Darklord Deck #775080 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 20/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Darklord Fairy board and Extra Deck Fusion/Link/Xyz finishers (The First Darklord, Darklord Eveningstar, Darklord Morningstar, Darklord Asmodeus, Darklord Zerato) once the Darklord core is live; Link and Xyz beaters (Condemned Darklord, Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon, Supreme King Dragon Dark Rebellion) built from the Fairy board
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Darklord starter (Djehuty, Ixchel, Contact, Gulgolet or Ukoback), search or Special Summon a second Darklord, then convert into a Fusion or Link finisher; hand traps are held for the opponent's first interaction
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Effect Veiler, Infinite Impermanence) on the opponent's starter, then rebuild the Darklord board from the graveyard via Contact, Fallen Angel in Darkness and Dance
• Recovery: Recover from the graveyard through Darklord Contact, Darklord Ukoback, Fallen Angel in Darkness and Darklord Superbia, and rebuild Fairy count for Asmodeus and Morningstar
• After siding: Not evaluable: side_count is 0, so no post-side plan exists in the export

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Darklord starter: the 19-copy archetype core gives roughly 0.89 probability of at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred), which keeps D1 moderate. Interaction is the strongest area, with 14 negation-text cards and 10 removal-text cards plus 10 hand traps, which earns D7 and some resilience in D5. Conversion is weak on the evidence available: no recorded combos exist, so the ceiling and median are text-only inferences and kept near the middle. The deck has no side deck, so D12 is near zero, and the whole list is Illegal because two Forbidden cards (Archlord Kristya and Ultimate Offering) are run, which caps the final score. The score was built from the system's consistency, interaction and finisher density, not from averaging card scores, and Darklord's popularity (usage stats show the core is standard) was not counted as power.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 54, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 56, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-12); Illegal cap (-19). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 0.80*54 + 0.20*40 - 12 = 39, then Illegal cap applied to 20 (illegal lists do not receive a normal Final score)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.89 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.11 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Large 19-copy Darklord core gives high opening access to a starter
• Broad interaction: 14 negation-text and 10 removal-text cards plus 10 hand traps
• Full Extra Deck with several 3000-ATK finishers and Fusion, Link and Xyz routes

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Archlord Kristya and Ultimate Offering are Forbidden and both run at 1 copy
• No side deck (side_count 0), so no post-side adaptation
• No recorded combos, so conversion and floor are unverified
• Many narrow hand traps and tech cards raise dead-draw risk

Critical choke points

• Darklord starter access in the opening hand (Djehuty, Ixchel, Contact, Gulgolet, Ukoback)
• Fairy count for Asmodeus and Morningstar summons
• Reliance on Extra Deck Fusion and Link finishers from a limited Fairy board

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Kristya and Ultimate Offering are Forbidden and over the copy limit; Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0 counts and card text from the export; Archetype core 19 copies and 0.89 starter-access estimate
• Inferred: Hypergeometric starter access and brick estimate; Interaction quality from negation and removal text; Going-first and going-second split from hand-trap timing; Dimension scores D1 to D11 and D14
• Provisional: Meta Power and D13 matchup fit (no dated meta sample)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied, so combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record are absent No win-rate telemetry; going-first and going-second splits are Inferred No side deck, so post-side performance cannot be assessed Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied