Dinomist Deck #752878 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 54 / Extra 17 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Pendulum-board pressure: Majespecter and Dracoslayer Pendulum Monsters plus Link and Synchro bosses (Majespecter Draco - Ryu, Ignister Prominence, Perfectron Hydradrive Dragon) convert advantage into attacks. Not verifiable as a combo line because no boards were recorded.; Searcher-driven card advantage from Pendulum searchers (Majespecter Raccoon, Ignis Phoenix, Majesty Pegasus) feeding Extra Deck summons.
• Turn 1 (going first): Opening hand with a Majespecter or Dracoslayer Pendulum into a searcher, then a Pendulum Summon and Link or Synchro into a board-breaking extra. Inferred from card text; not checked against recorded boards.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 5 hand traps (Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Maxx C, Nibiru, Majespecter Tempest) and the Pendulum board to answer the opponent's first summon, then rebuild through the searchers. Inferred.
• Recovery: Searchers (23 searcher-text cards) and recursion from Pendulum Zone effects should rebuild after a clean answer. Inferred from text only.
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan. This is a structural gap, not a tuning choice.

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system on the Midrange profile, not as an average of its card scores. Its engine is Pendulum-based: Majespecter and Dracoslayer searchers reach the Pendulum Zone, and the 23 searcher-text cards give a high chance (about 0.95 for at least one in an opening 5, Inferred) of finding an engine piece. Interaction is the strongest area, with 5 hand traps and 7 negation-text cards. Going-second hand-trap coverage is about 0.46 (Inferred). Scoring is held back by three things: no recorded boards, so the floor and median are inferred from text; no Side Deck, which removes any post-side plan; and an oversized Extra Deck of 17. Popularity did not earn points: the archetype is a real, accessible list, but usage stats only confirm the core cards and do not show strength. The list is Illegal in OCG because it runs 2 Forbidden cards (Borreload Savage Dragon and Baronne de Fleur) and has 17 Extra Deck cards against a limit of 15. The rubric caps an Illegal deck, so this is a theoretical, structural-only score of 30.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 54, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12). Final formula: No reliable metagame, so Meta is provisional: 0.80*Structural(54) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) = 52.2; plus context modifiers -12 = 40.2; then capped to 30 because the deck is Illegal (theoretical/structural-only score).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.95 · 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

• Searcher density: 23 searcher-text cards give near-certain starter access (about 0.95 in an opening 5, Inferred).
• Interaction breadth: 5 hand traps plus 7 negation-text and 19 removal-text cards.
• Compact, mostly 3-copy Pendulum core that is consistent across two related archetypes.

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: 2 Forbidden cards run and Extra Deck at 17 (limit 15).
• No Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan.
• No recorded boards, so floor and median output are unknown.
• Archetype split across Majespecter, Dracoslayer and generic cards with no exact-name core (0% purity).

Critical choke points

• Pendulum Zone dependence: the engine needs a Pendulum card in the Pendulum Zone, so a single clean answer to the Zones may stop the line.
• Extra Deck overflow and two Forbidden boss cards mean the list cannot be played as built in OCG.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Borreload Savage Dragon and Baronne de Fleur are Forbidden in OCG and run at 1 copy each.; Extra Deck is 17 cards against an OCG maximum of 15.; Side Deck is 0 cards.; Archetype spread and copy histogram counts from composition.
• Observed: Archetype usage shows Majespecter and Dracoslayer as core cards (100% inclusion among the core list).
• Inferred: Searcher density gives about 0.95 starter access in an opening 5.; Hand-trap coverage about 0.46 going second.; Interaction density from role tags and negation/removal text.; Going-first and going-second plans from card text.
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and matchup fit (D13) need a dated metagame sample.
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference. No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent. No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates). Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample. Side Deck is empty, so there is no post-side evidence.