Dark World Deck #773017 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 34/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Mechanic: Fusion/Link/Xyz
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 12 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Dark World Fiend recursion (Reign-Beaux, Grapha, Snoww, Genta) feeding Dark World Fusion/Link boards (Grapha, Dragon Overlord; Knightmare Phoenix; Muckraker not present); Danger! monsters revealed from hand for card advantage, then Danger! Bigfoot (3000 ATK) as a pressure body
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Dark World searchers (Genta, Snoww, Danger! Nessie) and The Gates of Dark World, then Link or Fusion into the Dark World boss monsters
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 6-card hand's Danger! hand-reveal monsters and Dark Corridor to rebuild, with Dark World recursion from the GY and four hand traps for interruption
• Recovery: Recursion from the Graveyard (Reign-Beaux and Grapha special-summon from GY by returning Dark World monsters; Zalamander Catalyzer and Sillva recur from GY)
• After siding: Not assessable: the deck has an empty Side Deck (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a Dark World system, not as an average of its card scores, but it is illegal in OCG as built: Called by the Grave and Triple Tactics Talent are Forbidden and Allure of Darkness is run at 2 copies against a limit of 1. Under the rubric this caps the result and makes this a theoretical, structural-only read. Engine access looks decent on paper, with the archetype core (19 copies) giving about 0.89 odds of at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand and the searcher group (18 copies) about 0.87 (Inferred), and the Dark World recursion loop gives resource recovery. Consistency and interaction are held back by the 47 off-archetype copies (exact-name purity about 30%), the empty Side Deck, and the lack of any recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and median are both unevidenced. Meta-share and usage statistics confirm that the core Dark World shell is a real, accessible list, but they did not add points.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 47, Going First ≈ 45, Going Second ≈ 40, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (illegal list) (-12). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) = 45.6, then Illegal cap via banlist-exposure modifier -12 -> 34 (theoretical/structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.87 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.11 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Core Dark World shell is present (19 archetype-core copies), which the usage statistics show is the archetype standard
• Dark World recursion from the Graveyard gives repeatable resource recovery
• Searcher density (18 cards) gives a high chance of finding a starter in the opening hand (Inferred)
• Extra Deck covers Fusion, Link and Xyz, giving board access to several boss routes

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: two Forbidden cards and one over-limit Limited card in the Main Deck
• Only 30% exact-name archetype purity; 47 off-archetype copies dilute the engine
• Empty Side Deck, so no post-side plan and no going-second adaptability
• No recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and median cannot be measured
• Core cards that appear in the archetype usage statistics (Underworld Goddess of the Closed World, Muckraker From the Underworld, Knightmare Phoenix, Akashic Magician, Grapha, Dragon Overlord) are not all present

Critical choke points

• Starter access depends on Dark World searchers (Genta, Snoww, Danger! Nessie); losing them to hand traps or Skill Drain leaves the line dead
• Forbidden Called by the Grave and Triple Tactics Talent cannot be played in this format, so any line built on them is void

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 3 violations (2 Forbidden cards run, Allure of Darkness at 2 copies vs limit 1) per the export; Main 55 (within 40-60), Extra 12 (within 0-15), Side 0; Archetype-core group 19 copies; searcher-text group 18 copies; Exact-name purity 29.9% (20 in-archetype copies vs 47 off-archetype); Usage statistics: 14 core cards, 9 present (64.3%)
• Inferred: Starter and archetype-core odds from the hypergeometric table (0.89 core, 0.87 searcher, 0.11 brick proxy); Dark World recursion and recovery reads from card text; Midrange primary strategy from composition and text-role hints; Hand-trap and Skill Drain interaction breadth from text
• Provisional: Meta Power (null: no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit and tournament reliability (no tournament link); Going-second and post-side performance (no win-rate telemetry and no side deck)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record are absent No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN (going-first/second, matchup, brick and starter rates) Side Deck is empty, so post-side behaviour cannot be evaluated Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied