Gold Pride Deck #729596 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 42 / Extra 16 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck boss monsters (P.U.N.K. JAM FEVER!, Ukiyoe-P.U.N.K. Amazing Dragon, Absolute Axon Kicker) summoned through Gold Pride and P.U.N.K. starters; Gold Pride Fusion/Synchro follow-up (Pin Baller, Eradicator, Star Leon) once a starter is live
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Level 3 Tuner or Level 8 P.U.N.K. starter (Ze Amin / Leon / Foxy Tune / Rising Scale / Ogre Dance) and search via P.U.N.K. Wa Gon, Captain Carrie or Better Luck Next Time! toward a Synchro or Fusion boss (Inferred from card text)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the Level 8 monsters' Special Summon effects and Gold Pride Start Your Engines! to answer the opponent's first monster; the deck has no hand traps and no side deck to help (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recover via the Gold Pride and P.U.N.K. searchers (8 searcher-text cards) and the Gold Pride recursion effects from the GY (Inferred)
• After siding: None: the Side Deck is empty (0 cards), so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck is capped at 30 because its Extra Deck holds 16 cards against an OCG maximum of 15, so it receives only a structural, theoretical read. Its Main Deck reliably opens a Level 3 or Level 8 P.U.N.K. or Gold Pride starter (about 67% of openings contain one of the 8 searcher-text cards, and the archetype core has about 92% chance of at least one card in a 5-card opening hand), so the starter access score is moderate-high. Extra Deck summoning gives a high ceiling of 2400 to 3500 ATK bosses, but there are no recorded boards, so combo conversion and floor are inferred from card text only. The deck has no hand traps and an empty Side Deck, which pull down going-second, side adaptability and tournament reliability. The score comes from consistency, boss output and interaction treated as one system, not from averaging card scores, and popularity (archetype usage) did not earn points.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange (Combo secondary not blended). Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 42, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: illegal_extra_deck_size (-12). Final formula: Structural 54.6 (Midrange profile); unlegalised formula 0.80*54.6 + 0.20*45 = 52.7; the Illegal status (Extra Deck 16 > 15) caps the score at 30 as theoretical/structural-only; Meta provisional

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.67 · 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

• Strong sub-archetype coherence: P.U.N.K. and Gold Pride together make up about 98% of main-deck copies
• Extra Deck boss range 2400–3500 ATK with Synchro/Fusion/Xyz summon routes
• Eight searcher-text cards give good opening-hand access to a starter

Weaknesses

• Extra Deck is 16 cards, which is illegal in OCG (max 15)
• Side Deck is empty, so there is no post-side plan
• No hand traps and no recorded boards to confirm going-second power

Critical choke points

• Extra Deck legality: the list cannot be played as-is until one Extra Deck card is removed
• Single-copy starters and bosses: no redundancy for the main engine if one is dead in hand

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Extra Deck is 16 cards, above the OCG maximum of 15 (legality size_warnings); Copy histogram is 9 single, 3 two-copy and 9 three-copy cards; Side Deck is empty (0 cards)
• Observed: Archetype purity: P.U.N.K. 25 copies and Gold Pride 16 copies
• Inferred: P(at least one searcher in a 5-card hand) ≈ 0.67; Going-first and going-second plans from card text; Boss output and interaction density from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated meta sample); Matchup fit and tournament reliability (no tournament link)
• Data gaps: Extra Deck over the 16-card limit prevents a normal Final Contextual score No combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry; going-first/second and matchup signals are Inferred or Unknown usage statistics marks Ukiyoe-P.U.N.K. Amazing Dragon, P.U.N.K. JAM Dragon Drive, Ukiyoe-P.U.N.K. Rising Carp and P.U.N.K. JAM FEVER! as not in this deck, yet the card list runs them (copies 1–2); the usage core-card match is inconsistent and was not used Empty Side Deck: no post-side evidence