Black Luster Soldier Deck #774871 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 26/100 (±6 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon a large beater or lock monster (Master of Oz 4200 ATK, Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning 3000 ATK, King Dragun, Last Warrior) from Metamorphosis, Fusion-based boss pressure; Removal-led control of the opponent's board (Mirror Force, Torrential Tribute, Heavy Storm, Ring of Destruction, Cyber Jar) followed by card advantage from draw and search effects
• Turn 1 (going first): Use Upstart Goblin, Jar of Greed, Sangan or Magician of Faith to find a Metamorphosis or BLS Envoy route, then remove the opponent's first threat with a removal spell or trap
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Mirror Force or Torrential Tribute for the opponent's first attack or Summon, then rebuild with Dekoichi, Parshath draws and Sinister Serpent recursion
• Recovery: Recover from a cleared board with recursion (Sinister Serpent, Magician of Faith, Gravekeeper's Spy) and card draw; Card Destruction is a Limited refill tool
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs no side deck, so no post-side plan exists in the evidence

Why it scores here

The list does not form one engine: exact archetype purity is 1.4%, with 69 of 70 main-deck copies belonging to off-archetype or generic cards, so starter access depends on a few single-copy routes and on Metamorphosis (2 copies) to reach 15 Fusion Monsters. Hypergeometric odds are about 0.25 for a 3-copy card in a 5-card opening hand and about 0.51 for at least one of the 7 searcher-text cards, which gives a modest chance of a live T1 but no reliable starter. Interaction is the deck's strongest area, with 22 removal-text cards, Mirror Force, Torrential Tribute, Heavy Storm and Ring of Destruction giving layered answers, but no combo boards were supplied, so conversion and median output are text-only inference. The score was not produced by averaging card scores, and popularity (archetype core cards absent here) did not earn points. Because three Forbidden cards are in the Main Deck and no side deck exists, this is a theoretical, structural-only read and the final figure is capped low.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 40.55, Going First ≈ 38, Going Second ≈ 44, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 30. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-12). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers; illegal-list cap applied (theoretical/structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ — · 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

• Broad removal and interaction density (22 removal-text cards)
• Layered answers on both turns: Mirror Force, Torrential Tribute, Heavy Storm, Ring of Destruction
• High-ATK Fusion finishers available (Master of Oz 4200, BLS Envoy 3000)
• Draw and search density (Upstart Goblin, Jar of Greed, Dekoichi, Parshath, Sangan)

Weaknesses

• No coherent archetype engine (purity 1.4%)
• Illegal in OCG: three Forbidden cards in the Main Deck
• Empty side deck for a best-of-3 format
• Only 2 Fusion enablers for 15 Fusion Monsters
• High brick and conflict risk from many single-copy off-theme cards

Critical choke points

• Metamorphosis x2 is the only route to most Fusion Monsters
• Mirror Force and Torrential Tribute are the main going-second answers with no side-deck backup

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Three Forbidden cards in Main Deck (legality check); Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0 counts; Card text and stats for all 55+15 cards; Archetype purity 1.4% and archetype usage stats present
• Inferred: Starter and searcher probabilities from hypergeometric draw odds; Fusion access from two Metamorphosis copies; Removal layering and interaction quality from card text; Going-first and going-second estimates
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and matchup fit (D13) without a dated metagame sample
• 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 for going-first, going-second, matchup or brick rates Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample Deck title is null in the export