Cubic Deck #772833 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 36/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Cubic boss monsters (Crimson Nova Trinity, Gustav Rocket, Juggernaut Liebe) and Crimson Nova the Dark Cubic Lord, Special Summoned through Cubic reveal and sacrifice conditions; Duza the Meteor Cubic Vessel growing via Graveyard monsters, with Cubic Wave and Cubic Dharma adding ATK
• Turn 1 (going first): Summon Summoner Monk or Vijam, search Cubic Karma or Cubic Dharma, then build toward a Cubic reveal for Crimson Nova (Inferred; no combo boards exist to confirm)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Raigeki, Harpie's Feather Duster, Lightning Storm, or The Fallen & The Virtuous to clear the opponent's board, then rebuild with Cubic monsters (Inferred)
• Recovery: Cubic Dharma and Unification of the Cubic Lords recur from the Graveyard, and Cubic Ascension can be used from the Graveyard to Special Summon Vijam (Inferred from card text)
• After siding: None. The side deck is empty, so there is no post-side plan and no way to adapt in best-of-3.

Why it scores here

The deck was scored as a system, not as an average of its cards. It is an illegal OCG list (Foolish Burial Goods and The Fallen & The Virtuous are each run 3 times against a limit of 2), so it receives a capped structural-only score and no normal contextual score. Its structure is coherent: 26 exact Cubic cards, Vijam and Summoner Monk as the early starters, Cubic Karma and Cubic Dharma as searchers, and a Link/Xyz/Fusion Extra Deck with very high ATK ceilings (Trinity 4500, Gustav Rocket 5000). The probability that at least one archetype core card is in the opening hand is about 0.998 (Inferred), but any single starter has only about 34% chance of appearing in a 5-card opening hand. Interaction is broad (Raigeki, Harpie's Feather Duster, Lightning Storm, Cubic Wave, Unification) but no hand traps are included. The side deck is empty, and the recorded combo evidence is absent, so the floor, median, and post-side scores are Inferred or Provisional. Popularity was not used as evidence, and the archetype usage statistics did not add points.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 51, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 42, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: illegal copy-limit violation (-12); empty side deck (0); no combo evidence (0). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) = 48.4, then modifiers -12 (illegal copy limit; capped to structural-only for an illegal list) → 36

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.34 · 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

• Cubic core is internally consistent: 26 exact-name Cubic cards with searchers (Karma, Dharma) and recursion (Dharma, Ascension, Unification)
• High Extra-Deck ceilings (Trinity 4500 ATK, Gustav Rocket 5000 ATK, Juggernaut Liebe 4000 ATK) give strong closing power
• Broad removal and negation text across the Main Deck (Raigeki, Feather Duster, Lightning Storm, Cubic Wave, Unification, Fallen)

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy counts on two Semi-Limited cards (Foolish Burial Goods, The Fallen & The Virtuous) make the list unplayable as built in OCG
• No side deck in a best-of-3 format leaves no post-side adaptation
• No hand traps, and the Main Deck has 24 non-monsters, so the early-game board interaction is thin
• Many starters need a Cubic reveal or sacrifice, which raises brick risk and makes the lines hard to set up

Critical choke points

• Crimson Nova Special Summon requires 3 different Cubic cards revealed in hand, so one missing starter removes the main Extra Deck route
• Extra Deck summon routes depend on single-copy Links and Xyz, so losing one Link monster can break an Xyz or Link chain

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main Deck size 40 and Extra size 15 are within the OCG limits; Foolish Burial Goods and The Fallen & The Virtuous are each run 3 times against an OCG limit of 2 (Semi-Limited); Side deck is 0 cards; Archetype exact-name purity is 47.3%; there are 16 Main-Deck monsters and 24 non-monsters; Extra Deck contains 9 Link, 3 Xyz, 2 Fusion, and 1 Synchro
• Inferred: P(at least one archetype core in opening 5) ≈ 0.998 and P(at least one starter) ≈ 0.34 per card; Brick risk is high because of the many Special Summon conditions; Going-first and going-second plans are text-derived and not confirmed by board data; Interaction quality (removal and negation text) is judged from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power is null; no dated metagame sample was supplied; Matchup and format fit (D13) cannot be verified without a meta sample
• Data gaps: No combos supplied (combos_evidence.total_combos = 0); floor, median, and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN, so going-first, going-second, matchup, and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Usage statistics mark several Extra Deck cards (W:P Fancy Ball, Gustav Rocket, Juggernaut Liebe, and others) as not in this deck even though they are in the Extra Deck list; the usage in_this_deck flag may only check the Main Deck, so Extra-core usage is unreliable Deck title is null, so the deck name is unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied