Frog Deck #758264 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 20/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Not established: no recorded boards or guide text; the Frog core (Swap Frog, Dupe Frog, Des Frog, Unifrog) is present but no reliable closing line is evidenced; Synchro beaters from the Extra Deck (Red Dragon Archfiend, Stardust Dragon, Colossal Fighter x2, Armory Arm x2)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Swap Frog (3 copies, P(>=1 in 5 cards) = 0.25) or Treeborn Frog to start a Frog board, then Synchro Summon from the Extra Deck (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use removal and Greed draw spells to answer the opponent's board, then recover into Synchro summons; no evidence of a going-second engine (Inferred)
• Recovery: Pot of Avarice and Moray of Greed recycle the Graveyard, and Salvage and Treeborn Frog recover Frog monsters from the GY (Inferred from card text)
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has zero side-deck cards (side_count = 0)

Why it scores here

The deck scores low mainly because it is illegal in OCG: four Forbidden cards (Substitoad, Fishborg Blaster, Dandylion, Giant Trunade) exceed their copy limit, so the evaluation is structural only and the final score is capped. As a system, the list is diffuse: exact Frog-name purity is 24.3%, with 27 generic cards, 9 Greed cards, 4 Monarch cards and several unrelated sub-archetypes, so the Frog engine is diluted. Swap Frog is the only archetype-core card at 100% usage, and it appears in a 5-card opening hand with probability about 0.25 at three copies, so the engine is rarely live on turn 1. The Extra Deck is coherent (15 Synchro monsters) and the removal/draw text is broad, but no combos were recorded and there is no side deck, so floor, median and ceiling cannot be measured. Popularity or archetype share is not counted here, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 32, Going First ≈ 30, Going Second ≈ 28, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 25. Modifiers: Illegal list (Forbidden cards over copy limit) (-11). Final formula: Structural 32.4 -> 0.80*32.4 + 0.20*25 = 30.9 (Meta provisional) = 31; capped to 20 by the illegal-list modifier (-11); theoretical/structural only

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.25 · 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

• Swap Frog is a 100%-inclusion archetype core and is run at 3 copies
• Extra Deck is a coherent 15-card Synchro set with several strong boss options
• Broad removal text (14 cards) and card flow (Pot of Avarice, Moray of Greed, Reckless Greed)

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: four Forbidden cards over the copy limit
• Exact archetype purity 24.3%; 53 of 55 main cards are off the Frog name
• Starter density is low: Swap Frog hits a 5-card opening hand only about 25% of the time
• No side deck (0 cards)
• No recorded combos, no guide text, no tournament data

Critical choke points

• Swap Frog as the only archetype-core starter (3 copies, about 25% per opening hand)
• Legality: the Forbidden cards must be removed before the list can be played at all

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: 4 Forbidden cards over copy limit (legal_copies 0); Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 counts within size rules; Exact-name archetype purity 24.3% from composition; Swap Frog 100% usage in archetype stats
• Inferred: Swap Frog hand probability 0.25 at 3 copies (hypergeometric); Combo plans and recovery lines from card text; Interaction and resilience reads from card text
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit (no dated meta sample); Tournament reliability (no tournament link)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link; no archetype meta-share or pilot match record No win-rate telemetry: going-first/second and matchup signals are Unknown No side deck: post-side plan cannot be evaluated Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Usage stats show 2 of 3 core cards missing (Freezing Chains, Mirror of the Ice Barrier)