Witchcrafter Deck #773283 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · 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. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Witchcrafter Fusion boards (Witchcrafter Madame Rilliona, Witchcrafter Golem Aruru, Witchcrafter Haine, Witchcrafter Vice-Madame) converting a searched Witchcrafter engine into a high-ATK board (Inferred from card text); Magistus and Endymion Link/Fusion boards with recursion through Witchcrafter Walpurgis, Witchcrafter Celebration and Witchcrafter Unveiling (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Search a Witchcrafter engine monster with Witchcrafter Walpurgis or Witchcrafter Creation, then use Witchcrafter Genni, Witchcrafter Schmietta or Witchcrafter Pittore as discard/tribute fodder to Special Summon the next Witchcrafter (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Maxx C, Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring, Droll & Lock Bird, Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit and Effect Veiler to disrupt the opponent's first board, then rebuild through the Witchcrafter GY recursion (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recurse Witchcrafter Celebration, Witchcrafter Unveiling and Witchcrafter Creation from the GY during the End Phase, and use Mulcharmy Fuwalos / Mulcharmy Purulia draw effects to refill (Inferred)
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has 0 Side Deck cards (max 15 allowed), so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The deck is Illegal in OCG because three Forbidden cards (Magicians' Souls, Charmer Quartet in Bloom, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon) are run at one copy each, so it receives a capped, structural-only score rather than a normal Final Contextual score. Structurally, the Witchcrafter core is reliable to find: the 22 exact archetype copies give P(at least one archetype-core card in an opening 5) of about 0.93 and P(at least one searcher-text card) of about 0.83, which supports the engine's accessibility. Interaction is dense (11 hand traps, Maxx C, Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Solemn Accusation, Infinite Impermanence), which lifts end-board quality, while the deck's ceiling (Madame Rilliona at 3800 ATK, Golem Aruru, Haine, Vice-Madame) is real but unmeasured because no recorded boards exist. The score does not come from Witchcrafter being a popular archetype (usage stats only confirm the list is real), and it was not produced by averaging individual card scores; a low archetype purity of 31% and an empty Side Deck cap the structural estimate.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 53, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 44, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12). Final formula: Illegal cap: uncapped 0.80*Structural(52.7) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(40) = 50.2; banlist modifier -12 gives 38.2; capped to 30 because the list is Illegal (theoretical/structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.93 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.07 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Reliable archetype access: 22 exact-archetype copies give about 93% odds of at least one core card in an opening 5
• Dense interaction: 11 hand traps plus negation and removal text cover both turns
• Searcher and GY recursion (Walpurgis, Creation, Celebration, Unveiling) support resource recovery
• Extra Deck has real boss options (Madame Rilliona, Golem Aruru-style Witchcrafter boards, Vice-Madame)

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: three Forbidden cards are run (Magicians' Souls, Charmer Quartet in Bloom, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon)
• Low archetype purity (31.4%) with 48 off-archetype copies, which dilutes the engine
• Empty Side Deck: no post-side plan for best-of-3
• No recorded combos, so the ceiling and median cannot be measured

Critical choke points

• Witchcrafter engine monsters and their Spell discard costs (Genni, Schmietta, Pittore) are the main line; losing them to a hand trap or Droll & Lock Bird leaves a Spell-heavy hand
• The three Forbidden cards occupy slots the engine needs; once removed the list needs a legal replacement to keep the same plan

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 55 Main / 15 Extra / 0 Side; 3 Forbidden cards over copy limit (legal copies 0); Composition counts: Main 55 (36 distinct), Extra 15 (14 distinct), copy histogram 23x1, 7x2, 6x3; Hypergeometric odds from the Main Deck (archetype core 0.9318, searcher text 0.8345, hand trap 0.7565 going second); Archetype purity 31.4% (22 of 70 exact copies)
• Observed: Usage statistics show Witchcrafter Genni, Droll & Lock Bird and Verre present at 82 to 89% inclusion across the archetype
• Inferred: Engine consistency and brick rate from hypergeometric estimates and composition; Going-first and going-second plans from card text; Ceiling and floor from text, with no recorded boards; Pilot complexity from the number of decision points in the engine
• Provisional: Meta Power is null; no dated metagame sample or tournament link; Matchup fit (D13) is Provisional
• Data gaps: Legality failure: three Forbidden cards are in the list; the deck cannot receive a normal Final Contextual score until they are removed No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record are absent No win-rate telemetry; going-first and going-second splits are Inferred Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Side Deck is empty (0 cards), so no post-side evidence exists Data conflict: usage_statistics marks Endymion the Crescent Magistus (20714553), Dark Magician of Destruction (59400890), Zoroa (37260677) and Witchcrafter Pupils (69964858) as not in this deck, but the cards list has each of them in the Extra zone with 1 copy; the usage in_this_deck flags and core_cards_present count were not used for scoring