Blackwings Deck #772514 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Stun, Combo
• 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: Blackwing Synchro boss pressure (Black-Winged Assault Dragon, Blackwing Full Armor Master, Chaos Angel, Bystial Dis Pater) once a Blackwing Tuner plus non-Tuner board is set up; Hand-trap-supported Synchro and Link extension lines (Boreastorm, Nothung, Garura, Raidraptor - Wise Strix) when the first starter lands
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Blackwing starter (Shamal, Vata, Sudri, Simoon, Harmattan) and convert through Synchro Summon; hand traps are held for the opponent's first answer
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Evenly Matched and Dominus Impulse to strip the opponent's first board, then Synchro through the remaining Blackwing monsters from the GY and banish zones
• Recovery: Recover through Black Whirlwind, Assault Synchron and Blackwing GY effects (Shamal, Sudri, Vata, Harmattan) and Black Feather Whirlwind, which can return Blackwing monsters from the GY or banish zone
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no Side Deck (Side Deck size 0), so no post-side plan exists

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system, not as an average of its cards. Its consistency is moderate: about 80% of opening hands (5 cards) contain at least one of the 15 archetype-core copies, but each individual starter is only about 25% per 3-copy card, so the Blackwing engine is spread across many similar monsters. Interaction is the strongest part of the list, with 10 hand traps and negation/removal text, and the Extra Deck's Synchro bosses (Black-Winged Assault Dragon, Blackwing Full Armor Master, Chaos Angel, Bystial Dis Pater) give it real closing power once a board is established. Recovery through GY and banish effects is present but depends on the same starters. The score is capped low because the list is illegal in OCG: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and Dominus Impulse are each run 3 times against a limit of 2, and no Side Deck is included. Popularity (archetype core inclusion around 80%) only confirms the list is accessible and was not counted as power. No combo data or tournament record exists, so the combo and meta dimensions rest on structural reading and are labelled Inferred or Provisional.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, Stun secondary, weights from the Midrange profile. Structural ≈ 56, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 49. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-4); illegal_copy_limit_cap (0). Final formula: No reliable metagame, so Meta is provisional: 0.80*Structural(56) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(49) = 55; modifiers applied; then capped at 30 because the list is Illegal (Step 2): theoretical/structural-only

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.8 · 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 suite (10 hand traps, 11 negation-text cards)
• Strong Synchro boss suite in the Extra Deck (Assault Dragon, Full Armor Master, Chaos Angel, Dis Pater)
• Real recursion via Black Whirlwind, Black Feather Whirlwind and Blackwing GY effects

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: two cards exceed their Semi-Limited copy limit
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptability
• Main Deck has 27 non-monster slots and many 3-copy redundant hand traps, which raises brick risk
• Several cards are Limited or Semi-Limited, so legal availability is fragile

Critical choke points

• Needing a Blackwing starter in hand to begin the Synchro line (about 25% per 3-copy card)
• Single-card Synchro Tuner routes (Boreastorm, Nothung) depend on specific Tuners and non-Tuners on the field

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main Deck 56 cards, Extra Deck 15 cards, Side Deck 0 cards; Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and Dominus Impulse are run at 3 copies against an OCG Semi-Limited limit of 2; Card text and stats from the evidence excerpts
• Observed: Archetype-core inclusion statistics (Blackwing core cards present at 50 to 71 percent of decks)
• Inferred: Opening-hand consistency from hypergeometric estimates; Brick and redundancy risk from non-monster density; Combo ceiling and floor read from card text only; Going-first and going-second estimates
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit: no dated metagame sample or tournament link; Tournament reliability
• 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 Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Deck is Illegal: copy-limit violations prevent a normal Final Contextual score