Transcendosaurus Deck #636680 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Special Summon Transcendosaurus Meteorus or a 3500+ ATK Dinosaur Extra Deck monster (Transcendosaurus Gigantozowler, Transcendosaurus Glaciasaurus, Ultimate Conductor Tyranno) and protect it with Dinosaur recursion; Synchro and Fusion beatsticks (Swordsoul Supreme Sovereign - Chengying, Coral Dragon) after Dinosaur Normal Monsters are recycled from the Graveyard
• Turn 1 (going first): Search a Dinosaur with Fossil Dig or Ground Xeno, then use Souleating Oviraptor or Animadorned Archosaur to add or summon the next Dinosaur, and aim for a Level 4 or lower Dinosaur board that can reach Ultimate Conductor Tyranno or Transcendosaurus Meteorus
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and Infinite Impermanence to slow the opponent's first combo, then use Nibiru or Maxx "C" to punish a big summon and continue through Babycerasaurus and Petiteranodon revival
• Recovery: Rebuild from the Graveyard with self-revival monsters (Babycerasaurus, Petiteranodon, Linkuriboh) and Double Evolution Pill, which is the main recovery route after Heavy Storm or a board wipe
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan; the list cannot adapt between games in a best-of-3

Why it scores here

This list is capped low because it is illegal in OCG: three copies of Miscellaneousaurus (limit one), and Called by the Grave, Cross-Sheep and Baronne de Fleur are Forbidden, so the structural read below is theoretical and not a normal contextual score. Structurally the deck has a real engine: 23 Dinosaur monsters, five-plus self-revival or search effects, and a closing layer of 3500+ ATK Extra Deck Dinosaurs. Its interaction package (two Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Maxx "C", Nibiru, Harpie's Feather Duster, Heavy Storm, Crossout Designator) gives it a credible going-second plan. The weaknesses are a 5.5% exact-archetype purity (the Extra Deck mixes Evolzar, Fleur, Code Talker, Swordsoul and Guardian cards that do not share an engine) and no Side Deck. Popularity and archetype usage were not counted as power, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 56, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 54, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (illegal list) (-8). Final formula: Illegal list: min(35, 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + banlist modifier) = min(35, 0.80*56 + 0.20*45 - 8) = min(35, 45.8); Meta Provisional (null)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.34 · 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

• Dinosaur engine with several self-revival and recursion effects that continue after removal
• Layered legal interaction across hand traps, spells and negation text
• Extra Deck closers at 3000 to 3800 ATK with recursion on destruction

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: copy limits exceeded and Forbidden cards present
• Low exact-archetype purity (5.5%): the Extra Deck mixes unrelated engines
• No Side Deck, so the list cannot adapt between games

Critical choke points

• Transcendosaurus Meteorus and the big Extra Deck Dinosaurs depend on Dinosaur monsters being in the Graveyard, so a Graveyard wipe or Heavy Storm-style hit slows the whole line
• Ground Xeno and Fossil Dig are the only starters for the first search; both are 3-copy cards, so one early disruption leaves few alternatives

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: OCG legality: three violations and the Forbidden card list; Main/Extra counts (40 and 15) inside the size rules; Card stats and text for every listed card
• Observed: No recorded boards exist for this list, so none of the combo floor or median is observed
• Inferred: Starter odds (about 0.82 for the searcher group, 0.3376 for a 3-copy starter); Interaction layering and going-second value; Closing power from Extra Deck stats and recursion text
• Provisional: Format fit and Meta Power (no dated metagame sample)
• Data gaps: No title on the deck record No recorded boards, so combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link, so archetype meta-share and match record are absent The archetype usage statistics mark several Extra Deck cards (Gigantozowler, Horned Saurus, Guardian Chimera, Baronne de Fleur, Evolzar Dolkka, Evolzar Lars, Cross-Sheep) as not in this deck, although the card list runs them; the core-present percentage (36%) is therefore unreliable No win-rate telemetry exists, so going-first, going-second and matchup figures are Inferred Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample