Forbidden Deck #772591 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 20/100 (±5 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 14 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 5 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ritual and Fusion boss monsters (Ame no Murakumo no Mitsurugi, Ruler of the End of the World, Predaplant Triphyoverutum, Mixousia) converted from Reptile and Mitsurugi searches; Xyz and Link pressure (Number 90, Gallant Granite, Tornado Dragon) plus Nibiru as a hand-trap-driven boss
• Turn 1 (going first): Search a Mitsurugi or Ritual piece (Mitsurugi no Mikoto, Mitsurugi Ritual, Pre-Preparation of Rites), set up a Ritual or Fusion boss, and keep Ash Blossom and Droll up as interaction
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Nibiru) and Harpie's Feather Duster or Solemn Judgment to break the opponent's board, then rebuild through Mitsurugi searchers
• Recovery: Mitsurugi searchers and Ragged Records of Rites recur the Ritual line from the GY; Pot of Prosperity and Pot of Sloth refuel the hand
• After siding: Not evaluable: the export contains no Side Deck (0 cards), so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck's structural score comes from its interaction layer and its redundant search, not from averaging individual card scores. Five hand traps and about 14 negation and removal effects give it a strong interaction suite (D7 70), and two Ash Blossoms and the Droll and Lock Bird give it a credible going-second plan. Its consistency is only moderate: about 0.91 for at least one searcher in a 5-card opening hand is strong, but roughly 44% of hands lack the archetype core, and 33 Spells among the 55 main cards produce bricks (D1 45, D2 42). The ritual and fusion lines have no recorded combos, so the ceiling and floor scores are text-only inferences (D3 48, D4 40). The deck is illegal in OCG as exported: five cards exceed their copy limit, and that caps the final score at 20. The popularity of the Forbidden and Mitsurugi archetype did not add any points, and the deck has no side deck, which limits its post-side score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, no secondary weight applied. Structural ≈ 50, Going First ≈ 46, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); no side deck (-4); illegal cap (-16). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) = 0.80*50 + 0.20*40 = 48; modifiers total -12 gives 36; capped at 20 because the deck is Illegal (copy-limit violations)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.91 · 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

• Five hand traps plus about 14 negation and removal effects give dense interaction
• Redundant searchers (20 searcher-text cards) make the starter reliable
• Strong boss options across Ritual, Fusion, Xyz and Link

Weaknesses

• Five cards exceed OCG copy limits, so the list is illegal as exported
• Low compactness: 17 tech cards and 30 distinct main-deck cards
• No side deck

Critical choke points

• Mitsurugi Ritual and the Reptile Tribute requirement both stall if the Reptile count is low
• Pre-Preparation of Rites and Mitsurugi Prayers at 3 copies break the banlist

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 55 main, 14 extra, 0 side; five copy-limit violations under OCG rules; Card text and banlist status for all 30 main and 14 extra distinct cards; Searcher-text count of 20 and negation or removal count of 13 and 14
• Observed: Usage statistics: Mulcharmy Fuwalos, Ash Blossom, Droll and Harpie's Feather Duster are core cards in the archetype (5 usage rows, 4 present)
• Inferred: Consistency estimates from the hypergeometric draw table; Going-second interaction density from hand trap count; Brick-risk estimate from the 33 Spells and the core-group proxy
• Provisional: Meta power and format fit (no dated metagame sample)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied, so 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; going-first and going-second splits are Inferred No side deck, so post-side adaptation (D12) cannot be measured Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied