Nouvelles Deck #772658 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Combo, Ritual, Fusion/Link
• 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: Extra Deck boss monsters (Fiendsmith's Desirae, Fiendsmith's Lacrima, Underworld Goddess, Garura, Chaos Angel) reached through Nouvelles Ritual Summons and Fiendsmith Fusion/Link lines.; Recipe-based Ritual Summons of Nouvelles Ritual Monsters (Baelgrill, Balameuniere, Foie Glasya) that negate or grind the opponent's board.
• Turn 1 (going first): Search a Recipe Spell (Voici la Carte / Chef's Special Recipe / Nouvelles Restaurant) and Ritual Summon a Nouvelles monster, then use hand-trap and negation text to protect the board.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Ghost Ogre, Droll & Lock Bird and Nibiru as hand traps to break the opponent's first summon, then rebuild through the Ritual engine.
• Recovery: Recover with Chef de Nouvelles, Poissonniere, Angry Burger and Nouvelles Recipe Book searches plus GY-based Ritual Monster revival.
• After siding: Not evaluable: the export lists no side deck (Side Deck size 0), so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The structural read is a Midrange shell built on a dense searcher and Ritual engine: 24 searcher-text cards and 14 hand-trap cards give a high chance of a live starter in the opening five, and the Recipe/Ritual chain plus Extra Deck bosses give several independent conversion routes. Interaction density is strong (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Ghost Ogre, Evenly Matched, Solemn Judgment, Chef's Special Recipe, Desirae and Underworld Goddess negations), which supports the end-board score. Several lines are weak: there is no side deck, the Fiendsmith and Nouvelles lines split the Extra Deck, and three cards are over their legal copy limits. The score is not an average of card scores, and popularity or archetype usage did not earn points, since the usage data only confirms the archetype core is present. Because the list is Illegal, the theoretical structural result (about 46 after modifiers) is capped to 30, and no meta or win-rate claim is made.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, Combo secondary, weights from Midrange profile only. Structural ≈ 57, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-6); no Side Deck (-3); engine conflicts (-2). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 0.80*57 + 0.20*55 - 11 = ~46 theoretical; Illegal cap applied, final 30 (structural only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.93 · 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 searcher density (24 cards) gives a high chance of a live starter
• Strong hand-trap and negation suite (14 hand traps, 8 negation-text cards)
• Multiple Extra Deck boss routes (Desirae, Lacrima, Underworld Goddess, Garura, Chaos Angel)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: three cards over their copy limits
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Low archetype purity (16%) and several engines competing for the same slots
• No recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and floor are unmeasured

Critical choke points

• Nouvelles Recipe chain: Ritual Monster and Recipe must both be in hand, so a missing Recipe stalls the line
• Limited Fiendsmith staples (Lacrima, Tract, Engraver) are one-copy cards in a legal build

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: three cards over their legal copy limits (Engraver, Ash Blossom, Pre-Preparation); Main 60, Extra 15, Side 0 within OCG size rules (main 40-60, extra 0-15, side 0-15); Limited/Semi-Limited status of the restricted cards in the list
• Inferred: Consistency estimates from hypergeometric draws (searcher 0.93, hand trap 0.81); Function and interaction reads from card text (negations, removal, Ritual and Fusion routes); Going-first and going-second estimates from hand composition
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Format fit and matchup coverage (no 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 no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN, so matchup and turn-order results are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Data inconsistency: usage statistics marks Chaos Angel, Super Starslayer TY-PHON and Garura as in this deck=false while the cards list includes them in the Extra Deck No side deck in the export (Side Deck size 0)