Dragon Ruler Deck #756493 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 42 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Dragon Ruler Xyz/Synchro boss monsters (Chasma, Eclipse, Disaster) and Sangenpai/Trident Dragion pressure, all reached through the Dragon Ruler Level-3 to Level-7 chain; Odd-Eyes Rebellion Dragon / Overlord Pendulum-Xyz beats; Tenpai Dragon Synchro line
• Turn 1 (going first): T1: Spectral or Lightning, Dragon Ruler of Drafts (discard to Special Summon Tempest or Tidal) into a Level-7 Dragon Ruler Synchro/Xyz for board presence, with Ash Blossom and Droll & Lock Bird held up
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Maxx C and Droll & Lock Bird for the opponent's first summon or search, then rebuild through Tempest, Blaster or Redox Special Summons
• Recovery: Recurse through Spectral and Sangen Summoning or Tenpai Dragon searches; Dragon Ruler Level-7 monsters banished or in the GY feed Disaster and Eclipse
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs no Side Deck (Side Deck size 0), so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

This list is Illegal: Kashtira Arise-Heart and Baronne de Fleur are Forbidden in OCG and are run at 1 copy each, so the deck gets a capped, structural-only score rather than a normal Final Contextual score. The engine is a real Dragon Ruler chain: 3-copy Spectral, Tempest and Mulcharmy-era starters have about a 0.32 chance of at least one going-first hand, and the 9-copy archetype core has about a 0.72 chance of at least one card in a 5-card hand, which keeps consistency moderate rather than high. The Extra Deck (Chasma, Eclipse, Disaster, Dis Pater, Transcendent Dragion) gives strong closing bodies, and the 4 hand traps plus Droll and Maxx C give some going-second interaction. Against that, the deck is only 12% exact-name archetype pure, carries 27 distinct Main Deck cards with many generic or off-archetype slots, runs no Side Deck, and has no recorded boards, so floor and median output cannot be measured. The score comes from the system's consistency, interaction and closing structure; it did not come from popularity or from averaging card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo primary, Midrange secondary (structural weights from Combo profile; secondary not blended into numbers because the list is illegal and evidence is thin). Structural ≈ 51.3, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 48, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12); illegal cap (-7). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) = 49.0, then banlist-exposure modifier -12 = 37.0, then Illegal cap to 30 (structural-only, not a normal Final Contextual score)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.32 · key two-card combo ≈ 0.23 · 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

• Dragon Ruler chain gives strong recursion and Level-7 Xyz/Synchro access
• Extra Deck has multiple 3000+ ATK closers across Xyz and Synchro
• Four hand traps plus Droll & Lock Bird and Maxx C give going-second interaction
• Searcher text is widely present (P>=1 in hand5 about 0.98)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: two Forbidden cards at 1 copy each
• No Side Deck, so no post-side plan in best-of-3
• Low exact-archetype purity (12.3%) and many off-archetype Main Deck slots
• No recorded boards, so the combo floor and median cannot be measured

Critical choke points

• Dragon Ruler Level-7 monster in hand or GY is needed for most Xyz/Synchro lines
• Going-first hand needs one of several 3-copy starters; P about 0.32 per specific card
• Forbidden Kashtira Arise-Heart and Baronne de Fleur are non-playable in the current list

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 2 Forbidden cards run (Kashtira Arise-Heart, Baronne de Fleur); Main 42 / Extra 15 / Side 0 within OCG size rules; Copy counts and banlist statuses per card; Archetype purity 12.3% exact-name, 50 off-archetype copies
• Inferred: Starter and core-group consistency from hypergeometric estimates; Brick and garnet risk from distinct-card count and singletons; Interaction quality from card text (negation, removal, hand traps); Going-first and going-second strength estimates
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and matchup fit (D13), since no dated metagame sample or tournament link exists
• Data gaps: 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, matchup, brick/starter rates) Meta Power provisional without a dated metagame sample No guides for the archetype (guide data total 0) Deck title is null in the export