Dark World Deck #775225 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 40/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 16 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Dark World Fiend boards (Reign-Beaux, Grapha, Clorless) and Fiendsmith link/fusion pressure, reached after a hand-trap-protected opening; Chaos Angel and Galaxy-Eyes Photon Lord as Extra Deck closers once the board is established
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Gates of Dark World or Genta/Accession searchers, keep a hand-trap in hand, and search toward a Dark World Fusion or Link through Dark World Accession and the Fiendsmith lines
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Ghost Belle, Infinite Impermanence and Droll to disrupt the opponent's engine, then rebuild through Snoww and Reign-Beaux recursion from the Graveyard
• Recovery: Recover from the Graveyard via Reign-Beaux and Grapha special summons, Mulcharmy draw effects, and Fiendsmith's Tract recursion
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs no Side Deck, so no post-side plan exists in the evidence

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system, not as an average of its card scores. Its engine is reliable on paper: the archetype-core group gives about 0.83 chance of at least one core card in a five-card opening hand (Inferred), and Dark World searchers and recursion give repeatable T1 to T2 access. Its interaction is the strongest part, with 17 hand traps and negate and destroy effects that keep it alive through a single disruption (Inferred from text). Its floor and median output are unmeasured because no combos were supplied, so the ceiling is text-only. The deck runs three sub-archetypes at once (Dark World, Fiendsmith, Mulcharmy) with only 27.8% exact-name purity, and it is over the Extra Deck limit and copy limits in OCG, so the score is structural and theoretical only. Popularity and archetype usage were not used to raise the score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 54, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-4); engine_conflicts (-4); illegal_list (-4). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional); Illegal deck, theoretical/structural-only

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.83 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.17 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense hand-trap and negate suite (17 hand traps, 9 negation text cards) that protects the engine on both turns
• Archetype-core group gives about 0.83 chance of at least one core card in opening five
• Repeatable Dark World recursion through Reign-Beaux, Grapha, Snoww and Gates

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: Extra Deck over limit and three cards over copy limit
• Three sub-archetypes (Dark World, Fiendsmith, Mulcharmy) with low exact-name purity
• No Side Deck and no recorded boards, so post-side and median output are unknown

Critical choke points

• Dark World Accession and Gates of Dark World as the only T1 searchers for the Dark World line
• Fiendsmith Engraver and Fiendsmith's Tract are both over the Limited limit, so the Fiendsmith line cannot be run as listed

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main Deck 56, Extra Deck 16, Side Deck 0 against OCG size rules; Over-limit cards: Ash Blossom (3/2), Fiendsmith Engraver (3/1), Fiendsmith's Tract (3/1); Archetype-core group proportion 0.83 at 5 cards; exact-name purity 27.8%
• Inferred: Starter and brick estimates from hypergeometric draws; Interaction quality from card text; Going-first and going-second estimates
• Provisional: Meta Power and format fit, pending a dated metagame sample
• Data gaps: No recorded combos; floor, median and ceiling are text-only No tournament link; archetype meta-share and pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry for this deck No Side Deck, so post-side adaptability is unmeasured