forbidden Deck #774653 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link Summon Sky Striker Ace monsters (Zeke, Zero, Camellia, Azalea, Kagari) and attack or banish through the Extra Monster Zone, with Sky Striker Ace - Raye and Roze as the Extra Deck-based engine starters; Fallen of Albaz / Ecclesia Synchro and Dragon Fusion route via The Dragon that Devours the Dogma, present as a single copy each
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Sky Striker starter (Mobilize - Linkage, Mecha - Widow Anchor, Mobilize - Engage) to add or set up a Sky Striker Ace, then Link Summon into a board with Forbidden Droplet and Radiant Typhoon Vision as support (Inferred, no recorded boards)
• Turn 2 (going second): Open a hand trap (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit, Droll & Lock Bird, Evenly Matched, Solemn Judgment) to break the opponent's first line, then rebuild through Sky Striker Ace monsters (Inferred)
• Recovery: Searchers (Witch of the Black Forest, Radiant Typhoon Vision, Sky Striker Mobilize - Engage, Mulcharmy Fuwalos draw) and Sky Striker Ace - Kagari / Zeke recursion from GY Spells (Inferred from text)
• After siding: Not evaluable: side_count is 0, so no post-side plan exists in the list (see D12)

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Sky Striker starter in roughly three of four hands (archetype core group P(at least one in a 5-card hand) = 0.748, Inferred), but the Sky Striker effects repeatedly require 3 or more Spells in the GY, so the engine only becomes strong after a few turns. Interaction is dense: 9 hand traps, Forbidden Droplet, Solemn Judgment and Mystical Space Typhoon give a layered end board, and the Extra Deck of 13 Link monsters offers wide coverage. Conversion and median output cannot be verified because no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling and the floor are both Inferred from text only. The list is Illegal: Ash Blossom and The Fallen & The Virtuous are each run 3 times against a limit of 2, and the score is capped low under the illegal-list rule. Popularity was not credited, and the score is not an average of individual card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 52.8, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 40, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: illegal_copy_limit (-12). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + modifiers = 39.2, then capped at 35 because the list is Illegal (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.75 · 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 interaction: 9 hand traps and multiple negation or removal Spells
• 13 Link monsters in the Extra Deck give coverage for many summon routes
• Core Sky Striker starters at 3 copies each give reasonable opening access (Inferred)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: two cards run over the Semi-Limited copy limit
• No side deck, so no best-of-3 adaptation
• Many Sky Striker effects depend on 3 or more Spells in the GY, which is not reached early
• Very low exact archetype purity (4.2%), so engine coherence depends on a toolbox of sub-archetypes

Critical choke points

• Spell count in the GY for Sky Striker Mecha / Mobilize / Ace effects (3 or more Spells)
• Sky Striker Ace monsters needed to Link-summon Sky Striker Ace = Zero, Zeke and Azalea
• Going second against a board with no hand-trap window

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Illegal, Ash Blossom and The Fallen each over the legal copy limit of 2; Main 56, Extra 15, Side 0; Main size within 40 to 60 and Extra within 0 to 15; Limited cards Droll & Lock Bird, Feather Duster, Reinforcement, Hornet Drones and Solemn Judgment are each run at 1 copy (legal); Usage stats show 5 of 6 core cards present (83.3%)
• Inferred: Archetype core P(at least one in hand5) = 0.748; Going-second hand-trap coverage P(at least 1 in hand6) = 0.669; Consistency, brick and interaction read from card text and composition
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit (no dated metagame sample, no tournament link)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record are absent no win-rate telemetry (going-first, going-second, matchup, brick or starter rates) Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied no side deck, so post-side performance cannot be assessed deck title is null in the export