Tenpai Dragon Deck #760956 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 31/100 (±6 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 7 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck Synchro, Link and Fusion beaters (Sangenpai Transcendent Dragion, Trident Dragion, Worldsea Dragon Zealantis, Promethean Princess) reached through Tenpai Dragon and Sangen searches (Inferred from card text); Sky Striker Ace - Kagari and Salamangreat Raging Phoenix Link lines off the Sky Striker and Salamangreat pieces (Inferred; sub-archetype density is low)
• Turn 1 (going first): Opening Tenpai Dragon Genroku or Paidra and Terraforming/Sangen Summoning for a Sangen search, then a Synchro or Link summon from the 3-level FIRE Dragon engine (Inferred; no recorded boards)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Nibiru and Artifact Lancea as hand traps against the opponent's first summon, then rebuild a Dragon Synchro board (Inferred)
• Recovery: Tenpai Dragon Fadra and Genroku recursion from the GY, plus Sangen Kaimen and Sangen Summoning searches for a FIRE Dragon (Inferred from card text)
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has 0 Side Deck cards, so no post-side plan exists

Why it scores here

This is scored as a structural read of the list as written, so the legal result is theoretical only: the deck runs 3 copies of three Semi-Limited cards, 2 copies of Limited Droll & Lock Bird, and 1 copy each of three Forbidden cards, and the Illegal status caps the score. The Tenpai Dragon core is reasonably accessible (P of at least one core card in a 5-card opening is about 0.83, Inferred), and 11 hand traps plus 10 negation-text cards give it a real interaction layer. The engine is diffuse: exact-archetype purity is only 8.6%, with 64 off-archetype copies across Sky Striker, Branded, Sangen, Greed, Mulcharmy and others, which hurts floor, median and brick management. There are no recorded boards and no tournament or win-rate data, so combo conversion and matchup fit are text-only inference and held near the middle of the scale. Archetype popularity and the Sangen usage stats were not used to raise any dimension, and no card scores were averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary; Toolbox secondary (not blended into weights). Structural ≈ 45, Going First ≈ 40, Going Second ≈ 35, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); engine conflicts (-3); no side deck (-1). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(45) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(35) + ContextModifiers(-12) = 31; Illegal status caps this as theoretical/structural-only

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.83 · 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

• Accessible Tenpai Dragon core (16 copies) with a high chance of at least one core card in the opening hand
• Broad interaction layer: 11 hand traps and 10 negation-text cards
• Extra Deck offers several 2500-3000 ATK Synchro and Link beaters

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: three Forbidden cards and four over-limit copies
• Diffuse engine: 8.6% exact-archetype purity, with many off-archetype copies
• No Side Deck, so no post-side plan
• High brick and redundancy risk from 11 hand traps and 12 searchers competing for slots

Critical choke points

• A single FIRE Dragon engine (Tenpai Dragon and Sangen pieces) gates most Extra Deck summons
• Forbidden and over-limit cards must be removed before the list is playable in OCG

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main Deck 55 and Extra Deck 15 counts, within OCG size rules; Seven copy-limit violations, including three Forbidden cards; Card text for the 29 distinct Main Deck cards and 15 Extra Deck cards; Exact-archetype purity 8.6% (6 of 70 archetype-tagged copies)
• Inferred: P(at least one core card in opening hand) ≈ 0.83; Brick and redundancy risk from hand-trap and searcher density; Engine accessibility and recovery from card-text reads
• Provisional: Meta fit (D13) is held at 45 because no dated metagame sample is supplied; Tournament reliability is judged from text, not results
• 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 for going-first, going-second, matchup or brick rates Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No Side Deck, so post-side plan cannot be evaluated Data inconsistency: usage_statistics marks Trident Dragion, Sangenpai Transcendent Dragion, Hieratic Seal of the Heavenly Spheres, Sangenpai Bident Dragion and Promethean Princess as in_this_deck=false, but they appear in the cards array in the Extra zone. This evaluation uses the cards array as the source of truth.