Red-Eyes Deck #767121 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 27/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 53 / Extra 17 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Unverified: no recorded combos. Structurally, Dark Magician-based Fusion and Link boards plus Extra Deck beaters (The Dark Magicians, Master of Chaos, Dark Magician the Dragon Knight) would close the game if the Extra Deck were legal.; Hand-trap and negation-based disruption (Ash Blossom, Maxx C, Droll & Lock Bird, Nibiru, Infinite Impermanence, Kuriboh) to stall the opponent while the board is built.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on a searcher (Magician's Rod, Dark Magical Circle, Eternal Soul, Dark Magical Curtain) that finds Dark Magician or a Dark Magician spell, then Normal Summon or Special Summon into a Fusion or Ritual line. Hand traps are held for the opponent's first activation.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Maxx C, Droll & Lock Bird, Kuriboh and Nibiru to answer the opponent's first searcher or draw. Once the opponent's board is disrupted, convert with a Fusion or Ritual line.
• Recovery: Recursion from the GY through Magician's Rod, Eternal Soul and Dark Magician Girl (ATK scales off GY Dark Magicians), and Dark Magician the Dragon Knight to rebuild Extra Deck pressure.
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no Side Deck (side_count 0), so no post-side plan exists.

Why it scores here

The list is Illegal: three Forbidden cards are run over the limit (2 Magicians' Souls, 2 Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, 1 Charmer Quartet), and the Extra Deck holds 17 cards against an OCG maximum of 15, so the deck gets a structural-only, capped score. The structure is a Dark Magician toolbox, not a pure Red-Eyes deck: exact archetype-name purity is only 4.3%, and the core is spread across Prophecy, Chaos, Dominus and Dark Magician sub-archetypes. Starter access is reasonable (about 83% chance of at least one searcher-text card in the opening 5, Inferred), and the eight hand traps and twelve negation-text cards give real interaction. There are no recorded combos, no archetype meta share and no guides, so conversion, median output and matchup fit can only be estimated (Inferred). Popularity and archetype name did not earn points, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 40, Going First ≈ 38, Going Second ≈ 42, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-7); extra_deck_over_size (-3); no_combo_evidence (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) = 39, then Illegal cap applied via modifiers to 27 (theoretical / structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.83 · 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

• Dense hand-trap and negation suite (Ash Blossom, Maxx C, Droll & Lock Bird, Nibiru, Infinite Impermanence, Kuriboh, Dominus Spark)
• Multiple searchers and GY recursion routes (Magician's Rod, Dark Magical Circle, Eternal Soul, Dark Magician Girl)
• Strong Extra Deck end-boards (The Dark Magicians, Master of Chaos, Dark Magician the Dragon Knight, Quintet Magician)

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: three Forbidden cards over the limit and an oversized Extra Deck
• Low archetype coherence (4.3% exact archetype name), so the deck is a Dark Magician toolbox rather than a Red-Eyes engine
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptation
• No recorded combos, so the real conversion rate is unknown

Critical choke points

• Extra Deck legality: Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon (Forbidden) is a Fusion Monster with a large share of the Extra Deck
• Hand-trap dependence for going-second disruption, with no recovery if the traps miss
• Single-copy archetype core (Droll & Lock Bird is the only core card present)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 3 Forbidden cards over the limit, Extra Deck 17 over the 15 maximum; Copy counts and card text per the evidence pack; Archetype purity 4.3% and 0 Side Deck cards
• Inferred: Searcher and hand-trap hypergeometric odds; Interaction density and going-second value; Conversion and floor and median estimates from text only
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit (no dated metagame sample)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta share and pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry for OCG Meta Power Provisional: no dated metagame sample Deck title is null