Unchained Deck #772240 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · 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-3000 Unchained boards (Abominable Unchained Soul, Unchained Abomination, Unchained Enma Lord Yama, Underworld Goddess) and Starslayer TY-PHON as a single Xyz finisher, reached through Unchained Fiend Special Summon chains.; Disruption-backed grind: hand traps and Solemn/Maxx/Droll interaction keep the opponent off their own engine while the Unchained board closes.
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon Unchained Ogre Shma or Shara, use their destroy/Special Summon text to reach a Level 4 or lower Unchained Fiend, then Link or Xyz into a 3000-ATK board. Hand traps are held for the opponent's first activation. (Inferred, text-only, no recorded boards)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Ghost Belle, Maxx C, Droll and Infinite Impermanence to answer the opponent's starter, then rebuild through Reincarnation of the Unchained and Sharvara/Yama recursion. (Inferred)
• Recovery: Reincarnation of the Unchained and Abomination's Prison add Unchained cards from the Deck; Unchained Twins, Soul of Sharvara and Soul Lord of Yama recur or revive from the Graveyard. (Inferred, card text)
• After siding: Not applicable: the deck runs no Side Deck (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

This score is a capped, structural-only read because the list is Illegal: it runs one copy of D/D/D Wave High King Caesar, which is Forbidden in OCG, so the normal Final Contextual formula was not applied. Scored as a system, the deck reliably opens its Unchained starters (about 72% that at least one of the 12 archetype-core cards is in a 5-card opening hand, Inferred) and has unusually dense interaction for its size (13 hand traps, 13 negation-text cards, 35 removal-text cards), which drives the strong endboard and going-second dimensions. Its ceiling (3000-ATK Link boards and a Starslayer finisher) is credible from card text, but no recorded boards exist, so the median output is weakly inferred and brick management is held back by low archetype purity (47%, 37 off-archetype copies). Archetype popularity earned no points, and no card scores were averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 58.3, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 64, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (Forbidden card in list) (-12). Final formula: Uncapped: 0.80*Structural(58.3) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(48) = 56.2 with Meta provisional, then the Illegal cap sets the reported score to 30 (theoretical/structural-only, not a normal Final score).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.72 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.28 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense interaction: 13 hand traps and 35 removal-text cards, with 3 copies of Infinite Impermanence and 2 of Ash Blossom.
• Redundant starters at 3 copies (Ogre Shma, Ogre Shara, Soul of Sharvara, Malevolent Magistrate Kamura, Abomination's Prison, Reincarnation of the Unchained).
• Strong closing bodies: four 3000-ATK Link monsters and a 2900 Xyz finisher.

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Forbidden D/D/D Wave High King Caesar must be removed before the deck can be played.
• Low archetype purity (47.1%) with 37 off-archetype copies weakens engine coherence and raises brick risk.
• No Side Deck, so there is no best-of-3 adaptation and no post-side plan.
• No recorded combos, so the median output and the actual ceiling are unmeasured.

Critical choke points

• The Unchained Fiend Special Summon chain depends on Ogre Shma/Shara or Soul of Sharvara being in hand; without a live starter the deck has little T1 pressure.
• The Forbidden Caesar occupies an Extra Deck slot that the list cannot legally use.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 55 main, 15 extra, 0 side; size rules are met.; Forbidden status of D/D/D Wave High King Caesar (1 copy run, 0 legal copies).; Archetype purity 47.1%, 37 off-archetype copies.; Card stats and link ratings for the Extra Deck Link and Xyz monsters.; Hypergeometric probabilities from the resolved list.
• Observed: Usage statistics: Unchained Soul of Rage 78% and Soul of Anguish 70% inclusion in the archetype, neither run in this list.
• Inferred: Opening-hand consistency (archetype core 72%, full-brick proxy 28%).; Engine text-only reads of starter, recursion and closing lines.; Interaction density read from text roles (13 hand traps, 13 negation, 35 removal).; Going-first and going-second power estimates.
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample).; Matchup coverage and format fit (no tournament context).
• 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, going-second, matchup, brick and starter rates). Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied. Deck title is null, so deck name is unavailable.