Sacred Beast Deck #772828 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 51/100 (±9 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Level-10 Sacred Beast / Phantasm boss monsters (Calamity of the Sacred Beasts - Hamon, Infinity of the Sacred Beasts - Raviel, The Chaotic Phantasmal Sacred Beasts) reached through Sacred Beast search and Special Summon effects, closed by Superdreadnought Rail Cannon Gustav Max/Rocket direct damage and Grapha / Reign-Beaux / Underworld Goddess beats.; Dark World board presence (Grapha Dragon Overlord, Reign-Beaux, Sillva, Genta) and Unchained link beats when the Phantasm line is stopped.
• Turn 1 (going first): Dark Corridor or Sacred Beasts Released to search Sacred Beast monsters, Summoner of the Sacred Beasts or Martyr of the Sacred Beasts to open the field, then reveal a Level-10 Sacred Beast from hand (Hamon / Raviel) to add a Sacred Beast spell or monster while keeping a Special Summon route.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold hand traps (Evenly Matched, Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring, Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit, Droll & Lock Bird) to answer the opponent's first starter or search, then rebuild with Sacred Beasts Released and Martyr.
• Recovery: Sacred Beasts Released banished from the GY adds a Level-10 Pyro, Thunder or Fiend that cannot be Normal Summoned; Dark World Accession and Genta provide Dark World recursion; Fallen Paradise of the Sacred Beasts recovers Sacred Beast Special Summons from the GY.
• After siding: None: the deck runs 0 side-deck cards, so there is no post-side plan for best-of-3 play.

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system: a 26-copy Sacred Beast/Phantasm core gives high probability of a searcher or starter in hand (archetype core P(≥1 in opening 5) ≈ 0.97), and Released, Martyr and Summoner give several independent opening lines. Interaction is layered across hand traps (8 hand-trap cards, P(≥1 in going-second 6) ≈ 0.63), Lightning Storm, Harpie's Feather Duster, Illusion Gate and Combined Assault, which lifts end-board and going-second scores. Closing power comes from the Level-10 bosses and Gustav Max, while the deck's median output is held down by a 55-card, 32-distinct, three-engine build with no recorded boards, and by a dead Fiendsmith's Lacrima extra slot. The deck has zero side-deck cards, which drags tournament reliability for best-of-3 play. Popularity of the Sacred Beast archetype and the usage statistics confirm the list is real and accessible but added no points on their own, and card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 60, Going First ≈ 66, Going Second ≈ 64, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-2); Engine conflicts (-3); No post-side plan (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural(60.2) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(48) + ContextModifiers(-7), Meta provisional/null; = 50.8, rounded to 51

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

• Three-copy Sacred Beast engine (Released, Martyr, Thunderclap, Raviel, Hamon) with a 26-copy archetype core gives high starter access
• Eight hand traps plus Lightning Storm, Feather Duster, Illusion Gate and Combined Assault provide layered interaction
• Level-10 bosses (4000/4000, 5000 Chaotic/Rocket) and Gustav Max's direct damage give strong closing power
• Multiple engine routes (Phantasm, Dark World, Unchained) give recovery options after disruption

Weaknesses

• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation for best-of-3
• Fiendsmith's Lacrima is near-unsummonable with zero LIGHT Fiend monsters in the main deck
• 55 main cards across 32 distinct names dilutes consistency and raises brick rate
• Exact-name archetype purity 1.4%; Phantasm, Dark World and Unchained all compete for the same slots
• Egyptian God Sphere Mode (2) and Lava Golem (2) need tribute conditions that this build does not support

Critical choke points

• Sacred Beasts Released and the Level-10 Sacred Beast revive lines need a Sacred Beast monster or Released in hand to start, so a hand without either may stall
• Going-second plans depend on hand traps; a hand without one of the 8 hand traps has no answer to a first starter
• No side deck means a single bad matchup has no fix across games

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status: 55 main (40–60), 15 extra (0–15), 0 side; all 7 Limited/Semi-Limited cards run at legal copies; Copy histogram 3×8, 2×7, 1×17 and extra breakdown fusion 4 / link 8 / Xyz 3; Card text and stats for all listed cards; Lacrima requires 2 LIGHT Fiend monsters; main deck has zero LIGHT Fiend monsters; Archetype spread: Phantasm 22, Dark World 10, Unchained 5, exact-name purity 1.4%
• Observed: Archetype usage stats show Sacred Beast core inclusion of 88–98% for Martyr, Thunderclap, Raviel, Combined Assault, Released and Hamon
• Inferred: Hypergeometric starter and hand-trap probabilities (Inferred); Interaction quality and board-breaking read from card text (Inferred); Floor and median output from text only, since no boards are recorded (Inferred); Pilotability and brick estimates (Inferred)
• Provisional: Meta Power is null; D13 uses a neutral value because no dated meta sample exists
• Data gaps: No recorded combo boards (combos_evidence total 0): D3/D4/D6 combo outputs are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent; D13 provisional No win-rate, going-first/second, or matchup telemetry in YGOVN Data inconsistency: usage_statistics marks The Chaotic Phantasmal Sacred Beasts, Thunder Dragon Colossus and S:P Little Knight as in_this_deck=false, but the resolved cards list includes all three in the extra zone (1 copy each). The cards list was treated as authoritative for the legality and composition checks; core_present_pct 70.6 is likely understated Deck title is null Meta Power is provisional: no dated metagame sample supplied