Apophis Deck #772261 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 45/100 (±7 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Apophis-trap and Temple of the Kings engine conversion into Divine Serpent Apophis, Super Starslayer TY-PHON or Red-Eyes Black Dragon Exceed pressure, with Argostars Continuous Traps adding follow-up bodies; Sustained negation (Solemn trio, Dominus Purge, Infinite Impermanence, Solemn Strike/Accusation) grinding the opponent's board until a boss monster closes
• Turn 1 (going first): Set multiple traps on T1, use Dark Time Wizard / Treasures of the Kings / The Man with the Mark to search an Apophis or Argostars trap, and hold Solemn-type negation for the opponent's first Summon or Spell/Trap activation
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 6-card hand's hand traps (Infinite Impermanence, Maxx C, Droll & Lock Bird, Nibiru) and Solemn cards to break the opponent's first board, then convert the remaining Apophis traps into a Special Summon route
• Recovery: Recover through Argostars - Home Stadium and Argostars - Glorious Adra GY/banish recursion, Mulcharmy draw effects, and Apophis the Serpent sending itself to the GY to add Embodiment of Apophis
• After siding: Not defined: the deck runs 0 side-deck cards, so no post-side plan exists in the evidence (Inferred gap)

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a functional-looking plan roughly 65% of the time (P(at least one archetype-core card in a 5-card opening hand) ≈ 0.65 across 10 core copies, Inferred), and its searcher density (20 searcher-text cards, P ≥ 1 in 5 cards ≈ 0.91) keeps the engine findable. Its strongest axis is interaction: 22 negation-text and 23 removal-text cards, three Solemn-family negations and eight hand traps let the deck answer most first-turn Summons and activations, which is what drives the going-second and end-board scores. Conversion and floor/median output are not measured because no recorded boards exist, so those scores are text-based inference only. Apophis purity is low (exact name 5.7%, 66 off-archetype copies), the extra deck spreads across several unrelated engines, and there are no side-deck cards, which holds down efficiency, extra-deck coherence and post-side adaptability. Popularity and archetype usage were not used as points; the score is from the system's consistency, interaction and resilience, not from an average of individual card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 52.4, Going First ≈ 54, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: low archetype purity / engine coherence (-3); no post-side plan (-2); banlist exposure (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional): 0.80*52.4 + 0.20*45 = 50.9, then context modifiers -6 = 44.9 → 45

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.65 · 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

• Dense negation and removal text (22 negation, 23 removal) with Solemn trio and hand traps
• Strong searcher density (20 searcher-text cards) keeps the engine findable
• Multiple extra-deck closers at 2800–4500 ATK
• Redundant recursion from Argostars GY/banish effects and Apophis the Serpent

Weaknesses

• Exact-name Apophis purity is only 5.7%, so the engine is split across several sub-archetypes
• No side deck (0 cards), leaving no post-side plan
• Extra Deck carries several off-plan options (Divine Arsenal, Dark Ceruvim, Ray Lancer, Link Spider)
• Trap-heavy Main Deck (24 Trap Cards) raises the risk of non-functional hands
• No recorded boards or tournament data to confirm conversion or matchup performance

Critical choke points

• Apophis trap activation depends on a Trap in GY or Set on the field, so an early negation can leave the engine stranded
• Divine Serpent Apophis requires two Apophis monsters or a Fusion, which the Main Deck supplies only in limited copies (Inferred)
• Solemn Judgment, Maxx C and Droll & Lock Bird are single copies, so losing one to an opposing hand trap leaves a single answer

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in OCG: 55 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side within size rules; All restricted cards run at or below legal copies (Limited / Semi-Limited); Archetype purity: 5.7% exact-name, 66 off-archetype copies; Card text confirms negation, removal and searcher counts
• Observed: Usage stats show 5 of 15 archetype core cards present (33.3%)
• Inferred: Opening-hand consistency P ≈ 0.65 for archetype core, P ≈ 0.91 for searchers; Interaction quality (D7) and going-second board-breaking (D8) from card-text roles; Brick risk and engine accessibility from composition and probabilities; Recovery and resource economy from GY/banish recursion text
• Provisional: Meta power (null); Matchup and format fit (D13); Post-side adaptability (D12)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent No win-rate telemetry: going-first/second, matchup, brick and OTK rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Deck title is null in the export