Time Thief Deck #772655 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 31/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 51 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Xyz Monster pressure from Time Thief Redoer, Time Thief Perpetua and Arc Rebellion Xyz Dragon, enabled by Xyz Summons and Time Thief material loops; Raidraptor and Phantom Knights Xyz chains (Force Strix, Raider's Knight, Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS) and Link Monsters as a recovery and board-breaking route
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Time Thief starter (Time Thief Winder, Time Thief Regulator, Time Thief Adjuster or Time Thief Startup) plus a Level 4 Xyz base, then Xyz Summon Time Thief Redoer or Raidraptor - Force Strix and protect with Ash Blossom or Infinite Impermanence
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold a hand with 12 hand traps (Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler, Nibiru, Infinite Impermanence, Raidraptor - Strangle Lanius) and negate the first starter, then rebuild through Raidraptor recursion (Raider's Wing, Raidraptor - Singing Lanius)
• Recovery: Recover through Time Thief Flyback and Time Thief Retrograde material attachment, Raider's Wing and Phantom Knights GY-based Special Summons, and Rokket Recharger from the GY
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so no post-side plan exists; this list cannot adapt between games in a best-of-3 event

Why it scores here

The list is illegal as built: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring is run three times against an OCG limit of two, so the Final Contextual score is capped and this evaluation is theoretical and structural only. Structurally the 51-card Main Deck opens Time Thief starters with about 27 percent odds per copy-3 card in a five-card hand, and the 12 hand traps give roughly 82 percent odds of at least one interaction card when going second. The deck converts into Xyz pressure through Time Thief Redoer and Perpetua, but with no recorded boards there is no measured combo ceiling or median, so those dimensions are Inferred from card text alone. The deck's real identity is a multi-archetype mix (Time Thief 16 exact-name copies, Raidraptor 10, Phantom Knights 8, Rokket 7), and its score comes from consistency, interaction density and recursion on the system, not from averaging individual card strength or from the archetype's popularity. A zero-card side deck removes any post-side adaptability.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: 0.8 Midrange / 0.2 Toolbox. Structural ≈ 52, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: Illegal copy-limit violation (-15); No side deck (-4). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers, then capped low for Illegal status (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.6 · 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

• Twelve hand traps and 14 negation-text cards give high interaction density
• Multiple recursion routes (Raidraptor, Phantom Knights, Rokket) support interruption resilience
• Xyz pressure (Redoer 2400, Perpetua, Arc Rebellion 3000) provides closing power

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy count on Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring
• Three archetypes diluting Time Thief engine consistency (24.2 percent exact-name purity)
• No side deck
• Unresolved passcode in the Main Deck

Critical choke points

• Time Thief starters (Winder, Regulator, Adjuster, Startup) are required for the main engine and have low per-hand odds
• Xyz Summon materials depend on Level 4 bases, which compete with Link and Phantom Knights cards

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 51 / Extra 15 / Side 0 sizes fall within OCG size rules; Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring run at 3 copies, legal copies 2 (Illegal); Exact-name purity 24.2 percent, archetype spread recorded; Hand-trap group P(at least one in 6 going second) about 0.82
• Observed: No recorded combos, so no observed boards exist
• Inferred: Starter access about 0.6 across the three Time Thief starters combined; Going-first and going-second scores estimated from hand-trap and starter density; Closing power from card text and printed ATK
• Provisional: Format fit (D13) and Meta Power, pending a dated metagame sample; Tournament reliability, pending a tournament link
• 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 one passcode (10443957) in CardIDList could not be resolved and is counted as Main no side deck registered no win-rate telemetry exists for this deck Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied