Drytron Deck #724317 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 0/100 (±0 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ritual Summon Drytron bosses with negation and board control; XYZ Summon rank-1 engines for disruption and advantage
• Turn 1 (going first): Establish Drytron board with ritual negation layers and hand-trap backup
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Mulcharmy Fuwalos and interaction cards to navigate opponent boards and set up ritual summons
• Recovery: Graveyard recursion via Drytron monsters and Ritual Spell recovery to rebuild after disruption
• After siding: Unable to evaluate: deck is illegal and has no side deck

Why it scores here

This deck cannot receive a normal Final Contextual Deck Power evaluation because it violates OCG banlist rules and copy limits. The list runs Heavy Storm (Forbidden), Maxx C (Forbidden), Herald of the Arc Light (Forbidden in Extra), and Triple Tactics Talent (2 copies vs. 1 limit). As an illegal deck, it does not qualify for competitive play and scoring it as a playable system is not meaningful. The evaluation is theoretical only: structural analysis cannot proceed when core cards are inaccessible in the declared format.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo (theoretical only). Structural ≈ 0, Going First ≈ 0, Going Second ≈ 0, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 0. Modifiers: Illegality penalty (-100). Final formula: Illegal deck — no score computed. Hard cap at 0 per rubric Step 2.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.98 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.02 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Archetype core is highly redundant: 24 copies of Drytron exact-name monsters across 7 distinct cards, enabling T1 ritual setup in ~97.7% of opening hands
• Hand-trap suite (16 copies) covers common grind-game disruptions: Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Effect Veiler, Artifact Lancea, Nibiru, Infinite Impermanence
• Ritual spell engines (Meteonis Drytron, Cyber Angel Benten) provide searchers and board flexibility for ritual payoff construction
• XYZ rank-1 access (Drytron Mu Beta Fafnir x3) allows quick material cycling and ritual tribute generation without hard summon costs

Weaknesses

• ILLEGAL: Four cards violate OCG banlist or copy limits (Heavy Storm Forbidden, Maxx C Forbidden, Herald of the Arc Light Forbidden, Triple Tactics Talent x2 over 1-copy limit)
• No side deck supplied; best-of-3 adaptability unknown and unscoreable
• No combo evidence provided; without worked lines, median output, interaction density, and board resilience cannot be measured
• Main deck is 55 cards (legal but suboptimal compactness); distinct card count (31) suggests potential consistency friction between ritual engine and hand-trap layers
• Ritual summon dependency creates a potential choke point if Ritual Spell searchers are disrupted; backup ritual tutors limited

Critical choke points

• Herald of the Arc Light (Forbidden, Extra-Deck): This synchro is flagged in the deck but is off-table in OCG; it traditionally provides banish-lock and spell/trap negation, and its absence forces reliance on Drytron Mu Beta Fafnir alone for material recycling
• Heavy Storm (Forbidden, Main): Illegal spell removal tool; Harpie's Feather Duster is the legal substitute but runs only 1 copy vs. the historical 3-copy availability
• Maxx C (Forbidden, Main): Forbidden hand-trap draw engine; Mulcharmy Fuwalos (3 copies, requires empty board) and Droll & Lock Bird (1 copy, hand-activatable) are weaker replacements
• Triple Tactics Talent (2 copies vs. 1 limit): Running 2 copies when only 1 is legal means one copy must be removed; this thinning reduces hand interaction density
• Ritual summon gating: No alternative win condition if ritual Spell access is blocked early

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Heavy Storm is Forbidden in OCG (banlist_status field); Maxx C is Forbidden in OCG (banlist_status field); Herald of the Arc Light is Forbidden in OCG Extra-Deck (banlist_status field); Triple Tactics Talent is Limited to 1 copy; deck runs 2 (legal_copies vs. copies_run mismatch); Main deck is 55 cards (within legal range 40-60); Extra deck is 15 cards (at legal maximum); No side deck supplied (0/15); Archetype core cards present: 15 of 20 archetype-standard core cards; 5 missing (Herald of Arc Light, S:P Little Knight, Linkuriboh, F.A. Dawn Dragster, Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS)
• Observed: Hand-trap density: 16 copies across 6 distinct cards (Ash Blossom x2, Ghost Belle x2, Effect Veiler x2, Artifact Lancea x2, Nibiru x2, Infinite Impermanence x3, Droll & Lock Bird x1, Maxx C x1 Forbidden, Dimension Shifter x1); Drytron exact-name core: 24 copies across 7 distinct Drytron monsters (Nu II, Alpha Thuban, Delta Altais, Gamma Eltanin, Zeta Aldhibah x2 each; Fafnir Spell x3, Nova Spell x3, Meteonis Spell x1); XYZ access pieces: Drytron Mu Beta Fafnir x3 (rank-1 material recycler), Mulcharmy Fuwalos x3 (rank-4 draw engine)
• Inferred: Archetype core P(>=1 in hand 5) = 0.977 based on 28 core copies via hypergeometric model (archetype + Ursatron treated as core starters); Hand-trap backup P(>=1 in hand 6 going-second) = 0.888 based on 16 hand-trap copies; Brick estimate: ~2.3% full-brick rate given ~28 mandatory starters and ~16 interactive hand-traps; Ritual summon dependency: Primary win condition is ritual-gating (Meteonis Drytron as sole ritual Spell visible); backup via Cyber Angel Benten at 1 copy creates a single potential choke point
• Provisional: Meta Power is Provisional: No dated metagame sample supplied. Archetype meta-share and deck performance context in current OCG environment unknown.; Going-Second Power is Provisional: No combo evidence or board-breaking lines provided; Mulcharmy Fuwalos interaction with opponent boards is inferred from card text only.
• Data gaps: Legality violation: Deck is Illegal in OCG format; four cards must be corrected before play is possible No combo evidence supplied: no worked lines, best-line PowerIndex, median output, interaction density, or board-per-starter metrics available No tournament context: Archetype meta-share, per-pilot match record, and format-specific performance data absent No side deck: 0/15 cards supplied; post-side adaptation and best-of-3 game plans cannot be evaluated No guides evidence: Strategic intent and archetype-specific tutorial snippets absent No dated metagame sample: Meta Power remains Provisional; cannot assess top-deck coverage, format speed fit, or meta adaptation No win-rate telemetry: YGOVN does not track going-first/second win rates, matchup outcomes, brick/starter frequencies, or OTK rates; these are inferred from card text and combo structure only