Dark World Deck #772826 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 52/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Level 10 Sacred Beasts boss summons (Infinity of the Sacred Beasts - Raviel, Calamity - Hamon, The Chaotic Phantasmal Sacred Beasts 5000 ATK) and Dark World beats (Grapha Overlord 3200, Reign-Beaux 3000); Direct damage from Superdreadnought Rail Cannon Gustav Max / Rocket (2000 per detach; Rocket 5000 ATK)
• Turn 1 (going first): Search with Card of the Soul / Sacred Beasts Released / Dark Corridor into a Level 10 Sacred Beast Special Summon route, with Evenly Matched and Lightning Storm as the first interaction (Inferred from card text; no recorded boards)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre and Droll & Lock Bird against the opponent's first summon or search, then reply with Illusion Gate or Harpie's Feather Duster on a board (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recover through searchers (27 searcher-text copies), Snoww and Genta recursion into Dark World, Card Destruction hand refill, and Mulcharmy draw effects (Inferred)
• After siding: No side deck is registered; there is no post-side plan to evaluate

Why it scores here

The deck reliably finds a starter: 27 searcher-text copies give a 97% chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand, and the 11 archetype-core copies give about 69% (Inferred hypergeometric). Its redundancy comes from 8 hand traps and several interaction spells (Evenly Matched, Lightning Storm, Harpie's Feather Duster, Illusion Gate), which keep the line alive through one disruption. Converting into pressure relies on Level 10 Sacred Beast summons and Dark World beats, and the ceiling is structurally strong, but there are no recorded boards, so the floor and median cannot be measured and stay Provisional. The score comes from consistency, interruption resilience, and interaction on the system as a whole, not from the Dark World name, its usage share, or an average of card scores. The deck is a multi-engine hybrid (exact archetype purity 14.3%), so engine conflicts and the absence of any side deck pull the score down.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange weights used unblended; Combo secondary not blended because there is no combo evidence to justify the ratio. D13 dropped and renormalised (meta-neutral structural score, sum of remaining weights 95).. Structural ≈ 61.2, Going First ≈ 65, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: engine conflicts (-4); no post-side plan (-3); tribute-dependent choke (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural(61.2) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(55) + ContextModifiers(-8) = 51.96 → 52 (no reliable metagame; Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.97 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.31 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Searcher density (27 copies) makes a 5-card hand almost always find a route
• Eight hand traps plus Spell/Trap and monster removal give layered interaction
• Multiple 3000+ ATK threats and Gustav Max direct damage close games

Weaknesses

• 14.3% exact-archetype purity: several engines compete for slots
• No side deck, so no post-side plan
• Two tribute-dependent cards (Sphere Mode, Lava Golem) add dead weight
• No combo data, so the floor and median are unmeasured

Critical choke points

• Level 10 Sacred Beast summon route depends on a few Sacred Beast Spells and Thunderclap / Released
• Going-first hands without a searcher or core card (about 31% proxy) have no clear route

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 55 (40-60), Extra 15 (0-15), Side 0: legal size; All restricted copies are within Limited / Semi-Limited copy limits (Ash Blossom 2/2, others 1/1); Searcher, hand trap and negation counts from curated role tags; Exact-name archetype purity 14.3%
• Inferred: P(>=1 searcher in 5) ≈ 0.97 and P(>=1 core in 5) ≈ 0.69 from hypergeometric draw tables; Midrange-to-Combo strategy read from card text, not recorded boards; Interruption resilience from the distribution of hand traps and removal spells; Going-first and going-second power estimates from card text and draw odds
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); D13 matchup / format fit (no tournament link); Combo floor and median (no recorded boards)
• 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 side deck registered — post-side (D12) cannot be assessed beyond composition no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN — going-first/second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied