Tearlaments Deck #774658 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 6 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion and Ritual boss monsters (Tearlaments Rulkallos, Tearlaments Kaleido-Heart, Black Luster Soldier, Magician of Dark Chaos - Black Chaos) reached through Tearlaments and Light and Darkness Ritual engine cards; Link and Xyz pressure from Fiendsmith and Lswarm-adjacent Extra Deck cards; Nibiru as a one-card hand-trap-into-boss line
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Tearlaments or Kashtira starter, search via Tearlaments Scream / Primeval Planet Perlereino / Fiendsmith Engraver, and fuse or ritual into a boss while holding hand traps for the opponent's first response
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit, Kuriboh - Multiply! and Tearlaments Havnis / Ash-style hand interaction to answer the opponent's board, then rebuild through Mind Shuffle and Light and Darkness Ritual
• Recovery: Recur Tearlaments monsters from the GY through Tearlaments Heartbeat, Tearlaments Sulliek and Tearlaments Reinoheart, and re-search Tearlaments monsters with Tearlaments Scream
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has 0 Side Deck cards, so no post-side plan exists in the evidence

Why it scores here

The score is taken from the deck as a system: an archetype core that is almost always present in the opening hand (P≈0.99 for at least one of 37 core copies), a set of hand traps and recursion effects that can answer one interruption, and Extra Deck bosses that close the game. Consistency and brick management are held back by a 60-card main deck that is 84% off-archetype by exact name (only 12 exact-name Tearlaments copies), and by three different sub-archetypes (Tearlaments, Fiendsmith, Light and Darkness Ritual) plus Kashtira that compete for the same starter slots. No recorded boards exist, so the combo ceiling and median are text-only inferences and are kept at a neutral midpoint rather than estimated from the best-line examples. Popularity and archetype usage stats were not used to raise the score, and the card scores were not averaged. The deck is Illegal: six cards exceed their copy limits, including Kashtira Fenrir at 3 copies when it is Forbidden, so the Final Contextual score is capped low and this evaluation is theoretical and structural only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 52, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 45, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist and copy-limit exposure (-8). Final formula: Structural 52.2 (meta-neutral, renormalized) → 0.80·52.2 + 0.20·40 + modifiers (−8) = 42, then capped at 25 because the deck is Illegal (theoretical/structural only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.99 · 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 is almost always reachable in the opening hand (Inferred from the hypergeometric core-group estimate)
• Layered hand traps and negation text (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Kuriboh, Nibiru, Tearlaments Sulliek) give several answers to a single interruption
• Fusion, Ritual and Link Extra Deck options provide multiple boss routes

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: six cards exceed copy limits, including a Forbidden card
• Low exact-name purity (16%) across several sub-archetypes that compete for the same starter slots
• No side deck and no post-side plan
• No recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and median cannot be verified

Critical choke points

• Kashtira Fenrir is Forbidden in the TCG and must be removed entirely before this deck can be evaluated normally
• Starter access depends on 3-copy Limited/Semi-Limited cards that must be cut to legal counts

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Copy-limit violations for six cards (legality block); Banlist status for every restricted card; Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 sizes against tcg size rules; Card text and stats for all listed cards
• Observed: Usage stats: 19 of 25 core cards present (76% core coverage)
• Inferred: Archetype core opening-hand reliability ≈ 0.99 (hypergeometric); Brick and redundancy estimates from copy histogram and text roles; Interaction density and recursion value from text roles; Going-second hand-trap probability ≈ 0.64
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit (no tournament link); Side Deck adaptability (no Side Deck)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry in YGOVN for going-first, going-second or matchup Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample Deck has no title (title null) Side Deck is empty, so post-side performance cannot be evaluated