forbidden Deck #774154 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Midrange
• 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: Phantasm Sacred Beasts Extra Deck threats (The Chaotic Phantasmal Sacred Beasts, Infinity of the Sacred Beasts - Raviel) and Xyz/Fusion boss monsters reached through the Sacred Beast chain; Ghostrick Angel of Mischief Xyz line (10 Xyz Materials), plus Superdreadnought Rail Cannon Gustav Rocket attacks
• Turn 1 (going first): Search a Sacred Beast Level 10 Phantasm starter with Card of the Soul or Sacred Beasts Released, then chain Summoner / Martyr of the Sacred Beasts into the Level 10 Sacred Beast Special Summon routes; Varudras is a dead card in a legal build
• Turn 2 (going second): Open with Nibiru, Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit, or Buio to answer a summon or activation, then rebuild the Phantasm line from Fallen Paradise of the Sacred Beasts; no real hand-trap density backs this up
• Recovery: Sacred Beasts Released and Martyr of the Sacred Beasts recur from the GY, and Summoner of the Sacred Beasts can revive a Sacred Beast from the GY; the recursion is the main resilience source
• After siding: None: the side deck is empty, so the deck has no post-side adaptation at all

Why it scores here

The score comes from the deck as a system, not from averaging card scores. Searchers are heavily represented (22 searcher-text cards; P(at least one in a 5-card opener) ≈ 0.93), so the deck reliably finds something to do, but any single Sacred Beast starter has only ≈ 0.25 odds of appearing in the opening 5, so the Level 10 engine is not reliably live on turn 1. Removal and negation text (25 removal, 7 negation) and 4 hand-trap or tech cards give decent end-board interaction, but a going-second hand has only ≈ 0.38 odds of holding one of those 4. There is no combo data, so floor, median and ceiling are text-only inferences and are scored conservatively. Popularity and usage data were not used as a basis for points: the core-card usage stats show none of the archetype's standard staples are in the list. Because the list is Illegal (Varudras is Forbidden and the side deck is empty), the final score is capped and the evaluation is structural-only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 53, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 45, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12). Final formula: Final = 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) = 0.80*52.5 + 0.20*40 ≈ 50; context modifiers -12 gives 38; Illegal cap (structural-only, not a normal Final) sets 25

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

• Searcher density (22 cards) makes the deck find a card almost every turn
• Strong closing bodies: Chaotic Phantasmal Sacred Beasts 5000 ATK and Gustav Rocket 5000 ATK
• Recursion through Sacred Beasts Released, Martyr and Summoner gives recovery after a single interruption
• Compact Extra Deck with flexible Xyz and Fusion access

Weaknesses

• Illegal as submitted: Forbidden Varudras run, and the copy limit is broken
• Empty side deck, so there is no post-side plan at all
• Low single-starter odds in the opener (about 0.25 for a 3-copy starter)
• Phantasm chain is not coherent: 68 of 92 non-generic copies are off-archetype or generic
• Hand-trap and tech density (4) is low for going second

Critical choke points

• Level 10 Sacred Beast Special Summon: most lines need at least one Sacred Beast Level 10 already in hand or on field
• Varudras cannot be played in TCG, so any line that depends on it must be re-routed

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 55 and Extra 15 are within size rules (40-60 main, 0-15 extra); Varudras is Forbidden in TCG and run one copy, so the list is Illegal; Copy histogram is consistent: 4x1 + 9x2 + 11x3 = 55; Side deck is 0 cards
• Inferred: Starter probability ≈ 0.25 for a 3-copy starter in a 5-card opener; Searcher probability ≈ 0.93 in a 5-card opener; Going-second hand-trap probability ≈ 0.38; Phantasm engine coherence is low (68 off-archetype copies)
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit (no dated metagame or tournament data)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent No win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchup or brick rate Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample Side deck is empty, so post-side behaviour cannot be assessed