Gandora Deck #773678 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 40/100 (±10 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 45 / Extra 7 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ritual boss monsters (Black Chaos, Black Luster Soldier, Magician of Dark Chaos - Black Chaos) and Fusion/Link follow-ups summoned through Light and Darkness Ritual, Chaos Form and the Dark Magician / Light and Darkness Ritual engine; Gandora-G and Dark Paladin as board-breaking or closing threats once an engine monster is on the field
• Turn 1 (going first): Search Dark Magician / Light and Darkness Ritual cards with Magician's Rod, Ragged Records of Rites and Mind Shuffle, then convert into a Ritual boss; hold Ash Blossom and Ghost Belle as responses
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand-trap the opponent's first engine (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit, Ghost Belle & Haunted Mansion, Droll & Lock Bird) and rebuild through Kuriboh - Multiply! and Mulcharmy Fuwalos draw effects
• Recovery: Recur Dark Magician Girl, Skull Archfiend of Chaos and Ghost monsters from the GY through their own GY effects and Mind Shuffle / Ragged Records of Rites searches; relies on card text, not a measured recovery rate
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no Side Deck (Side Deck size 0), so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck opens a Light and Darkness Ritual / Dark Magician engine reliably: the 22 searcher-text cards give about a 97% chance of at least one searcher in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred, hypergeometric proxy). Conversion is credible but unmeasured, because no recorded boards exist and the ceiling comes from card text only (Ritual bosses at 2800 to 3000 ATK plus Fusion and Link follow-ups). The deck's strongest system feature is interaction: 8 hand traps, 7 negation-text cards and 16 removal-text cards give layered answers that carry into the second turn, which is why going-second and interruption resilience score above the mid-range. The score is pulled down by three factors: the illegal Ash Blossom copy count, a missing Side Deck (zero adaptability), and an engine that needs several specific pieces in the same hand. The 40 is a theoretical structural read capped for the copy-limit violation, not a legal competitive score. Popularity and archetype usage stats were not credited, and no card scores were averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 57, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring, Semi-Limited, run 3 of 2) (-4). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(55) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) = 53; banlist-exposure modifier -4 gives 49; Illegal legality cap applied, final = 40 (theoretical/structural-only, not a normal competitive score)

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

• Dense searcher text (22 cards) gives a near-certain first search in the opening hand
• Layered interaction: 8 hand traps plus negation and removal text cards
• Several independent routes to a Ritual or Fusion boss after an interruption
• Compact 7-card Extra Deck with Ritual, Fusion and Link coverage

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring is run 3 copies against a Semi-Limited limit of 2
• No Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan at all
• Mixed archetype core (1.9% exact-name purity) with 51 off-archetype copies, which weakens engine coherence
• Several single-copy Ritual pieces make the engine hard to rebuild after a bad hand

Critical choke points

• Light and Darkness Ritual or Chaos Form must be in hand to convert the ritual bosses; each is a single copy
• Ash Blossom copy limit: the deck is not legal until one copy is removed

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 45 main, 7 extra, 0 side; Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring run 3 copies against a Semi-Limited legal limit of 2 (status Illegal); Limited cards S:P Little Knight and Droll & Lock Bird each run 1 copy, which is legal; Card text and listed stats for all 33 cards in the export
• Inferred: At least one searcher in a 5-card opening hand ≈ 0.97 (hypergeometric); Hand-trap access ≈ 0.71 in a 6-card hand (going second); Starter reliability and brick rate from composition and card text; Interaction breadth from role tags and removal and negation text; Combo ceiling from card text only; no recorded boards
• Provisional: Meta Power (null): no dated metagame sample; Matchup fit (D13): no tournament link and no dated meta
• Data gaps: Illegal copy-limit violation (Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring 3 of 2): the score is a capped, theoretical structural read No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No Side Deck: D12 and the post-side plan cannot be measured No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent No win-rate telemetry for this deck Usage statistics conflict with the card list: Cyberse Contract Witch, S:P Little Knight, Selene, Dark Magician of Destruction, Dark Paladin, Master of Chaos and I:P Masquerena are flagged in this deck false in usage statistics, yet they appear in the Extra Deck of this list. The core-card presence figure (72%) may be understated. Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied