Ancient Warrior Deck #767223 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link and Xyz boss monsters summoned through the Tri-Brigade and Fire King engine (Tri-Brigade Shuraig 3000 ATK, Tri-Brigade Arms Bucephalus II 3500 ATK, Garunix Eternity 3000 ATK); Fire King recursion from the Graveyard (Legendary Fire King Ponix, Sacred Fire King Garunix, Fire King Avatar Barong) to rebuild boards
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Fire King or Tri-Brigade starter (High Avatar Kirin, Tri-Brigade Fraktall, Legendary Fire King Ponix) and convert it into a Link Summon while holding hand traps to protect the first engine turn
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Effect Veiler, Infinite Impermanence, Droll & Lock Bird) to answer the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Graveyard Link Summons
• Recovery: Recur Fire King and Tri-Brigade monsters from the Graveyard through Tri-Brigade Revolt, Tri-Brigade Kerass and Fire King Avatar effects, then Link Summon again
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan; this is a gap, not a neutral score

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system: a 40-card main that spreads across Fire King, Tri-Brigade and generic hand traps, feeding a 15-card Extra Deck of Link and Xyz bosses. Its reliable part is interaction: 13 hand traps give about a 92% chance of at least one going second, and that is what earns the going-second and interaction scores. Its opening conversion is weaker, since the Fire King and Tri-Brigade starters appear in only about 34% of 5-card hands and the core archetype group in about 64%, so consistency and brick management are held back. No combo boards were recorded, so the floor, median and ceiling are text-only inferences and are kept deliberately modest. Popularity did not earn points, and the card scores were not averaged. The Ash Blossom copy-limit violation caps the final score low, and the absence of a side deck removes any post-side credit.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, Toolbox secondary; weights taken from the Midrange row of the rubric profile table. Structural ≈ 55.3, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 64, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-8); No side deck (-4). Final formula: Illegal cap applied: no-meta formula 0.80*Structural(55.3) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) = 53.2, modifiers total -12, then capped low to 35 because the deck is over the Ash Blossom copy limit (theoretical/structural only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.34 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.36 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Hand-trap density (13 cards) gives about 92% at least one going second
• Multiple Graveyard recursion effects provide resource rebuild
• Several Link and Xyz bosses reach 2400–3500 ATK
• Fire King protection (Sanctuary, Island) and Tri-Brigade links give interaction across lines

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy count on Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring
• 0% exact-archetype purity; 55 of 40 main copies are off-archetype or generic, so engines conflict
• Low starter density in the opening hand (about 34% per 3-copy starter)
• No side deck
• No recorded boards, so combo output cannot be verified

Critical choke points

• Tri-Brigade Link Summon routes depend on Beast, Beast-Warrior and Winged Beast monsters in the Graveyard
• Starter access depends on a few 3-copy and 2-copy cards in a 40-card main

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 40 main, 15 extra, 0 side; Ash Blossom over copy limit (2 legal, 3 run); Card text and stats for all listed cards; Composition: 13 Link and 2 Xyz in the Extra Deck; 0% exact-archetype purity; Usage stat: core cards present 3 of 8 (37.5%)
• Inferred: Starter hypergeometric estimates (≈0.34 for 3-copy starters, ≈0.64 for the core group); Hand-trap coverage ≈0.92 going second; Interaction and recursion quality from card text; Ceiling and floor read from text because no boards were recorded
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (D13), no tournament data
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN (going-first/second, matchup, game-level, brick/starter/OTK rates) — those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied no guides attached for the archetype no side deck registered, so post-side behaviour cannot be evaluated