Fiendsmith Deck #772459 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 40/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 54 / Extra 17 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Lunalight Fusion boss pressure: Lunalight Liger Dancer (3800 ATK) and Sabre Dancer (3000 ATK) off Polymerization-type Fusion lines; Fiendsmith Link/Fusion boards (Desirae 2800 ATK, Agnumday, Sequence) when the Fiendsmith half of the engine goes live
• Turn 1 (going first): Search a Fusion enabler (Luna Light Perfume, Lunalight Fusion, Heavy Polymerization) and build a Lunalight Fusion board; keep Droll and Ash Blossom for the first disruption
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Ghost Belle, Infinite Impermanence, Droll) to slow the opponent, then Fusion or Link into a boss that the opponent must answer
• Recovery: Recur Lunalight monsters from the GY through Luna Light Perfume, Silver Hound and Black Sheep, and use Fiendsmith's Tract or Lacrima to rebuild the Link engine
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs no side deck (side_count 0)

Why it scores here

The score was built from the deck as one system, not by averaging card scores. The deck reliably opens a Lunalight search-and-Fusion line: P(at least one searcher-text card in a 5-card opening hand) is about 0.90, and P(at least one Lunalight-core card) is about 0.61, so the opening is likely functional on most draws (Inferred). Its interruption resilience is above average because it runs about 9 hand traps and disruption cards with multiple independent restart routes through the GY. Its closing power is the strongest part: Lunalight Liger Dancer and Sabre Dancer convert a single Fusion into a large board-breaking threat. However, the list is illegal: the Extra Deck is 17 cards against a 15-card limit, and Fiendsmith Engraver is run 2 copies against a limit of 1. Only 8 of 71 non-Main-Deck-plus-Extra cards carry the exact Fiendsmith name, and the deck mixes Lunalight, Fiendsmith, Mulcharmy and Polymerization pieces, so engine coherence is weaker than the Lunalight core suggests. No combo boards, tournament record or side deck exist, so the score is capped and labelled theoretical and structural-only; popularity did not earn points.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 57, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-3); engine conflicts (-3). Final formula: Illegal list: normal Final not computed. Structural 57.4 gives 0.80*57 + 0.20*48 = 55.2, minus modifiers -6 = 49.2, then capped to 40 as theoretical/structural-only because the deck is Illegal (Meta provisional).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.9 · 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

• Dense searcher and recursion text gives a high chance of finding a playable Lunalight Fusion line
• Hand traps and negation give layered interruption through the opening turns
• Fusion Extra Deck reaches very high ATK boss monsters

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Extra Deck is 17 cards against a 15-card limit, and Fiendsmith Engraver is over its copy limit
• Two engines (Lunalight and Fiendsmith) share few materials, so consistency suffers
• No side deck, so post-side adaptability cannot be shown

Critical choke points

• Fusion enablers (Lunalight Fusion, Luna Light Perfume, Heavy Polymerization) feed most boards; one lost Fusion route stalls the deck
• Fiendsmith Engraver, the over-limit card, is the Fiendsmith search and Link enabler; trimming it to 1 copy weakens the Fiendsmith line

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Extra Deck 17 over limit 15; Fiendsmith Engraver 2 copies vs limit 1; Card counts and archetype spread from composition; Banlist statuses from the evidence restricted_cards list
• Inferred: Hypergeometric draw odds (searcher, Lunalight core, hand traps); Dimension scores D1 to D14; Structural score and going-first and going-second estimates
• Provisional: Meta power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit D13
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: meta share and per-pilot match record are absent No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN Usage-statistics inconsistency: core_cards and missing_core mark Fiendsmith's Requiem, Fiendsmith's Sequence, Fiendsmith's Desirae and S:P Little Knight as not in this deck, but the cards list has each at copies 1 (extra zone). The engine read here follows the cards list. Deck title is null, so the deck is identified only by archetype and id No side deck supplied (side_count 0)