Bystial/Byssted Deck #773029 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

• Primary strategy: Toolbox
• Secondary strategies: Midrange, Control
• 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: Red Dragon Archfiend (2 copies) and Scarred Dragon Archfiend, 3000 ATK Synchro bosses whose attacks sweep Defense Position monsters (Inferred from card text; no recorded boards); Chaos Angel, Bystial Dis Pater, Storm-Bane Dragon Destorbim and Black Chaos as additional 3000+ ATK bosses (Inferred from card text)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with searchers (Soul Resonator, Power Vice Dragon, Crimson Gaia) and a hand trap to protect the first Synchro line; Inferred from card text, not from recorded boards
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Evenly Matched, Nibiru) to interrupt the opponent's board, then Synchro through the remaining resources; Inferred
• Recovery: Resonator and Bystial GY recursion (Synkron Resonator, Vision Resonator, Red Rising Dragon, Bystial Magnamhut) to rebuild after an interruption; Inferred from card text
• After siding: None: the deck runs no Side Deck (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system, not as an average of its cards. It has searchers (about 87% chance of at least one searcher in a 5-card hand, Inferred) and a real interaction layer: 9 hand-trap copies, 3 Solemn Judgment-family copies, Harpie's Feather Duster and Lightning Storm. Its closing power comes from several 3000+ ATK Synchro and Ritual bosses. Those strengths are offset by three engines running at once (Resonator, Red Dragon Archfiend / Archfiend, and Light and Darkness Ritual) with only 0% exact-name archetype purity, a 15-card Extra Deck of 14 distinct Synchro monsters, and no Side Deck. The core archetype group is only about 61% likely to appear in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred). Popularity did not earn points: the 5 core cards are present in 100% of usage-stat terms, but usage confirms the list is real, not strong. The deck is Illegal (3 copies each of Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse against a limit of 2), so the score is capped and reflects a theoretical, structural-only read.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 51, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 42. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-5); Engine conflicts (-4); No side deck (-3). Final formula: Illegal deck: theoretical/structural-only. Pre-cap Final = 0.80*Structural(51) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(42) ≈ 49.6, then modifiers -12 ≈ 37.6, capped to 35 for Illegal copy-limit violations. Meta Power provisional (null).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.61 · 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 and hand-trap layer (18 searcher-text copies; 9 hand traps)
• Several 3000+ ATK Synchro and Ritual bosses for closing
• Layered interaction: Solemn family, Harpie's Duster, Lightning Storm, Evenly Matched

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy counts (Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse at 3 copies)
• Three engines running in parallel with 0% exact-name archetype purity
• No Side Deck and no post-side plan
• No recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and median cannot be confirmed

Critical choke points

• Single Red Dragon Archfiend line depends on Resonator and Archfiend searches; without them the boss count drops
• Limited Bystial cards (Druiswurm, Magnamhut, Lubellion) at 1 copy each are unrecoverable if drawn late

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Illegal (Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse at 3 copies vs 2 legal); Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0; size rules legal for OCG; Core-archetype usage: 5 of 5 core cards present; Composition counts: 9 hand traps, 18 searcher-text cards, 15 Synchro Extra Deck cards
• Inferred: Opening-hand probabilities (searcher ≈ 0.87, core-archetype ≈ 0.61, hand trap ≈ 0.68); Brick and engine-conflict rates from composition and card text; Going-first and going-second plans from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit (D13)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry: going-first/second, matchup, brick and starter rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied The deck is Illegal, so the Final score is a capped, structural-only read