Fiendsmith Deck #772656 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 36/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fiendsmith Fusion/Link board (Desirae, Lacrima, Agnumday) built from the Fiendsmith engine, with Ash and Droll as interaction; Nouvelles Ritual board (Recipe + Ritual Monsters) as a parallel line
• Turn 1 (going first): Fiendsmith's Tract or Engraver to set up the Fiend starter, then Fusion or Link into the board; Ash and Droll protect the first line
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash, Droll, Ghost Ogre, Ghost Belle as hand traps and use the Nouvelles Ritual line to rebuild the board
• Recovery: Engraver and Lacrima recursion from the GY, plus Recipe searches, rebuild a board after an interruption
• After siding: Not evaluated: the deck has no side deck (Side Deck size 0), so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The list is illegal in OCG: three cards exceed their copy limits (Ash Blossom at 3 copies vs 2, Fiendsmith Engraver at 3 vs 1, Pre-Preparation of Rites at 2 vs 1), so the score is capped and labelled structural-only. The structural read rests on the Fiendsmith engine: about 61 percent chance that at least one archetype-core card is in the opening 5, and a searcher-heavy main deck (24 searcher-text cards, about 93 percent chance of at least one in hand). Interaction is dense (Ash, Droll, Ghost Ogre, Ghost Belle, Solemn Judgment, Evenly Matched, Judgment hand traps) and supports going-second play. Consistency is held back by the missing core cards (Fiendsmith's Requiem and Sequence absent, both in the usual core) and a 14.7 percent exact-archetype purity that spreads across Nouvelles, Mulcharmy and Recipe. No combo boards, tournament link, or side deck exist, so ceiling and floor are not measured, and popularity was not credited.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, Toolbox secondary (structural only; no meta). Structural ≈ 51, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 47, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); Structural 51 gives 47.8, then banlist-exposure modifier -12 gives 35.8, rounded to 36. Illegal cap applies: structural-only.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ — · 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

• Dense interaction package (hand-traps and negations) for going second
• Strong searcher density (24 searcher-text cards) for consistent access to engine pieces
• Strong Extra Deck board options (Desirae, Lacrima, Agnumday, Chaos Angel)

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy counts on three cards; the list cannot be played as built
• Core Fiendsmith pieces Requiem and Sequence are missing from the list
• Low exact-archetype purity (14.7 percent) with conflicting sub-archetypes (Nouvelles, Mulcharmy, Recipe)
• No side deck

Critical choke points

• Fiendsmith Engraver is the key starter but is limited to 1 copy; running 3 is illegal
• Ash Blossom (limit 2) and Pre-Preparation of Rites (limit 1) need legal reductions before any real play

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status and three copy-limit violations (legality block); Main 60, Extra 15, Side 0 counts; Card text for hand-traps, searchers and interaction; Exact-archetype purity 14.7 percent; Usage stats: Requiem 82.7 percent, Sequence 81.4 percent missing from list
• Inferred: Consistency estimates from hypergeometric draws (0.61 archetype core, 0.93 searcher); Interaction density and going-second value from card text; Engine accessibility and pilotability judgments
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and all format-fit scoring (d13); Matchup performance of any kind
• 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 win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN - going-first/second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied no side deck (Side Deck size 0) - post-side plan cannot be assessed