Light and Darkness Ritual Deck #773670 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 5 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ritual and Fusion boards led by Black Chaos, Black Luster Soldier and Magician of Dark Chaos, backed by Extra Deck boss monsters (Chaos Angel, Granguignol, Titaniklad, Mirrorjade); Synchro and Fusion pressure from the Extra Deck once the Dogmatika and Fallen of Albaz line goes live
• Turn 1 (going first): Search Light and Darkness Ritual or Ragged Records, set up Griffoh, Mulcharmy and Ash Blossom to protect the T1 starter, then Ritual Summon into a Black Chaos or Black Luster board
• Turn 2 (going second): Open with hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Droll, Nibiru, Artifact Lancea) to break the opponent's first combo, then rebuild with Fallen of Albaz and Extra Deck summons
• Recovery: Skull Archfiend of Chaos and Ragged Records recycle the GY, Mind Shuffle and Mulcharmy draw cards, and Ritual monsters can be recovered from the GY
• After siding: Not evaluable: the export lists no Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck is Illegal as exported: five copy-limit violations include two Forbidden cards (Called by the Grave, Albion the Branded Dragon) and three Limited or Semi-Limited overages, so the score is capped at 30 and labelled structural-only. Structurally the list reliably reaches its archetype core, since P(at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand) is about 0.97, and the Ritual and Fusion boards it produces have high closing power (Black Chaos, Black Luster Soldier, Chaos Angel) and a dense interaction suite of hand traps and negation. Brick risk is real: the 13 hand traps and 17 searchers compete for hand slots, and the exact-name archetype purity is only 18.6% with 57 off-archetype copies. No combo boards, tournament link, or side deck exist, so floor, median and side-deck scores rest on text inference with low confidence. Popularity and usage statistics confirm the list is real and accessible but added no points, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 56.6, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-6); no Side Deck (-3). Final formula: Midrange structural 56.6; blend 0.80*56.6 + 0.20*45 = 54.3; modifiers -9 give 45.3; Illegal list capped to 30 (no normal Final Contextual score). Meta provisional.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.97 · 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

• Core archetype access is near-certain in the opening hand
• Dense hand-trap and negation suite (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Droll, Nibiru, Solemn Judgment)
• High-attack Ritual and Extra Deck boss monsters

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy counts on Ash Blossom, Branded in High Spirits, Droll and Lock Bird, plus two Forbidden cards
• Low exact-name purity (18.6%) with 57 off-archetype copies
• No side deck

Critical choke points

• The single Light and Darkness Ritual Spell is the only direct Ritual route
• Going-first opening relies on a 1-of Ritual Spell plus Ragged Records searches

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: five copy-limit violations, two Forbidden cards, main 55 and extra 15 within size rules; Card text and stats for all listed cards; Main deck and Extra Deck composition, archetype purity 18.6%; Usage stats: Light and Darkness Ritual core cards present at 82.4%
• Inferred: Hypergeometric opening-hand access, P(at least one core card) ≈ 0.97; Brick and hand-trap dead-draw risk from the 13 hand traps and 17 searchers; Interaction density and going-second responses from card text; Closing power from attack values on the Ritual and Extra Deck bosses
• Provisional: Meta power and format fit (no dated metagame sample or tournament link)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied, so combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record are absent No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN (going-first/second, matchup, brick and starter rates) Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied The export has no Side Deck, so post-side performance is not evaluable