Evil Twin Deck #774807 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Stun, Toolbox
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 50 / Extra 20 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link and Synchro boss monsters (Topologic Blaster Dragon, Perfectron Hydradrive Dragon, Maliss Hearts Crypter, Ashtraja Susanoo) that remove or outlast the opponent's board; Evil Twin and Live Twin link beats (Evil Twin's Trouble Sunny, Maliss White Binder) after the opponent's interaction is spent
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Live Twin or Maliss starter, search or summon into the Lil-la or Maliss link route, and keep Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle or Infinite Impermanence up as hand-trap protection. Inferred, not supported by recorded boards.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Ghost Belle, Droll and Lock Bird, Maxx C, Nibiru) to break the opponent's first combo, then rebuild a Link board from the second wave of starters. Inferred.
• Recovery: Re-summon from the GY through the Ki-sikil and Lil-la revival effects, and use Maliss in Underground and the Maliss traps to banish and recycle. Inferred from card text only.
• After siding: None. The side deck is empty, so there is no post-side plan and no adaptation path. The list is not tournament-buildable as written.

Why it scores here

This list is scored as a structural read only, because it is Illegal: it runs 1 copy of Link Decoder, which is Forbidden in OCG, and its Extra Deck holds 20 cards against a maximum of 15. Its strongest system features are the 11 hand traps and negation cards (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Ghost Belle, Infinite Impermanence, Droll and Lock Bird, Maxx C, Nibiru) plus Mind Mirror Force, which give it good end-board interaction and some resilience against a single interruption. Its engine is spread across three sub-archetypes (Maliss, Ashtra, Live Twin) with 0 exact Evil Twin main-deck copies, so the consistency read is modest, and the 50-card main has many bricking hand traps and generic cards. No combo boards were recorded, so the ceiling and floor are inferred from text. The 35 score does not come from Evil Twin being a popular archetype and was not produced by averaging card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, Stun secondary (not blended numerically; profile chosen from hand-trap density). Structural ≈ 49, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 48, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-6); extra deck over limit (-3); no side deck (-2). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional) = 0.80*49 + 0.20*40 - 11 = 36, capped and rounded to 35 because the deck is Illegal

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.28 · 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

• 11 hand traps and negation cards give broad, multi-layer interaction against the opponent's first combo
• Mind Mirror Force, Infinite Impermanence and Ghost Belle provide end-board removal that is not reliant on one card
• Boss monsters with high ATK (Perfectron 5000, Topologic 3500, Sunny 3300) can close a game once a board exists

Weaknesses

• The list is Illegal: Link Decoder is Forbidden and the Extra Deck is 20 cards against a maximum of 15
• Three sub-archetypes (Maliss, Ashtra, Live Twin) with 0 exact Evil Twin main-deck copies dilute the engine
• Empty side deck: no post-side plan and no adaptation
• Heavy reliance on Limited and Semi-Limited cards (Perfectron, Droll and Lock Bird, Maxx C) that are fragile to banlist changes

Critical choke points

• Link Decoder is Forbidden, so any line that uses it is illegal and must be removed before the list can be played
• Single copies of the best boss monsters (Perfectron, Topologic) make closing depend on one card
• Hand-trap timing is the only protection, so one opponent's board with no targets for the traps ends the turn

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Link Decoder Forbidden with 1 copy run; Extra Deck 20 > 15; Main deck 50 cards, 33 distinct; 70 off-archetype copies; exact-name purity 0%; 11 hand traps and negation cards identified from card text; Side deck empty (0 cards)
• Observed: Usage stats: Live Twin Ki-sikil and Droll and Lock Bird appear in the core set of the archetype's recorded lists
• Inferred: Going-first and going-second plans from card text and hypergeometric draw odds; Consistency, brick and interruption scores; Combo ceiling and floor read from text only, since no boards were recorded
• Provisional: Meta power (null, no dated meta sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament link or meta-share)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record are absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN for going-first, going-second, matchup, brick or starter rates Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied only one guide, and it is about an older banlist state, so it does not describe this list's legality