Vanquish Soul Deck #772568 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 33/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Tempo
• 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: Vanquish Soul board pressure: hand-revealed Special Summons (Dr. Mad Love, Stake your Soul!, Start) into Vanquish Soul Xyz/boss monsters (Caesar Valius, Heavy Borger, Jiaolong) for a large attacking board; K9 Xyz pressure (K9-66X Jacks/K9-X Forced Release line) as a second engine on the same starter pool, with Ghost Belle and Ash Blossom as hand-trap protection
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on a Vanquish Soul searcher (Dr. Mad Love or Razen) that adds a second Vanquish Soul, then Stake your Soul! or Vanquish Soul, Start! to summon a Xyz/boss monster and protect it with Calamity Caesar or Snow Devil
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Droll & Lock Bird and Solemn Judgment to stop the opponent's first engine, then rebuild with the Vanquish Soul hand-reveal summons
• Recovery: Revive or re-summon from hand through Vanquish Soul reveal effects (Heavy Borger, Hollie Sue, Pantera) and K9 searches (A Case for K9, Reinforcement of the Army) to refill hand and field after an interruption
• After siding: Not evaluable: the list has no Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan. The main deck would need the copy-limit fix and a side to answer the opponent's specific engine

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Vanquish Soul starter in most hands: 25 archetype core copies give about 96% for at least one in a 5-card opener, and 17 searcher-text cards add redundancy, so the engine is accessible on the system level (Inferred). Its interaction density is high (13 negation-text cards, 10 hand traps, and several board-wide floodgate or removal cards), which is why end-board interaction and interruption resilience score well. Offensive closing is moderate: the boss monsters reach 2400 to 3000 ATK, but the list has no recorded boards, so ceiling and median output are inferred from card text only. Popularity did not earn points: the archetype core usage statistics confirm a real list but do not raise the score, and the zero-side list and the copy-limit violations pull it down. The score is cut to the Illegal cap; it is theoretical and structural only, and the card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 56, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: Banlist and copy-limit violation (-12); No side deck (0). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers, Meta provisional; Illegal cap applied (theoretical/structural-only): 0.80*56 + 0.20*50 - 12 = 32.8 -> 33

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.96 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.04 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Accessible archetype core: 0.959 for at least one core card in a 5-card opener (Inferred)
• Layered interaction: 13 negation-text cards, 10 hand traps, and several floodgate or removal effects
• Redundant searchers (17) and two Xyz families give alternative lines

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Razen 3 copies over limit 1 and Izuna 3 over limit 2
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptability
• Off-archetype dilution: only 28.6% exact archetype name purity; K9, Mulcharmy, and Forbidden cards dilute the engine
• Missing core Extra Deck cards (N.As.H., CXyz N.As.Ch., K9-X Werewolf) reduce the Xyz coverage the archetype usually runs

Critical choke points

• Vanquish Soul starter (Dr. Mad Love / Razen / Start) in hand: the opener depends on at least one of them, and the core covers this at 0.959 (Inferred)
• Razen and Izuna copy limits: the list cannot be played as built until they are fixed

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0 (legal size range 40-60 / 0-15 / 0-15); Razen 3 copies over limit 1; Izuna 3 copies over limit 2; Exact archetype purity 28.6%; 15 of 25 archetype core cards present; Usage stat: S:P Little Knight 96.6% inclusion (not in deck)
• Inferred: P(at least one starter in 5) about 0.959 (hypergeometric); Interaction and resilience read from card text; Going-first and going-second estimates from text and probability only
• Provisional: Meta Power is null; no dated metagame sample; D13 matchup fit (no tournament data)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry for going-first/second, matchup, or brick rates Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No Side Deck in the export, so post-side performance cannot be assessed