True Draco Deck #761464 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 37/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 41 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 6 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Tribute-summon and Xyz/Link board pressure from True Draco and True King monsters (Dinomight Knight, Ignis Heat, Majesty Maiden) with Dragonic Diagram ATK boosts; Extra Deck Link/Xyz beats (Utopia Beyond, Volcasaurus, Ptolemy M7) once the board is established
• Turn 1 (going first): Search a True Draco monster with a searcher or Heritage/Diagram, Tribute a Continuous Spell/Trap to Tribute Summon a Dracofighter, then build a Link/Xyz board off the Charmer and Knightmare extra-deck options
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Solemn Judgment, Solemn Strike and Skill Drain (if legal) to interrupt the opponent, then recover the engine through Disciples of the True Dracophoenix and True Draco Heritage
• Recovery: Recursion via Disciples of the True Dracophoenix (shuffle 3 True Draco or True King cards from the GY, draw 1) and Dragonic Diagram's add-from-hand-or-field effect
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs an empty Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system, not as an average of its card scores. Its core engine is reliable on paper: 20 of 41 Main Deck cards are exact True Draco names, the archetype core has a hypergeometric chance of about 0.97 to appear in a 5-card opening hand, and 12 searcher-text cards give about 0.84 chance of at least one in hand. Conversion is the weak point, because there are no recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and floor are text-only inferences. Interaction (Solemn, Skill Drain) and Disciples/Heritage recursion give some resilience, but three Solemn Judgment, three Card of Demise and three Skill Drain copies exceed the Limited limit, and Vanity's Emptiness, Imperial Order and Mystic Mine are Forbidden. The deck has no side deck and no tournament or meta data, so Meta Power is null and the Tournament Reliability is low. Popularity of the archetype did not earn points. Because the list is Illegal, the score is capped low and is theoretical/structural only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 49, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 48, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 46. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (Forbidden) (-8); Banlist exposure (Limited over-limit) (-4). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) = 48.7, then Illegal modifiers -12 → 36.7, rounded to 37

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.97 · 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

• Archetype core is almost always present in an opening hand (≈0.97)
• Searcher density gives a high chance of finding an engine piece (≈0.84)
• Strong ATK profile on Link/Xyz and Dracofighter boards
• Recursion (Disciples, Heritage) supports the grind after a board is cleared

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: copy limits and Forbidden cards must be fixed before any competitive reading
• No hand traps and no side deck, so no interaction plan on the opponent's turn or after siding
• No recorded combos, so the combo ceiling and median are unverified
• Heavy generic and off-archetype spread (36 off exact-name copies) dilutes the engine

Critical choke points

• Continuous Spell/Trap Tribute enablers for Dracofighter and Majesty Maiden
• Single Solemn/Skill Drain interaction layer, which is illegal at current copy counts

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main Deck 41 cards, Extra Deck 15, Side 0 (legal size ranges); Six copy-limit violations including three Forbidden cards (legal ban list for OCG); Core usage: 8 of 10 usage-stat core cards present (80%); Dragonic Diagram: +300 ATK/DEF to True Draco and True King monsters (card text)
• Observed: No recorded boards exist (combos_evidence total 0)
• Inferred: Opening-hand consistency from hypergeometric odds (archetype core 0.97, searchers 0.84); Engine conversion and recursion read from card text; Interaction quality from negation and removal text counts; Going-first and going-second scores from the component dimensions
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (D13), no tournament link
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN — going-first/second, matchup, brick and starter rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Side Deck is empty, so post-side behaviour cannot be scored