Fiendsmith Deck #773230 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Stun, 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: Fiendsmith Fusion/Link end boards (Fiendsmith's Rextremende, Fiendsmith's Lacrima) reached through Fiendsmith's Tract and Fiendsmith Engraver, with Mulcharmy and Magical Musket draw/negate lines as the non-engine backbone.; Magical Musket Mastermind Caspar and Magical Musketeer Max Link boards, plus Garura and Sea Monster of Theseus as Extra-Deck bodies.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Mulcharmy Fuwalos or Purulia for draws, search a Fiendsmith or Musket piece, and hold Solemn Strike, Ash Blossom or Droll & Lock Bird as interaction on the opponent's first summon.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit, Maxx "C", Red Reboot, Droll & Lock Bird) to slow the opponent's first board, then convert through Mulcharmy draws into a Musket or Fiendsmith Link.
• Recovery: Mulcharmy draw effects and Fiendsmith Engraver's GY recursion rebuild the hand after a single disruption; Solemn cards cost LP, so recovery depends on the life total.
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan to evaluate.

Why it scores here

The deck is illegal as submitted: it runs two Forbidden cards (Triple Tactics Talent and D/D/D Wave High King Caesar), so its score is capped and the evaluation is structural-only. Its strongest dimension is interaction: about a dozen negates, destroys and hand traps (Ash Blossom, Solemn cards, Mind Mirror Force, Red Reboot, Crossout Designator) give it real end-board and going-second value. The Fiendsmith engine is thin, with only about 17% of the main deck being exact Fiendsmith names and the core Sequence and Requiem both absent, so its board-building is weaker than the archetype's standard list. There is no recorded combo data and no side deck, so the floor, median and post-side scores are Inferred from card text alone. Popularity did not earn points: the archetype usage stats confirm the list is real but do not raise the score, and the dimension scores were not averaged from individual card power.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary with a Stun secondary; the rubric's Midrange profile is applied directly. Structural ≈ 54, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-6); No side deck (-4). Final formula: 0.80*Structural(54) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) = 52; minus context modifiers (-10) = 42; capped at 30 because the list is Illegal (theoretical/structural-only). Meta Power is provisional and excluded.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.61 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.39 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense interaction: Ash Blossom, Solemn variants, Mind Mirror Force, Red Reboot, Droll & Lock Bird and Crossout Designator
• Draw engines (Mulcharmy Fuwalos and Purulia) that rebuild card advantage
• Extra Deck with both Fiendsmith Fusions and Magical Musket Links
• Strong end-board bodies: Rextremende, Lacrima and Nibiru

Weaknesses

• Illegal as submitted: two Forbidden cards
• Low exact-archetype purity (17%); the Fiendsmith core (Sequence, Requiem, Desirae) is missing
• No side deck
• Many conditional draw bodies that brick in hand
• High tech count (20) that dilutes the engine

Critical choke points

• Fiendsmith's Tract and Fiendsmith Engraver as the sole Fiendsmith starters
• Every Solemn negate costs 1500 or 1000 LP (Solemn Judgment costs half the LP)
• Limited-status singletons (Lacrima, Engraver, Tract) cannot be replaced by a second copy

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is Illegal: two Forbidden cards run (Triple Tactics Talent, D/D/D Wave High King Caesar); Main 55 and Extra 15 are within OCG size rules; Side 0; Usage stats: Fiendsmith core Sequence, Requiem and Desirae absent from this list; Copy limits for Limited and Semi-Limited cards are respected
• Inferred: Engine consistency: P(core in hand) ≈ 0.61; brick rate ≈ 0.39; Interaction quality rated high from negate and destroy text density; Going-second hand trap value
• Provisional: Meta Power and format fit are unknown without a dated meta sample; Tournament reliability
• Data gaps: no combos supplied (combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference) no tournament link (archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent) no win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchups or brick rates Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No side deck is registered, so post-side adaptability cannot be scored