Code Talker Deck #772890 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 53 / Extra 17 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link-5/Link-6 Extra Deck boss (Firewall Dragon Darkfluid, Allied Code Talker @Ignister, Perfectron Hydradrive Dragon) reached through Ignister/Code Talker Link chains; Hand-trap and negation disruption (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Effect Veiler, Infinite Impermanence, Droll & Lock Bird) that stalls the opponent while the Link board is built
• Turn 1 (going first): Search and Normal Summon Cyberse starters (Achichi, Backup, Pikari, Cynet Mining, A.I. Connect) toward a Link-3 to Link-5 Extra Deck summon; keep one hand trap for the opponent's first board
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the six-card hand's hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Effect Veiler, Infinite Impermanence) to break the opponent's first combo, then rebuild through searchers and Link Summons
• Recovery: Searchers (16 text hits) and Dotscaper/Maxx C recursion rebuild the Cyberse starter; Link Monsters in the GY can be re-summoned by several Extra Deck effects (Inferred from card text)
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no Side Deck. A post-side plan has to be built before it can be scored.

Why it scores here

This list is illegal in OCG: it runs a Forbidden card (Link Decoder) and 17 Extra Deck cards against a 15-card cap, so the score is capped and labelled structural-only. The structural read comes from the system, not from averaging card scores. Starter access is moderate: the core archetype group has about a 74% chance of at least one copy in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred), and 16 searcher effects give the deck resources to rebuild. Interaction is the deck's strongest area, with 13 hand traps and 13 negation-text cards, and that strength is worth more when going second. Consistency is held back by 65 off-archetype copies (exact-name purity 7.1%), 21 Ignister cards that only partly link to the Code Talker core, and an empty Side Deck. Archetype popularity is not credited: no combos, matchup data or tournament record were supplied, so Meta Power stays provisional.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo primary; Stun secondary used as the interaction context (about 80/20 by judgement). Structural ≈ 51.4, Going First ≈ 48, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist exposure and size overflow (-8); no side deck (-4). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) = 49.1 before modifiers; modifiers -12 give 37.1; capped at 35 because the list is Illegal (structural-only, not a normal final score)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.74 · 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

• 13 hand traps and 13 negation-text cards provide layered interaction
• 16 searcher effects give strong access to the Cyberse starter pool
• Link-5 and Link-6 Extra Deck bosses supply closing power

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: Link Decoder is Forbidden and the Extra Deck has 17 cards
• Exact-name archetype purity is 7.1%; 65 off-archetype copies weaken engine coherence
• No Side Deck; no post-side plan
• No combo, matchup or tournament data

Critical choke points

• Link Summon routes depend on Ignister and Code Talker starters, which are only partly in the core
• Going-first hands with no searcher or starter have no recovery route in the evidence

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Link Decoder is Forbidden and over the copy limit; Extra Deck is 17 (size_warnings: extra 17 > 15); Side Deck is 0 cards; Card text for the listed hand traps and searchers; Usage stats: 9 of 16 core cards present (56.2%)
• Inferred: At least one core copy in 5 cards ≈ 0.74; Brick and consistency estimates; Interaction quality from text; Structural dimension scores
• Provisional: Meta Power (null); Matchup coverage and format fit (D13)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick and starter rates) Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample No Side Deck, so D12 cannot be measured