Ryzeal Deck #774175 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 48 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Xyz/Link boss pressure from Ryzeal Detonator, Ryzeal Duo Drive and Chaos Angel, reached through Ryzeal starters and Fiendsmith Extra Deck lines; Fiendsmith Desirae and Fiendsmith's Agnumday as Fiendsmith follow-up bosses
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Ryzeal starter (Ice Ryzeal / Sword Ryzeal / Node Ryzeal / Ext Ryzeal), use the Extra Deck Xyz to set up Detonator or Duo Drive while keeping Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence and Dominus Purge up
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand-trap the opponent's first search or summon (Ash Blossom, Maxx-style hand traps, Artifact Lancea) and rebuild through Mulcharmy draws and Primite Lordly Lode
• Recovery: Ryzeal Cross and Fiendsmith's Tract recover from the GY; Fiendsmith Lacrima and Desirae re-enter the field from the GY
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs zero side-deck cards, so there is no post-side plan in the export

Why it scores here

The deck opens a Ryzeal starter often enough to be playable: the archetype-core group has about an 86% chance of at least one copy in a 5-card opening hand, though each individual Ryzeal starter is only about 20% (Inferred). Its interaction suite is the strongest part of the system, with 9 hand traps, 14 negation-text cards and 17 removal-text cards, which lifts end-board and going-second interaction. Pressure is credible on paper through Ryzeal Detonator, Ryzeal Duo Drive and Chaos Angel, but no recorded boards exist, so conversion and median output are text-only inference. The score is held down by archetype dilution (exact-name Ryzeal purity is only 14.3%, spread across Fiendsmith, Primite, Mulcharmy and others), a missing side deck, and an illegal list. The 30 is the legality-capped result; the uncapped contextual formula gives about 38. Popularity and usage statistics confirm that the core cards are real and accessible, but they did not add points, and the score was not produced by averaging card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 53, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 42. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); engine_conflicts_and_dilution (-4); illegal_list_cap (-8). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) = 0.80*52.7 + 0.20*42 ≈ 50.5 uncapped; context modifiers -12 → ≈38; Illegal-deck cap applied → 30 (theoretical/structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.2 · 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

• Dense hand-trap and negation package (9 hand traps, 14 negation-text cards) with multiple layered answers
• Multiple Ryzeal starters and archetype-core presence of about 86% in a 5-card opening hand
• Extra Deck bosses with independent access routes (Detonator, Duo Drive, Chaos Angel, Desirae)
• Searcher density (16 cards) and GY recovery support rebuild after a stop

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy counts (Ash Blossom x3 vs 2, Fiendsmith Engraver x3 vs 1) make the list unplayable as built
• Off-archetype dilution: 14.3% exact-name Ryzeal purity across 17 related sub-archetypes
• Zero side-deck cards, so no post-side plan and no answer to changes in the metagame
• No recorded combos, so ceiling and median output cannot be measured

Critical choke points

• Ryzeal starter access: a hand without Ice Ryzeal, Sword Ryzeal, Node Ryzeal or Ext Ryzeal has no Xyz route to Detonator or Duo Drive
• Hand-trap dependence on the going-second turn (Ash Blossom and Infinite Impermanence both need the same resources)
• Fiendsmith Engraver, a Limited card, is the only searcher for the Fiendsmith lines and cannot be run three times

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring 3 copies vs 2 legal; Fiendsmith Engraver 3 copies vs 1 legal; Main 48 (within 40–60), Extra 15 (within 0–15), Side 0; Banlist statuses for Limited and Semi-Limited cards in the deck; Archetype purity 14.3% (exact name) and the archetype spread; Hypergeometric draw odds from the Main Deck
• Inferred: Starter access and brick estimates from hypergeometric odds and card text; Hand-trap and interaction density read from card text; Going-first and going-second plans read from card text; Dimension scores D1–D11 and D14
• Provisional: D13 matchup and format fit (no dated metagame); Meta Power (null); Tournament Reliability (estimated from D1/D2/D12/D14, no tournament data)
• 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 for going-first/second, matchups, starter or brick rates Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Deck title is null in the export No side deck, so no post-side evaluation