Red-Eyes Deck #766995 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 53 / Extra 17 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 5 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck Synchro, Link and Fusion boards built from Dragon and Bystial/Red-Eyes bodies (Bystial Dis Pater, Chaos Angel, Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon); Chaos Emperor and Bystial recursion through banish-GY effects, used for late-game card advantage
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Dragon starter (Black Metal Dragon, Bystial Saronir, Effect Veiler) and reach a Level 6 or 8 Dragon for a Synchro or Link; the copy limits are illegal, so this plan is theoretical only
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler and Droll & Lock Bird as hand traps against the opponent's starter, then rebuild through Bystial summons; still structurally dependent on the illegal copies
• Recovery: Bystial and Red-Eyes recursion from the GY and banish zone (Bystial Saronir, Bystial Baldrake, Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon) to recover material
• After siding: None: side deck is empty, so there is no post-side plan and the deck cannot adapt between games

Why it scores here

The deck is Illegal in OCG: three copies each of Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring, The Bystial Lubellion and Super Polymerization exceed their copy limits, and the Extra Deck holds 17 cards against a maximum of 15. Under the rubric it does not receive a normal Final Contextual score, so the 25 is a capped structural-only read rather than a legal-deck result. The system scores show a midrange shell whose consistency is weak: the starter probability is about 0.26 for a 3-copy card in a 5-card opening hand, and archetype purity is only about 7% exact-name, with 65 off-archetype copies across Bystial, Chaos, Branded, Hieratic and others. Interaction is the deck's strongest area, with 9 hand traps and 10 negation effects, but there are no side-deck answers. The score was not produced by averaging card scores or by using the Red-Eyes archetype's popularity; no usage-based or meta-share credit was given.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary; Toolbox secondary disclosed, Midrange weights used without blending. Structural ≈ 36, Going First ≈ 32, Going Second ≈ 34, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 30. Modifiers: Illegal list cap (-10). Final formula: Illegal cap: 0.80*Structural(36) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(30) = 35, then -10 legality modifier to 25 (Meta provisional, structural-only for an illegal list)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.26 · 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 interaction package: 9 hand traps and 10 negation effects
• Several high-ATK Synchro, Link and Dragon bodies for closing power
• Recursion through the GY and banish zone gives some route redundancy

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: three copy-limit violations and an Extra Deck of 17 against a limit of 15
• Low archetype purity (7.1% exact name) with 65 off-archetype copies, so engines compete
• Empty side deck: no post-side plan and no adaptation between games
• Low opening-hand starter probability (about 0.26 for a 3-copy card)

Critical choke points

• Dragon-level Level 6 or 8 monsters for Synchro and Link summons
• Ash Blossom and Effect Veiler as the only early interaction for going second

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality status Illegal from copy-limit violations (Ash Blossom, Lubellion, Super Polymerization) and Extra Deck size 17 > 15; Main 53 cards, Extra 17 cards, Side 0 cards; Exact-name archetype purity 7.1% and 65 off-archetype copies; Hand-trap count 9, negation-text count 10, searcher-text count 17
• Inferred: Opening-hand starter probability ≈ 0.26 for a 3-copy card; Interaction density is strong but ordering of interaction vs engine is untested; Midrange primary with Toolbox secondary from card text and composition
• Provisional: Meta Power is null: no dated metagame sample or tournament link; Matchup fit and going-second strength are unmeasured
• Data gaps: No combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record are absent No win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchup or starter rates Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample Side deck is empty, so post-side performance cannot be assessed