Vanquish Soul Deck #774742 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 46/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Stun, Blind-Second/OTK
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Vanquish Soul and K9 Xyz/Link boards (Caesar Valius, K9-X Werewolf, K9-66X Jacks, Arc Rebellion Xyz Dragon) that take over after the opponent's combo is stopped; Number Xyz pressure (N.As.H. Knight line, C101, C104) and Vanquish Soul beatdown
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on a searcher line (Vanquish Soul Dr. Mad Love, Stake your Soul!, Vanquish Soul Start!) into a Vanquish Soul Special Summon and a Link or Xyz base; hold hand traps for the opponent's first response
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Nibiru, Skull Meister, Ghost Ogre, D.D. Crow, Droll and Lock Bird) to break the opponent's Summon or search, then rebuild from Vanquish Soul searchers
• Recovery: Recover monsters from the hand with Vanquish Soul Heavy Borger and Hollie Sue and reuse K9 searchers ('A Case for K9', K9-X Forced Release) to refill the hand
• After siding: Not evaluable: the export has no side deck (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck is scored on its system, not on an average of its cards. The archetype core (28 copies) is almost always reachable (P(at least one in a 5-card opening hand) = 0.98), and searchers reach a starter in about 81% of openings, so the engine starts reliably (Inferred). Its real strength is interaction: 15 hand traps and about 15 negation or removal cards give an estimated 87% chance of at least one hand trap in a going-second 6-card hand, which is why going-second power scores well above going-first. Its weaknesses are a 25.7% exact-archetype purity (K9, Mulcharmy, D.D., Greed, Kaiju and Bystial copies dilute the engine), no side deck, and three copies each of three restricted cards. The deck is Illegal, so the score is a theoretical, structural-only read capped low. Popularity and archetype usage stats were not counted as power.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary; Stun traits surfaced in modifiers, not as a separate weight profile. Structural ≈ 61, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 74, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: illegal copy-limit cap (-12). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(61) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) = 58; Illegal deck (copy-limit violations) takes an illegal-cap modifier of -12, giving 46. Theoretical/structural-only; not a normal Final Contextual score.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.98 · 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 hand-trap suite (15) with strong going-second coverage
• Archetype core reaches a live opening with very high probability (0.98)
• Searcher density (15) gives consistent access to the engine's starters
• Multiple Xyz and Link closers with high ATK (Werewolf 3300, Caesar Valius 3000, Arc Rebellion 3000)

Weaknesses

• Illegal: Ash Blossom, Izuna and Razen exceed their copy limits
• No side deck, so no best-of-3 adaptation
• Low exact-archetype purity (25.7%) splits the engine across K9, Mulcharmy, D.D. and others
• Many 1-of and off-archetype cards dilute the Main Deck (30 distinct Main names across 55 cards)

Critical choke points

• Three copies of restricted cards cannot all be legal at once; the deck must lose copies before it can be evaluated normally
• Dependence on the Vanquish Soul searchers and Stake your Soul! for the going-first starter
• Limited single-copy engine pieces (Hollie Sue, Little Knight, Solemn Judgment) each remove a single route if they are dead

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0; size rules legal for OCG; Three copy-limit violations: Ash Blossom 3 vs 2, Razen 3 vs 1, K9-17 Izuna 3 vs 2; Banlist statuses: Limited and Semi-Limited entries as listed; Card stats, text and archetype tags from evidence cards
• Observed: Usage statistics show the archetype core (28 copies in deck) with high inclusion rates
• Inferred: Starter access 0.98 and searcher access 0.81 (hypergeometric); Going-second hand-trap access 0.87; Interaction quality and recovery routes from card text; Midrange primary strategy from hand-trap-heavy composition and Xyz or Link closers
• 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 pilot match record are absent No win-rate telemetry for going-first/second, matchups, or brick/starter rates Side deck is empty, so post-side adaptability cannot be evaluated Meta power is provisional without a dated metagame sample