Archfiend Deck #773340 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro-summoned Red Dragon Archfiend-family boards (Red Nova Dragon 3500, Red Supernova Dragon 4000, Red Hypernova Dragon 4500 ATK) backed by Resonator/Archfiend recursion through the Tuner-rich main deck; Tyrant Red Dragon Archfiend and Hot Red Dragon Archfiend board-clearing effects (Main Phase 1), with Red Zone and Red Dragon Archfiend destruction effects as follow-up
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Tuner (Soul Resonator, Crimson Resonator, Synkron Resonator, Vision Resonator) with a searcher (Resonator Call, Crimson Gaia, Earthbound Prisoner Stone Sweeper), then Synchro Summon a Red Rising Dragon or Red Dragon Archfiend-family monster
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Infinite Impermanence, Ash Blossom and Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit to answer the opponent's first board-building effects, then rebuild through the same Tuner and searcher lines
• Recovery: Recover Resonator monsters from the Graveyard (Synkron Resonator, Vision Resonator, Red Nova Dragon Tuner recursion) and re-run the Synchro line; this is text-based and unverified
• After siding: Not applicable: the deck has no Side Deck (side_count 0), so no post-side plan exists

Why it scores here

The deck is Illegal: it runs three copies of Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring against an OCG Semi-Limited limit of two, so under the rubric it receives only a theoretical, structural read capped at 30 and is not a normal Final Contextual score. Structurally the system is coherent: 18 Tuners and 16 searcher effects give a high probability of a live Synchro starter (P(at least one archetype-core card in a 5-card opening hand) ≈ 0.78, Inferred), and nine hand traps give ≈ 0.81 of at least one going second. The strongest closing power comes from the 3500–4500 ATK Red Dragon Archfiend-family Synchro monsters and the Main Phase board-clearing effects. Weaknesses are the absence of any recorded boards (no combo floor, median or ceiling can be measured), the zero-card Side Deck that gives no post-side plan, and an archetype purity of only 20% that splits across Resonator and generic Synchro support. Popularity did not earn points: the usage statistics mark only 4 of 13 core cards as present, and the scores were not averaged from card-level values.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 61, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 63, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: Illegal copy limit (banlist exposure) (-8); No Side Deck (-4); Illegal cap (-18). Final formula: Illegal deck: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + modifiers = 59.8 + (-12) = 48, then capped at 30 for the Illegal status (theoretical/structural only); Meta provisional

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.78 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.22 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Consistent starter access: 18 Tuners and 16 searcher effects
• Nine hand traps give strong going-second interaction
• Extra Deck closing power from 3500–4500 ATK Red Dragon Archfiend-family Synchros
• Layered Main Phase board-clearing options (Tyrant, Hot Red Archfiend)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring is over the Semi-Limited limit
• No recorded boards, so the combo floor and median cannot be measured
• No Side Deck, so no post-side plan
• Low exact-name archetype purity (20%) across Resonator and generic support

Critical choke points

• Tuner availability: most lines need a live Tuner plus a non-Tuner Synchro
• The Red Dragon Archfiend family requires Synchro Summons from a limited Extra Deck slot count

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 are all within the OCG size rules; Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring runs 3 copies against a Semi-Limited limit of 2; Extra Deck is 15 Synchro monsters across 13 distinct names; Red Hypernova 4500, Red Supernova 4000, Red Nova 3500 ATK from card data
• Inferred: P(≥1 archetype-core card in hand 5) ≈ 0.78; P(≥1 hand trap going second) ≈ 0.81; Interaction and closing read from card text; Consistency and brick estimates
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit (D13 = 50)
• Data gaps: Illegal list: copy-limit violation must be fixed before a normal score is possible No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and match record absent Usage-statistics conflict: The Crimson King (67809530), Hot Red Dragon Archfiend Abyss (9753964), Crimson Blade Dragon (3294539) and Scarred Dragon Archfiend (87451661) are in the card list but usage_statistics marks them in_this_deck:false, so core_present_pct is unreliable No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates) exists in YGOVN Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied