Vanquish Soul Deck #772773 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Vanquish Soul and K9 Xyz/Link beatdown: hand-revealing summons into high-ATK boss monsters (Valius 3000, Werewolf 3300, Zeus 3000, Jacks 2600); Piercing and direct damage from K9-X Ripper/M and Vanquish Soul Heavy Borger; Vanquish Soul Continue? and Dust Devil for board control
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on a Vanquish Soul starter (Dr. Mad Love, Razen, Stake your Soul!) and search or revealing-summon a second Vanquish Soul monster, then move to a boss monster via Extra Deck Xyz or Link (Inferred from card text)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Droll & Lock Bird and Solemn Judgment to disrupt the opponent's starter, then rebuild through Mulcharmy draw effects and Vanquish Soul searches (Inferred from card text)
• Recovery: Recover from the GY with Vanquish Soul - Continue? and Stake your Soul!, and use Mulcharmy draw effects to refill the hand (Inferred from card text)
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so no post-side plan can be evaluated; the deck is theoretical and structural-only

Why it scores here

This list is Illegal: three cards exceed their OCG copy limits (Ash Blossom, Razen and K9-17 Izuna), so it receives a capped, structural-only score rather than a normal Final Contextual score. Structurally the deck can open a Vanquish Soul starter with about 97% probability from its archetype core (Inferred), and it has dense interaction (Solemn Judgment, Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Droll & Lock Bird, Calamity Caesar) that gives it good end-board and going-second strength. Its closers are real, with 3000-ATK bosses and piercing Xyz. Those strengths sit on a weak system: only 23 of 55 Main Deck cards are exact Vanquish Soul names (32.9% purity), and the list mixes four engines (Vanquish Soul, K9, Mulcharmy, Kaiju) with a Kaiju splash that conflicts with the rest. The deck has no side deck and no combo or tournament records, so its floor, median and post-side performance are unknown. Popularity of the archetype and the average strength of its cards were not counted toward the score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, Combo secondary disclosed; structural score computed from the Midrange profile. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-7); engine conflicts (-5). Final formula: Illegal cap: 0.80*Structural(55) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) + modifiers(-12) = 41, capped to 30 because the list is Illegal; theoretical/structural-only

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.97 · 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: Solemn Judgment, Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Droll & Lock Bird, Calamity Caesar, Lightning Storm
• Twenty searcher-text cards and Mulcharmy draw effects support resource flow
• Strong closers: Caesar Valius 3000, K9-X Werewolf 3300, AA-ZEUS 3000, K9-X Ripper/M with piercing

Weaknesses

• Three copy-limit violations make the list illegal in OCG
• Only 32.9% exact-name archetype purity; four engines compete for slots
• No side deck (0 cards), so no post-side plan
• No combo, tournament or win-rate data

Critical choke points

• The deck needs at least one Vanquish Soul starter on the opening hand; the archetype core covers this but the engine collapses if the starter is removed
• Ash Blossom, Razen and K9-17 Izuna are over-limit and must be cut to legal counts before the list can be played

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0 counts (Verified composition); Three over-limit cards with legal copy limits (Ash Blossom 2, Razen 1, K9-17 Izuna 2) (Verified legality); Banlist statuses of 11 restricted cards (Verified legality); Archetype spread and exact-name purity 32.9% (Verified composition); Card stats and text excerpts (Verified card text); Core-card inclusion stats: 15 of 25 core cards present, 60% (Verified usage)
• Inferred: Opening-hand starter probability 0.97 for the archetype-core proxy (hypergeometric); Structural dimension scores D1–D14 and derived going-first and going-second scores; Combo ceiling and interaction read from card text only (no recorded boards)
• Provisional: Meta Power is null and matchup fit (D13) is a placeholder without a dated metagame sample
• Data gaps: No combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference No tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN — going-first/second, matchup, game-level, brick/starter/OTK rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Side deck is empty (0 cards), so post-side performance cannot be assessed Deck title is null