Exchange of the Spirit Deck #774558 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon Destiny HERO bosses (Destiny HERO - Destro-Dogma, Dreadnought Master, Destroyer Phoenix Enforcer) through Fusion Destiny and Polymerization-style fusion access; Contrast HERO Chaos and Skyborne Blue Cularsaw as alternate Extra Deck pressure, with Mulcharmy draw pressure as chip
• Turn 1 (going first): Opening starter (Dark City at Midnight, Mulcharmy, Fusion Destiny or Masked HERO Furnace) searches a Fusion Material route, then Fusion Summons a Destiny HERO boss, relying on hand traps to protect the line
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Droll & Lock Bird, Nibiru) to break the opponent's first summon or search, then rebuild through searchers and the Extra Deck
• Recovery: Destiny HERO Denier and Dark Angel return monsters to the Deck or GY for re-summons; Xtra HERO link and Destiny HERO revival effects recover pressure from the GY
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no side deck (0 side cards)

Why it scores here

The deck's Destiny HERO and Fusion core is consistent in the archetype sense: the archetype-core group is present in about 98.6% of opening 5-card hands, and Fusion Destiny, Dark City at Midnight and Ash Blossom each run three copies. Its ceiling comes from Fusion bosses such as Destro-Dogma (3400 ATK) and Dreadnought Master, and its interaction comes from eight hand traps plus Solemn and Dominus-style traps. The score is not an average of card scores, and the popularity of the archetype did not earn points: no tournament or win-rate data exists. The deck is illegal (two cards over their Semi-Limited copy limit, and Limited cards are present), so it is capped at 30 and the result is structural-only, not a normal contextual score. There is no side deck, so post-side adaptability is minimal.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 52, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-8); no_side_deck (0). Final formula: Illegal cap: pre-cap 0.80*Structural(52) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(40) + banlist modifier (-8) = 41.6, capped at 30 because the deck is illegal (structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ — · 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

• Archetype-core density is high, so the Destiny HERO engine is usually present in the opening hand
• Layered hand-trap and trap interaction (eight hand traps, Solemn and Dominus traps)
• Strong Fusion bosses with high ATK and direct damage routes

Weaknesses

• Two cards exceed Semi-Limited copy limits, so the list is illegal as built
• No side deck, so no post-side plan
• High pilot complexity from multi-step Fusion and hand-trap timing

Critical choke points

• Fusion Destiny and Polymerization-style fusion access as the single Extra Deck route
• Dependence on searchers (15 cards) to find a starter

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse exceed Semi-Limited copy limit; Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 sizes; 11 distinct Extra Deck names; 12 Fusion and 3 Link monsters; Banlist statuses: five Limited cards and two Semi-Limited cards in-deck
• Inferred: Archetype-core presence about 98.6% in opening 5; Hand-trap presence about 62% going second; Fusion access as the single route to bosses
• Provisional: Matchup and format fit (D13) without a dated meta sample; Meta Power (null)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN — going-first/second, matchup, brick and starter rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied no side deck present, so D12 cannot be measured from data