Vanquish Soul Deck #772778 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Vanquish Soul boss monsters (Caesar Valius, Heavy Borger, Hollie Sue) and K9 Xyz/Link pressure, closing through repeated Special Summons and hand-trap-protected boards; Xyz/Link extension via K9-X Werewolf, Number monsters and Rock of the Vanquisher
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Vanquish Soul starters (Dr. Mad Love, Vanquish Soul Start!, Stake your Soul!) to reach a Level 4-5 board, then protect it with Ash Blossom, Evenly Matched and Solemn Judgment
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Droll & Lock Bird, Nibiru, D.D. Crow) on the opponent's first summon or engine, then rebuild with Vanquish Soul summons
• Recovery: Search-heavy engine (14 searcher-text cards) plus Mulcharmy Fuwalos draw and recursive Ghost Belle / Ash Blossom effects to restock the hand
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no side deck (0 cards), so no post-side plan exists

Why it scores here

This list is Illegal: three cards exceed their OCG copy limits (Ash Blossom and K9-17 Izuna at 3 copies where 2 are legal, Vanquish Soul Razen at 3 where 1 is legal), and Limited cards are also run beyond the limit, so it receives a capped, theoretical-only score of 25. Structurally the system is coherent: the Vanquish Soul core is present in about 97% of opening hands (Inferred), there are 16 hand-trap-text cards and 7 negation cards that give strong going-second interaction, and 14 searchers help recovery. The 0 side-deck cards and the lack of combo, tournament and guide evidence keep the floor and median unmeasured, so no combo output is claimed. Archetype popularity (usage stats) confirms the list is real and accessible but was not counted as power, and no card scores were averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, Stun secondary (not separately weighted). Structural ≈ 56, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 64, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (Limited and Semi-Limited cards over the copy limit) (-12). Final formula: Theoretical only. Unconstrained 0.80*Structural(56) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) = 54, then banlist modifier -12 = 42, capped to 25 because the list is Illegal. Meta Power provisional/null.

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

• Hand-trap-dense going-second interaction (16 hand traps, 7 negation-text cards)
• Archetype core is very likely to appear in opening hands (about 0.97 per the core-group estimate)
• Searcher-dense recovery with 14 searcher-text cards
• Boss monsters with 2500+ ATK for closing

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: three cards over copy limits and a Limited card over its cap
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptability
• Engine spread across several sub-archetypes (Vanquish Soul, K9, Mulcharmy, D.D.) lowers coherence
• No combo, tournament or guide evidence to confirm conversion

Critical choke points

• Vanquish Soul summon chain depends on a few Level 4-5 starters (Dr. Mad Love, Vanquish Soul Start!, Stake your Soul!)
• Single-copy Limited cards (Hollie Sue, Razen, Solemn Judgment) can be dead if the list is corrected

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal copy-limit violations (Ash Blossom, Razen, Izuna); Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 size counts; Card stats and banlist statuses from the evidence pack; Usage: Vanquish Soul core 79-97% inclusion
• Inferred: Opening-hand consistency (Vanquish Soul core at about 0.97); Interaction density and going-second hand-trap estimate (0.89); Dimension scores D1-D12 and D14
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated sample); D13 matchup fit (no tournament link)
• 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 record are absent No win-rate telemetry, so going-first/second and matchup rates are unknown Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample