Dragon Ruler Deck #761482 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 5 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Dragon Ruler chain: Stream/Burner/Lightning/Reactan discard into Tidal/Blaster/Tempest/Redox, then Blaster, Tempest and Redox boards, with Light and Darkness Dragon and Scrap Dragon as extra pressure; Steal boards with Number 11: Big Eye and Mecha Phantom Beast Dracossack from the Extra Deck
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Dragon Ruler starter, use the discard-to-Special-Summon chain to reach a 2800-ATK Dragon Ruler, and protect the chain with Maxx "C", Droll & Lock Bird, Effect Veiler or Swift Scarecrow (theoretical; the list is illegal as built)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Effect Veiler, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx "C" and Swift Scarecrow to disrupt the opponent's first board, then rebuild through the same Dragon Ruler chain and steal the best monster with Big Eye or Dracossack
• Recovery: Tidal and Redox return to hand or re-summon from hand/GY by banishing Dragons and WATER/EARTH monsters; Super Rejuvenation and Sacred Sword of Seven Stars refill hand
• After siding: Not evaluable: no Side Deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck is a Dragon Ruler discard-chain engine with four 2-copy starters feeding four 3-copy Dragon Ruler boards, so the list reliably opens and converts into 2800-ATK pressure when the starter is in hand. Interaction is deep (Maxx "C", Droll & Lock Bird, Effect Veiler, Swift Scarecrow, Mystical Space Typhoon, Heavy Storm, Book of Moon, Forbidden Chalice, Electric Virus) and the Extra Deck steal monsters add a board-breaking route. The score is held down by an illegal list: four cards exceed their OCG copy limits (Vanity's Emptiness and Eclipse Wyvern are Forbidden, Maxx "C" and Droll & Lock Bird are Limited to 1), so the score is capped as theoretical/structural-only. Popularity was not rewarded: usage statistics confirm the archetype is real but add no power, and no card scores were averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 59, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 0.80*59 + 0.20*50 − 12 = 45; Illegal cap applied (theoretical/structural-only) → 30

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.65 · 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

• Four 2-copy starters feed four 3-copy Dragon Ruler boards, giving a coherent discard-to-summon engine
• Deep interaction: Maxx "C", Droll & Lock Bird, Effect Veiler, Swift Scarecrow, Mystical Space Typhoon, Heavy Storm, Book of Moon, Forbidden Chalice
• High closing power from 2800–3000 ATK boss monsters and Extra Deck control steals
• Extra Deck is fully used with 15 cards and two distinct board-breaking routes

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: four copy-limit violations, including two Forbidden cards in the Main Deck
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptability
• Combo output is unmeasured (no recorded boards), so median and floor are text-only inference
• Several dead cards in hand (Card Destruction, Heavy Storm, Book of Moon, Dragon Ravine)

Critical choke points

• The Dragon Ruler chain requires a starter in hand; with about 65% opening-hand access the first turn is unreliable
• Maxx "C" and Droll & Lock Bird are the main hand-trap protection and are currently over the limit, so the illegal list overstates protection

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality violations and banlist statuses (Maxx "C" 3/1, Droll & Lock Bird 3/1, Vanity's Emptiness 2/0 Forbidden, Eclipse Wyvern 1/0 Forbidden); Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0 counts within OCG size rules; Card text and stats for all listed cards; Extra Deck breakdown: 9 Xyz, 6 Synchro
• Inferred: Starter access and brick estimates from hypergeometric values; Interaction density and closing power from card text; Combo ceiling from text only (no recorded boards)
• Provisional: Meta Power (null; no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (D13 = 50)
• Data gaps: No recorded boards, so combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent No Side Deck registered, so post-side plan cannot be evaluated usage_statistics marks Mecha Phantom Beast Dracossack and Number 11: Big Eye as missing_core (in_this_deck=false), but the cards array lists 3 copies of each in the Extra Deck; the usage matching is inconsistent and should be checked Most Dragon Ruler cards have archetype=null, so archetype_purity reports 0% exact-name purity and is unreliable here No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN; all performance signals are Inferred Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied