Kuriboh Deck #774464 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fur Hire board pressure (Rex, Ride / Dyna / Donner / Folgo) with Mulcharmy card advantage; Extra Deck threats (Galaxy-Eyes Photon Lord, The Zombie Vampire, Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS) after an Ars Magna or Power Patron setup
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Fur Hire or Mulcharmy searcher, use Fur Hire Special Summon chains into a Link or Xyz, and hold Ash Blossom and Droll for Quick Effect protection
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ghost Ogre, Ash Blossom, Kuriboh, Nibiru) to break the opponent's board, then rebuild through Mulcharmy draw and Fur Hire recursion
• Recovery: Banish Ars Magna or Rex from the GY to re-add Fur Hire pieces; Mulcharmy draws refill the hand
• After siding: No side deck is registered (0 of 15); no post-side plan can be evaluated

Why it scores here

The deck is structurally Illegal: it runs 3 copies of Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring against a Semi-Limited limit of 2, so it receives only a capped theoretical/structural read rather than a normal Final Contextual score. It was scored as a system, not by averaging card scores. The Fur Hire core (Rex, Beat, Dyna, Rafale, Donner, Folgo) and the Mulcharmy draw engine give it a real starter route, with about a 0.95 chance of opening at least one core-group card in 5 cards (Inferred), and 8 hand traps, 7 negation texts and 24 removal texts give layered interaction. Its output is unmeasured: there are no recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and median are text-only estimates with low confidence. The main weaknesses are an engine split across sub-archetypes (exact-archetype purity is only 5.7 percent across Fur Hire, Mulcharmy, Ars Magna, Power Patron and Medius) and an empty side deck, which leaves no post-side plan. Popularity did not earn points: the Kuriboh usage data confirms the list is real and accessible, but that does not make it strong.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 51, Going First ≈ 56, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 42. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-8); no_side_deck (-3). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional). Raw result 0.80*51 + 0.20*42 = 49.4, then modifiers -11 gives 38.4; capped to 35 because the deck is Illegal.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.95 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.05 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Large searcher density (23 searcher-text cards, ~0.94 chance of a searcher in an opening 5)
• Layered interaction: 8 hand traps, 7 negation texts, 24 removal texts
• Recursion across Fur Hire and Ars Magna supports multi-turn recovery
• Extra Deck has 10 Link and 5 Xyz threats to convert advantage

Weaknesses

• Illegal: Ash Blossom over copy limit (3 of 2)
• Engine split across Fur Hire, Mulcharmy, Ars Magna, Power Patron and Medius (5.7% exact-archetype purity)
• No side deck (0 of 15), so no post-side adaptation
• No recorded boards, so output and consistency are unmeasured

Critical choke points

• The Fur Hire searcher chain depends on the Fur Hire core being in hand or on the field
• Ash Blossom is the main Quick Effect protection and is currently over the copy limit

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Ash Blossom 3 copies vs Semi-Limited limit 2 (Illegal); Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0; size rules pass for TCG (40-60 main, 0-15 extra); Archetype purity 5.7%; copy histogram 22 singles, 3 doubles, 9 triples; Extra Deck breakdown: 10 Link, 5 Xyz
• Observed: Usage statistics confirm the Kuriboh core (24 core-group copies, 95% open rate proxy)
• Inferred: Starter hypergeometric consistency (~0.95 core-group open in 5); Interaction density from text roles (8 hand traps, 7 negations, 24 removal); Brick and conflict estimates from the multi-engine split; Going-first and going-second strength split
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament link)
• 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 absent no win-rate telemetry: going-first, going-second and matchup splits are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied no side deck registered (0 of 15)