Formula Athlete (F.A.) Deck #600072 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±5 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 51 / Extra 19 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 9 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck boss monsters (Crystron Quariongandrax, K9-X Werewolf, Cyber Dragon Nova line) after a Crystron or K9 starter converts into a board; Xyz pressure from Chronomaly Vimana, Cyber Dragon Infinity and Arc Rebellion Xyz Dragon once materials are stacked
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Crystron or K9 starter (Sulfador, Sulfefnir, K9-66a Jokul or Lantern) and use Crystron Inclusion or Chaotic Elements to find the second piece, then protect the board with Infinite Impermanence or Ash Blossom
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird and Infinite Impermanence to answer the opponent's first summon, then convert the surviving Crystron body into a Synchro or Xyz
• Recovery: Crystron Cluster and Crystron Tristaros protect and revive Crystron monsters from the GY, while Clockwork Night and Chaotic Elements rebuild the hand
• After siding: Not evaluable: the Side Deck is empty, so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The deck is Illegal in the OCG format: the Extra Deck holds 19 cards against a limit of 15, and it runs copies of Forbidden cards (Called by the Grave, K9-04 Noroi, Spell Canceller, F.A. Dawn Dragster) and over-limit Limited and Semi-Limited cards. Under the rubric it is therefore capped low and scored as theoretical/structural only. Structurally, the Crystron core (Sulfador, Sulfefnir, Tristaros, Citree, Smiger) and the K9 Xyz line give it a reasonable chance of opening a live starter (about 0.27 for a three-copy card in a five-card opening hand, and about 0.94 for at least one archetype-core card) and a fair amount of interaction through Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence and Droll & Lock Bird. Those strengths are offset by a 70-copy off-archetype spread, a large Extra Deck overflow, an empty Side Deck and no recorded combo or tournament data. The score comes from consistency, interaction and resilience measured on the system, not from averaging the card scores or from the archetype's popularity.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, Toolbox secondary (approx. 80/20 by dimension). Structural ≈ 52, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: Illegal list cap (-12); Banlist exposure (-4). Final formula: Theoretical only: min(0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers, 25 illegal cap) = min(0.80*52 + 0.20*40 - 12, 25) = 25 (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.27 · 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

• Layered interaction: Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Droll & Lock Bird and Nibiru cover several phases
• Crystron recursion (Tristaros, Cluster, Citree) gives some interruption resilience
• Strong Extra Deck endboards: Quariongandrax, K9-X Werewolf, Arc Rebellion Xyz Dragon, Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: Extra Deck 19 > 15, copy-limit overruns and Forbidden cards
• Large off-archetype spread (70 copies) hurts engine coherence
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Several Extra Deck pieces (Eleskeletus, Quariongandrax) are unreachable without the rest of the list

Critical choke points

• Opening a Crystron or K9 starter in the 5-card going-first hand
• Extra Deck overflow must be cut before the list can be played

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Extra Deck 19 > 15, copy-limit overruns, Forbidden cards present; Main deck 51 cards is within 40-60; Copy histogram: 18 singletons and 11 three-copy cards; Side Deck count 0; Banlist statuses from the evidence pack
• Observed: Archetype usage stats show the Crystron and K9 core is standard for the archetype (inclusion 100% for core cards)
• Inferred: Hypergeometric starter access 0.27 (3-copy) and archetype-core access 0.94; Crystron recursion gives redundancy; K9 Xyz line gives pressure; Interaction density is high from card text; Consistency and brick risk estimates
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (no 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 match record absent no win-rate telemetry for going-first/second, matchup or brick/starter rates Side Deck is empty, so post-side performance cannot be assessed Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied