Performapal Deck #772326 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Pendulum-zone recursion into Extra Deck Pendulum and Link/Xyz/Fusion boss monsters (Supreme King Z-ARC, Perfectron Hydradrive Dragon, Dark Magician of Destruction), backed by hand-trap interaction; Odd-Eyes Vortex / Absolute Dragon board presence through Pendulum summons
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon a Pendulum or Performapal starter, search a second Pendulum monster through Skullcrobat Joker or Horoscope Sorcerer, place to the Pendulum Zones, and extend into a Link or Fusion boss
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Droll and Lock Bird or Maxx C to answer the opponent's first summon or search, then rebuild the Pendulum board from the hand
• Recovery: Supreme King Gate Zero and Wings of Light recover the Pendulum board after a single lost starter; Dark Magical Curtain and Pendulum Evolution are the late-game refill
• After siding: No side deck is registered in this export (side count 0), so no post-side plan can be scored

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system on consistency, interaction and closing power, not by averaging card scores. Searchers (22 searcher-text cards, about 0.99 chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand) and the 16 archetype-core Performapal, Magician and Supreme King cards give it a reliable opening, and the 0.94 core-presence estimate is Inferred. Six hand traps and about 13 negation-text cards provide layered interaction, most of it going second. The Extra Deck has strong closers (Supreme King Z-ARC, Perfectron, Dark Magician of Destruction), but two of them are Forbidden in OCG, and the list is illegal, so the score is capped. No combo boards, tournament share, or win-rate data were supplied, so popularity earned no points and the floor and median are Inferred only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, Toolbox secondary (structural weights not blended; Midrange used as-is). Structural ≈ 54, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-12); Illegal list cap (-16). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(54) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(50) + ContextModifiers(-12) = 41, then capped to 25 because the deck is Illegal (copy-limit and Forbidden-card violations); theoretical/structural-only

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.99 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.07 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense searcher and starter coverage (22 searcher-text cards)
• Layered interaction: 6 hand traps plus negation and removal text
• Strong Extra Deck closers in Supreme King Z-ARC, Perfectron Hydradrive Dragon and Odd-Eyes Absolute Dragon

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Astrograph Sorcerer is over the copy limit and two Extra Deck cards are Forbidden
• No side deck (side count 0)
• Wide sub-archetype spread (14 subtypes) weakens engine coherence

Critical choke points

• Extra Deck Pendulum/Fusion summon depends on a few Pendulum starters; losing them to one hand trap leaves the board thin
• Supreme King Z-ARC is the main engine, and the Forbidden and Limited cards make the list unplayable as built

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Astrograph Sorcerer over copy limit (3 vs 1), Borreload Savage Dragon and Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon Forbidden; Main 40, Extra 15, Side 0 within OCG size rules; 22 searcher-text cards and 6 hand-trap cards in composition
• Inferred: D1 and D2 consistency estimates from hypergeometric draw odds; Interaction quality from negation and hand-trap text; Turn-order split from card text (no board data)
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Side deck performance (no side list); Matchup and format fit (no tournament link)
• 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 absent No win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchups or brick rates Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Side deck is empty (side count 0) Deck title is null in the export