Witchcrafter Deck #774869 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 59 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 5 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Witchcrafter Fusion/Link boards (Witchcrafter Vice-Madame, Witchcrafter Pupils, Artemis) built off Witchcrafter searches and Spellcaster recursion; the boss-level Extra Deck threats are partly absent from this list; Magistus equip-and-recursion plus Endymion Link pressure (Verre, Genni), with Witchcrafter Haine as a removal-backed attacker
• Turn 1 (going first): Search a Witchcrafter engine card (Walpurgis, Creation, Terracottan), set up a Spellcaster or Witchcrafter body, and protect the first Quick Effect window with Ash Blossom, Droll and Maxx C
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand-trap the opponent's first engine (Effect Veiler, Ghost Ogre, Maxx C, Ash Blossom), then rebuild from the GY with Creation, Celebration and Terracottan
• Recovery: Witchcrafter GY effects (Creation, Celebration, Draping, Unveiling) and Genni/Schmietta/Terracottan recursion restore a Spellcaster board after interaction
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no Side Deck. Any post-side plan is absent (the 0-card side is legal but gives no adaptability)

Why it scores here

This list is capped as an Illegal structural-only evaluation: it runs five Forbidden OCG cards (Triple Tactics Talent, Charmer Quartet in Bloom, Borreload Savage Dragon, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, Cross-Sheep), so no normal final score is awarded. Its structure is the strength: the archetype core is present in about 95% of opening hands (at least one of the 26 core-group copies), and searcher text covers about 90% of hands going first, so the deck usually reaches a starter. Interaction is dense (11 hand-trap cards, 15 negation-text cards, Ash Blossom, Droll and Maxx C), which earns the going-second and interaction scores. Conversion is the weak point: there are no recorded boards, so ceiling and median are text-only inference, and the Witchcrafter Fusion bosses that would close are only partly present (Vice-Madame and Pupils in the Extra Deck, Zoroa and Chorozo missing). Purity is 28% exact-name, so the engine is spread across several sub-archetypes, and there is no Side Deck. The score does not come from popularity, and card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: 100% Combo weights; Midrange noted for secondary strategy only, not blended. Structural ≈ 56, Going First ≈ 56, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-12); illegal_cap (-13); no_side_deck (0). Final formula: Structural 56.3 (Combo weights); 0.80*56.3 + 0.20*50 = 55.1; banlist-exposure modifier -12 gives 43; Illegal cap applied, final score 30 (theoretical / structural-only, not a normal Final score). Meta provisional.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.9 · 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 present in about 95% of opening hands
• Dense hand-trap and negation package (11 hand traps, 15 negation-text cards)
• Strong GY recursion from several Witchcrafter Spells and Spellcaster monsters

Weaknesses

• Five Forbidden cards make the list illegal as built
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptability
• Exact-name purity of 28% spreads the engine across sub-archetypes
• No recorded boards, so the ceiling and median are unmeasured

Critical choke points

• Witchcrafter engine searchers (Walpurgis, Creation, Terracottan) are the first line; losing them to hand traps stalls T1
• Fusion bosses (Vice-Madame, Pupils) depend on Spellcaster fodder in the GY, which hand traps can remove

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Five Forbidden cards in Main/Extra (legal_copies 0); Main 59 and Extra 15 within size rules, Side 0 within 0-15; Core-group P(>=1 in hand 5) 0.9526 and searcher-text 0.8997 from the hypergeometric table; Archetype purity 28.4% and sub-archetype spread; Restricted-card statuses (Limited/Semi-Limited) all within copy limits
• Inferred: Brick rate and conflict estimates from composition and card text; Going-first and going-second scores from hand-trap density and text; Closing power from Fusion/Link stats and text; Combo ceiling from text only (no recorded boards)
• Provisional: Matchup and format fit (D13) without a dated metagame sample; Meta Power (null); Median output (D4) with no recorded boards
• 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 absent no win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates) Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied no Side Deck in the export