Fiendsmith Deck #773084 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 15/100 (±6 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Toolbox
• Secondary strategies: Stun, Tempo
• 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: None reliable. The list lacks a complete Fiendsmith engine (no Fiendsmith's Sequence, Requiem, Lacrima or Desirae), so Fiendsmith's Tract has no Fusion target. Opportunistic boards (Blue-Eyes White Dragon, Naturia Exterio, Borrelend Dragon) need materials this list does not carry.; Grind through interaction (Ash Blossom x2, Maxx C, Droll & Lock Bird, Gizmek Orochi, Thunder King Rai-Oh) until the opponent runs out of resources.
• Turn 1 (going first): Opening hand of 5 carries about a 25% chance of any given 3-copy card. Without the Fiendsmith core the turn-1 play is a weak search or floodgate setup, not a line that ends in pressure.
• Turn 2 (going second): Six-card hand with one or two hand traps or negates (Ash, Droll, Maxx C), then a board breaker if one is drawn. No reliable conversion from the board.
• Recovery: Limited. Recursion is thin: Relinquished Anima and Linkuriboh return only through their own GY effects, and Left Arm Offering and Pot of Prosperity cost hand or Extra Deck resources.
• After siding: Not available. The side deck is empty (0 cards), so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

This is an illegal list (Fossil Dyna Pachycephalo x3 is Forbidden and Linkuriboh x3 exceeds its Limited cap), so it receives a capped, theoretical score rather than a normal contextual score. The deck is a loose collection of 24 distinct main-deck cards with only 2 exact Fiendsmith-named cards (Engraver and Tract) and 68 off-archetype copies, so its engine is largely absent: 4 of the 11 usage-stat core cards are present, and none of the Fusion or Link materials the Extra Deck needs are in the main deck. The interaction package (Ash Blossom x2, Maxx C, Droll, Dimensional Barrier, Gizmek, Rai-Oh, Linkuriboh) is dense and is what earns the points. Popularity of the Fiendsmith archetype did not earn points, and card scores were not averaged; the score comes from the system as built. The empty side deck and the floodgates that hinder the deck's own Special Summons cap the result.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 28, Going First ≈ 28, Going Second ≈ 33, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 25. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); engine conflicts (-4). Final formula: 0.80*Structural(28) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(25) = 27, then context modifiers -12 = 15; Meta provisional; illegal-deck cap applied

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.25 · 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 interaction package: Ash Blossom x2, Maxx C, Droll & Lock Bird, Dimensional Barrier, Gizmek Orochi, Thunder King Rai-Oh and Linkuriboh
• Multiple hand traps and negates give going-second resilience
• Large mix of high-ATK monsters for the closing turn if a summon route is found

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Forbidden card run and Limited copies exceeded
• Fiendsmith engine largely absent: only Engraver and Tract, with Sequence, Requiem and Lacrima missing
• Fusion and Link Extra cards lack their materials
• Floodgates conflict with the deck's own Special Summons
• Empty side deck: no post-side plan
• Incoherent mix of 10+ sub-archetypes

Critical choke points

• Fiendsmith's Tract has no Fiendsmith Fusion target in the Extra Deck
• Any single 3-copy card has about a 25% chance of appearing in the opening 5, so no piece is reliable

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Illegal (Fossil Dyna Pachycephalo x3 Forbidden; Linkuriboh x3 vs Limited 1); Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0 counts; Card texts and banlist statuses from the evidence pack; Side deck is empty (0 cards); Archetype purity: 2 exact Fiendsmith copies, 68 off-archetype
• Observed: Usage stats: 4 of 11 archetype core cards present (27.3%)
• Inferred: Starter probabilities (0.25 for a 3-copy card in opening 5; 0.32 for the 4-copy core group); Interaction density and negate coverage from card text; Engine conflict and brick risk estimates
• Provisional: Meta Power and format fit: no dated metagame sample; no 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/second, matchup, brick and starter rates) Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Side deck is empty, so post-side (D12) is unverifiable beyond composition