Dragon Link Deck #761142 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±5 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link Summon large DARK Dragon Links (Borrelend Dragon, Borrelshroud Dragon, Firewall Dragon Singularity) and convert the board with 3000+ ATK monsters; Rokket and Borrel chain-out into Dragon-based Link and Fusion pressure
• Turn 1 (going first): Quick Launch or Rokket Loader or Rokket Tracer to Special Summon a Rokket, then Rokket Barrage or Absorouter Dragon into Link Summons
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand-trap the opponent's first summon (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Maxx C, Droll and Lock Bird) and then rebuild through Rokket Detonator and Rokket Caliber
• Recovery: Rokket Loader, Mulcharmy and Absorouter recursion plus Triple Borrel Launch to rebuild the Link Monster field from the GY
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan to evaluate

Why it scores here

This list is Illegal: Borreload Savage Dragon is Forbidden in OCG and is run once, so the evaluation is structural-only and the final score is capped at 25. Within that cap, the deck reliably opens its Rokket starters: the archetype core group is about 0.89 to have at least one card in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred, hypergeometric), and the Rokket chain-out gives the deck several independent first steps. Its interaction density is high, with 9 hand traps, 19 negation-text cards and 26 removal-text cards, which earns going-second value. Conversion and median output cannot be measured because the deck has no recorded boards, so both scores are Inferred from card text alone. The score comes from consistency, interaction and Extra-Deck coverage on the system, not from Dragon Link being a popular archetype, and the individual card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary with Combo secondary. Structural ≈ 56, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (Forbidden card in Extra Deck) (-12); No side deck (-2). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability = 54.8 before cap; Illegal cap applied, final score 25 (structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.25 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.11 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Rokket starter redundancy with three 3-copy starters and a 0.89 core-group hit rate (Inferred)
• Dense interaction: 9 hand traps, Solemn family, Ash Blossom and Ghost Ogre (Inferred)
• Full Extra Deck with 11 Link Monsters giving board breaking at 3000+ ATK (Verified count)

Weaknesses

• Forbidden Borreload Savage Dragon makes the list illegal in OCG
• No side deck registered, so no post-side plan
• Mixed sub-archetypes (Rokket, Borrel, Mulcharmy, Solemn) with no exact-name Dragon Link cards lower engine coherence

Critical choke points

• Single Rokket starter line on going-first (Quick Launch, Rokket Loader, Rokket Tracer) with no backup if all are blocked
• Dependence on Link Summons from a small set of Rokket and Borrel materials

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Illegal, Borreload Savage Dragon Forbidden with 1 copy run; Main 56 and Extra 15, both within size rules; Extra Deck breakdown: 11 Link, 2 Xyz, 1 Synchro, 1 Fusion; Usage: core group present 11 of 25 entries
• Inferred: Starter consistency from hypergeometric draw table; Interaction density from card text; Going-second hand-trap coverage 0.67
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit: no dated metagame sample
• Data gaps: Illegal list: Borreload Savage Dragon Forbidden in OCG and over the copy limit No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent No side deck: post-side plan cannot be scored Usage stats mark Borrelend Dragon, Trisborrel Dragon, Borrelshroud Dragon and Breachborrel Dragon as not in deck, but the card list includes them in the Extra Deck; the usage ref matching is inconsistent No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN