Nekroz Deck #775104 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 48 / Extra 19 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ritual Summon a high-Level Nekroz Ritual monster (Nekroz of Areadbhair, Brionac, Trishula, Unicore) and convert the board with Extra Deck pressure (Fusion/Xyz/Synchro) and Nekroz effects; Dogmatika Ritual and Fusion pressure (Dogmatika Maximus, Titaniklad, Fleurdelis) with Dogmatika Punishment and Dogmatikamatrix as support
• Turn 1 (going first): Opening hand with a Nekroz starter (Avance, Emilia, Nekroz of Brionac) or Nekroz Cycle/Divinemirror, search a Nekroz Ritual monster, Ritual Summon through Cycle or Divinemirror, and protect with Ash Blossom and Dark Ruler No More
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Evenly Matched) to stop the opponent's board, then rebuild with a Nekroz Ritual summon; Harpie's Feather Duster and Dark Ruler No More clear or negate the opponent's backrow and monsters
• Recovery: Recover through Nekroz searchers (Emilia, Shurit, Avance, Brionac) and Nekroz Cycle or Divinemirror to rebuild the Ritual monster from the GY or banishment; Dogmatikamatrix supplies extra searches
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered (side_count 0), so no post-side plan exists; the deck cannot adjust between games

Why it scores here

The deck is Illegal (Extra Deck of 19 versus a maximum of 15, and three copies of Semi-Limited Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring), so it receives no normal Final Contextual score; the 30 is a capped, structural-only read. Its engine is accessible: the 16 Nekroz core copies give an estimated 88% chance (Inferred) of at least one core card in an opening five, and 21 searcher-text cards give about 95%, so the deck usually opens with a way to start. Conversion is plausible on paper because the Nekroz Ritual monsters have high Levels and strong effects, but no recorded boards exist, so ceiling and median are text-only Inferred reads. Interaction is the deck's strongest area: Ash Blossom, Evenly Matched, Droll & Lock Bird, Dark Ruler No More, and Harpie's Feather Duster give layered negation and removal. The deck's weak points are the split between Nekroz and Dogmatika (exact-name archetype purity is 24%), the Extra Deck overflow, no Side Deck, and missing Ritual enablers (Nekroz Mirror, Dogmatikalamity). Popularity was not scored: Nekroz's archetype usage shows the list is real and accessible, but it earned no points by itself, and card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 54, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 48, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Extra Deck over size limit (-8); Banlist exposure (Semi-Limited copy overage) (-4). Final formula: Illegal list: no normal Final. Structural 54 (Midrange profile) and TR 45 give 0.80*54 + 0.20*45 = 52, then modifiers -12 give 40, then capped to 30 for the illegal list. Theoretical/structural-only.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.88 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.12 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Layered interaction: hand traps, negation spells, and removal are many and overlapping
• Searcher density (21 text cards) keeps the engine consistent
• High-Level Nekroz Ritual monsters give a strong endboard

Weaknesses

• Extra Deck over the limit (19 of 15)
• Ash Blossom over the copy limit (3 of 2)
• Split between Nekroz and Dogmatika with only 24% exact-name purity
• No Side Deck, so no adaptation
• Dogmatika Ritual monsters need Dogmatikalamity, which is absent

Critical choke points

• Reaching a Nekroz Ritual Spell (Cycle or Divinemirror) in the opening hand
• Ritual Summoning a Level 8-10 Nekroz monster with the tributes available

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main Deck 48 cards, within 40-60; Extra Deck 19 cards, over the maximum of 15; Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring: 3 copies, Semi-Limited legal 2; Side Deck count is 0; Exact-name purity is 23.9%
• Inferred: Starter access of 0.88 for the core group; Interaction density is high from card text; Ceiling is high from Ritual Level and ATK values; Pilotability is complex from the number of Ritual steps; Going-second hand-trap coverage of 0.63
• Provisional: Meta Power is null (no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit and Side Deck adaptability are unmeasured; Tournament reliability is not grounded in results
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: 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 for going-first/second, matchups, or brick rates Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample Side Deck is empty, so post-side is unmeasured Dogmatikalamity and Nekroz Mirror are referenced by card text but absent from the list