Penguin Deck #736802 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 55/100 (±7 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 59 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ursarctic Synchro boards (Septentrion, Grand Chariot, Megabilis-level 2800+ ATK attackers) built from Ursarctic Departure, Mikpolar and Miktanus searches, with Radiation drawing off each Special Summon; Icejade Gymir and Graydle Dragon boards that use hand-trap and removal text for board control
• Turn 1 (going first): Open First Penguin (3 copies, no-monster Special Summon as a Tuner) or an Ursarctic Tribute-summon starter; search an Ursarctic monster, then Synchro into Septentrion or Grand Chariot while Ash Blossom or Infinite Impermanence protects the line
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Mourner or Infinite Impermanence for the opponent's first activation, then rebuild through Ursarctic Mikpolar or Revealer and push a Synchro board
• Recovery: Ursarctic Departure and Radiation recur from the GY and banish, Ice Barrier trap recurs from the GY, and Ursarctic Big Dipper converts Synchro Summons into counters
• After siding: No side deck is registered (0 cards), so there is no post-side plan; any adaptation is unavailable

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a starter in most hands: First Penguin, Ursarctic Departure and Ice Barrier (3 copies each) plus 19 searcher-text cards give P(at least one searcher in 5 cards) of about 0.87, so D1 is moderate-high at 66 (Inferred). Its ceiling comes from Synchro boards of 2700-3000 ATK, with Ursarctic Septentrion and Grand Chariot able to destroy or banish opposing cards, which lifts D3, D9 and D11, while floor output is held back by one-copy Lava Golem, Ice Doll and several dead-without-setup spells. Interaction is layered (4 hand traps, about 17 negation-text cards, 26 removal-text cards), which supports D7 and a going-second hand-trap chance of about 0.36. The score comes from consistency, median output and interaction on the system, not from the Penguin label (exact-name purity is 4.1%, and the usage core is 1 of 25 present) and not from averaging card scores; the absent side deck caps D12 at 15 and pulls Tournament Reliability down.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 62, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 63, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: No side deck (-2); Engine conflicts across sub-archetypes (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.24 · 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 searcher text (19 cards) keeps a starter reachable in most hands
• Synchro closers at 2700-3000 ATK with board-destruction effects
• Layered negation: 4 hand traps plus Ice Barrier, Breakthrough Skill and Trishula removal

Weaknesses

• No side deck (0 cards), so no post-side adaptation
• Engine split across Ursarctic, Ice Barrier, Icejade and Kaiju, with exact archetype purity at 4.1%
• Several one-copy and situational cards (Lava Golem, Ice Doll, Ghost Mourner) raise brick risk

Critical choke points

• First Penguin and Ursarctic Departure (3 copies each) gate the opening engine
• Ursarctic monsters need Level 7+ Tribute fodder in hand, so a hand without them stalls

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal size 59/15/0 with Ash Blossom Semi-Limited at 1 copy (legal 2); Extra Deck is 15 Synchro monsters; Side deck is empty; Usage core present 1 of 25 (4%)
• Inferred: Starter access 0.87 via searcher text and 0.237 for First Penguin; Ceiling and median reads from card text; Interaction layering from negation and removal text
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); Format fit (D13 scored neutral at 50)
• 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 and brick rates are Inferred usage statistics core list is Kashtira/Ashtra cards (1 of 25 present), which does not match this Ursarctic/Ice Barrier build under the Penguin label, so it is not used to score Meta Power provisional without a dated metagame sample