Dragon Link Deck #764093 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link-based beatdown through the Borrel boss Links (Borrelend, Borrelsword, Borrelshroud at 3000-3500 ATK) built off the Rokket engine; Striker Dragon and Breachborrel Dragon Link chains that recycle Rokket and Borrel monsters from the GY
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Rokket starter (Rokket Loader, Quick Launch, Rokket Tracer) into a Dragon Link board, then use Triple Borrel Launch or Double Interlock to fill the Link zones
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold hand traps (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C, Infinite Impermanence, Ghost Ogre) to slow the opponent's first summons, then Link Summon into the boss
• Recovery: Rebuild from the GY with Absorouter Dragon, Rokket Tracer and Triple Borrel Launch, and use Mulcharmy draw effects to refill hand
• After siding: None. The deck runs 0 Side Deck cards, so there is no post-side adjustment

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Rokket or Borrel starter: the archetype core has about a 94% chance of at least one copy in a 5-card opening hand (hypergeometric, Inferred), and the Extra Deck of 15 gives several Link options that can be reached from that starter. Its interaction is the strongest part of the build, with 12 hand traps, 13 negation-text cards and 25 removal-text cards on the Main Deck. Recursion through Triple Borrel Launch, Absorouter Dragon and Mulcharmy draws helps it continue after a disruption. The score is held down because the list is Illegal: three copies break banlist limits (two Forbidden, one Limited). Under the rubric it is therefore capped as theoretical/structural-only, and it has no side deck and no recorded boards. Popularity and archetype usage did not earn points, and card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 62, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 66, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-6). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability = 0.80*62 + 0.20*55 = 60.6; banlist exposure -6 gives 54.6; the Illegal cap then sets the final to 30 (theoretical/structural-only).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.94 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.06 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense interaction: 12 hand traps, 13 negation-text cards and 25 removal-text cards
• The archetype core is very likely to be opened (about 94% at least one in a 5-card hand, Inferred)
• A 15-card Extra Deck gives several Link boss options at 3000-3500 ATK
• Redundant recursion from the GY through Triple Borrel Launch, Absorouter Dragon and Mulcharmy

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: two Forbidden cards and Striker Dragon over its Limited limit
• No Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan
• Diffuse engine: several sub-archetypes (Rokket, Borrel, Mulcharmy, Solemn, Cyclone, Dominus) with 16 single-copy slots
• No recorded combo boards, so ceiling and floor are unmeasured
• Usage-statistics data contradicts the deck list (see data_gaps)

Critical choke points

• Forbidden Borreload Savage Dragon is an Extra Deck synchro that must be removed before the list is legal
• Triple Borrel Launch is the main GY-recovery path and is also a key starter
• Hand traps are the main defence when going second; losing them to an opponent's negation leaves the board open

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Triple Tactics Talent and Borreload Savage Dragon are Forbidden; Striker Dragon is over its Limited limit; Main Deck 55 cards and Extra Deck 15 cards are within the 40-60 and 0-15 size rules; Side Deck is 0 (legal); Composition: 12 hand traps, 13 negation-text cards, 25 removal-text cards, 13 Link monsters; Archetype core is 23 copies of Rokket/Borrel/Mulcharmy-type cards; archetype purity against the exact archetype name is 0%
• Inferred: Hypergeometric opening-hand odds for the archetype core (about 94% at least one in hand5) and the brick proxy (about 6%); Dimension scores D1-D14 are judgments from card text and composition; Going-second hand-trap strength (about 79% at least one hand trap in hand6); Midrange primary strategy with Stun secondary, read from composition and card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and D13 matchup/format fit (50) because no dated metagame sample exists; Floor and median (D4) because no recorded boards are supplied
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot records are absent No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN, so going-first/second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Data inconsistency: usage_statistics marks Borrelend Dragon (98630720), Borrelshroud Dragon (66452432), Trisborrel Dragon (3957130), Borreload Fatalflare Dragon (84464389) and Borrelsword Dragon (85289965) as not in this deck, and lists them in missing_core, but cards[] includes them with copies 1 or 2. The core-presence figure (56%) is therefore unreliable. Deck title is null, so the deck name is not verifiable