Vanquish Soul Deck #773210 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 9 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Vanquish Soul and K9 monsters with high ATK (Caesar Valius, Heavy Borger, K9-X Werewolf, K9-X Ripper/M) pressure the board after Special Summon engines fire.; Xyz and Link extension through K9 and Vanquish Soul material chains (Rock of the Vanquisher, K9-17 Ripper, K9-X Forced Release).
• Turn 1 (going first): Turn 1 searches via Vanquish Soul Dr. Mad Love, Razen, Stake your Soul! and Vanquish Soul Start! to find a second Attribute monster, then Special Summon into a Xyz or Link extension.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Ash Blossom, Artifact Lancea, Dimension Shifter if legal) answer the opponent's first starter, then the same Vanquish Soul engine resumes on the following turn.
• Recovery: Searchers (K9 Lantern, A Case for K9, Vanquish Soul Start!) and recursion from Stake your Soul! and Mulcharmy draw effects rebuild the hand after a single disruption.
• After siding: Not defined: the deck runs 0 Side Deck cards, so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a live starter: the searcher group (21 cards) has about 92% chance of at least one hit in a 5-card opening hand, and the archetype core group has about 99% chance of at least one archetype card (Inferred). Its interaction package (Ash Blossom, Artifact Lancea, several hand traps and negation text) gives it layered answers, and the Extra Deck supplies high-ATK closing threats. However, the list is illegal under OCG copy limits and includes three Forbidden cards, so it is scored as a theoretical, structural-only read and the final score is capped low. No combo data exists, so the floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference. Popularity in the usage statistics confirms the list is a real archetype build and did not earn points on its own. The score was built from the deck as a system, not by averaging its card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 57, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); engine conflicts (-4). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(57) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(35) = 52.6; context modifiers -12 gives 40.6; Illegal-deck cap applied gives 30 (theoretical/structural-only). Meta Power provisional.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.92 · 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 searcher and starter density gives a high chance of a live turn 1 (Inferred).
• Layered interaction: hand traps, Ash Blossom and negation text answer both turns (Inferred).
• Extra Deck closers reach 3000+ ATK with piercing or multi-attack options (Verified stats).

Weaknesses

• Illegal under OCG copy limits: three Forbidden cards and six over-limit cards (Verified).
• No Side Deck: zero post-side adaptability (Verified).
• Low exact archetype purity (31.4%) and 48 off-archetype copies, which weakens engine coherence (Verified).

Critical choke points

• Dependence on the Vanquish Soul starter-to-Special-Summon chain: an early hand trap or negation removes the first monster and the chain stalls (Inferred).
• Forbidden and Limited cards in the opening hand mean the list is not playable as-is until corrected (Verified).

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is illegal: nine copy-limit or Forbidden violations listed in legality.; Main 55 and Extra 15 are inside OCG size rules; Side 0 is inside the 0-15 range.; Exact archetype purity 31.4%; 48 off-archetype copies.; Printed ATK values of the Extra Deck threats.
• Observed: Archetype core usage: 15 of 25 core cards present (60%).
• Inferred: Searcher group chance of at least one hit in hand 5: 0.92.; Archetype core group chance of at least one card in hand 5: 0.99.; Going-second hand-trap chance: 0.58.; Interaction and resilience reads from card text.
• Provisional: Format fit and matchup coverage: no dated meta sample or 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 for this deck. Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied. Side Deck is empty: no post-side data.