Apophis Deck #775269 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 52/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion or Xyz boss (Azamina, Chimera the Illusion Beast, Divine Serpent Apophis line) backed by Temple of the Kings and Apophis Trap recursion; Trap-based negation and removal (Apophis the Swamp Deity, Verdict of Anubis, Mystical Space Typhoon, Typhoon) that keeps the board clear for a late boss
• Turn 1 (going first): Set Treasures of the Kings or Apophis the Serpent turn 1 to search and open Temple of the Kings and an Apophis trap, then transition into a Fusion or Xyz boss on turn 2
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (D.D. Crow, Skull Meister) and Mask of Restrict / Cosmic Cyclone style interaction to break the opponent's board, then rebuild through Apophis and Temple recursion
• Recovery: Recover from interruption through the multiple searchers (The Man with the Mark, Gazelle, Berfomet, Nightmare Apprentice) and Apophis Trap recursion from the Graveyard
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so no post-side plan can be evaluated

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens its Apophis engine: the archetype core group has about an 86% chance of at least one copy in a 5-card opening hand, and searcher-text cards appear about 87% of the time. Conversion depends on Fusion and Xyz bosses plus Temple of the Kings recursion, and the lack of recorded boards means the ceiling and median are text-only Inferred reads, so they are scored conservatively. Interaction is the strongest part of the system, with 23 removal-text cards, 12 negation-text cards, and 4 hand traps. The main deck is heavy at 55 cards with only 5.7% exact-name Apophis purity, and the empty side deck gives no post-side plan. Popularity in the usage stats confirms the list is real and accessible but earns no points on its own, and card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, Combo secondary (approx. 80/20 by weight). Structural ≈ 57, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: No side deck (-2); Heavy Storm exposure (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); Structural 56.6 gives 55.3 before modifiers, then -3 modifiers = 52

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.86 · 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

• Archetype core and searchers give high access to the engine
• Dense interaction suite of traps, spells and hand traps
• Multiple Fusion and Xyz boss options in a full 15-card Extra Deck

Weaknesses

• No side deck
• Low exact-name archetype purity; 55-card main with many off-archetype slots
• No recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and median are unverified

Critical choke points

• Temple of the Kings and Apophis trap access for the main engine
• Single-copy boss pieces (Azamina, Chimera the Illusion Beast) in the Extra Deck

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is legal in OCG with 55 main, 15 extra and 0 side cards; Heavy Storm is Limited 1 and run at 1 copy; Archetype core group P(at least one in hand of 5) = 0.86; Removal-text count is 23 and negation-text count is 12
• Observed: Archetype usage statistics show the Apophis core is present in the deck (10 of 15 core cards)
• Inferred: Starter consistency estimate based on hypergeometric draw odds; Combo ceiling and median inferred from card text only; Interaction quality read from text and hand-trap count
• Provisional: Meta power is null without a dated metagame sample; Matchup and format fit cannot be assessed without tournament data
• Data gaps: no combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent no side deck; post-side plan cannot be assessed no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN; going-first and going-second splits are Inferred Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied