Kashtira Deck #773068 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 53 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Xyz boards built from Vanquish Soul and K9 Xyz monsters (K9-17 Ripper, K9-66X Jacks, K9-X Werewolf, Caesar Valius) backed by hand-trap and removal interaction; no Kashtira engine is present.; Interaction-led stalling into Xyz monsters that can destroy or negate opposing plays.
• Turn 1 (going first): Search and summon through Vanquish Soul and K9 searchers (Vanquish Soul Start, Vanquish Soul Dr. Mad Love, K9-66b Lantern, Chaotic Elements) toward a 2-monster Xyz, protected by Solemn Judgment and Ash Blossom.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold hand traps (Ash Blossom, D.D. Crow, Ghost Belle, Droll and Lock Bird, Evenly Matched) to answer the opponent's first summon or search, then Xyz through the cleared board.
• Recovery: Searchers (17 searcher-text cards) rebuild the hand after interaction, and Xyz monsters recur through K9 and Vanquish Soul effects.
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs zero side-deck cards, so no post-side plan exists in the submitted list.

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system: its hypergeometric starter access is moderate (P(at least one searcher in a 5-card opener) is about 0.87, but the archetype core is only about 0.52 to appear in hand), and it has 11 hand traps and 9 negation-text cards that give it real going-second interruption. Its Xyz removal and Solemn/Ash/Droll interaction keep the endboard hard to convert against, which is what earns the strongest dimension (D7). Points are not earned from the Vanquish Soul or K9 names being popular: archetype usage shows only 3 of 6 core cards present, and the list contains zero Kashtira cards despite its archetype label. No combos were supplied, so the ceiling and median are text-only inferences. The side deck is empty, so no post-side adaptation can be credited, and the three over-limit copies make the list illegal, so the final score is capped at a theoretical value and not a normal contextual score. Card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 53, Going First ≈ 57, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: copy_limit_violations (-8); empty_side_deck (-3). Final formula: Illegal list: theoretical only. Uncapped 0.80*53 + 0.20*45 + modifiers (-11) = 40; capped to 30 because of the copy-limit violations.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.87 · 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 package gives repeatable access and interruption
• Layered Xyz removal and Solemn/Ash/Droll interaction make the endboard difficult to convert
• Strong late-game Xyz threats (Caesar Valius, K9-X Werewolf, Number C104 Umbral Horror Masquerade)

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy counts on three cards, so the list cannot be played as submitted
• Zero side deck in a best-of-3 context
• Archetype label Kashtira matches none of the cards, so the list is mislabelled or off-theme
• No recorded combos, so ceiling and median are inferred from text only

Critical choke points

• Turn-1 starter density depends on Vanquish Soul and K9 searchers, which are a single 0.52 core group
• Going-second plans depend on 11 hand traps, a fragile dead-hand risk without a board

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 53, Extra 15, Side 0 are within the OCG size rules; Three cards exceed their OCG copy limits (Ash Blossom, Vanquish Soul Razen, K9-17 Izuna); No Kashtira cards are present; off-archetype copies are 68 of 68; Card text for the deck's main cards was read from the evidence excerpts
• Inferred: Starter access about 0.87 for searchers and about 0.52 for the archetype core; Going-second hand-trap coverage about 0.77; Board-breaking, endboard and median estimates derived from text, not from recorded boards
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit: no dated metagame sample or tournament link
• Data gaps: no combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry; going-first, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Deck title is null and the archetype label does not match any card in the list