Nemeses Deck #772430 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon large Invoked monsters (Hyperinvoked Aeon, Invoked Sorath, Invoked De Anima, Thunder Dragon Colossus) from the Extra Deck, enabled by an Aleister starter on the field or in the GY; Board-control plays from Veidos the Eruption Dragon, Aiwass and the Solemn/Droplet/Meltdown interaction suite to clear the opponent's field before the Fusion finisher lands
• Turn 1 (going first): Open an Aleister or Invocation starter (or Searcher line via Aleister the Reminiscent / Veidos), Fusion Summon into an Invoked monster and protect the line with Ash Blossom or Droll & Lock Bird against the most common opposing interruption
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Droll & Lock Bird and Forbidden Droplet to negate the opponent's first starter or set-up, then rebuild from the GY via Invocation / Gamma Summon
• Recovery: Recover from the GY through Invocation and Gamma Summon, which can Special Summon Invoked monsters from the Extra Deck after banishing Aleister or Fusion monsters from the GY
• After siding: Not assessable: no Side Deck is present in the evidence

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system: a Fusion-based Invoked/Aleister engine with a searcher-heavy main deck (about 90% chance of at least one searcher in an opening 5), a strong interaction suite (Solemn Accusation, Forbidden Droplet, Magical Meltdown, Harpie's Feather Duster, Lightning Storm, Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird) and high-ceiling Extra Deck finishers (Hyperinvoked Aeon, Invoked Sorath, Invoked De Anima). Consistency is limited: the Aleister starter has only about a 25% chance of appearing in an opening 5, the deck has 8 singletons and a large Thunder Dragon / Invoked brick surface, and the archetype's core cards are largely absent from the list, so the Nemeses archetype usage stats describe a different ecosystem. The deck is capped under the Illegal rule because Ash Blossom is run 3 copies against a limit of 2 and one passcode is unresolved; the score is therefore theoretical and structural only. Archetype popularity earned no points and card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 50, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (Illegal copy limit) (-6); Unresolved passcode (-2); No side deck (-3). Final formula: Illegal cap applied: unclamped 0.80*Structural(50) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(40) + modifiers(-11) ≈ 37, capped at 25 (theoretical/structural-only; Meta provisional/null)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.25 · 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

• Layered interaction suite: Solemn Accusation, Forbidden Droplet, Magical Meltdown, Harpie's Feather Duster, Lightning Storm, Veidos and Aiwass
• High searcher density (20 searcher-text cards; about 90% chance of at least one in an opening 5)
• Strong Extra Deck finishers at high levels, including Hyperinvoked Aeon (3800 ATK)
• Recursion from the GY through Invocation, Gamma Summon and Thunder Dragon effects

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy-limit violation on Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring (3 copies, limit 2)
• Low opening-hand access to the Aleister starter (about 25% in an opening 5)
• Many singleton and three-copy dead-card slots that depend on specific GY or banish states
• No Side Deck, so best-of-3 adaptation is absent
• Archetype usage stats mostly describe Ritual/Spiritual Beast cards this list does not run

Critical choke points

• Aleister starter (Aleister the Reminiscent / Aleister the Invoker) must be live for most Invoked Fusion lines
• Ash Blossom copy count must be reduced to 2 before the list can be treated as legal

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring 3 copies against a Semi-Limited limit of 2; Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 counts are within OCG size rules; Hand-trap count 6 and searcher-text count 20 from role tags; Archetype purity 0% exact-name match
• Inferred: Opening-hand starter access (about 25%); Brick and dead-card risk from singletons and conditional cards; Interaction density from card-text reads; Going-first and going-second estimates
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format-fit scores (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 record absent One passcode (86120751) in the main deck could not be resolved to a card Usage statistics report Thunder Dragon Colossus as absent from the deck, but it appears in the Extra Deck list; the usage stat is inconsistent with the deck and was not relied on for core-card scoring Usage statistics are dominated by Ritual/Spiritual Beast cards not present in this list, so archetype-core comparison is weak No win-rate telemetry exists (going-first/second, matchup, brick and starter rates are Inferred or Unknown) Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No side deck present