X-Saber Deck #775180 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 51/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 12 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro boss plays (X-Saber Gottoms 2600, Commander Souza 2500, X-Saber Souza 2500, Chengying 3000) built from X-Saber Tuners and recursed non-Tuners; Graveyard recursion through Faultroll, Emmersblade, Ragigura and Gottoms' Second Call to rebuild the board
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon a Level 4 or lower X-Saber (Boggart Knight or Garsem), search an X-Saber or Saber with Ragigura, Garsem, Darksoul or Fire Formation - Tenki, then Synchro into a boss (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand Pellina or Bruno to strip or remove a board, then use Saber Hole or Fulhelmknight to answer the first summon and rebuild through the Graveyard (Inferred)
• Recovery: Graveyard recursion: Faultroll, Emmersblade, Palomuro and Gottoms' Emergency Call return X-Saber monsters once the board is cleared (Inferred)
• After siding: Not available: the deck runs 0 side cards, so no post-side plan can be built from the list

Why it scores here

The deck opens reliably on paper: 12 searcher-text cards give P(at least one searcher in a 5-card opening hand) ≈ 0.85, and the X-Saber Tuners plus Synchro extras give a consistent route to boss monsters at Level 7 and above (Inferred). Recursion through Faultroll, Emmersblade, Ragigura and Gottoms' Second Call keeps a second line alive after a board wipe, and the Synchro bosses have strong ATK plus removal or negation text in Hyunlei, Souza and Fulhelmknight (Inferred). Scores are held back by the lack of recorded boards, so ceiling and median are text-only inference, and by a 46% exact-archetype purity that mixes in Mulcharmy, Rose Dragon, Naturia and Swordsoul pieces with conditional effects. Popularity and meta share earned no points: the deck has no tournament link and no usage-stat core, and the score was built from the system's consistency, interaction and boss density, not from averaging card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 57, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 52. Modifiers: Engine conflicts (off-archetype pieces) (-2); No side deck (-2); Banlist exposure (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers(-5)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.85 · 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

• Searcher density (12 text cards) gives an accessible T1 starter
• Multiple 2500+ ATK Synchro bosses with removal or negation attached
• Graveyard recursion gives a second line after disruption
• Legal in OCG with 40/12/0 size and copy limits respected

Weaknesses

• No side deck, so no adaptation
• Low exact-archetype purity (46%) and mixed engine pieces
• Several conditional effects (Mulcharmy empty-board clauses) that can brick
• No recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and median are unverified

Critical choke points

• Two face-up X-Saber monsters are needed for Faultroll and several interaction effects
• Pot of Prosperity is a single Limited copy in the deck

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 40, Extra 12, Side 0; legal in OCG with Pot of Prosperity at 1 copy (Limited); Exact-archetype purity 46.2% (24 of 52 copies); 12 Synchro monsters in the Extra Deck, with the boss ATK values stated above
• Inferred: P(≥1 searcher in 5-card hand) ≈ 0.85 (hypergeometric); Going-first and going-second plans and recovery lines are derived from card text; Ceiling and median are estimated from text, not from recorded boards
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and matchup fit (D13 = 50) need a dated metagame sample
• 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 and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied no usage-stat core present for the archetype (the only stat row is Droll & Lock Bird, not in this deck)