Vanquish Soul Deck #773044 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Tempo, 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: Vanquish Soul board of 3000-ATK and 2500-ATK monsters (Caesar Valius, Heavy Borger, Arc Rebellion, Umbral Horror Masquerade) built through searcher-driven Vanquish Soul summons; K9 Xyz pressure (K9-X Werewolf is not in the list; K9-17 Ripper and K9-66X Jacks carry the K9 Xyz plan)
• Turn 1 (going first): Search a Vanquish Soul monster with Dr. Mad Love, Razen or Start!, Stake your Soul! to a higher-ATK attribute monster, then convert into a Xyz or Link extender
• Turn 2 (going second): Open on a hand trap (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Droll & Lock Bird) plus a searcher, then rebuild the board through Vanquish Soul summons
• Recovery: Searchers (19 copies of searcher text) and Pot of Prosperity recover card flow after a hand trap or board wipe
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a functional plan: the searcher text on 19 Main Deck copies gives about a 97% chance of at least one searcher in a 5-card opening hand, and the archetype core is present in about 99.8% of opening hands (Inferred, hypergeometric). Conversion into pressure relies on Vanquish Soul summons and the 3000-ATK/2500-ATK monsters at the end of the board, with Xyz and Link extenders for follow-up. Survival rests on six hand-trap copies and a meaningful number of negate and removal effects, which give the deck a credible answer to a single disruption. However, the list is illegal: three cards exceed their OCG copy limits, and Vanquish Soul Razen runs 3 copies against a limit of 1, so the score is capped low and this evaluation is theoretical/structural only. No combos, tournament link, guides, or side deck are supplied, so the combo and matchup dimensions are text-only inference. The score was derived from consistency, interaction and resilience on the system as a whole, not from averaging card scores, and not from the archetype's popularity (usage share confirms the list is real, not that it is strong).

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, no secondary blend applied. Structural ≈ 60.5, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 64, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-5); no_side_deck (-2); illegal_cap (-9). Final formula: Illegal deck: pre-cap 0.80*Structural(60.5) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(55) = 59.4; modifiers -8 gives 51.4; capped to 35 as theoretical/structural-only (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.97 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Searcher density gives near-certain access to the engine in the opening hand
• Layered hand traps and negates cover both going-first and going-second turns
• Strong 3000-ATK and 2500-ATK finishers available through Vanquish Soul summons

Weaknesses

• Three cards exceed their OCG copy limits, so the list is illegal as built
• Two K9 and Vanquish Soul sub-archetypes split the engine (exact-name purity 36.4%)
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation

Critical choke points

• Vanquish Soul Razen at 3 copies against a limit of 1 is the single most important legality fix
• Lack of recorded boards leaves the combo ceiling and median unverified

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main Deck is 40 cards and Extra Deck is 15 cards, both legal sizes; Three over-limit violations (Ash Blossom x3, Razen x3, Izuna x3); Composition counts, archetype purity 36.4%, and zero side cards
• Observed: Usage statistics show the archetype core is present in the list (15 of 25 core cards)
• Inferred: Hypergeometric opening-hand estimates (searcher ~0.97; core ~0.998); Hand-trap and interaction density from card text; Going-second hand-trap probability ~0.65
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit (no tournament link)
• 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 exists in YGOVN — going-first/second, matchup, brick and OTK rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied no side deck supplied