Utopic Deck #792974 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 42/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 48 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Xyz beatdown: a Rank 4 or 5 base monster leads into a boss from the 15-card Extra Deck, such as Number 39: Utopia, ZW - Leo Arms or ZW - Dragonic Halberd; Negation and ATK-gain effects on Xyz bosses that keep the board attacking through interaction
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon a Level 4 or 5 starter (Onomatokage, Heroic Challenger - Morning Star, War Rock Orpis or Overlay Booster), search with the searcher effects, then Xyz Summon a boss
• Turn 2 (going second): Special Summon a starter from hand where its conditions allow (Heroic Challenger, Overlay Booster), then Xyz Summon a boss from the two-card or larger board; no hand traps are available to slow the opponent
• Recovery: Recover from the Graveyard through Overlay Booster, Zexal Catapult and Xyz Encore, and rebuild with searchers
• After siding: None: the deck has no side deck, so it cannot adapt between games

Why it scores here

The deck is a legal, complete 48/15 Utopic-themed Xyz list whose main deck spans many sub-archetypes (only 1.6% of its cards carry the exact Utopic name), so its power has to come from how the pieces interlock rather than from one tight core. Its engine starts from a Rank 4 or 5 base monster that is usually a single copy in the opening hand: a two-copy starter appears in about 20% of opening hands on the play and 24% on the draw, and seven searcher effects raise the chance of at least one search-enabling card to about 56%. Once a boss is on board, the 15 distinct Xyz monsters (several at 2600 to 3100 ATK) and roughly 11 negation and 18 removal effects give it real closing power and interaction density, but many of those effects need specific Xyz or Number monsters in play. Popularity did not earn points: the deck runs only one of the archetype's standard core cards, and no recorded boards, guides, or tournament results exist, so median output and the going-second plan are inferred, and the scores were not averaged from the card scores. The absence of a side deck and of any hand traps caps resilience and best-of-three adaptation, which is why the final score sits in the low 40s.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange profile with D13 dropped and weights renormalized over 95 (meta-neutral, no metagame sample). Structural ≈ 47.7, Going First ≈ 54, Going Second ≈ 49, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 42. Modifiers: no side deck (-3); engine dilution (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (no metagame sample, so Meta is provisional and unused): 0.80*47.7 + 0.20*42 - 5 = 41.6, rounded to 42

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.2 · 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

• Legal and complete: 48 main and 15 Extra cards with no violations and no restricted cards
• Every card is at the unlimited banlist status, so no in-format banlist exposure
• Extra Deck of 15 distinct Xyz bosses gives many options for different boards
• Seven searcher effects and Graveyard recursion (Overlay Booster, Zexal Catapult, Xyz Encore) add redundancy
• Dense interaction text: 11 negation-text and 18 removal-text effects

Weaknesses

• Two-copy starters appear in only about 20% of opening hands on the play
• Only one of the archetype's standard core cards is present
• 35 distinct main cards and 62 off-archetype copies make the engine less coherent
• No side deck and no hand traps
• Many Xyz-specific interaction effects do nothing without the right Xyz or Number monsters on the field

Critical choke points

• A Rank 4 or 5 base monster must be on the field to Xyz Summon, and the list has few alternate ways to get one
• Several Extra Deck bosses need specific Number monsters or Xyz materials, so a missing piece stalls the boss

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal size (48 main, 15 extra, 0 side) within the OCG rules and no copy-limit violations; All cards at Unlimited banlist status; Only 1 of 11 archetype core cards present in the deck; Zero side deck cards and zero hand traps
• Inferred: Opening-hand probabilities for 2-copy and 1-copy starters and for the searcher group; Consistency, brick, and interaction scores from card text and composition; Combo ceiling and median read from card text, since no recorded boards exist; Going-first and going-second power blends
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit (D13), excluded from the meta-neutral Structural score
• Data gaps: No recorded boards (combo ceiling, median and going-first/second split are inferred from text only) No tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick and starter rates) Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No side deck, so there is no post-side data