Witchcrafter Deck #772512 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 57 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck boss monsters (Witchcrafter Vice-Madame, Cosmo Queen, Ecclesia and the Dark Dragon, Gadarla) reached through Witchcrafter/Fairy Tail searchers and Spellcaster fusion or link material (Inferred from card text); Direct-attack or swarm pressure from Fairy Tail and Endymion monsters (Inferred from card text)
• Turn 1 (going first): Search a Witchcrafter or Fairy Tail monster with Walpurgis, Marka, Verre or Creation, then build a Spellcaster board toward a Fusion or Link boss (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the seven hand traps (Ash Blossom x2, Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit x2, Maxx C, Droll & Lock Bird, Red Reboot) to break the opponent's first summon, then rebuild through searchers (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recursion from the GY: Witchcrafter Schmietta, Witchcrafter Celebration and Witchcrafter Creation re-add or re-summon pieces (Inferred from card text)
• After siding: Not applicable: the export contains no side deck, so no post-side plan exists

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system, not as an average of its card scores. Searcher density (20 searcher-text cards, P(at least one in a 5-card opening hand) about 0.90) and the Witchcrafter engine give it a reasonable chance to open a live starter, but only 19.4% of its copies share the exact Witchcrafter name, and the rest spread across Fairy Tail, Endymion, Mulcharmy, Branded, Magician and other sub-archetypes, which weakens engine cohesion. Its interaction package is strong on paper (seven hand traps, Solemn Judgment, Harpie's Feather Duster, Red Reboot, Witchcrafter Distortion, Gordian Slicer), and its boss ATK values are high. However, the Mulcharmy draw effects require an empty field while the Witchcrafter lines need Spellcasters on the field, so those pieces conflict. Three Forbidden cards are run, so the list is Illegal; per the rubric the score is capped at 25 and the evaluation is theoretical and structural only. Popularity of the archetype did not earn points, and no combo, tournament or matchup data exists.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary with Toolbox secondary (about 80/20 by intent); profile weights used as given, not tuned to the score. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-6); engine conflicts (-4). Final formula: 0.80*Structural(55) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) = 53; modifiers total -10 gives 43; capped to 25 because the list is Illegal (Forbidden cards over limit). Meta provisional.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.93 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.1 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense searcher text (20 cards) gives high odds of a live starter
• Seven hand traps and multiple one-card negates give layered interaction
• Strong high-ATK Extra Deck bosses and recursion from the GY

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: three Forbidden cards over copy limit
• Low exact-archetype purity (19.4%) and engine conflicts between Mulcharmy and Witchcrafter
• Empty Side deck means no post-side adaptability
• No combo, tournament or matchup evidence

Critical choke points

• Extra Deck legality: removing the three Forbidden cards leaves the Extra Deck to be rebuilt
• Searcher density depends on a small set of Witchcrafter and Fairy Tail monsters

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 57, Extra 15, Side 0 counts within the OCG size rules; Three Forbidden cards over the copy limit (legal copies 0); Archetype purity 19.4%; spread across 16 sub-archetype names; Searcher, hand-trap and removal text counts; P(at least one searcher in 5) about 0.90
• Inferred: Starter reliability and brick proxy from hypergeometric draws; Interaction layering from card text; Going-second hand-trap odds (about 0.56); Mulcharmy versus Witchcrafter engine conflict from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (null); Matchup fit and D13 (no dated metagame sample)
• 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 win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN Meta Power provisional without a dated metagame sample No side deck, so post-side scores are unmeasured usage statistics in this deck flags contradict the card list for Witchcrafter Pupils, Endymion Link, Dark Magician of Destruction and Magistus Chorozo (all present in the Extra Deck list), so usage-based core analysis may be unreliable