Archfiend Deck #772336 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±10 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro Summon Red Dragon Archfiend / Scarred Red / Red Supernova Dragon and attack through a board that Red Reign and Crimson Gaia-searched monsters have cleared; Chaos Angel, Storm-Bane Destorbim and Bystial Dis Pater as backup boards from Bystial and Resonator starts
• Turn 1 (going first): T1 Bone Archfiend, Power Vice Dragon or Soul Resonator (3 copies each) to a Tuner plus non-Tuner Synchro, using Crimson Gaia to search the Red Dragon Archfiend line
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre and Dominus Spark for the opponent's starter, then Synchro through the remaining board; Red Reign as a board-clearing reset
• Recovery: Resonator tuners in the GY recover via Synkron Resonator and Vision Resonator searches; Bone Archfiend and Power Vice Dragon re-summon from GY
• After siding: No side deck: the list has no post-side plan and cannot adjust to matchups

Why it scores here

The deck opens reliably: nine Archfiend-named cards and several multi-copy starters (Bone Archfiend, Power Vice Dragon, Soul Resonator, 3 copies each) give a live Synchro starter in most openings, and the searcher text (15 cards) makes the line repeatable. Its interaction layer (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Dominus Spark and Dominus Impulse, plus Red Reign as a board reset) gives resilience to one interruption and a real going-second plan. The closing power is high on paper because the Extra Deck holds several 3000+ ATK Synchros, but no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling and median are Inferred from card text only. The score is capped because two cards exceed their copy limit, so this is a structural read only; popularity and archetype share were not credited, and card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo primary, D13 provisional at weight 3. Structural ≈ 61, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 57, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: Illegal copy-limit cap (-30); Banlist exposure (-2); Engine conflict (-1). Final formula: Uncapped 0.80*Structural(61) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(55) = 60; capped to 30 because the deck is Illegal (copy-limit violations). Meta provisional.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.34 · 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

• Multiple 3-copy starters and 15 searcher-text cards give a high P(a starter is available)
• Layered interaction: hand traps plus Dominus trap negates and Red Reign board reset
• High-power Extra Deck with several 3000+ ATK Synchros

Weaknesses

• Illegal: Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse exceed their copy limit
• No side deck and no post-side plan
• 14 Tuners push the list toward tuner/non-tuner clogging
• No recorded combos, so ceiling and floor are unverified

Critical choke points

• Red Dragon Archfiend lines depend on Tuner plus non-Tuner material in hand; a single Tuner-heavy hand has no alternative route
• Hand-trap plan depends on Ash Blossom (2 legal copies) and Ghost Ogre, which cannot both be held reliably

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 40, Extra 15, Side 0 are legal sizes for OCG; Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse each run 3 copies against 2 legal copies; Limited cards run at 1 copy each; Synchro Extra stats (Red Supernova 4000 ATK, Chaos Angel 3500 ATK)
• Inferred: P(>=1 starter in 5) = 0.34 per 3-copy starter; searcher group 0.92; Hand-trap coverage and layered negates from card text; Resilience to one interruption from multiple starters
• Provisional: Meta and matchup fit (D13); Tournament reliability
• Data gaps: No recorded combos (combo data.total combos = 0): ceiling and floor are text-only inference Usage-stat core matching is internally inconsistent: Red Dragon Archfiend, Hot Red Dragon Archfiend Abyss, The Crimson King and Bystial Dis Pater are in the Extra Deck list but flagged in this deck false in missing core cards; core-card presence (50) is unreliable No tournament link; no dated meta sample; Meta Power provisional No win-rate telemetry exists for this deck No side deck, so no post-side evidence