Black Luster Soldier Deck #772915 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 20/100 (±6 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 46 / Extra 17 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ritual Summon Black Luster Soldier monsters (3000 ATK) via Super Soldier Synthesis or Super Soldier Ritual, then close with 3000-ATK Link and Xyz bosses; Bystial Lubellion, Bystial Magnamhut, Bystial Saronir and Bystial Baldrake 2500-ATK Dragon beaters, reached through banish-to-Special-Summon chains
• Turn 1 (going first): Turn 1 searcher (Gateway to Chaos, Manju, Beginning Knight or Evening Twilight Knight) into a Ritual Spell, then hope for a Level 8 Ritual target; no clean T1 engine exists in the list
• Turn 2 (going second): Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring x2 to interrupt the opponent's first search or summon, then rebuild through Ritual Summon or Link Summon; no recorded going-second boards
• Recovery: Searchers and Ritual Spells refill the hand, but the Ritual Monster count is only 3 and Gateway to Chaos depends on Graveyard monsters being sent
• After siding: Not assessable: the deck has no side deck, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The list is illegal on three counts (Extra Deck of 17 against a cap of 15, three copies of The Bystial Lubellion against one legal copy, and three copies of Super Polymerization against two), so the final score is capped at 20 and is theoretical only. The structural read is about 46: the deck has a searcher density that makes some starter likely in the opening hand (about 0.93 for at least one searcher-text card), but the core engine is only 3-copy staples at roughly 0.30 per opening hand, and only 2 of 14 archetype-standard core cards are present. Engines conflict across Black Luster Soldier, Bystial, Chaos, Mulcharmy (which wants an empty field) and Charmer, so the deck reads as a pile of related lines rather than one system. There are no recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and median are text-only inferences. Popularity did not earn points, and the score does not come from averaging card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 46, Going First ≈ 42, Going Second ≈ 40, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: Banlist and copy-limit exposure (-6); Engine conflicts (-6). Final formula: Structural 45.6 (Midrange profile); 0.80*46 + 0.20*35 = 43 before modifiers; modifiers -12 gives 31; Illegal cap applied, final 20 (theoretical/structural only; Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.93 · 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

• Dense searcher text (18 cards) makes at least one searcher likely in hand
• Multiple 3000-ATK bosses across Ritual, Link and Xyz
• Two Ash Blossom copies give hand-trap interruption

Weaknesses

• Illegal: Extra Deck of 17, Lubellion at 3 copies, Super Polymerization at 3 copies
• Engines from 5 archetype families compete for field and Graveyard
• No side deck for best-of-3
• Only 2 of 14 archetype-standard core cards present

Critical choke points

• Ritual Summon of a Level 8 Black Luster Soldier needs a specific tribute set; only 3 Ritual monsters are in the Main Deck
• Mulcharmy Fuwalos needs an empty field, which conflicts with Ritual and Link lines

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Extra Deck 17 over the cap of 15; The Bystial Lubellion 3 copies vs 1 legal; Super Polymerization 3 copies vs 2 legal; Side deck is empty; Only 2 of 14 archetype core cards present
• Inferred: Engine access probability about 0.93 for searchers, 0.30 for 3-copy staples; Interaction density from text read (16 removal, 5 negation); Ritual and banish-chain ceiling reads from card text; Engine conflicts between sub-archetypes
• Provisional: Meta Power and D13 matchup fit, no dated metagame sample; Going-second and post-side outcomes
• Data gaps: No combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry (going-first, going-second, matchup, brick and starter rates) Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Deck title is null