Archfiend Deck #772711 — 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: Synchro beatdown through Red Dragon Archfiend, Red Dragon Archfiend Abyss, Chaos Angel and Red Supernova Dragon, with Crimson Gaia and Vision Resonator fetching Red Dragon Archfiend support from the Deck.; Ritual Summon of Black Luster Soldier and Magician of Dark Chaos through Light and Darkness Ritual, backed by Black Chaos and Skull Archfiend of Chaos searches.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with searchers (Soul Resonator, Crimson Gaia, Mind Shuffle, Ragged Records of Rites, Power Vice Dragon) to reach a Tuner plus non-Tuner Synchro, while holding Ash Blossom and Droll & Lock Bird to protect the first summon.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit, Solemn Judgment, Solemn Warning and Droll & Lock Bird on the opponent's first set or summon, then convert the six-card hand into a Synchro line.
• Recovery: Recover through Mulcharmy Fuwalos and Mulcharmy Purulia draw effects, Crimson Call banish recursion, and Soul Resonator and Vision Resonator when they are sent to the GY.
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck list has 0 side cards, so there is no post-side plan to assess.

Why it scores here

This list is Illegal under the OCG banlist (three copies each of Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and Dominus Impulse, where the limit is two), so it is scored as theoretical and structural only and its final score is capped low. Structurally it has a reasonable chance to reach a searcher (about 0.89 for at least one searcher-text card in the opening five) and a 0.82 chance to open at least one of the 17 archetype-core cards, which supports a consistent T1 start. Interaction is the strongest area: seven hand traps, eleven negation-text cards and three Solemn Judgment-family cards give layered protection, and the going-second hand-trap chance is about 0.54. The deck does not earn points for its archetype's popularity or any usage share, and its component scores were not averaged. The main weaknesses are a 5.3 percent exact-name archetype purity spread across several sub-archetypes (Light and Darkness Ritual, Mulcharmy, Resonator, Bystial and Solemn), a full 60-card main deck, and a zero-card side deck that leaves no post-side plan.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Engine conflict (-4); Banlist exposure (-6). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 0.80*55 + 0.20*45 - 10 = 43, then capped to 30 because the deck is Illegal (theoretical/structural-only evaluation).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.89 · 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: about 89 percent to see at least one searcher-text card in the opening five.
• Layered interaction: seven hand traps and eleven negation-text cards.
• Strong Synchro finishers with 3000 to 4000 ATK bodies in the Extra Deck.

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse are each run three times against a limit of two.
• No side deck, so there is no post-side adaptability.
• Low archetype purity (5.3 percent exact-name) and several competing sub-engines.
• Full 60-card main deck with many one-copy support cards, which raises brick risk.

Critical choke points

• Every Synchro line needs a Tuner plus non-Tuner, and most Tuners are Resonators or one-copy monsters.
• A single Red Dragon Archfiend route is the main closing line, so losing it removes most of the Extra-Deck ceiling.
• Hand-trap density depends on the opponent taking an action first when going second.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and Dominus Impulse are each run 3 times against a legal limit of 2 (Illegal).; Main 60, Extra 15, Side 0 against OCG size rules.; Banlist: 5 Limited cards at 1 copy each are within limit.; Synchro ATK/DEF values from the card records (e.g. Red Supernova Dragon 4000/3000).
• Inferred: Opening-hand probabilities (hypergeometric), including 0.894 for searcher text and 0.824 for archetype core.; Interaction density and quality from negation/removal text (semantic read).; Going-first and going-second splits, and all dimension scores except the legality checks.
• Provisional: Meta power is null and format fit (D13) is 50 as a neutral placeholder, with 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 are absent. No win-rate telemetry: going-first/second, matchup, and brick/starter/OTK rates are Inferred or Unknown. Meta power is provisional without a dated metagame sample. Deck title is null; the evaluation uses the archetype name only. Side deck is empty (0 cards), so no post-side evaluation is possible.