Ashened Deck #774922 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Midrange, Toolbox
• 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: Field-Zone Obsidim engine Special Summons Ashened Pyro monsters from hand, then Fusion/Xyz/Link into Veidos and Hero of the Ashened City for board pressure; Veidos the Eruption Dragon of Extinction from hand destroys the opponent's Spells/Traps and Fusion Summons a Pyro Fusion via Ashened to Endlessness or Super Polymerization
• Turn 1 (going first): Set Obsidim in a Field Zone with Awakening of Veidos or Inferno of the Ashened, summon Priestess or King of the Ashened City, then extend into Fusion or Link monsters (not verifiable without combos; text-only Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre and Droll & Lock Bird to answer the first opposing starter, then rebuild the Obsidim field-zone line from hand (Inferred)
• Recovery: Ashened Pyro monsters in the GY can be shuffled back for Shaman of the Ashened City, and Ashened for Eternity or Inferno recovers Veidos or Ashened monsters (text-only, Inferred)
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan and no answer to the three over-limit cards (Inferred)

Why it scores here

The deck's engine is the Obsidim, the Ashened City Field Zone line: it has 3 Obsidim, 3 Awakening of Veidos and 3 Inferno of the Ashened, and the archetype core group has a hypergeometric probability of about 0.99 of at least one core card in the opening 5 (Inferred). Its ceiling comes from Veidos and Hero of the Ashened City, which can turn Ashened Pyro monsters into board pressure and destroy Spells/Traps, but no recorded boards exist, so this is text-only (Inferred). Its floor is weaker: the Main Deck is 52 of 55 cards off the exact Ashened name and carries 28 zero-level Spells/Traps, so consistency depends on the searcher and hand-trap package (13 hand traps and 16 searcher texts). Interaction is broad (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Ghost Ogre, Infinite Impermanence, Typhoon) and that helps going second, but it is over-limit: three Semi-Limited cards are run at 3 copies, which makes the list Illegal. The score comes from the deck's system-level consistency, engine ceiling and interaction density, not from Ashened being a popular archetype and not from averaging the card scores. The deck has no Side Deck, no tournament link and no win-rate data, so Meta Power is provisional and the result is structural only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo primary, no secondary weighting applied in the structural sum. Structural ≈ 58, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-4); no_side_plan (-3). Final formula: Illegal deck: theoretical structural-only. Structural 58 with 0.80 weight plus 0.20 x TR 40 gives 54, minus context modifiers (-7) gives 47, capped to 35 under the legality rule. Meta provisional.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.25 · 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 is dense: 34 core-group copies give about 0.99 chance of at least one core card in the opening hand (Inferred)
• Layered interaction: 13 hand traps, 18 tech cards and 18 removal-text cards (Verified flags/text, Inferred use)
• Compact Extra Deck with 8 Fusion, 4 Xyz and 3 Link options gives flexibility (Verified)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: three Semi-Limited cards are run at 3 copies against a limit of 2 (Verified)
• Low archetype purity: 25.7% exact-name Ashened, with 52 of 55 Main cards off-name (Verified)
• No Side Deck, so no post-side plan (Verified)
• Field-Zone engine depends on Obsidim being live (Inferred)

Critical choke points

• Obsidim, the Ashened City in the Field Zone is the gateway for the Ashened Special Summons (Inferred)
• Negation of the Field Zone starter by Ash Blossom or Droll ends the Pyro line unless the GY recursion is live (Inferred)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 3 cards over the Semi-Limited copy limit (Illegal); Main 55 and Extra 15 are within size rules; Archetype purity 25.7% exact-name, 52 off-archetype; Core group P(>=1 in hand5) 0.9942
• Inferred: Engine conversion and ceiling from card text only; Hand-trap and searcher consistency; Brick and median estimates
• Provisional: D13 matchup and format fit; Meta Power (null)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry: going-first/second and matchup results unknown No Side Deck, so post-side scoring is provisional Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample