Aleister Deck #774019 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon a large Invoked Fusion Monster (e.g. Hyperinvoked Aeon, Invoked Elysium) from the Extra Deck through the Aleister / Invocation engine; Synchro (Chaos Angel) and Link (S:P Little Knight, Aleister the Invoker of Madness) finishers, plus Aiwass-based Aleister searches
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Aleister the Reminiscent or an Invocation spell, search or summon a second Aleister monster, then Fusion Summon an Invoked monster while protecting the line with Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle or Ghost Ogre
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the hand traps (Ash Blossom, D.D. Crow, Ghost Ogre, Ghost Belle, Droll, Nibiru) to break the opponent's opening interaction, then continue the Aleister engine from the GY and banish zones
• Recovery: Recur Aleister and Invocation spells from the GY and banishment through Gamma Summon, Sacred Spirit Sword Aiwass and Aleister the Reminiscent, then rebuild the Fusion line
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The score is built from the deck as one system, not from averaging its cards. The Aleister core (33 copies of archetype-core cards, P(at least one in a 5-card opening hand) about 0.99) gives the engine high access, and the Invocation spells plus Aleister monsters lead into a strong Fusion finish. Interaction is broad: 17 hand traps, several negation effects and removal-text cards let the deck survive interruption and contest a going-second board. The score is held down by brick and redundancy risk from 25 distinct Main Deck cards with many tech and Level 0 spells and traps, by the complete absence of a Side Deck, and by the lack of any recorded combo boards to confirm the ceiling. The deck is Illegal: Called by the Grave and There Can Be Only One are Forbidden, and Ash Blossom and Droll are over their copy limits. Under the rubric an Illegal list is capped to a structural-only read. Archetype popularity earned no points and the high archetype-core usage was not treated as proof of power.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 56, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-6); copy-limit violations (-4); no sideboard / unrecoverable choke (-2). Final formula: Uncapped: 0.80*Structural(56) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(40) + ContextModifiers(-12) = about 41; capped to 35 because the list is Illegal (theoretical/structural-only). Meta Power provisional.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.99 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.01 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense archetype-core access (about 0.99 in a 5-card opening hand)
• Broad interaction: 17 hand traps and 17 negation-text cards
• Strong Extra Deck Fusion finishers (Hyperinvoked Aeon, Invoked Elysium)
• Multiple recursion routes from GY and banishment

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: two Forbidden cards and two over-limit cards
• No Side Deck, so no post-side plan
• High tech count and many Level 0 spells and traps raise brick and dead-card risk
• No recorded combo boards to confirm the ceiling or median

Critical choke points

• Aleister the Reminiscent and the Invocation spells are the gate to the Fusion line
• Hand-trap interaction depends on the opponent's opening and the hand composition

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality status Illegal with four copy-limit or Forbidden violations; Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0 within size rules; Archetype core group and per-copy hypergeometric draw odds
• Inferred: Starter access and brick estimates from hypergeometric draw odds; Interaction density from card text; Going-second hand-trap coverage; Fusion-line ceiling from card text
• Provisional: Matchup and format fit (no dated meta sample); Meta Power (null)
• 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 1 passcode (86120751) in CardIDList could not be resolved to a card (counted as main) no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN (going-first/second, matchup, game-level, brick/starter/OTK rates) Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied