Black Luster Soldier Deck #773162 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Combo, Stun
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Large Synchro, Fusion and Ritual boss monsters (Black Luster Soldier, Black Chaos, Black Skull Dragon, Crimson King) pressed through Ritual-Summon and Synchro-Summon lines; Fallen of Albaz Fusion/Synchro follow-up (Mirrorjade, Rindbrumm, The Dragon that Devours the Dogma)
• Turn 1 (going first): Ragged Records or Light and Darkness Ritual to search a ritual monster, then Ritual Summon Black Luster Soldier or Black Chaos, backed by 6 hand traps and Solemn protection
• Turn 2 (going second): Open Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C or Solemn to answer the first interaction, then rebuild through Mulcharmy draws and Skull Archfiend recursion
• Recovery: Skull Archfiend of Chaos and Ragged Records of Rites return Ritual Spells and monsters from the GY; Mind Shuffle re-searches a Light and Darkness Ritual-named monster
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so no post-side plan exists in the export; the deck must be rebuilt with a side list before a post-side read is possible

Why it scores here

The deck is Illegal because Albion the Branded Dragon is Forbidden in OCG and is run once, so the Final score is capped at 25 and the evaluation is structural only. Structurally the list reaches a real engine through Light and Darkness Ritual, Ragged Records of Rites and Ritual Summons of Black Luster Soldier or Black Chaos, and it has broad interaction from 6 hand traps, 11 negation-text cards and 26 removal-text cards. Its weakness is consistency: the Light and Darkness Ritual starter is only about 17% to appear in a 5-card opening hand at 2 copies, and the deck has no side deck, no recorded combos and no tournament data. The score was computed from consistency, interaction and boss power across the system, not from averaging card scores and not from the archetype's popularity, which earned no points on its own. The main deck spans Ritual, Synchro, Fusion and Link engines with 0% exact-archetype purity, which lowers Main Deck efficiency and pilotability.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary with Combo secondary (rubric profile weights; blend ratio not disclosed further). Structural ≈ 52, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) = 49.6, then modifiers -12 to 37.6, then Illegal cap to 25

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

• Six hand traps and layered negation and removal text give broad interaction
• Several boss monsters with 3000+ ATK can close games
• Ritual, Synchro and Fusion engines give multiple routes to boards

Weaknesses

• Illegal in the current OCG list due to Albion the Branded Dragon
• Low opening-hand starter probability for the Light and Darkness Ritual engine
• Three summoning engines with 0% exact-archetype purity
• No side deck registered

Critical choke points

• Light and Darkness Ritual (2 copies) is the main ritual starter and rarely appears in opening hands
• Albion the Branded Dragon has to leave the list before the deck can be evaluated as legal

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Albion the Branded Dragon is Forbidden and over copy limit (legality); Main 56, Extra 15, Side 0 are within OCG size rules; Limited and Semi-Limited copy counts are within limits; Card stats and text excerpts from the evidence pack
• Observed: Usage statistics show the core cards Black Luster Soldier, Black Chaos, Droll & Lock Bird, Mulcharmy Fuwalos at 60-64% inclusion
• Inferred: Hypergeometric starter probabilities; Interaction and boss-power readings from card text; Consistency and brick estimates across the three engines
• Provisional: Meta Power and D13 matchup fit, since no dated metagame sample or tournament link exists
• Data gaps: No combos supplied, so combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No side deck is registered