Red-Eyes Deck #762979 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±10 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 45 / Extra 9 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Summon Red-Eyes Extra Deck threats (Darkness Metal, Flare Metal, Black Fullmetal) from Metalmorph and Red-Eyes recursion, then close with 2800-3400 ATK boards; Hand-trap attrition and the Red-Eyes Fusion / Black Metal Dragon chain for incremental pressure
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Red-Eyes monster or Red-Eyes Fusion plus one hand trap; use Black Metal Dragon or Incoming Machine! to find the next Red-Eyes or Metalmorph piece
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the six-card hand's hand traps (Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Effect Veiler, Ghost Belle) to break the opponent's first engine, then rebuild through Red-Eyes Spirit and Return of the Red-Eyes
• Recovery: Recur Red-Eyes monsters from the GY through Red-Eyes Spirit, Return of the Red-Eyes and Red-Eyes Soul, then re-summon through Metalmorph and Metal Claws Dragon
• After siding: Not evaluable: the export has no side deck (Side Deck size 0), so no post-side plan can be read

Why it scores here

The deck is Illegal: three cards exceed their copy limits or are Forbidden in TCG (Triple Tactics Talent and Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, plus three Ash Blossom copies against a Semi-Limited limit of two), so the Final Contextual score is capped at 35 and this evaluation is structural only. Structurally it opens the core reliably (about 0.93 chance of at least one archetype-core card in a 5-card hand) and has a broad interaction suite of 15 hand traps and Tuner negators, which earns the Midrange profile its interruption-resilience and interaction points. Engine access is less consistent: exact-name Red-Eyes purity is only 29.6%, and the Red-Eyes Fusion and Black Metal Dragon starters each show roughly 0.30 odds of being in hand, so the consistency score stays moderate. Closing power is real (Darkness Metal, Flare Metal and Black Fullmetal at 2800–3400 ATK), but there are no recorded boards and no side deck, so the combo ceiling and median are text-only inferences and the side-deck score is low. Popularity and archetype usage stats confirm the list is real and accessible but did not raise any score; no card scores were averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 54, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12). Final formula: Pre-cap: 0.80*55 + 0.20*48 + (-12 banlist modifier) = 42; Illegal guardrail caps Final at 35 (structural-only). Meta Power null (provisional).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.93 · 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

• Broad hand-trap and negation suite (15 hand traps)
• Strong Extra Deck closers at 2800–3400 ATK
• Recursion through Red-Eyes Spirit, Return and Soul
• Core archetype cards are almost always accessible (about 0.93)

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy limits and Forbidden cards
• Low exact-name archetype purity (29.6%)
• No side deck exported
• Hand-trap density competes for hand space with engine starters

Critical choke points

• Red-Eyes Fusion and Black Metal Dragon at about 0.30 each in hand
• Dependence on Red-Eyes monsters in the GY for recursion
• Forbidden Dark Dragoon removes an Extra Deck slot

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality status Illegal with three violations; Main 45 and Extra 9 within size rules; Card stats for Darkness Metal 2800, Flare Metal 2800, Black Fullmetal 3400; Core archetype usage 12/12 present
• Inferred: Hand-trap interaction density and layering; Starter access probabilities from hypergeometric odds; Going-first and going-second split estimates
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament link)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied, so combo floor/median/ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record are absent No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates) No side deck exported, so post-side plan cannot be scored Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied