Kaiju Deck #758167 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 57 / Extra 16 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Dinosaur and Kaiju board pressure through large beaters (Transcendosaurus Gigantozowler, Ultimate Conductor Tyranno, Dogoran) once a starter gets the Dinosaur engine online; Overtex Qoatlus and Horned Saurus extra-deck follow-ups off Dinosaur material, with Dinowrestler Pankratops as a removal-plus-beater
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on searchers (Fossil Dig, Souleating Oviraptor, Ground Xeno, Kaitoptera) to find Dinosaur starters, protect the first summon with Evenly Matched or Ash Blossom and Ghost Belle, then extend into a Dinosaur or Kaiju board
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Infinite Impermanence, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C) to break the opponent's first play, then convert with a Dinosaur fusion or synchro follow-up
• Recovery: Recur Dinosaurs from the Graveyard through Babycerasaurus, Petiteranodon and Ultimate Conductor Tyranno's banish cost, and rebuild with the Dinosaur searchers
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no Side Deck, so no post-side plan exists in the submitted list

Why it scores here

The list is illegal as submitted: 57 Main, 16 Extra against a 15-card cap, Miscellaneousaurus at 3 copies against a limit of 1, and five Forbidden cards, so it gets a capped theoretical score and not a normal final read. Structurally it is a generic-heavy Dinosaur and Kaiju midrange shell: only 3 of 57 Main cards carry the exact Kaiju name (4.1 percent purity), and 48 are generic staples, so the engine coheres mainly through Dinosaur-type ties rather than an archetype core. The deck does have real interaction density, with 11 hand traps, 9 negation texts and 33 removal texts, which earns the interaction and resilience dimensions, but no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling and median are text-only inference. Popularity and usage data were not used to add points, and no card scores were averaged into the deck score. The side deck is empty, which drags the adaptability dimension down to a minimum.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange 100 (primary profile used directly; Control noted as secondary tendency for interaction). Structural ≈ 46, Going First ≈ 45, Going Second ≈ 42, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-6); Engine conflicts (-3). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 0.80*46 + 0.20*35 - 9 = 34.8, then capped at 30 for an Illegal list (theoretical/structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.86 · 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 package: 11 hand traps, 9 negation texts and 33 removal texts
• Multiple searchers (18 copies) give high probability of finding a Dinosaur starter
• Dinosaur recursion through Babycerasaurus, Petiteranodon and Tyranno gives multiple resilience routes
• High-ATK end-board options (Transcendosaurus 3800, Tyranno 3500)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: extra-deck overflow, one card over copy limit by 2, and five Forbidden cards
• Low archetype purity (4.1 percent): the engine relies on generic staples
• No side deck, so no post-side plan
• No recorded combos, so ceiling and median are unmeasured

Critical choke points

• Dinosaur-type monsters as the shared engine resource: losing the starter to a hand trap leaves few non-Dinosaur routes
• Extra Deck overflow means at least one Extra card must be removed before the list is playable

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 57 Main, 16 Extra, 0 Side; 6 violations and 5 Forbidden cards; Archetype purity 4.1 percent (3 of 73 Kaiju-named copies); Card text and banlist statuses from resolved card data
• Inferred: P(>=1 searcher in 5-card opening hand) about 0.86; Hand-trap interaction density and brick risk; Ceiling and floor ratings from card text only (no recorded 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 pilot match record absent No win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchups or brick rates Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No Side Deck: post-side plan cannot be evaluated Usage statistics available but contain no core cards for Kaiju, so archetype-core consistency is unmeasured