Tearlaments Deck #775122 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Combo, Toolbox, Fusion/Link/Xyz
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion/Link/Xyz boss pressure from Tearlaments Rulkallos, Tearlaments Kaleido-Heart, Black Chaos and Magician of Dark Chaos - Black Chaos, all 3000 ATK class, enabled by Tearlaments searchers and Fusion/Ritual access; Light and Darkness Ritual line (Light and Darkness Ritual, Black Chaos, Black Luster Soldier) for a second ritual boss route
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Tearlaments searcher or Scheiren/Havnis/Merrli summon, search via Tearlaments Scream/Metanoise/Perlereino, then convert to a Fusion boss; Maxx C and Droll are held back as interaction
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Maxx C or Droll (hand traps) plus Tearlaments Sulliek negation to disrupt the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Kashtira/Reinoheart recursion into a boss
• Recovery: Recover through the GY: Tearlaments monsters and Fiendsmith's Tract re-enter from GY/Deck, and Pilgrim Reaper-style recursion is absent, so recovery depends on the 17 searcher-text cards
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no Side Deck (0 cards), so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system, not as an average of its 55 card entries, and its legality status caps the result. It reliably reaches a searcher line most games (P(at least one searcher-text card in a 5-card opening hand) about 0.95, Inferred), but the core starters are single-copy Limited cards, so the archetype core lands in the opening hand only about 78 percent of the time (Inferred). Its boss ceiling (3000-ATK Fusion, Link and Ritual monsters) is real on paper, yet no recorded boards exist, so conversion and median output are text-only estimates. Two Forbidden cards (Charmer Quartet in Bloom and Curious, the Lightsworn Dominion) put the list outside the format, so the score is structural-only and capped at 35. Archetype popularity (Tearlaments being top tier in its guide) earned no points on its own.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 48.8, Going First ≈ 48, Going Second ≈ 45, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: Forbidden cards in the main/extra deck (illegal list) (-8); Limited and Semi-Limited density (-4). Final formula: Illegal list: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability = 47.0, then context modifiers (-12) and an Illegal cap = 35 (theoretical/structural-only; Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.78 · 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

• Dense searcher text (17 cards) gives a high chance of finding an engine piece
• Three 3000-ATK bosses across Fusion, Ritual and Link give closing power
• Two hand traps and a negation card give some early and mid-turn interaction

Weaknesses

• Two Forbidden cards make the list illegal in OCG
• No Side Deck, so no post-side plan
• Core starters are single-copy Limited cards, which makes the engine fragile to a single hit

Critical choke points

• Single-copy Tearlaments starters (Havnis, Scheiren, Merrli) have a combined low chance of appearing in the opening hand
• Fusion access depends on Tearlaments and Fiendsmith materials, so a single removed monster can break a boss line

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is OCG (gameplay_type_id 7) with 40 Main and 15 Extra cards; Charmer Quartet in Bloom and Curious, the Lightsworn Dominion are Forbidden and over the copy limit; 14 restricted cards are Limited or Semi-Limited and run within their limits; Archetype guide exists (Hướng dẫn build Tearlaments) with a top-tier snippet
• Observed: Usage statistics show Tearlaments Havnis, Scheiren and Merrli in 75 to 81 percent of archetype lists
• Inferred: Core engine accessibility about 0.78 in a 5-card hand (archetype core group hypergeometric proxy); Searcher text covers the engine with about 0.95 probability in a 5-card hand; Interaction is layered across 12 removal-text and 1 negation-text cards; Going-second plan rests on two hand traps and Sulliek
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament link or meta-share sample); Post-side plan (no Side Deck)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN (going-first/second, matchup, game-level, brick/starter/OTK rates) — those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Deck has no Side Deck (side_count 0), so post-side adaptability cannot be measured