Darklord Deck #774187 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Darklord Fusion and Link boards (The First Darklord, Darklord Eveningstar, Darklord Morningstar, Darklord Zerato) pressured by 2400-3000 ATK bodies; Recursion-driven grind through Darklord Ixchel, Amdusc, Ukoback and Gulgolet, which regenerate Darklord cards from the GY
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Darklord Gulgolet, Djehuty or Ukoback to Special Summon a Darklord, then reach a Fusion or Link through Darklord Dance, Banishment of the Darklords or Darklord Contact
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 8 hand traps (Ash Blossom, Herald of Orange/Green/Purple Light, Droll and Lock Bird, PSY-Framegear Gamma) to slow the opponent's first combo, then rebuild from the GY
• Recovery: Recover through Darklord Ixchel and Amdusc from the GY, plus Banishment and Darklord Contact searches; Fallen Angel in Darkness can reuse banished Darklords
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs no Side Deck (Side Deck size 0), so no post-side plan exists

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Darklord starter: the 21-copy archetype core gives about 91.5% odds of at least one core card in a going-first opening hand (Inferred, hypergeometric), so the engine comes online often. Its conversion comes from Darklord Fusion and Link bodies with 2400-3000 ATK, and from recursion through Ixchel, Amdusc and Ukoback that refuels the GY. Interaction is layered, with 8 hand traps, Lightning Storm, Harpie's Feather Duster and Forbidden Crown, which gives it a real going-second plan. The score is held down by the 46.5% exact-name archetype purity, 38 off-archetype copies, the Illegal copy-limit violations and the absence of combo, tournament or Side Deck evidence, so every consistency figure is Inferred. Popularity was not used as a credit, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12); no Side Deck (0). Final formula: Illegal deck: pre-cap 0.80*Structural(55) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) = 53; capped at 30 as theoretical/structural-only per the legality rule. Meta provisional.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.25 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.09 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Archetype core is dense: 21 copies give about 91.5% odds of a core card in a going-first hand
• Layered interaction from 8 hand traps plus Lightning Storm and Harpie's Feather Duster
• Strong recursion and search through Ixchel, Amdusc, Ukoback, Gulgolet and Banishment

Weaknesses

• Illegal under the current TCG banlist: three cards exceed their copy limits
• Only 46.5% exact-name archetype purity; 38 off-archetype copies dilute the engine
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptability
• No recorded combos, tournament data or win-rate telemetry to confirm the consistency claims

Critical choke points

• Reaching a Fusion or Link summon depends on Darklord Dance or Eveningstar, each of which needs specific materials
• Going-first hands with no Darklord starter (about 8.5% estimated) have no fallback line

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 56, Extra 15, Side 0 are within the TCG size rules; Herald of Orange Light, Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization exceed their legal copy limits; Card stats and text for 30 distinct Main and 12 Extra cards; Archetype purity 46.5% with 33 exact-name copies
• Inferred: P(>=1 starter in opening 5) and the 91.5% archetype-core open rate; 8.5% brick proxy and the going-second hand-trap coverage of 62.2%; Floor and median output estimated from text only; Interaction quality and resilience read from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament context)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick and starter rates) Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample No Side Deck present, so D12 cannot be measured from data