Fiendsmith Deck #772670 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck pressure from Fiendsmith and Evil Twin Link/Fusion monsters (Fiendsmith's Rextremende, Fiendsmith's Desirae, Evil Twin's Trouble Sunny), inferred from card text only; Live Twin / Evil Twin / Ki-sikil / Lil-la board-building and Link Summons, inferred from card text only
• Turn 1 (going first): Inferred from text: open a starter from the Live Twin, Ki-sikil or Lil-la group, use searchers (Secret Password, Fiendsmith's Tract, Fiendsmith Engraver) to find an engine piece, then Link or Fusion Summon from the Extra Deck. No recorded boards to confirm the sequence.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold up hand traps (Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit, Droll & Lock Bird, Nibiru, Mulcharmy Fuwalos) to disrupt the opponent's first turn, then convert through the same engine.
• Recovery: Inferred: Fiendsmith monsters that return from the GY (Lacrima the Crimson Tears, Fiendsmith's Sequence, Evil Twin revival effects) plus multiple starter families offer some route redundancy.
• After siding: Not assessable: the deck runs no side deck (0 cards), so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The deck is illegal in OCG: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring runs 3 copies against a limit of 2, and Fiendsmith Engraver runs 3 against a limit of 1. Its legal-copy violations therefore cap the final score, and the figures below describe the structure only. The Structural score (51) comes from the system: searcher access (about 0.78 chance of at least one searcher in an opening 5), a strong interaction suite of 13 hand-trap and tech cards, and several high-ATK Extra Deck closers. Consistency and median output are held down because the 40-card list is spread across four sub-archetypes (Fiendsmith is only 23.6% exact-name purity; Live Twin, Mulcharmy, Evil Twin and Ki-sikil fill the rest), and because the hand-trap density raises the chance of dead cards. No combo boards were recorded, so the ceiling and floor are text-only inference. Archetype popularity earned no points, and card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary; Stun shown as secondary only, not blended into the weights. Structural ≈ 51, Going First ≈ 48, Going Second ≈ 54, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-6); engine conflicts (-4). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(51) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(40) = 48.8, plus modifiers (-10) = 38.8, then capped at 30 because the deck is Illegal (theoretical/structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.78 · 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

• Searcher density (10 cards) gives about 0.78 chance of at least one searcher in the opening 5
• Broad interaction suite: 13 hand-trap/tech cards and 8 negation effects
• High-ATK Extra Deck closers (2800–3300 ATK) and Lacrima's field effect

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy counts on Ash Blossom (3 vs 2) and Fiendsmith Engraver (3 vs 1)
• Low archetype purity (23.6%) and four sub-archetype engines competing for slots
• Hand-trap-heavy main deck raises dead-card risk when no engine piece is drawn
• No side deck (0 cards)

Critical choke points

• Opening access to any searcher (about 0.78 in 5) gates most lines
• Engraver copy count is illegal, so the real legal engine has one fewer searcher
• Heavy reliance on Extra Deck Link/Fusion summons from a 15-card Extra Deck

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 counts (size rules met); Copy-limit violations: Ash Blossom 3 vs 2; Fiendsmith Engraver 3 vs 1; Archetype purity 23.6% and spread; Searcher probability 0.78 and hand-trap probability 0.92 (hypergeometric)
• Observed: Usage statistics: Fiendsmith core cards and inclusion rates (but see the data gap on the Extra Deck)
• Inferred: Going-first and going-second plans from card text; Consistency and brick estimates (D1, D2); Interaction quality from negation and removal text (D7, D8); Pilotability from step complexity (D14)
• Provisional: Meta power (null, no dated meta sample); Matchup fit (D13); Tournament reliability (40)
• Data gaps: Illegal list: final score capped at 30; the structural read is theoretical only No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference Usage-stat in_this_deck flags appear to ignore the Extra Deck: Fiendsmith's Requiem, Fiendsmith's Sequence, Fiendsmith's Lacrima and Fiendsmith's Desirae are in the Extra zone of this deck but marked not in deck No tournament link: archetype meta-share and match record absent No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates) Meta Power provisional without a dated metagame sample No side deck, so post-side performance is unknown