Light and Darkness Ritual Deck #772710 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ritual Summon Black Chaos or Black Luster Soldier via Light and Darkness Ritual, then close with Synchro boss monsters such as Red Supernova Dragon, Chaos Angel or Bystial Dis Pater; Red Dragon Archfiend and Crimson Blade Dragon lines through Archfiend and Resonator material
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with a Resonator or Mulcharmy starter, search a Ritual or Synchro enabler, and protect the first Synchro with Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre and Solemn cards
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Droll and Lock Bird, Solemn Judgment) to break the opponent's first line, then rebuild through Mulcharmy and Resonator recursion
• Recovery: Mind Shuffle and Ragged Records of Rites recover searches; Black Chaos and Griffoh recycle from GY and banish zones
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no Side Deck and the export carries no post-side data

Why it scores here

The list is Illegal: Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse each run 3 copies against a Semi-Limited limit of 2, so it receives the structural-only cap and no normal Final score. The structural read treats the deck as a system. Its Ritual core (Black Chaos, Black Luster Soldier, Magician of Dark Chaos) depends on a single Light and Darkness Ritual, which makes ritual access the main weakness. Its strengths are interaction density (hand traps, Solemn Judgment, Dominus Impulse, Ghost Ogre and Droll and Lock Bird) and a deep Synchro boss suite. The archetype is mixed: only 13.3% of main-deck cards carry the exact archetype name, and the deck blends Resonator, Mulcharmy, Archfiend and Bystial engines. No combos were supplied, so floor, median and ceiling are text-based estimates. Popularity was not credited, and card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 47, Going First ≈ 42, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: illegal_copy_limit_cap (-15); no Side Deck (-3); no_combo_evidence (-2). Final formula: Illegal cap: uncapped 0.80*47 + 0.20*35 = 44.9, capped to 30 (theoretical/structural-only; Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.82 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.18 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Broad interaction: seven hand traps and about eleven negation effects
• Strong Synchro boss suite: Red Supernova Dragon, Chaos Angel, Bystial Dis Pater and Storm-Bane Dragon Destorbim
• Core ritual starters available at 1 to 3 copies each, with a high archetype-core hit rate

Weaknesses

• Illegal: copy limits exceeded on two Semi-Limited cards
• Single Light and Darkness Ritual limits the ritual engine
• Low exact-archetype purity (13.3%) spreads resources across several engines
• No Side Deck

Critical choke points

• Light and Darkness Ritual (1 copy) is the only Ritual Spell access for the main ritual line
• Synchro boss access depends on Tuner plus non-Tuner material in a crowded hand

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse exceed the Semi-Limited limit of 2; Main 60, Extra 15, Side 0 are within OCG size rules; Archetype exact-name purity 13.3%
• Inferred: Hypergeometric starter access 0.82 for the archetype core; Interaction density from hand-trap and negation text; Ritual bottleneck from one Light and Darkness Ritual
• Provisional: Meta position and format fit (no dated meta sample)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot records are absent no win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchup, or brick and starter rates Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample Deck title is null No Side Deck, so post-side behaviour is not evaluated