Icejade Deck #773130 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 33/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Control
• Secondary strategies: Midrange, Toolbox
• 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: Board control after repeated negations, closing with 3000-ATK boss monsters (Swordsoul Chengying, Icejade Gymir Aegirine, Worldsea Dragon Zealantis, Trishula) (Inferred); Disrupt-then-attack with Synchro and Link beaters such as Lancea, Brionac and White Aura Whale (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on Icejade Ran or an Ice Barrier starter (about 25% for any one copy in 5 cards) and use Medallion or Revealer to extend, while holding hand traps for the opponent's first Special Summon (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 6-card hand's roughly 79% chance of at least one hand trap to answer the opponent's first combo, then rebuild through Mulcharmy and Ice Barrier draws (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recursion via Georgius, Speaker and Freezing Chains from the GY, and Mulcharmy draws to refill hand after a board wipe (Inferred, text-based)
• After siding: Not assessable: the deck has no Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system, not as an average of its card scores. Its strongest part is interaction: about 12 negation and hand-trap effects plus several removal spells give it a dense, layered answer package, especially going second. Its engine is weaker. Only 4 cards carry the exact Icejade name, the archetype-spread is fragmented across Ice Barrier, Mulcharmy, Dominus and generic cards, and the chance of opening any one Icejade Ran in 5 cards is about 25%. Its closing power comes from strong Extra Deck bosses, which are reachable but depend on the engine going live. The list is Illegal (two cards over their OCG copy limit), so it is capped in the theoretical range. It also has no Side Deck, so it cannot adapt after siding. Popularity and archetype usage did not add points, and no combo data was available.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Control primary; Midrange used only as a reference, not blended into the weights. Structural ≈ 48, Going First ≈ 42, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-6); no Side Deck (-4); off_archetype_build (-2). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 0.80*48 + 0.20*35 - 12 = 33 (Illegal list: theoretical/structural-only, capped low)

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 negation and hand-trap package (about 12 cards), strong going second
• Several 3000-ATK boss monsters in the Extra Deck
• Multiple recursion routes from the GY (Georgius, Speaker, Freezing Chains)

Weaknesses

• The list is Illegal: two cards exceed their OCG copy limit
• Weak engine coherence: 5.7% exact-archetype purity, with the core spread across Ice Barrier, Mulcharmy and generics
• No Side Deck, so no post-side plan
• Low starter density: about 25% to open any one Icejade Ran in 5 cards

Critical choke points

• Icejade Ran is the only Icejade starter with 3 copies; a single opened copy is a 25% hand
• Over-limit Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse must be fixed before the list can be played at all

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Illegal. Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse each run 3 copies against an OCG Semi-Limited limit of 2.; Main Deck 55, Extra Deck 15, Side Deck 0; sizes are within the OCG size rules.; Extra Deck breakdown: 11 Synchro and 4 Link.; Exact archetype purity is 5.7%; 66 off-archetype copies.
• Observed: Usage statistics: 9 rows; 8 core cards with 1 present in the Main Deck (see data gaps for a count inconsistency).
• Inferred: P(>=1 Icejade Ran in 5 cards) = 0.25.; P(>=1 hand trap in 6 cards going second) = 0.79.; Control primary strategy from interaction density and the absence of a combo signal.; Going-second advantage from the hand-trap density.
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample).; D13 matchup and format fit (no tournament context).
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry (going first/second, matchup, brick and starter rates) Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample Evidence inconsistency: usage statistics marks Marincess Coral Anemone, Icejade Gymir Aegirine, Worldsea Dragon Zealantis and White Aura Whale as not in this deck, but the cards list has them in the Extra Deck, and Swordsoul Chengying is also present. The core presence figure of 12.5% therefore appears to count Main Deck cards only and should not be relied on. No Side Deck supplied, so side-plan and post-side scoring rest on the absence of a side