R.B. Deck #760465 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 51/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link-based R.B. board: Link Summon R.B. Link monsters (Brute Blues, Shepherd's Crook, VALCan Booster) and convert the board with R.B. monster effects and Link ATK; Sky Striker Link Aces (Zeke, Azalea, Camellia, Kagari) as a second board source when the R.B. line is blanked
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a hand with R.B. Stage Landing, Funk Dock or Mulcharmy starters, then use hand traps and tech on the opponent's first real play while building a Link board
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the going-second hand-trap density (about 0.90 chance of at least one hand trap in six cards) to negate or destroy the opponent's first engine, then rebuild through R.B. monsters and Link Summons
• Recovery: Funk Dock and Stage Landing recover R.B. monsters from the Deck; Lambda Cannon and Lambda Blade recover from the GY; Next Phase and Last Stand provide protection
• After siding: No side deck is submitted, so no post-side plan can be evaluated. Best-of-3 play would need a side list

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a connected system: its archetype core (20 R.B. copies, about 0.91 chance of at least one in an opening hand of five) gives it a reasonably reliable way to get a board going, but the starters are spread across many single-copy cards and no combo evidence exists to measure conversion. Its strongest structural feature is interaction density: 17 hand traps and 19 negation-text cards give it a strong semantic read for the stun-style dimension (D7, Inferred), and that interaction is worth more when going second. Popularity did not earn points: R.B. Next Phase and Lambda Blade appear in about 95 percent of the archetype's usage lists, and that only confirms the list is a standard build. Floor and ceiling could not be separated because there are no recorded boards. The score carries a deduction for having no side deck at all, plus small deductions for Limited-status cards and tech density, and it is not an average of any individual card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: No side deck (-3); Limited-status key cards (-2); Interaction density (2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional): 0.80*54.7 + 0.20*50 - 3 = 50.8, rounded to 51

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.91 · 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: 17 hand traps and 19 negation-text cards give a strong answer suite
• Archetype core is accessible: about 0.91 chance of at least one core card in five cards
• Extra Deck covers the R.B. Link needs with 11 distinct cards, including the core Brute Blues and Crook

Weaknesses

• No side deck, so no post-side plan and no answer to a changed metagame
• Heavy tech and hand-trap density reduces the number of cards that advance a board on their own
• Single-copy starters make the first-turn plan dependent on a few specific cards

Critical choke points

• Stage Landing and Funk Dock as the only triple-copy R.B. starters
• Link Summon of Brute Blues or Crook needs enough R.B. monsters on the field
• Opponent floodgates or Rivalry of Warlords-style effects can shut the board down because only one copy of each is run

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0 within the OCG size rules; All 10 restricted cards are within their legal copy counts; Archetype purity: 21 exact R.B. copies out of 55 main; Usage stats: R.B. Next Phase and Lambda Blade appear in about 95 percent of archetype lists
• Observed: No recorded boards exist, so no measured combo frequency is available
• Inferred: P(at least one archetype-core card in 5 cards) approximately 0.91; Hand-trap density gives strong going-second interaction, about 0.90 in 6 cards; Interaction density (D7) read from card text, not measured
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit (D13) cannot be measured without a dated meta sample; Post-side plan is not assessable because no side list is submitted
• Data gaps: No combos supplied, so combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record are absent No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN for going-first, going-second, matchup or starter rates Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No side deck is submitted, so D12 cannot be measured from data