Gladiator Beast Deck #772227 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 50/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 7 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Level 4 GB monsters chain into Gladiator Beast Heraklinos (3000 ATK, Laquari + 2 GB) and Gladiator Beast Gyzarus (2400 ATK, requires Bestiari) for board-level pressure.; Utopia and Gem-Knight Pearl as Xyz closers from the Level 4 bodies; Darius and Laquari as recursive attackers.
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon a Level 3/4 GB monster (Test Tiger, Equeste, Darius, Laquari), recycle via Test Tiger or Equeste GY recursion, hold Solemn/Mirror Force/Seven Tools behind the board.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Dark Hole, Bottomless Trap Hole, Mirror Force or Monster Reborn to clear the opposing board, then rebuild through GB recursion while holding Solemn Warning/Judgment for their follow-up.
• Recovery: Recover GB monsters from the Graveyard with Equeste, Test Tiger and Laquari, then re-enter the Extra Deck fusion lines.
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so no post-side plan can be evaluated. A best-of-3 build would need to be supplied.

Why it scores here

The deck opens a live GB engine reliably: 13 GB monsters in 40 cards give about 0.88 going-first and 0.92 going-second odds of at least one GB monster in hand, so the engine comes online without needing a combo. It converts that engine into pressure through Heraklinos, Gyzarus and Utopia, and it has strong board-breaking and interaction density (Solemn x3, Mirror Force, Dark Hole, Bottomless Trap Hole, Seven Tools x2, War Chariot x2). Recursion from Test Tiger, Equeste and Laquari gives a reasonable grind. The score is held back by the missing archetype hubs (Gistel, Dragases, Noxious and Fuwalos are absent, so archetype purity is only 42.6%), the single-copy Bestiari that gates all three Gyzarus, the empty Side Deck, and the absence of any recorded combo or tournament evidence. The score comes from consistency, median output and interaction on the system; it was not produced by averaging the cards' individual scores, and the archetype's popularity earned no points.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 58, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 56. Modifiers: No side deck (-3); Missing archetype hubs (-3); Single-card Extra dependency (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); 57.6 base, then context modifiers -8 = 49.6, rounded to 50

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.88 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.05 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• 13 GB monsters in 40 cards give high engine access odds
• Dense interaction suite (Solemn x3, Mirror Force, Dark Hole, BTH x2, Seven Tools x2, War Chariot x2)
• Strong Extra Deck closers (Heraklinos 3000, Pearl 2600, Utopia 2500)
• Recursion via Test Tiger, Equeste, Laquari and Retiari

Weaknesses

• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Archetype purity only 42.6%; 27 of 40 copies are off-archetype staples
• Gyzarus x3 depends on a single Bestiari
• Hub cards (Gistel, Dragases, Noxious) absent
• No hand traps

Critical choke points

• Gladiator Beast Bestiari (1 copy) gates all three Gyzarus
• Level 4 normal summon requirement for Laquari, Heraklinos and Pearl lines

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 40 / Extra 7 / Side 0 legal in OCG; Monster Reborn 1, Solemn Judgment 1, Solemn Warning 2 copies, all within limits; Card text and stats for every card in the list
• Observed: Usage statistics: 25 core cards at 60-100% inclusion, only Equeste present (4%); Heraklinos and Gyzarus appear in missing_core despite being in the deck
• Inferred: GB monster opening-hand access ~0.88 / ~0.92; Gyzarus gated by Bestiari; Interaction density as a strength; Midrange profile fit
• Provisional: Meta Power and D13 matchup fit (no dated metagame sample)
• 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 (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates) no side deck registered usage_statistics core_cards_present reports 1 but Heraklinos and Gyzarus are in the deck yet listed as missing_core; ref/card_id matching may be incomplete Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample