Code Talker Deck #772701 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck boss monsters (Fusion/Synchro, e.g. Black Chaos-style Ritual boss, Chaos Angel, Mirrorjade, The Dragon that Devours the Dogma) reached through the Fallen of Albaz and Light and Darkness Ritual engine (Inferred from card text); Hand-trap-supported board presence with Mulcharmy and Ritual boss pressure (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Search or summon a Fallen of Albaz-family starter, then Fusion or Synchro into a boss while holding Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre and Nibiru as backup interaction (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Droll, Nibiru, Fydraulis) to interrupt the opponent's first summon chain, then convert through Extra Deck bosses (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recursion through Mind Shuffle, Ragged Records of Rites and Sky-to-Ritual searchers that return monsters and Ritual Spells from the GY (Inferred from text)
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has 0 side cards and no post-side data exists

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system, not as an average of its cards. Its consistency rests on 18 searcher-text cards (P(at least one in a 5-card opening hand) about 0.87) and a three-copy Fallen of Albaz family route, which gives it a reasonable chance of a live starter by turn 2. Its interaction is dense: 11 hand traps, 20 removal-text cards and 5 negation-text cards give it the strongest dimension (end-board interaction), which matters most when going second. Output is hard to read because no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling and median come only from card text, and the median is held down by a split across several sub-archetypes and zero Code Talker cards despite the archetype label. Popularity did not earn points: the Code Talker core is almost absent (3 of 16 usage-core cards present), and the deck is not played as its labelled archetype. The score is capped at 30 because the list is illegal (four copy-limit violations, including a Forbidden card), so this is a theoretical, structural-only read.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-4); no side deck (-4); engine conflicts (-3). Final formula: Uncapped: 0.80*Structural(55) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(48) + ContextModifiers(-11) = 43. Capped to 30 because the list is Illegal (theoretical, structural-only read). Meta provisional.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.25 · 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: 11 hand traps and 20 removal-text cards give going-second and end-board answers.
• High searcher density (18 cards) makes a live starter likely by turn 2.
• Extra Deck bosses at 2800 to 3500 ATK give closing power.

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: four copy-limit violations including a Forbidden card.
• Archetype label does not match the cards: zero Code Talker cards and 3 of 16 usage-core cards present.
• No side deck, so no post-side plan exists.
• Many engines compete for slots (Albaz, Ritual, Dogmatika, Mulcharmy, Ecclesia, Despia, Swordsoul).

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz family (3 starters) is the gateway to most Extra Deck lines; losing it to a single interruption stalls the engine.
• Albion the Branded Dragon is Forbidden and cannot be legally played in OCG.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status with four copy-limit violations (Ash Blossom 3/2, Branded in High Spirits 2/1, Droll & Lock Bird 2/1, Albion 1/0).; Main 56, Extra 15, Side 0; size rules satisfied for OCG.; Archetype purity 0% exact-name; 71 off-archetype copies.; Probabilities: 3-copy card P(at least one in 5-card hand) 0.2487; searcher group 0.8686; hand-trap group 0.7491 going second.; Usage-core Code Talker cards present: 3 of 16 (18.8%).
• Inferred: Consistency read from searcher density and probabilities.; Interaction density from card text (negation, removal, hand-trap tags).; Strategy classification as Midrange with Combo and Toolbox secondaries.; Going-first and going-second power estimates.
• Provisional: Meta Power and D13 matchup/format fit: no dated metagame sample or tournament link.
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference. No tournament link: archetype meta-share and pilot match record absent. No win-rate telemetry: going-first, going-second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or unknown. Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample. Deck title is null. Archetype label 'Code Talker' conflicts with the list contents.