Archfiend Deck #772642 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 40/100 (±12 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Toolbox
• Secondary strategies: Tempo, Synchro
• 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: Synchro beatdown from Red Dragon Archfiend (x2) and other Synchro boss monsters such as Scarred Dragon Archfiend, Chaos Angel and Storm-Bane Dragon Destorbim, supported by Resonator tuners.; Light and Darkness Ritual package (Black Chaos, Magician of Dark Chaos, Black Luster Soldier) as a second board-presence line; Bystial Magnamhut and The Bystial Lubellion as Limited support.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on Resonator/Archfiend starters (Soul Resonator, Bone Archfiend, Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit, Power Vice Dragon) to reach a Level 8 Synchro, while holding Ash Blossom and Droll & Lock Bird for interruption.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold 6-card hand with Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit, Droll & Lock Bird and Solemn Judgment to stop the opponent's first Special Summon or search, then rebuild through Crimson Gaia and Mulcharmy Fuwalos draws.
• Recovery: Use searchers (Crimson Gaia, Vision Resonator, Mind Shuffle, Ragged Records of Rites, Soul Resonator) and Pot of Sloth to rebuild a Synchro line from a partially disrupted hand.
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered (Side Deck size 0), so no post-side plan exists; the list cannot be adjusted between games.

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system, not as an average of its cards. Its consistency is moderate: about an 83% chance of at least one archetype-core card in a 5-card opening hand, and an 85% chance of at least one searcher, but 16 singleton slots and 10% exact-name archetype purity spread the engine across several sub-archetypes. Its interaction is the strongest component: 13 negation-text cards, 27 removal-text cards and 7 hand traps give it layered answers both going first and going second. Its closing power is real, since Red Dragon Archfiend, Chaos Angel and Black Luster Soldier reach 3000 or more ATK. Two copy-limit violations make the list illegal, which caps the score. No combos, guides, tournament data or Side Deck were supplied, so the floor and median are unknown and the score rests on text and probability inference. Popularity was not credited, and card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 54, Going First ≈ 56, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Illegal copy-limit cap (-12). Final formula: Illegal list: no normal Final score. Structural-only reference = 54 (Toolbox weights); normal formula 0.80*54 + 0.20*45 = 52.2 (Meta provisional); Illegal cap modifier of -12 applied, giving 40 as a theoretical, structural-only value.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.83 · 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

• Layered interaction: 13 negation-text and 27 removal-text cards plus 7 hand traps
• Multiple independent starters and searchers give redundancy
• Strong closing monsters: Red Dragon Archfiend x2, Chaos Angel and Black Luster Soldier

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse exceed their copy limit by one each
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Low archetype purity (10%) and 16 singletons weaken engine coherence

Critical choke points

• Red Dragon Archfiend requires a Resonator Tuner plus non-Tuners on the field; losing the Tuners stalls the Synchro line
• Ash Blossom and Droll are the main interruption, and the list runs only one Droll & Lock Bird

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and Dominus Impulse each run 3 copies against a legal limit of 2; Main 55 and Extra 15 are within size rules; side is empty; Exact-name archetype purity 10%; copy histogram 11 x3, 3 x2, 16 x1
• Inferred: Opening-hand consistency estimates from hypergeometric draw odds; Interaction quality and closing power from card text; Going-second hand-trap coverage (P = 0.58)
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament link)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied, so combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot records are absent No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN for this deck Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample No Side Deck, so post-side performance cannot be assessed