Light and Darkness Ritual Deck #772832 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 40/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Mechanic: Ritual/Fusion/Synchro
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ritual Summon Black Chaos or Black Luster Soldier (Light and Darkness Ritual engine), then pressure with 3000-ATK ritual bodies and Fallen of Albaz fusion/synchro boards; Fusion Summon Albaz Dragon monsters and Chaos Angel through Super Polymerization and Fallen of Albaz
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Ritual Spell or Fallen of Albaz starter, search via Mind Shuffle/Ragged Records/Light and Darkness Ritual, Ritual Summon a 3000-ATK monster, and hold Ash Blossom or Ghost Ogre for the response
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Kuriboh, Gallant Bandit) to break the opponent's first combo, then convert the surviving hand into a ritual or fusion board
• Recovery: Recurse Skull Archfiend and Light and Darkness Ritual from GY/banish and re-run the Mind Shuffle and Ragged Records searches
• After siding: Not assessable: the deck runs no side deck (0 cards), so the post-side plan is absent

Why it scores here

This list is Illegal: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and Super Polymerization are each run 3 times against an OCG limit of 2, so the score is a structural-only ceiling of 40 and does not reflect a legal normal evaluation. The structural read (59) comes from the system, not from averaging card scores: the archetype core has about an 87% chance of at least one piece in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred), the Ritual and Fusion/Synchro engines have several independent starters, and interaction density is high with 7 hand traps and roughly 8 negate-type cards. Popularity did not earn points: the core cards have high usage (Black Chaos 68%, Black Luster Soldier 91%), but usage only confirms the list is real, and no combos or tournament data were supplied, so the floor and median are text-only inference. The side deck is empty and the combo evidence is absent, so the deck's post-side and recorded-combo strength cannot be verified.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo primary, Toolbox secondary (structural only; Illegal cap applied). Structural ≈ 59, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist exposure (Illegal) (-12). Final formula: Illegal deck, capped: uncapped 0.80*59 + 0.20*45 = 56, minus 12 (banlist exposure) = 44, capped at 40. Theoretical/structural-only; Meta provisional (null).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.87 · 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

• Archetype core starter access is high (about 87% for at least one core card in a 5-card hand, Inferred)
• Interaction density is high, with 7 hand traps and several negate-type cards
• Multiple 3000+ ATK boss monsters, including Black Chaos, Black Luster Soldier and Chaos Angel

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy-limit violations on Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization
• Zero side deck, so no post-side plan
• Low exact-archetype purity (23%) with 10 tech cards and many off-archetype copies
• No recorded combos or tournament data to verify the floor

Critical choke points

• Light and Darkness Ritual and Mind Shuffle as the main ritual access
• Single-copy ritual monsters (Black Chaos, Black Luster Soldier) that are dead without the Ritual Spell

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization are over the OCG copy limit of 2; Card text and stats for the listed cards; Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 sizes are within the format rules; Usage: Black Chaos 68%, Black Luster Soldier 91%, Mulcharmy Fuwalos 70%
• Inferred: Core starter access P(≥1 in 5 cards) ≈ 0.87; Interaction density rated high from card text; Ceiling from ritual and fusion text; Brick risk moderate from tech density
• Provisional: Meta Power is null; matchup and format fit are neutral, with no dated metagame sample
• Data gaps: no combos supplied: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent no side deck: post-side plan cannot be evaluated no win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchups or brick rates Meta Power provisional without a dated metagame sample