Kuriboh Deck #774783 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

• Primary strategy: Toolbox
• Secondary strategies: Midrange, Blind-Second
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 53 / Extra 17 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Dark Magician-engine Fusion/Ritual boards (Quintet Magician, Black Chaos, Dark Magician the Dragon Knight) converting through Extra Deck pressure, pending legal rebuild; Interaction-led grind using hand traps and negations (Ash Blossom, Nibiru, Maxx C, Droll & Lock Bird) to stall the opponent
• Turn 1 (going first): Search or draw a Dark Magician-named starter, use Magician's Rod, Soul Servant or Dark Magical Circle for draw and search, then build a Fusion or Ritual board (Inferred, no recorded lines)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold hand traps (8 hand-trap-tagged cards, about 65 percent to hit at least one in a six-card hand) and negate the opponent's first engine (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recover through Dark Magician recursion from the GY (Eternal Soul, Soul Servant, Secrets of Dark Magic) and rebuild with Extra Deck summons (Inferred)
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered (side count 0), so there is no post-side plan; it is a gap, not a neutral score

Why it scores here

The deck opens reliably into its searchers: P(at least one searcher-text card in a 5-card opening hand) is about 0.87 (Inferred), and the Dark Magician core is dense enough to make a Fusion or Ritual starter likely by turn 2. Its engine is spread across 33 distinct Main Deck cards with a large Extra Deck (12 Fusion, 3 Link, 2 Xyz), so conversion depends on several sub-archetypes working together rather than a single proven line. Interaction is reasonable on paper, with 8 hand traps, 11 negation-text cards and 19 removal-text cards, and the going-second hand-trap hit rate is about 0.65 (Inferred). No recorded boards, guides or matchup data exist, so the floor, median and ceiling are text-only inferences and the score is capped low because the list is Illegal. Popularity did not earn points, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score; the score reflects consistency, interaction and closing power on the system, reduced by the forbidden cards, the over-limit Extra Deck and the empty Side Deck.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 52, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 56, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); extra_deck_over_size (-2); no Side Deck (-2); illegal_cap (0). Final formula: Illegal cap applied: pre-cap 0.80*Structural(52) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) + modifiers(-12) = about 39, capped to 30 because the deck is Illegal (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.87 · 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 searcher suite (17 searcher-text cards) gives a high chance of finding a starter
• Layered interaction: 8 hand traps, 11 negation-text cards and 19 removal-text cards
• Strong closing bosses in the Extra Deck (Quintet Magician, Black Chaos, Dark Magician the Dragon Knight)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: three Forbidden cards and an over-size Extra Deck
• Archetype purity is very low (1.4 percent exact name), so engine coherence depends on sub-archetype overlap
• No Side Deck registered

Critical choke points

• Three Forbidden cards must be removed before the deck is playable in OCG
• Extra Deck must be cut from 17 to 15 cards

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality status Illegal with three Forbidden copy-limit violations; Extra Deck count 17 exceeds OCG maximum 15; Side count 0; Composition counts: 53 Main, 17 Extra, 33 distinct Main
• Observed: Usage statistic: Droll & Lock Bird core inclusion 92.3 percent, Ash Blossom 53.8 percent, Mulcharmy Fuwalos 65.4 percent missing
• Inferred: Searcher hit probability about 0.87 at 5-card hand; Hand-trap hit probability about 0.65 going second; Going-first and going-second plans from card text; Floor, median and ceiling from text only (no combos)
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit (no tournament data)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inferences No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent No win-rate telemetry: going-first, going-second and matchup rates are unknown Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample No Side Deck registered, so post-side behaviour is unevaluated No guides for the archetype