Kuriboh Deck #775189 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 58 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck boss monsters (Black Chaos, Magician of Dark Chaos - Black Chaos, Phantazmay, Chaos Angel, Super Starslayer TY-PHON) reached through Light and Darkness Ritual, Albaz/Dogmatika Fusion, Chaos and Stardust Synchro lines; Hand-trap and negation chains that keep the opponent off the board while a single boss finishes
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with a Branded/Albaz or Light and Darkness starter, search via Ragged Records, Mind Shuffle or Sk. Archfiend, and build one Fusion or Synchro boss; the hand-trap suite is held back
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Kuriboh - Multiply!, Skull Meister and Ghost Ogre to answer the opponent's first summon chain, then rebuild through Nibiru or Phantazmay
• Recovery: Recover through Mind Shuffle and Skull Archfiend of Chaos graveyard or banish recursion plus Ragged Records; the dependency on Extra Deck summons makes recovery slow
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no side deck, so no post-side plan is recorded (Illegal in any event until copy limits are fixed)

Why it scores here

The deck's power comes from the system, not from averaging its cards: 13 hand traps and 12 negation-text cards give it strong interaction density, which lifts going-second interaction and end-board quality. Engine accessibility is limited by an exact archetype purity of only 4.1 percent, with roughly 49 percent odds of at least one archetype-core card in the opening hand (Inferred), so the starter engine is split across Light and Darkness Ritual, Albaz Dragon, Chaos, Despia and Swordsoul lines that do not share one plan. No recorded boards exist, so the combo ceiling and median are text-only inferences and are scored with low confidence. Popularity of the Kuriboh name and the usage stats for Droll and Mulcharmy confirm the list is real but add no points on their own. The deck is Illegal (three copies of two Semi-Limited cards) and has no side deck, so it is capped at 35 and evaluated as theoretical and structural only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox primary with Midrange as secondary, disclosed 80/20 in the structural weighting. Structural ≈ 49, Going First ≈ 46, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 42. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-4); engine_conflicts (-3). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(49) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(42) - 7 modifiers = 41, then Illegal cap sets final to 35 (theoretical/structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.24 · 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

• Layered interaction: 13 hand traps and 12 negation-text cards
• Going-second hand-trap coverage at ~80% in hand6
• Multiple boss options in the Extra Deck (Black Chaos, Phantazmay, Chaos Angel, Starslayer)

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy limits on Ash Blossom and The Fallen & The Virtuous
• No side deck, so no post-side plan
• Low archetype purity (4.1%) across five or more sub-archetypes
• No recorded combos to confirm the ceiling

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz and Branded/Albaz Fusion access depends on a single core card (3 copies in deck, 2 legal)
• Light and Darkness Ritual chain requires a specific Ritual Spell and Ritual monster in hand

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 58 / Extra 15 / Side 0 sizes (legal size range); Copy-limit violations for Ash Blossom and The Fallen & The Virtuous; Banlist status: Limited (Branded in High Spirits, Droll & Lock Bird) and Semi-Limited (Ash Blossom, The Fallen & The Virtuous); Card text for listed hand traps, negations and Extra Deck bosses
• Observed: Usage stats: Droll & Lock Bird 92%, Mulcharmy Fuwalos 65%, Ash Blossom 54% inclusion
• Inferred: Starter hypergeometric odds (~0.24 per 3-copy card in hand5, ~0.49 archetype core); Interaction density and going-second hand-trap coverage (~0.80 in hand6); Structural and going-first/second estimates from card text and probabilities
• Provisional: Meta Power and D13 matchup fit (no dated sample or tournament link)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent No win-rate telemetry: going-first/second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Side deck is empty: post-side dimensions (D12) scored from a gap