Blackwings Deck #773718 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Control
• Format: tcg

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Blackwing Synchro and Blackwing non-tuner beaters (Armor Master, Armed Wing, Dark Armed Dragon) converting a board that the deck's interaction has already cleared; Piercing damage from Blackwing Armed Wing and Armor Master once a Blackwing tuner plus non-tuners reach the field
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon Sirocco without tribute when the opponent controls a monster, search Blackwing with Black Whirlwind, and keep Solemn, Mirror Force or Dimensional Prison up as the first answer (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold D.D. Crow, Bora or Gale as hand-based answers and Special Summon from hand off a Blackwing, then use Mirror Force or Torrential Tribute against the opponent's Synchro or Normal Summon (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recur Blizzard from the GY on a Normal Summon, use Vayu's GY banish to reach a Blackwing Synchro, and rebuild through Blackwing Synchro extenders (Inferred)
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs no Side Deck (0 cards), so there is no post-side plan (Verified)

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system: a 25-copy Blackwing core gives a 95.9% chance of at least one core card in the opening five (hypergeometric, Inferred), so the engine is usually live, but each 3-copy starter alone reaches only about 25%. Interaction is the strongest part of the list, with roughly 28 removal and 9 negation texts plus Mirror Force, Torrential Tribute, Dimensional Prison and Solemn Judgment, which carries the deck through disruption (Inferred from card text). Extra Deck coverage is thin: only about five of the 15 Extra Deck cards are Blackwing Synchros, and the remaining synchros need non-Blackwing tuners. No combo, tournament or win-rate data exists, so no ceiling or floor could be measured, and popularity (usage stats and archetype identity) earned no points. Scores were not averaged from individual cards. The deck is Illegal because it runs two Forbidden cards (Heavy Storm, Trap Dustshoot), so the Final Contextual score is capped at 30 and the evaluation is structural-only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary; Control secondary used only for interaction read (disclosed, not weighted). Structural ≈ 57, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 54, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); illegal cap (-18). Final formula: Illegal cap: uncapped 0.80*57 + 0.20*50 = 55.6, less banlist modifier -8 = 48; capped to 30 (Illegal, theoretical/structural-only; Meta Provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.96 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.04 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Core Blackwing engine is very likely live in hand (≈96% for at least one core card in the opening five, Inferred)
• Heavy interaction suite: Mirror Force, Torrential Tribute, Dimensional Prison, Pulling the Rug, Solemn Judgment (Verified text, Inferred use)
• Multiple restart lines through Blizzard and Vayu recursion (Inferred)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Heavy Storm and Trap Dustshoot are Forbidden in TCG (Verified)
• Zero Side Deck, so no post-side adaptability (Verified)
• Only ~5 of 15 Extra Deck cards are Blackwing Synchros; flexible synchros need non-Blackwing tuners (Verified composition)
• No combo, tournament or win-rate evidence to confirm the ceiling (Verified data gap)

Critical choke points

• Blackwing tuners (Blizzard, Vayu, Gale): Blackwing Synchro extension depends on having a tuner live
• Solemn Judgment and Allure of Darkness are Limited at 1 copy; any reprint or ban change alters the list

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0 are within the TCG size rules (40–60, 0–15, 0–15); Heavy Storm and Trap Dustshoot are Forbidden in TCG and run one copy each (Illegal); Allure of Darkness and Solemn Judgment are Limited at 1 copy each (legal); Archetype usage: Blackwing core is about 25 of 55 Main copies (Verified composition)
• Inferred: P(≥1 core card in hand5) ≈ 0.96; individual starters ≈ 0.25 (hypergeometric); Interaction density reads as high (text-only, semantic); Going-first and going-second plans are text-derived
• Provisional: Meta Power is null; no dated metagame sample; D13 matchup fit is provisional with no tournament link
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN (going-first/second, matchup, game-level, brick/starter/OTK rates) — those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No guides attached to the archetype No Side Deck, so no post-side evidence