Dominus Deck #772497 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 38/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Control
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Phantom Knights / Dominus Xyz and Link boards (Malevolent Scythe, Break Sword, Dark Rebellion 4, Rusty Bardiche) pressuring through the Extra Deck, with Dark Rebellion and Evilswarm Ophion as the highest-ATK options (Inferred from card text); Ecclesia and the Dark Dragon and Dark Requiem / Arc Rebellion Xyz Dragons as late-game boards (Inferred from card text; no recorded boards)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Phantom Knights starters with Silent Boots, Doomed Soleret, Torn Scales, or Decayed Cloak, then Xyz into Break Sword or Malevolent Scythe while holding Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence and Droll & Lock Bird for interaction (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold hand traps (12 in deck, about 79% to hold at least one in a 6-card hand) to interrupt the opponent's first summon chain, then convert with Maxx C, Mulcharmy draws, and Phantom Knights Xyz boards (Inferred)
• Recovery: Banish-from-GY searchers (Silent Boots, Decayed Cloak, Stained Greaves, Ancient Cloak) and Mulcharmy draw effects rebuild the hand; Pot of Sloth is a late draw (Inferred from text)
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no side deck, so no post-side plan exists (D12 scored low)

Why it scores here

This OCG list is illegal as submitted because it runs one copy of Forbidden Albion the Branded Dragon, so its final contextual score is capped low and the evaluation is theoretical and structural only. Structurally the deck is a Midrange shell built on about 4 Phantom Knights and Dominus-adjacent starters, with 12 hand traps and 15 negation-text cards giving it real interaction density, and the Mulcharmy draw engines and Pot of Sloth add resource grind. The deck does not reliably open a single plan: only 4 of 55 main-deck copies carry the exact Dominus name (5.7% exact purity), the dominant sub-archetype is Phantom Knights (28 copies), and the remaining cards are generic or tech, so consistency is only moderate (P of at least one starter in a 5-card hand is about 0.25 per copy, Inferred). No recorded boards, no guides, no tournament link and no side deck were supplied, so the floor and median are unknown and popularity earned no points. The score was built from the system as a whole, not from an average of card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 51.2, Going First ≈ 48, Going Second ≈ 56, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12). Final formula: Illegal deck: 0.80*Structural(51.2) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) = 49.96 before modifiers; banlist modifier -12 applied, then capped low and labelled theoretical/structural-only per rubric Step 2. Meta Power provisional (null).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥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

• 12 hand traps and 15 negation-text cards give dense going-second interaction
• Several redundant Phantom Knights starters and GY searchers allow recovery
• Mulcharmy draw engines and Pot of Sloth regenerate resources
• Usage stats show all 4 core cards present (Droll, Mulcharmy Fuwalos, Maxx C, Infinite Impermanence)

Weaknesses

• Illegal: Forbidden Albion the Branded Dragon run at 1 copy
• No side deck, so no post-side plan
• Low exact-archetype purity (5.7%); the list is a mix of Phantom Knights, Mulcharmy, Greed, Forbidden, Branded and generic cards
• Off-archetype dilution makes hands conflicting and reactive
• No recorded boards, so ceiling and median are unmeasured

Critical choke points

• Albion's Forbidden status: the Fusion slot cannot be played as built
• Single-copy hand traps and Limited cards (Droll, Maxx C, Red Reboot, Dimensional Barrier) cannot be replaced by a second copy

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is Illegal: Albion the Branded Dragon (87746184) is Forbidden in OCG and run at 1 copy; Main 55 and Extra 15 are within size rules; Side is 0 (allowed range 0-15); Copy limits met for all other restricted cards: Limited cards at 1 copy, Semi-Limited cards at 2 copies; Composition: 12 hand traps, 15 negation-text cards, 28 removal-text cards, archetype purity 5.7%; Usage stats: 4 of 4 core cards present (100%)
• Inferred: Hypergeometric consistency estimates (P of starter in hand 0.25 per copy; P of hand trap in 6-card going-second hand 0.79); Midrange primary with Control secondary from hand-trap density and card text; Going-first and going-second plans and the recovery plan come from card text, not recorded play; Boards and power estimates for D3, D4 and D9 are text reads
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup coverage (D13): no dated metagame sample or 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 No side deck; post-side performance cannot be assessed No win-rate telemetry in YGOVN; going-first/second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Deck title is null in the export