Fiendsmith Deck #773193 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck boss monsters (Galaxy-Eyes Photon Lord, Zombie Vampire, Garunix, Flamberge Dragon, Lava Golem via Special Summon) after a hand-trap-protected board; no single engine is consistently assembled; Snake-Eye / Fire King recursion lines into Diabellstar and Azamina Fusion or Link pressure
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a starter from the Snake-Eye, Fire King or Mulcharmy groups and extend through Ash Blossom or Ghost Ogre as protection; no Fiendsmith starter is present in the list
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 14 hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Ghost Belle, D.D. Crow, Infinite Impermanence) to interrupt the opponent's first summon, then rebuild from the GY
• Recovery: Recursion from Fire King and Snake-Eye GY effects plus Mulcharmy draw effects; no single reliable recovery card is evidenced
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no side deck, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The list does not run the archetype it is labelled as: it contains no Fiendsmith-named card, and its core Fiendsmith cards (Sequence, Requiem, Lacrima, Desirae) are all absent, so the Fiendsmith label is treated as unverified. The main deck spreads across at least five engines (Fire King, Snake-Eye, Mulcharmy, Sinful Spoils/Azamina, Diabellstar), with 30 singletons in 60 cards, so the opening hand is more likely to hold a dead card or a single-engine piece than a live starter. Interaction is the strongest part of the system: 14 hand traps and about 30 removal-text cards give it a real going-second plan, and the Extra Deck holds high-ATK boss monsters. The score was not derived by averaging card power, and popularity or archetype usage was not credited. Two copy-limit violations (Ash Blossom at 3 copies, WANTED at 2 copies) make the list Illegal, so the rubric caps it, and with no side deck and no combo or tournament evidence the result is structural and theoretical only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 43, Going First ≈ 40, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: illegal copy-limit violations (-12). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); illegal-list cap applied as a -12 modifier

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ — · 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

• Layered interaction: 14 hand traps plus Skill Drain, Infinite Impermanence, Iron Thunder and Gordian Slicer
• Strong going-second hand-trap density (0.81 for at least one hand trap in 6 cards)
• High-ATK Extra Deck boss monsters (Galaxy-Eyes Photon Lord, Zombie Vampire, Garunix, AA-ZEUS, Saint Azamina)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Ash Blossom 3 copies (2 legal) and WANTED 2 copies (1 legal)
• Archetype label Fiendsmith is not supported: zero Fiendsmith-named cards and 2 of 11 core cards present
• Five-plus engines compete for slots, so no single starter is reliably live
• No side deck, so no post-side plan in best-of-3
• 30 singleton slots raise brick and dead-card risk

Critical choke points

• Starter access: no Fiendsmith starter is present, so the opening hand depends on Fire King, Snake-Eye or Mulcharmy starters at low individual probability
• Extra Deck material requirements for mixed Fusion/Link/Xyz bosses across different engines

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 2 copy-limit violations; main 60, extra 15, side 0; Card text and stats for all 60 main and 15 extra cards; Archetype purity: 0% exact name; Fiendsmith core cards absent (2/11 present)
• Inferred: Opening-hand draw odds (hypergeometric); Consistency, brick and interaction read from card text; Going-second value from hand-trap density
• Provisional: Meta power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format 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 record are absent No win-rate telemetry; going-first, going-second, 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 Fiendsmith archetype label conflicts with the card list Side deck is empty; no post-side data