Evilswarm Deck #755193 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck Link and Xyz boards (Borrelend Dragon, Firewall Dragon Singularity, Borrelshroud Dragon, Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon) reached through Rokket and Borrel starters; Trap and hand-trap disruption (Mind Mirror Force, Ash Blossom, Maxx C, Droll & Lock Bird) that buys time for the Extra Deck to land
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Rokket or Mulcharmy starter, search or summon a second Dragon, and link into Borrel or Rokket boards; hold one hand trap or Mind Mirror Force behind the first summon.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Maxx C, Droll & Lock Bird, Ash Blossom and Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit to interrupt the opponent's first board, then rebuild through the Rokket recursion and Link Summons.
• Recovery: Rokket Tracer and Absorouter Dragon recover a Rokket from the GY; Triple Borrel Launch and Breachborrel Dragon can reload the Borrel line if the first starter is stopped.
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan. The deck would need a side slot before this can be assessed.

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system: it has several engines (Rokket, Borrel, Mulcharmy, PSY-Frame, Red-Eyes, Phantom Knights) that share little beyond a Dragon theme, and 70 of its 70 non-Evilswarm copies are off-archetype, so the individual card strength does not translate into a coherent plan. Its interaction density is the clearest strength: 10 hand traps, 18 negation-text cards and 28 removal-text cards give a dense layer of disruption (Inferred semantic read from card text). The Extra Deck carries real closing power, with several 3000+ ATK Link and Xyz boards, but the recorded combo evidence is empty, so the ceiling and median are text-only estimates and no combo floor can be measured. The deck is Illegal under the OCG list because Borreload Savage Dragon is Forbidden, so the score is capped and labelled theoretical; popularity and the archetype's usage stats confirm the list is real but do not raise the score, and no card scores were averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 48.7, Going First ≈ 45, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-8); Engine conflicts (-3). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) = 0.80*48.7 + 0.20*35 ≈ 46, then modifiers total -11 = 35. Illegal deck: theoretical/structural-only, score capped low.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.45 · 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 interaction: 10 hand traps, 18 negation-text cards and 28 removal-text cards
• Strong Link and Xyz closers in the Extra Deck once a board is established
• Recursion routes (Rokket Tracer, Absorouter Dragon, Triple Borrel Launch) allow partial recovery

Weaknesses

• Illegal under the OCG list because Borreload Savage Dragon is Forbidden
• Four or more engines compete for the same hands; 70 off-archetype copies
• No side deck, so no post-side plan
• Heavy tech and narrow cards (Gozen Match, Crossout Designator, Harpie's Feather Duster)

Critical choke points

• Opening-hand starter from a single engine (Rokket or Borrel), with about a 45% chance of a live core in a 5-card hand (Inferred)
• The Forbidden Borreload Savage Dragon must be removed before the list can be played legally

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Illegal, Borreload Savage Dragon is Forbidden in OCG and run for 1 copy; Main deck 55 cards and Extra Deck 15 cards are within size rules; Card text for 33 distinct main-deck and 14 distinct Extra Deck cards is present; Archetype core stat: 6 copies, 66% inclusion in the core group
• Inferred: Opening-hand consistency P ≈ 0.45 for the archetype core (hypergeometric); Interaction density from card-text hints (negation, removal, hand trap); Going-first and going-second splits derived from card text, not measured boards
• Provisional: Meta power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament link)
• 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, going-second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Deck title is null and no side deck is registered