Yang Zing Deck #604285 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 20/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 42 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro and Link beatsticks (Draco Berserker, Chengying, Mula Adhara, Dragite, Sahasrara) that attack into a board the opponent has already spent resources on; Hand-trap-protected Tenyi and Swordsoul engines that trade cards for a Synchro board
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Tenyi or Swordsoul starter, use Effect Veiler, Ash Blossom or Infinite Impermanence to protect it, then Synchro into a 3000 ATK boss (Inferred, no recorded boards)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold hand traps (10 in the Main Deck) to stop the opponent's first Synchro or search, then rebuild a board from the Tenyi GY and banish recursion (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recur Tenyi monsters from GY and banishment via Tenyi Spirit Adhara, Shthana and Vessel for the Dragon Cycle (Inferred from card text)
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck opens reliably through its 3-copy searchers and hand traps: P(at least one searcher-text card in a 5-card opening hand) is about 0.80 and P(at least one hand trap in a 6-card going-second hand) is about 0.83 (both Inferred from hypergeometric estimates). Its interaction density is high (10 hand traps, 11 negation texts, 15 removal texts), which carries most of the structural score. The engine is split across Tenyi, Swordsoul and Yang Zing, with only 3.5% exact-archetype purity, so card-to-card coherence is weaker than the individual cards suggest. There are no recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and median are text-only inference and carry low confidence. The score was built from the system: consistency, interaction and resilience, with no averaging of card scores. Archetype popularity was not counted, and the deck's own legality violations cap the final score at 20 as a theoretical, structural-only read.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary; Stun secondary used for label only, weights unchanged. Structural ≈ 52, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(52) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(40) = 49.6; Meta provisional; modifiers -12 (banlist exposure) -> 37.6; Illegal cap applied, final score 20 (theoretical/structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.8 · 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 hand-trap and negation coverage (10 hand traps, 11 negation texts)
• Multiple 3000 ATK synchro and link boss monsters
• Three-copy searchers and hand traps give stable openings

Weaknesses

• Illegal in the format: Triple Tactics Talent is Forbidden and Ash Blossom is over its Semi-Limited limit
• Engine split across Tenyi, Swordsoul and Yang Zing (3.5% exact-archetype purity)
• No Side Deck, so no best-of-3 adaptation
• 14 tech cards dilute the engine

Critical choke points

• Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and Effect Veiler are the main protection for the first Synchro, and the deck has no floodgate backup
• Tenyi recursion depends on a Wyrm monster in the GY or banishment

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Triple Tactics Talent is Forbidden and Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring is 3 copies against a Semi-Limited limit of 2; Card stats and text for Draco Berserker, Dragite, Chengying, Mula Adhara, Sahasrara; Deck composition: 42 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side, 13 archetype spread, 3.5% exact-archetype purity
• Inferred: Opening-hand probabilities (0.80 searcher, 0.83 hand trap going second); Engine coherence and brick risk from composition and card text; Going-first and going-second plans from role tags and card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (null); Matchup coverage and tournament reliability (no dated meta sample or tournament link)
• 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 exists in YGOVN (going-first/second, matchup, brick and starter rates) Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied no Side Deck: post-side adaptability cannot be evaluated