Seal and Number 101 give several answers to a single starter
• Multiple independent summon routes: hand-revealed Special Summons from Mad Love, Razen, Jiaolong, Heavy Borger, Start! and Stake your Soul!
• Closing bodies at 2400 to 3100 ATK, including Ripper/M with piercing

Weaknesses

• Illegal as submitted: Extra Deck over 15, three copy-limit violations, and Limited cards run at 3 copies
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptability
• Only 31.4 percent of the Main Deck is exact-name archetype, with a large generic and cross-archetype spread that dilutes engine coherence
• Many Xyz and Link routes compete for the same Extra Deck slots, so the Extra Deck overflow is structural

Critical choke points

• Single-copy Limited cards (Hollie Sue, S:P Little Knight, Reinforcement of the Army, A Case for K9) are each one-card starters or key searchers
• Extra Deck cap: the list must lose 4 cards to be legal, and the cut changes which Xyz routes exist
• Going second relies on the 6-card hand containing a hand trap, about 40 percent by hypergeometric estimate

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality status Illegal: Extra Deck 19 over 15, three copy-limit violations, and Limited or Semi-Limited copy counts exceeded; Main Deck size 51 within the 40-60 OCG range; Side Deck size 0; Card text and stats for all 51 Main and 19 Extra cards are resolved; Archetype-core group P(at least one in 5-card hand) = 0.9857 from the hypergeometric table
• Observed: Usage statistics show Vanquish Soul core cards at 88-96 percent inclusion; this is evidence the list is real and accessible, not that it is strong
• Inferred: Consistency (D1, D2) from hypergeometric odds and searcher counts; Interaction density (D7) from hand-trap and negation card text; Closing power (D9) from stats and piercing text; Going-second plan from hand-trap odds
• Provisional: Meta Power is null because no dated metagame sample exists; Matchup fit (D13) is provisional without a meta sample
• 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 are absent No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick or starter rates) Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample No Side Deck; post-side plan cannot be assessed Deck title is null in the export