Blue-Eyes Deck #698339 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 5 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Blue-Eyes White Dragon engine into Blue-Eyes Tyrant Dragon, Neo Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon or Blue-Eyes Ultimate Spirit Dragon boards, protected by hand traps; Synchro and Link extension pressure from Blue-Eyes Spirit Dragon, Stardust Sifr Divine Dragon and Lightstorm Dragon
• Turn 1 (going first): Search and summon Sage with Eyes of Blue or Maiden of White toward a Blue-Eyes White Dragon starter, holding Ash Blossom and Effect Veiler for interaction
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 0.90 probability of a hand trap in the six-card hand to negate the opponent's first engine, then rebuild through searchers and Mulcharmy draw effects
• Recovery: Recover through Mulcharmy Fuwalos and Purulia draw effects, Primite Lordly Lode and Wishes for Eyes of Blue searches, and Dragon's Mind as a backrow answer
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs no Side Deck (0 cards), so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck's structural read is moderate and was not averaged from card scores: the 2-copy Blue-Eyes White Dragon starter gives only about a 17% chance of a starter in a five-card opening hand (Inferred), so the engine is not reliably live on turn one. Its strength is interaction: 17 hand traps and 19 negation-text cards give roughly a 90% chance of at least one hand trap in a six-card going-second hand (Inferred), which lifts interaction and going-second scores. The ceiling is high because the Extra Deck holds several large Blue-Eyes finishers, but no recorded boards exist, so the median output is scored low-to-moderate and the ceiling is not treated as typical. Popularity and archetype usage stats (core present at 57%) confirm the list is a real Blue-Eyes build, but they did not add points. The score is capped because the list is illegal: three Forbidden cards and two copy-limit overruns mean no normal Final Contextual score applies, so this is a theoretical, structural-only read.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary with Stun secondary, weighted toward Midrange per the rubric's one-secondary rule; D13 dropped for the structural read and then reinstated as provisional at 5. Structural ≈ 52, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 65, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12). Final formula: Pre-cap: 0.80*Structural(52) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) + modifiers(-12) = 39; Illegal cap applied: score capped at 25 (theoretical, structural-only). Meta Power provisional.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.17 · 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 suite (17 hand traps, 19 negation-text cards) with high going-second coverage
• Multiple Extra Deck finishers, including Blue-Eyes Ultimate Spirit Dragon and Neo Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon
• Strong recorded archetype core (Blue-Eyes White Dragon, Infinite Impermanence, Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler, Maiden of White)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: three Forbidden cards and two copy-limit overruns
• Low starter density: 2 Blue-Eyes White Dragon in the Main Deck
• High off-archetype spread (58 copies outside the exact archetype), which raises brick risk
• No Side Deck

Critical choke points

• Blue-Eyes White Dragon count (2 copies) gates the Blue-Eyes engine and the Extra Deck finishers
• Dependence on hand traps to protect the first engine on the play

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Illegal; 56 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side; three Forbidden cards and two copy-limit overruns; Blue-Eyes White Dragon count is 2 copies in the Main Deck; Archetype core presence 12 of 21 stat rows (57.1%)
• Inferred: 17% starter access on the play from hypergeometric estimate; 90% hand-trap access on the draw from hypergeometric estimate; Interaction density (D7) from negation and removal text; Going-second strength from hand-trap probability
• Provisional: Meta Power and D13 matchup fit: no dated metagame sample or tournament link
• Data gaps: No combos supplied, so combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent No win-rate telemetry, so brick, starter, matchup and turn-order rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Deck has no Side Deck, so post-side scoring is not evaluable