Diabellstar Deck #773297 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 43 / Extra 18 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 7 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro and Fusion beatdown from the Extra Deck (Diabell, Queen of the White Forest, Diabellstar Vengeance line, Elfnote June Pride, Saint Azamina) once the White Forest and Elfnote engines are live.; Recursion-driven grind: Elfnote and White Forest monsters returned from the GY through Synchro/Continuous Spell effects.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a starter from the 16-card archetype core, search a White Forest or Elfnote monster with Silvy, Elzette or Tales, then Synchro or Special Summon into a board; accept that the list is illegal as built and must be corrected first.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C or Ghost Ogre to answer the opponent's first summon or search, then rebuild through the GY-based Synchro recursion.
• Recovery: Return Synchro monsters from the GY via Rucia, Silvy or Poplar effects and re-Special Summon from the GY to rebuild a board after a hand-trap or negation.
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan; the deck cannot adapt between games in a best-of-3 as submitted.

Why it scores here

The score is built from the deck as a system: the 16-card archetype core has about a 92% chance of at least one piece in a 5-card opening hand, and the White Forest and Elfnote engines give several independent starters, which is what keeps D1 and D5 above the midpoint. Interaction is layered: Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C, Ghost Ogre and Crossout Designator give roughly ten negate or removal texts and seven hand traps, which lifts D7 and D8. Offensive closing power comes from Diabell, Queen and the Elfnote Synchro monsters, but the deck has no recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and median scores are text-only inferences. The score is capped at 30 because the list is Illegal: three Forbidden cards are run, Diabell, Queen is run four times against a limit of three, and the Extra Deck holds 18 cards against an OCG maximum of 15; the rubric's structural-only path applies and no normal Final Contextual score is given. Popularity was not rewarded: the archetype core inclusion rate and 14 searchers were not counted as strength, and no card scores were averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 52, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 42. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-10); Extra Deck over-size (-2). Final formula: Midrange profile Structural = 52. Without a dated meta sample: 0.80*52 + 0.20*42 = 50, minus 12 in modifiers = 38. Illegal cap applies (no normal Final Contextual score), so reported score = 30 (theoretical / structural-only).

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

• Layered interaction: about 10 negate or removal texts and 7 hand traps
• Two independent starter families (White Forest and Elfnote) with GY recursion
• Archetype core is well represented (16 copies, ~92% to open one in 5)
• High-ATK Extra Deck finishers (Diabell, Queen; Elfnote June Pride)

Weaknesses

• Illegal as submitted: 5 Forbidden cards, Diabell Queen x4 over the limit, Extra Deck 18/15
• Low coherence: only 3 exact archetype copies out of 61 non-core cards (4.9% purity)
• No Side Deck and no post-side plan
• No recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and median are unverified

Critical choke points

• Starter-dependent: the 3-copy engine starters each open only ~32% of hands
• Illegal Forbidden fusions and the Snake-Eye engine would need replacement before the list can be played
• Single-copy Limited hand traps (Droll, Maxx C, Lucina, Tinia) are not redundant

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: 5 Forbidden cards, Diabell Queen x4 over the limit 3, Extra Deck 18 over the OCG maximum 15; 43 Main Deck cards; 16-card archetype core at 92% opening rate; Side Deck is empty (side_count 0)
• Observed: Usage stats: The Hallowed Azamina, Mulcharmy Fuwalos and Deception of the Sinful Spoils are the top core cards and are present in this list
• Inferred: Hypergeometric starter consistency (0.32 for a 3-copy starter in 5 cards); Interaction density: about 10 negate or removal texts and 7 hand traps; Going-second answer density: Ash Blossom, Droll, Maxx C, Ghost Ogre
• Provisional: Meta power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit and tournament reliability (no 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 in YGOVN (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates) Meta power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Side Deck is empty, so post-side performance cannot be scored