Light and Darkness Ritual Deck #774008 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Tempo
• 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 boss monsters (Black Luster Soldier, Magician of Dark Chaos - Black Chaos, Chaos Angel, Titaniklad) closing from a Light and Darkness Ritual base, with Branded / Dogmatika side engines; Synchro boss monsters from the Extra Deck (Stardust Dragon, Enigmaster Packbit, Golden Cloud Beast) once a Tuner is on board
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on Mulcharmy / Griffoh / Ash Blossom style starters, search Light and Darkness Ritual or a Ritual monster, and convert into a Black Chaos or Black Luster Soldier ritual summon. Requires a starter to be in hand (about 25% per copy in a 5-card hand, Inferred).
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold 6 cards with hand traps (Ash Blossom, Nibiru, Droll, Ghost Ogre) to interrupt the opponent's first board, then continue through Mulcharmy draw effects and a Ritual or Fusion finisher
• Recovery: Recover via searcher text (Mind Shuffle, Ragged Records of Rites, Skull Archfiend of Chaos recursion) and Mulcharmy draws; the recovery depends on the Forbidden / over-limit cards being removed
• After siding: No side deck is listed (Side Deck size 0), so there is no post-side plan in the evidence

Why it scores here

This list is Illegal: five cards exceed their BanList limits (including two Forbidden cards, Called by the Grave and Albion the Branded Dragon), so it is scored only as a theoretical structural read and capped at 30 under the Illegal rule. The structure is a Light and Darkness Ritual core (26 copies of the archetype core group, about 97% at least one in a 5-card hand, Inferred) that can reach ritual and fusion bosses and has 13 hand traps and 17 searcher-text cards for interruption and recovery. Consistency is held back by low exact-name archetype purity (18.6%), with Branded, Mulcharmy, Dogmatika, Albaz Dragon and Bystial sub-engines competing for slots, and by the lack of any recorded combo boards (combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference). Popularity did not earn points: the core inclusion stats confirm the list is real and accessible but do not raise any dimension, and no card scores were averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, Toolbox secondary (Midrange profile used for scoring). Structural ≈ 50, Going First ≈ 48, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-7); copy_limit_violations (-5). Final formula: No reliable metagame, so Meta is provisional: 0.80*50 + 0.20*35 = 47; context modifiers -12 gives 35; Illegal cap applied gives 30 (theoretical / structural only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.25 · 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

• Large archetype core (26 copies, about 97% at least one in opening hand, Inferred)
• Layered interaction: 13 hand traps, 20 removal-text cards and 7 negation-text cards
• Recovery through 17 searcher-text cards and GY recursion
• High-ATK boss monsters for closing (Chaos Angel 3500, Black Luster Soldier 3000)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: five over-limit cards, two of them Forbidden
• Low exact archetype purity (18.6%) with several sub-archetypes competing for slots
• No side deck and no post-side plan
• No combo boards to verify floor or median output

Critical choke points

• Light and Darkness Ritual (1 copy) as the ritual enabler for the main ritual lines
• Any single starter (3 copies each at about 25% per 5-card hand, Inferred)
• Forbidden cards in the list must be removed before the deck is playable in format

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: five over-limit cards, including Forbidden Albion the Branded Dragon and Called by the Grave; Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 composition and 18.6% exact archetype purity; Archetype core inclusion 96.6% for 26 copies in the deck
• Inferred: Hypergeometric starter access of about 25% per 3-copy card in a 5-card hand; Hand-trap interruption and recovery from card text; Black Chaos / Black Luster Soldier ritual ceiling from text
• Provisional: Meta and format fit (no dated metagame sample); Going-first and going-second balance
• 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 are absent No win-rate telemetry (going-first / going-second, matchup, brick and starter rates) Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No side deck supplied