Temple of the Kings Deck #773282 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 15/100 (±5 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Control, 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: Extra Deck boss monsters (Eldlich the Mad Golden Lord, Superdreadnought Rail Cannon Gustav Max, Anubis the Last Judge) converted from the Temple of the Kings / Apophis / Eldlich engine; Trap-based negation and Solemn-protected board, then Fusion/Xyz pressure
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on a searcher-bearing Trap or Spell (Treasures of the Kings, The Man with the Mark, Eldlich the Golden Lord) and set up Temple of the Kings; protect with Solemn/Infinite Impermanence
• Turn 2 (going second): Six-card hand with hand traps (Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C, Evenly Matched, Dominus Purge) to slow the opponent, then Dominus/Solemn negation into a Fusion or Xyz boss
• Recovery: Trap-in-GY recursion (Verdict of Anubis, Dominus Impulse, Golden Land Forever!) and Eldlich GY revival to rebuild board
• After siding: Not evaluable: side deck is empty (0 of 15 cards); no post-side plan exists in the list

Why it scores here

The deck's score is set by its system, not by averaging card scores. Its searcher group (13 copies) gives a 0.76 chance of at least one searcher in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred), and the trap-based engine (Temple of the Kings, Apophis, Eldlich) has redundant routes to a board. Its real strength is interaction: 22 negation-text and 24 removal-text cards plus 8 hand traps make the end board hard to resolve. Floor and median output are weak because no combos were supplied, so the ceiling cannot be measured and is not credited. The deck is Illegal: Varudras and Baronne de Fleur are OCG Forbidden, so it is capped at structural-only (roughly 51 before the cap) and scored 15. Popularity of the archetype (core cards present 53.8%) confirmed the list is real but did not add points.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary with Control secondary (disclosed; Illegal cap applies). Structural ≈ 51, Going First ≈ 47, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12). Final formula: Illegal deck: structural-only per rubric Step 2 (structural ~51, Tournament Reliability 40, uncertainty +/-5). Normal 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TR (~49) is NOT applied; capped to 15 because Forbidden cards are in the list.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.76 · 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 suite (8 hand traps, 22 negation-text cards) that slows opposing boards
• Redundant searcher group (13 copies) with multiple routes to Temple of the Kings and Apophis
• Extra Deck bosses reach 3000 to 3800 ATK
• Core cards present at 53.8% of the archetype's usage-standard list

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: two Forbidden cards (Varudras, Baronne de Fleur) are run
• Side deck is empty (0 of 15), so there is no post-side plan
• No combos supplied, so output (floor, median, ceiling) cannot be measured
• Trap-heavy main deck (31 Trap Cards) raises brick risk without a confirmed ratio
• Missing 6 usage-core cards, including Merciless Scorpion of Serket and Super Starslayer TY-PHON

Critical choke points

• Temple of the Kings (1 copy) gates the Apophis and Trap-recursion lines
• Forbidden Extra Deck cards cannot be played, so the list cannot be used as written

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Forbidden status for Varudras and Baronne de Fleur (OCG legal copies 0); Main 55 and Extra 15 are within OCG size rules; Extra Deck breakdown: 5 Fusion, 4 Link, 4 Xyz, 2 Synchro; Usage-core: 7 of 13 cards present (53.8%)
• Inferred: P(at least one searcher in opening 5) = 0.76; Interaction density from negation and removal text; Consistency and brick estimates from composition and probabilities
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Format fit (no tournament link)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied; floor, median and ceiling are text-only No tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry; going-first/second and matchup signals are Inferred Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample Side deck is empty; no post-side data