Herald Deck #774189 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

56 Main, 15 Extra, incl. Darklord Amdusc x3, Darklord Djehuty x3, Darklord Ukoback x3. Created Oct 25, 2026 by YGO Mod.

Deck Herald TCG

Created by: YGO Mod (20517634)

Created On: 10/25/2026

 
 


Official AI Deck Power Analysis
MidrangeConfidence: Low
30± 10/ 100
Power Score
Structural 56
Reliability 52
Going First 58
Going Second 62

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

Overall score Value
Structural Deck Power 56
Going First 58
Going Second 62
Meta Power provisional
Tournament Reliability 52
  • Primary strategy: Midrange
  • Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Control
  • 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 / Link / Xyz end-boards (The First Darklord, Darklord Eveningstar, Darklord Morningstar, Darklord Zerato) reached through Darklord recursion and Fairy-based Fusion access; Herald and PSY-Frame ATK bodies (PSY-Frame Driver 2500) supported by Lightning Storm and Harpie's Feather Duster board clears
  • Turn 1 (going first): Open a Darklord starter (Djehuty, Amdusc, Ukoback, Gulgolet) and extend into Darklord Dance or Super Polymerization for a Fusion; hold Herald of Orange Light or Ash Blossom behind the first Quick Effect
  • Turn 2 (going second): Use Herald of Green/Purple Light and Droll & Lock Bird to answer the first search or summon, then rebuild through Darklord Gulgolet and Ixchel from the GY
  • Recovery: Ixchel, Gulgolet and Amdusc recur Darklord cards from the GY; Banishment of the Darklords and Fallen Angel in Darkness reload the Darklord engine
  • After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck is illegal in the TCG format: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and Super Polymerization are run three times against a limit of two, and Herald of Orange Light is run three times against a limit of one, so the normal Final Contextual score is not applied and the 30 shown is a theoretical cap. Structurally, the Darklord core (21 copies, about 91.5% chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand) gives a reliable starter and recursion engine, and eight hand traps plus Lightning Storm and Harpie's Feather Duster give the deck interaction density. Median output and the going-second plan are scored from card text only because there are no recorded boards. Archetype popularity earned no points, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score. Exact-name Herald purity is only 11.3% (63 off-archetype copies across Darklord, generic, PSY-Frame and Forbidden), so the deck is a toolbox built around Darklord rather than a pure Herald list.

Dimension scores

# Dimension Score Evidence
D1 Engine Accessibility & Consistency 62 P(≥1 Darklord core in opening 5) ≈ 0.915; Darklord starters at 3 copies give P≈0.25 each for the single starter (Inferred)
D2 Opening-Hand Quality & Brick Management 58 8 hand traps and 12 searchers in 56 main cards, but 13 singleton slots include situational cards; proxy brick ≈ 0.085 (Inferred)
D3 Combo Conversion & Ceiling 55 No recorded boards; ceiling is inferred from text (Fusion access via Darklord Dance, Polymerization, Ixchel recursion) (Inferred)
D4 Combo Floor & Median Output 45 No combos supplied, so the median cannot be measured; text-only estimate (Inferred)
D5 Interruption Resilience & Route Redundancy 60 Eight hand traps and Darklord recursion (Ixchel, Gulgolet, Amdusc) give multiple routes after one interruption (Inferred)
D6 Resource Economy, Recovery & Grind 62 Recursion via Ixchel, Gulgolet and Amdusc plus Banishment and Fallen Angel reloads (Inferred from card text)
D7 End-Board & Interaction Quality 65 Herald Light negations, Droll & Lock Bird, Lightning Storm, Duster, Forbidden Crown, The Sanctified Darklord (Inferred semantic read)
D8 Going-Second & Board-Breaking Power 66 Going-second hand-trap coverage ≈ 0.62 with 8 hand traps; no going-second win data (Inferred)
D9 Offensive Pressure & Closing Power 68 Extra end-boards at 3000–4000 ATK (The First Darklord 4000, Eveningstar 3000, Morningstar 3000) (Verified stat)
D10 Main Deck Efficiency & Flexibility 48 56 main with 30 distinct cards and 13 singletons; 11.3% exact-name Herald purity (Verified count, Inferred efficiency)
D11 Extra Deck Efficiency & Coverage 55 9 Fusion, 5 Link and 1 XYZ in 15 slots; several off-archetype Extra cards (Verified composition)
D12 Side Deck Adaptability 10 No Side Deck in the export, so no post-side adaptability (Verified)
D13 Matchup Coverage & Format Fit 40 No tournament link and no dated meta sample; archetype share absent (Provisional)
D14 Pilotability & Error Tolerance 45 Multi-step Fusion and recursion lines with many decision points and nine conditional interaction effects (Inferred)

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, Toolbox secondary (approx. 80/20 applied through the Midrange weight set). Structural ≈ 56, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 52. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-4); engine_conflict (-2). Final formula: Illegal deck: normal Final Contextual formula not applied. Theoretical structural read only: Structural 56 (Midrange profile); reported score capped at 30.


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