Frog Deck #753620 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±6 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 57 / Extra 14 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 6 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Atlantean/Mermail/Abyss-style Synchro, Xyz and Link boards (Poseidra, Swordsoul Supreme Sovereign, Icejade Gymir Aegirine, Moulinglacia) carried by a WATER engine of searchers and recursion; Direct attack from Atlantean Dragoons and Abysstrite Xyz board pressure
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on Swap Frog, Neptabyss, Mermail Abysspike or Abyssteus to search and reach a Level 7 or higher WATER monster, then Synchro or Xyz into a board while holding Ash Blossom and Ghost Belle for the opponent's first response (Inferred, text-based)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Droll and Lock Bird, Nibiru, Evenly Matched, Dominus Impulse) to break the opponent's first summon, then rebuild a WATER board from the GY (Inferred, text-based)
• Recovery: Mermail Abyssgunde, Mermail Shadow Squad and Atlantean Heavy Infantry recur from the GY to refill the board after a disruption (Inferred, text-based)
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs no side deck (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The score reflects the deck as a system, not an average of its cards. The engine is dense: about 88% of openings include at least one of 19 searcher-text cards, and the WATER searchers chain into Level 7 or higher Synchro and Xyz boards, which gives it a reasonable opening rate for an OCG Midrange shell. Interaction is the strongest part, with 12 hand traps, 10 negation-text cards and 17 removal-text cards, which supports a credible going-second plan. The main weaknesses are structural. The list is Illegal under the OCG ban list: three Forbidden cards are run and three Semi-Limited or Limited cards exceed their copy limits. The archetype label is Frog, but only 3 main-deck cards carry the exact name (4.2% purity), so the deck is really an Atlantean/Mermail/Abyss- hybrid with weak engine coherence and no side deck. Popularity was not a factor: no tournament or meta-share data is linked, so Meta Power is null and was not scored. Structural power is 54.2; the Illegal cap brings the final score to 30 as a theoretical-only value.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 54.2, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-8); no_side_plan (-4). Final formula: Illegal: raw 0.80*54.2 + 0.20*45 + modifiers(-12) = 40.3, capped to 30 as theoretical/structural-only per legality guardrail (Meta provisional, not scored)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.88 · 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 WATER searcher engine (19 searcher-text cards) gives high opening access
• Broad interaction package: 12 hand traps, 10 negation-text cards, 17 removal-text cards
• Extra Deck has high-ATK Level 7+ boards and multiple link and xyz routes

Weaknesses

• Illegal under OCG ban list: three Forbidden cards and three copy-limit violations
• Very low exact-name archetype purity (4.2%), so the engine is split across Atlantean, Mermail, Abyss- and Charmer
• No side deck, so no post-side plan
• No recorded combos or tournament data, so the ceiling and floor are unverified

Critical choke points

• Legality: the list cannot be played as built until the Forbidden cards are removed and the copy counts are reduced
• Searchers depend on WATER monsters in hand or GY, so a hand without a WATER monster is a brick

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality status Illegal: 3 Forbidden cards and 3 over-limit copies; Main 57 / Extra 14 / Side 0 within size rules; Card text and stats for all 29 main cards and 14 extra cards; Exact-name archetype purity 4.2%
• Inferred: Opening access probabilities for searchers and hand traps (hypergeometric); Going-first and going-second plans from card text; Interaction quality from text roles; Pilotability estimate from effect complexity
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament link)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN — going-first/second, matchup and brick/starter rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied no side deck — post-side plan cannot be evaluated