Archfiend Deck #772444 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro pressure from Red Dragon Archfiend-family and Crimson/Bystial boss monsters, supported by Resonator and Archfiend recursion; Light and Darkness Ritual ritual boss (Black Chaos, Black Luster Soldier) when the ritual lines connect
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Resonator or Archfiend starter with Synkron Resonator, Vision Resonator, Bone Archfiend or Skull Archfiend of Chaos and go to a Synchro boss, keeping Ash Blossom and Ghost Ogre up for interruption (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold hand traps (Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler, Skull Meister, Ghost Ogre) to answer the opponent's first board, then Synchro through the remaining resources (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recycle Resonator-family monsters from the GY through Soul Resonator, Synkron Resonator and Vision Resonator effects and rebuild the Synchro line (Inferred)
• After siding: Not evaluable: side deck is empty (0 cards), so no post-side plan exists in the export

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system: a 56-card main with 15 hand traps and tech cards and 19 searcher-text cards gives about a 0.89 chance of at least one searcher in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred), and the Synchro Extra Deck is deep enough to present several bosses. Its engine is split across Resonator, Archfiend, Light and Darkness Ritual and Mulcharmy, which share only 7 exact-name Archfiend copies (9.9% purity), so starters often do not chain into the same line and this lowers the consistency and efficiency dimensions. Interaction density is high, with Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler, Skull Meister, Typhoon and Red Zone covering both hand-trap and end-board roles, which supports resilience. No recorded boards exist, so combo ceiling and median output rest on text-only inference and are capped at moderate. Popularity was not credited: the Archfiend core usage stats confirm the list is real but do not add points, and the card scores were not averaged. Because the list is illegal (two Semi-Limited cards run three copies) and has no side deck, the final score is capped at 30 and labeled structural-only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary; Stun interaction weighting disclosed but not applied to the structural sum. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-8); no_side_deck (-4); engine_conflicts (-6); illegal_cap (-24). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (= 54 before modifiers), then capped at 30 because the deck is Illegal; Meta provisional

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.89 · 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

• Compact Synchro Extra Deck with a wide boss selection
• Strong interaction density: six hand traps plus Typhoon, Red Zone and Spell Shattering Sword
• High searcher density (19 searcher-text cards) for consistent hand access

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy counts for two Semi-Limited cards
• Split engine across four sub-archetypes with 9.9% exact-name purity
• Empty side deck: no post-side adaptation
• No recorded combos, so ceiling and median are unmeasured

Critical choke points

• Resonator-family starters: most lines need a Level 1-3 Tuner from hand to start a Synchro, so their absence stalls the turn (Inferred)
• Single Synchro boss copies beyond the 2-copy Crimson Blade and Red Rising core (Inferred)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality status Illegal: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and Dominus Impulse at 3 copies over the Semi-Limited limit of 2; Main 56, Extra 15, Side 0 (size rules pass; side is empty); Card text and stats for all 40 distinct cards; Usage stats: Archfiend core cards present (9 of 18 core cards in this deck)
• Inferred: Opening-hand probabilities (hypergeometric, Main Deck only); Engine split and sub-archetype conflict; Interaction and resilience reads from card text; Going-first and going-second plans
• Provisional: Meta power and format fit (no tournament link or dated meta sample)
• 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 in YGOVN: going-first/second, matchup, brick and OTK rates are Inferred or Unknown no side deck in the export: post-side evaluation is not possible Meta power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied