Tenpai Dragon Deck #480484 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 29/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 6 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Tenpai Dragon and Sangen FIRE Dragon engine: search and Special Summon FIRE Dragons, then convert into Synchro and Link boards (Sangenpai, Trident, Ruddy Rose, Promethean Princess, Raging Phoenix) for board pressure.; Sky Striker Link and Spell-count pressure, with Sky Striker Ace Kagari and Shizuku as Link pieces.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Tenpai Dragon or Sangen searcher on turn 1 with Paidra, Dora Dora, or Sangen Kaimen, then Synchro or Link toward a FIRE Dragon board.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Droll & Lock Bird, Forbidden Droplet, and Lightning Storm style interaction to slow the opponent's first board, then rebuild the FIRE Dragon engine. The list has no side deck, so the going-second plan is thin.
• Recovery: Re-search Sangen or Tenpai Dragon monsters from the Deck with Sangen Summoning and Terraforming, and recycle FIRE Dragons from the GY with Fadra and Genroku.
• After siding: Not applicable: the deck runs no Side Deck cards, so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The deck is illegal in its format: six copy-limit violations, four of them Forbidden cards, so it does not receive a normal final score and is capped low. The structural read is the theoretical value of the list if the copy counts were corrected. The Tenpai Dragon and Sangen FIRE Dragon searchers give the deck a reasonable chance of opening a live engine, and the Synchro and Link Extra Deck coverage adds board conversion. Consistency is held back by only about 9% exact-name archetype purity, 64 off-archetype copies, and nineteen tech or generic slots that do not feed the engine. The list runs no Side Deck, so it has no post-side adjustment and scores poorly for going second. Popularity and archetype share were not used to raise the score, and card scores were not averaged into it.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 40, Going First ≈ 42, Going Second ≈ 34, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-10); copy_limit_violations (-4); no Side Deck (0). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional), then illegal-list modifiers; theoretical only

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.76 · 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

• Dense FIRE Dragon and Sangen searchers (Paidra, Fadra, Genroku, Dora Dora, Sangen Kaimen, Sangen Summoning) give a reliable opening engine.
• The Extra Deck covers both Synchro and Link boards with a strong top end (Transcendent Dragion, Ruddy Rose Dragon, Bucephalus II).
• Several interaction options are present in text (Droll, Forbidden Droplet, Lightning Storm, Harpie's Feather Duster, Raigeki).

Weaknesses

• The deck is illegal: six copy-limit violations, including four Forbidden cards.
• Only about 9% of the Main Deck is exact-name archetype, with 64 off-archetype copies.
• No Side Deck is run, so there is no post-side plan.
• Nineteen single-copy tech slots add brick risk and reduce engine coherence.

Critical choke points

• Droll & Lock Bird is run three times but only one copy is legal.
• Sky Striker Mobilize - Engage! is run three times but only two copies are legal.
• Four Forbidden cards make the list unplayable as written until they are removed.
• The Sangen and Tenpai searchers are single-copy in several places, so losing one searcher breaks the opening.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality status is Illegal: six copy-limit violations, four of them Forbidden cards.; Main Deck 55 cards and Extra Deck 15 cards, both within the TCG size rules; Side Deck 0.; Archetype exact-name purity is 8.6% (6 of 70 copies).
• Inferred: Opening-hand probabilities for the starter and archetype core groups.; Interaction density and board-breaking read from card text.; Going-first and going-second estimates, which depend on the card text and the missing Side Deck.
• Provisional: Matchup fit and Meta Power, which need a dated metagame sample.
• Data gaps: No recorded boards exist, so combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference. No tournament link, so archetype meta share and per-pilot records are absent. No win-rate telemetry exists for going-first, going-second, matchups or brick rates. No Side Deck is present, so post-side adaptability cannot be measured. Meta Power stays provisional without a dated metagame sample.