Vanquish Soul Deck #772335 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 39/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 43 / Extra 14 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Vanquish Soul and K9 Xyz/Link boards (Caesar Valius, Heavy Borger, Jiaolong, K9-X Ripper/M) built off Vanquish Soul attribute-reveal effects and Stake your Soul! / Vanquish Soul, Start! searches; K9 Quick-Play and Xyz removal (K9-X Forced Release, K9-66X Jacks is not in this list) backed by hand traps (Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit)
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon a searcher such as Vanquish Soul Dr. Mad Love or K9-66a Jokul, search a Vanquish Soul Spell/Trap, and extend through Stake your Soul! toward a Vanquish Soul Xyz or Link (Inferred from text; no combos supplied)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence and Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit to answer the first activation, then rebuild through Vanquish Soul Razen and Mulcharmy Fuwalos draws (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recursion through Vanquish Soul Hollie Sue and Vanquish Soul Heavy Borger returning non-Dragon or non-Machine monsters to hand for a second Special Summon (Inferred from text)
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs no Side Deck (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens an archetype starter: the Vanquish Soul/K9 core group has a hypergeometric P(at least one in a 5-card opening hand) of about 0.996, and Vanquish Soul Dr. Mad Love, Stake your Soul! and Mulcharmy Fuwalos each reach about 0.32 at three copies. Interaction is broad, with three hand-trap or negation cards at three copies and several K9 Xyz destruction effects, and the Extra Deck supplies high-ATK Xyz and Link boards. The score is held back by the absence of any recorded boards (no combo ceiling or median), no side deck, and no tournament or meta sample, so D3, D4, D12 and D13 rest on text inference alone. The list is illegal under OCG copy limits (Ash Blossom, Vanquish Soul Razen and K9-17 Izuna are over-limit), so it receives a -12 legality cap and this score is theoretical only. Popularity of the archetype and the average of individual card scores were not used.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 52.6, Going First ≈ 54, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: illegal copy-limit cap (-12). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional); legality cap applied as -12 modifier: 0.80*52.6 + 0.20*45 - 12 = 39

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 1 · 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

• Archetype core is almost always reachable in the opening hand (0.996)
• Layered hand traps and K9 Xyz destruction effects cover the first activation
• Extra Deck end-boards reach 2600 to 3100 ATK with piercing options

Weaknesses

• Illegal under OCG copy limits as built
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Two archetype cores (Vanquish Soul and K9) dilute engine coherence (33% exact-name purity)
• No recorded boards or meta data to validate the ceiling or median

Critical choke points

• Vanquish Soul attribute-reveal effects depend on hand contents, so a hand without matching attributes stalls the engine
• Restricted-copy searchers (Razen, Hollie Sue) limit redundancy once the list is made legal

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 43, Extra 14, Side 0 within OCG size rules; Three copy-limit violations: Ash Blossom, Vanquish Soul Razen, K9-17 Izuna; Core group P(at least one in 5-card hand) = 0.9955
• Inferred: Consistency and starter access from hypergeometric draws; Hand-trap coverage and going-second P(at least one hand trap in 6) about 0.78; Recursion and interaction quality from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated sample); Matchup fit (D13 at 45)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent no win-rate telemetry; going-first, going-second and matchup signals are Inferred no side deck supplied Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied