Vanquish Soul Deck #773069 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 20/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Stun, Tempo
• 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: Extra Deck XYZ boards led by Vanquish Soul Caesar Valius (3000 ATK), K9-X Werewolf (3300 ATK, not in this list) and Arc Rebellion-style XYZ beats; the 3000-ATK end boards in this list are Caesar Valius, Arc Rebellion Xyz Dragon, and Number C104 Umbral Horror Masquerade; Vanquish Soul Heavy Borger and Jiaolong beats after Special Summon engines, plus K9 Lupis/K9-66X style board removal to clear the way
• Turn 1 (going first): Search a Vanquish Soul Spell/Trap or monster (Dr. Mad Love, Stake your Soul!, Vanquish Soul Start!) and Special Summon an engine monster, converting into an XYZ Summon from the Extra Deck; hold Ash Blossom and Droll & Lock Bird for the opponent's first activation
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, D.D. Crow, Evenly Matched, Droll & Lock Bird, Solemn Judgment) to break the opponent's first combo, then rebuild a board through Vanquish Soul summons and an XYZ Summon
• Recovery: Recycle the Vanquish Soul engine through Vanquish Soul Start! and Stake your Soul!, and rebuild with the second copy of each engine monster while the Extra Deck still holds XYZ options
• After siding: No side deck is registered (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan in the evidence; scored as a structural gap

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system, not an average of its cards. Its opening access is strong: the Vanquish Soul core group (27 copies) has about a 98% chance of at least one copy in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred hypergeometric estimate), and 17 searcher-text cards give about an 87% chance of at least one searcher in the opening hand. Its interaction layer is broad, with 11 hand traps, 9 negation-text cards and 24 removal-text cards, and it has several XYZ end boards at 3000 ATK or higher. Those strengths are offset by the legality failure: three cards exceed their OCG copy limits (Vanquish Soul Razen 3 vs 1, Ash Blossom and K9-17 Izuna 3 vs 2), so the list is not playable as written and the score is capped. No combo data, no tournament link and no side deck are present, so conversion, matchup fit and post-side plans are text-based or unknown. Popularity of the archetype did not earn points, and no card scores were averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 54, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-4); Weak post-side plan (-3). Final formula: Illegal list: uncapped = 0.80*Structural(54) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) + modifiers(-7) = 45; capped to 20 because the deck exceeds three copy limits. Structural-only evaluation; Meta Power provisional/null.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.98 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.02 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• High access to the Vanquish Soul core (98% at least one in opening 5, Inferred)
• Broad hand-trap and negation coverage (11 hand traps, 9 negation-text cards)
• High-ATK XYZ end boards (3000+) from the Extra Deck

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy counts for Vanquish Soul Razen, Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and K9-17 Izuna
• No side deck
• No combo or tournament evidence to confirm conversion or matchup fit

Critical choke points

• Vanquish Soul Razen at 3 copies is illegal (limit 1); the engine has no legal backup if the single copy is lost
• Searcher chain depends on Dr. Mad Love and Stake your Soul!, both at 3 copies

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Copy-limit violations for Vanquish Soul Razen, Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and K9-17 Izuna; Banlist statuses for the Limited and Semi-Limited cards in the list; Card text excerpts and ATK values for the Extra Deck end boards
• Inferred: Opening-hand access estimates (P at least one core card 0.977; searcher 0.869; hand trap going second 0.772); Interaction and resilience scores from the card text; Going-first and going-second power estimates
• Provisional: Meta Power (null); Matchup fit (D13)
• 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 for this deck No side deck cards registered Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied