Armed Dragon Deck #708558 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Control, Synchro
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro beatsticks (Blackwing Silverwind, Blackwing Armor Master, Colossal Fighter, Goyo Guardian) backed by Blackwing ATK-boost and removal; Dark Armed Dragon removal and Black Rose / Dark End Dragon board pressure, with no verified Armed Dragon engine (1 copy only)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Blackwing Tuner/non-Tuner starters (3 copies each) and Black Whirlwind to reach a Synchro Summon; hold traps as interaction
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (D.D. Crow x2, Solemn Judgment) and board-wipe-style traps (Torrential Tribute, Bottomless Trap Hole, Mirror Force) to clear the opponent's board, then Synchro through
• Recovery: Draw and search via Upstart Goblin, Legacy of Yata-Garasu, Allure of Darkness and Black Whirlwind; Blackwing Vayu and Gale recurse via GY effects
• After siding: No Side Deck is present, so no post-side plan can be evaluated

Why it scores here

The deck is an illegal OCG list: it runs 2 copies of Royal Oppression and 1 Trap Dustshoot, both Forbidden, so it cannot receive a normal Final score and its structural score is reported for reference only. Its engine is a 15-card Blackwing core (five 3-of starters plus Gale and Vayu), which gives a moderate, Inferred chance of a live starter in the opening hand (about 0.25 for any single 3-copy starter in 5 cards). The deck's real strength is interaction: Mirror Force, Torrential Tribute, Bottomless Trap Hole, Solemn Judgment, Heavy Storm, Dust Tornado and Dimensional Prison give it layered end-board control, and the 14-Synchro Extra Deck gives it a broad finisher pool. Weaknesses are a brick-prone main deck (32 of 55 cards are Spells or Traps), no Side Deck, and no recorded boards, so the median and ceiling are text-only inference. The score was not derived from Armed Dragon's popularity or from averaging card scores; it reflects the system's interaction and Synchro conversion, with the legality cap applied.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 54, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-10); no side deck (-2). Final formula: Illegal list: structural-only. Structural 54 (Midrange profile) and TR 45 would give 0.80*54 + 0.20*45 = 52 with Meta provisional, but the Illegal status caps the reported score at 30. Modifiers are disclosed separately and are not applied to the cap.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.25 · 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 layered interaction: Mirror Force, Torrential Tribute, Bottomless Trap Hole, Solemn Judgment, Heavy Storm, Dust Tornado
• Broad Synchro finisher pool (14 Synchros) with 2800-ATK boss monsters
• Multiple draw and search effects (Upstart Goblin, Legacy of Yata-Garasu, Allure of Darkness, Black Whirlwind)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Royal Oppression x2 and Trap Dustshoot x1 are Forbidden in OCG
• 32 of 55 Main cards are Spells or Traps, so starter density is low and brick risk is high
• No Side Deck, so no post-side plan for best-of-3
• Armed Dragon engine is a single copy (Dark Armed Dragon); the archetype name does not drive the deck

Critical choke points

• Opening 5 with no Blackwing starter: about 75% chance of missing any single 3-copy starter
• Dark Armed Dragon requires exactly 3 DARK monsters in the GY, which the Blackwing core may not reliably supply

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main/Extra counts (55/15) are within OCG size rules; Royal Oppression (2) and Trap Dustshoot (1) are Forbidden and over the copy limit; Card text for Blackwing starters, Dark Armed Dragon and the interaction traps; Starter probability per 3-copy card in 5-card hand = 0.2529
• Inferred: Consistency and brick estimates (D1, D2); Interaction quality (D7) and going-second board-breaking (D8); Synchro offensive power (D9)
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit (D13) - no dated metagame sample supplied
• 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 (going-first/second, matchup, brick, starter rates) No Side Deck - post-side plan cannot be evaluated Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied