Sangen Deck #456183 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Control, Toolbox
• Format: tcg

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 8 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Tenpai Dragon / Sangen FIRE Dragon board, finished by Synchro and Link beaters (Sangenpai Transcendent Dragion, Trident Dragion, Ruddy Rose Dragon); Attrition through hand traps and negations, then a single Extra Deck beater
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Tenpai Dragon starter or Sangen Kaimen, search a second FIRE Dragon, and keep Ash Blossom, Droll and Solemn up for the opponent's first answer
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird and Solemn to stop the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Tenpai searchers
• Recovery: Recur Tenpai Dragon Genroku and Fadra from the GY and re-search Sangen Kaimen or Sangen Summoning
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no sideboard in the export

Why it scores here

The deck is Illegal in TCG as submitted: three Forbidden cards are run, and Ash Blossom, Solemn Judgment, Sangen Kaimen, Tenpai Dragon Chundra and Droll & Lock Bird exceed their legal copy limits. Structurally it reliably opens a Tenpai Dragon or Sangen starter (archetype-core P(at least one in hand of 5) = 0.87, Inferred) and layers a dense hand-trap and negation suite that is strongest on the going-second side. The Extra Deck gives board-breaking Synchro and Link beaters, but the closing plan relies on one or two of them. No recorded boards exist, so the combo floor and ceiling are text-only inference. Popularity was not used to earn points, and card scores were not averaged. The raw structural estimate is about 55 and the final value is capped at 25 as a theoretical score only, because a deck that is Illegal in its format does not receive a normal contextual score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange 100 (structural weights only; no blend applied). Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 66, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12); illegal_theoretical_cap (-16). Final formula: Structural 55 and TR 45 give 0.80*55 + 0.20*45 = 53, then modifiers -12 gives 41; the Illegal theoretical cap sets the reported score to 25 (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.87 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.13 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Layered hand-trap and negation suite (Ash, Droll, Solemn x3 types, Infinite Impermanence)
• Redundant FIRE Dragon searchers and revival (Tenpai Dragon Paidra, Chundra, Genroku, Fadra, Sangen Kaimen)
• Strong going-second answer density

Weaknesses

• Illegal in the TCG format: three Forbidden cards and five over-limit cards
• Only 10% exact-archetype purity; many off-archetype interaction cards dilute the engine
• No sideboard in the export
• No combo data to validate the ceiling

Critical choke points

• Tenpai Dragon starter access, because the archetype-core starter is spread thin across the Main Deck
• Dependence on one or two Synchro/Link beaters to close

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status with 8 copy-limit violations and 3 Forbidden cards; Main 55 and Extra 15, within size rules; Archetype-core starter probability 0.8747
• Inferred: Structural dimension scores D1 to D14; Interaction density and hand-trap quality; Going-first versus going-second split
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit (D13)
• 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 sideboard in the export: post-side plan cannot be assessed No win-rate telemetry; Meta Power is Provisional