ABC Deck #772503 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Union-based LIGHT Machine extra-deck pressure: ABC-Dragon Buster (3000 ATK, x2) and XYZ-Hyper Dragon Cannon (3000 ATK, x2) closing through hand-trap-protected lines; Fiendsmith Desirae / Galaxy Photon Dragon boards once the Fiendsmith or Galaxy pieces connect; neither is a reliable second line in this list
• Turn 1 (going first): Search a Union monster with Union Hangar or Union Activation, Special Summon Union monsters from the Deck, and keep Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre and Skull Meister up for opposing searches and summons
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold hand traps (Ash, Ghost Ogre, Skull Meister, Droll & Lock Bird, Evenly Matched) to slow the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Union Driver, Union Activation and Extra Deck Dragons
• Recovery: Recover through Union Activation and Union Hangar searches, then Galaxy Soldier and Fiendsmith's Tract as re-searchers, with the GY feeding Extra Deck summons
• After siding: Not evaluable: side_count is 0, so there is no post-side plan in the list

Why it scores here

The deck's real shape is a LIGHT Machine Union engine (Union Hangar, Union Activation, Union Driver, Galaxy Soldier) wrapped in a dense hand-trap and negation layer (13 hand-trap-tagged cards, 12 negation-text cards), with two 3000-ATK Dragons as closers. Its engine opens reliably (about 97% for at least one archetype-core card in a 5-card opening hand, Inferred) and the interaction layer scores well on the system, not because any single card is strong. Consistency is held back by 17 single-copy slots, 67 of 75 copies sitting outside the ABC name, and conflicting engines: Mulcharmy's 'if you control no cards' effects and the Fiendsmith cluster do not coexist cleanly with Union field play. No combo boards were recorded, so the ceiling and median are text-only inference, and the deck has no side deck, which removes any post-side plan. Popularity and archetype usage did not earn points, and card scores were not averaged; the final score is capped because the list is illegal in OCG.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 64, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-6); engine_conflicts (-3); no_side_deck (-2); unresolved_passcode (-1); illegal_cap (-11). Final formula: Structural 55 -> 0.80*55 + 0.20*45 = 53; modifiers total -12 -> 41; capped at 30 because status is Illegal (structural-only, theoretical). Meta provisional.

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

• Dense hand-trap and negation layer (13 hand traps, 12 negation-text cards) with multiple independent interaction options
• Union searchers (Union Hangar, Union Activation, Union Driver) give redundant access to the engine
• Two ABC-Dragon Buster and two XYZ-Hyper Dragon Cannon (3000 ATK) close games from the Extra Deck

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: Ash Blossom, Fiendsmith Engraver and Fiendsmith's Tract are over their copy limits
• No side deck (side_count 0), so no post-side plan
• 67 of 75 copies are outside the ABC name, and several engines (Mulcharmy, Fiendsmith, Dominus, Therion) do not share a plan
• Dead-ish Extra Deck slots: Cyber Dragon Nova and Platinum Gadget have no support pieces in the main deck

Critical choke points

• Union Hangar and Union Activation are the main searchers; losing both to a hand trap or board break leaves few reliable starters
• Fiendsmith pieces (Engraver, Tract) are over-limit and form a separate line that depends on Fiendsmith monsters

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Ash Blossom 3 vs 2, Fiendsmith Engraver 2 vs 1, Fiendsmith's Tract 2 vs 1 under OCG; Main 60, Extra 15, Side 0; the composition histogram and archetype purity (8 of 75 exact) are from the export; Card text for hand traps, negation and Union searchers
• Observed: Usage: Union Hangar and Ash Blossom appear in ABC usage stats (core-card presence 17/25)
• Inferred: Starter access and brick risk from the hypergeometric draw table; Going-first and going-second scores from the interaction and resilience estimates; Consistency and interaction quality ratings
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and D13 format fit: no dated metagame sample
• Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link: meta share and per-pilot record absent 1 passcode (10443957) unresolved and counted as main no side deck, so post-side performance is unknown no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN; all consistency claims are Inferred Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied