Heraldic Deck #772579 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Xyz Summon Number 69: Heraldry Crest or Number C69: Heraldry Crest of Horror off Heraldic Beast material, then convert the board with the 4000 ATK Number C69 or the 3100 ATK Dark Matter Demolition; Recursive Heraldic Beast Xyz lines through Heraldry Reborn, Advanced Heraldry Art and Heraldic Beast Stad Whale
• Turn 1 (going first): Charged-Up Heraldry or a Heraldic Beast Normal Summon to reach a Level 4 pair, then a Heraldic Beast Xyz; hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Infinite Impermanence) protect the first engine turn
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Droll & Lock Bird and Infinite Impermanence against the opponent's starter, then rebuild from the Graveyard with Heraldry Reborn or Advanced Heraldry Art
• Recovery: Stad Whale and Aberconway search Heraldry Spell/Traps and Heraldic Beasts from the Deck; Twin-Headed Eagle and Unicorn recycle Graveyard monsters into Xyz material
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan; the list is theoretical only

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system: its Heraldic engine needs Charged-Up Heraldry or a Level 4 Heraldic Beast Normal Summon to open, which is about a one-in-three chance per three-copy starter in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred). Nine hand traps and eight searcher-text cards give it real interaction and recovery, and the Number 69 and Number C69 Xyz monsters supply end-board power. Thirty of its 55 copies are not exact Heraldic cards, which weakens engine coherence, and the list has no Side Deck and no recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and floor are inferred from card text alone. Popularity and archetype usage stats were not used as points, and card scores were not averaged. The list is Illegal because Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring is run three times against a limit of two, so the score is capped low and is theoretical only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary with Control secondary; structural computed with the Midrange profile, no blending applied. Structural ≈ 53, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Illegal copy-limit violation (-10); No Side Deck (-2). Final formula: Illegal cap applied: no-metagame formula 0.80*Structural(53) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) = about 51.6, then context modifiers -12 gives about 39.6, which is capped at 30 because the deck is Illegal (theoretical/structural only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.34 · 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

• Nine hand traps and eight searchers give interaction and recovery
• Number C69 and Number 69 Xyz monsters provide high end-board power
• Hand-trap coverage is strong going second (P = 0.81 in a 6-card hand)

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring is over the copy limit
• 30 off-archetype copies weaken engine coherence
• No Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan
• Extra Deck has 13 distinct Xyz cards with several off-plan options

Critical choke points

• Charged-Up Heraldry or a Level 4 Heraldic Beast Normal Summon is needed to open the Xyz engine
• A single Ash Blossom copy beyond the limit makes the list unplayable

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 counts; Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring copy-limit violation; Number C69 ATK 4000 and Dark Matter Demolition ATK 3100
• Inferred: Starter and searcher hypergeometric estimates; Hand-trap interaction density and going-second coverage; Combo ceiling and floor from card text only
• Provisional: Meta power and D13 matchup fit (no dated metagame sample); Tournament reliability
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no Side Deck supplied — post-side plan cannot be scored no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN — those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied