Solemn Deck #774139 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Stun, Toolbox
• 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 monsters Normal Summoned and recycled into Synchro beaters (Armor Master, Armed Wing, Silverwind) plus Stardust and Thought Ruler, with piercing and boss ATK on board; Chimeratech Fortress Dragon via Cyber Dragon materials, and Dark Armed Dragon for board removal
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon a Blackwing monster (Blizzard, Bora, Shura, Sirocco, Kalut), use Black Whirlwind to search a Blackwing, set traps and hold Mirror Force, Torrential Tribute or Dust Tornado for the opponent's turn
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold D.D. Crow, Pulling the Rug, Dimensional Prison, Bottomless Trap Hole or Solemn Judgment for their Normal Summon or attack, then Synchro over the surviving board
• Recovery: Vayu and Gale recover Blackwing monsters from the GY through banish-to-Synchro lines, and Black Whirlwind refills the hand
• 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

Scored as a connected Blackwing-plus-interaction shell, not as an average of its card powers. Eighteen Blackwing monsters in the 55-card Main Deck give roughly an 87 percent chance of at least one Normal-Summonable starter in a 5-card opening hand (hypergeometric, Inferred), so the engine is usually live on turn 1. The Extra Deck (Armor Master x2, Armed Wing x2, Silverwind, Stardust, Thought Ruler, Black Rose, Dark End) gives real closing power, and the 2500 to 2800 ATK bosses with piercing earn the offensive score. Interaction is broad (D.D. Crow, Pulling the Rug, Dimensional Prison, Mirror Force, Torrential Tribute, Dust Tornado, Solemn Judgment) and supports going second. The score is held down by 23 Trap Cards and 31 non-monster slots, which raise brick risk, by the absence of any combo boards or side deck, and by two Forbidden cards (Heavy Storm, Trap Dustshoot) that make the list illegal. Popularity and archetype stats did not earn points: the usage core (Solemn Warning, Chimeratech) is absent, and archetype purity is 1.4 percent exact-name.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: 0.85 Midrange + 0.15 Stun (approximate, disclosed). Structural ≈ 50, Going First ≈ 48, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-10); no Side Deck (-3). Final formula: Illegal cap applied: uncapped 0.80*Structural(50) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(40) + banlist modifier(-10) = 38, capped to 35; theoretical/structural-only, not a normal Final Contextual score

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.87 · 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

• 18 Blackwing monsters give a high chance of a live Normal Summon starter
• Broad interaction across hand traps, spells and traps, and negation
• Strong Extra Deck closers with piercing and boss ATK
• Blackwing recursion through Vayu and Gale

Weaknesses

• Two Forbidden cards make the list illegal
• 23 Trap Cards and 31 non-monster slots raise brick and dead-draw rates
• No side deck, so no best-of-3 plan
• No recorded combos or tournament data to validate consistency

Critical choke points

• Blackwing Normal Summon as the single starter route on turn 1
• Dependence on Black Whirlwind for hand refill

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main Deck 55 cards, Extra Deck 15 cards, Side 0 (within TCG size rules); Heavy Storm and Trap Dustshoot are Forbidden and run at 1 copy each; Allure of Darkness and Solemn Judgment are Limited and run at 1 copy, which is legal
• Inferred: Starter-live probability of about 0.87 from hypergeometric draw; Interaction density and removal read from card text; Synchro boss closing power from printed ATK and text
• Provisional: Meta and format fit (no dated metagame sample)
• 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 (going-first, going-second, matchup, brick and starter rates) Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No side deck supplied