Monarch Deck #767598 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 20/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 0 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 7 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: No single win condition. Monarch-named boss monsters (Mobius, Granmarg, 2400 ATK each) and generic beaters (Gigantes, King Tiger Wanghu, Goblin Attack Force) pressure the opponent once a board exists.; Chip damage through Des Wombat and Bazoo the Soul-Eater ATK growth, with Smashing Ground and Mind Control clearing blockers. No Extra Deck finisher.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a generic beater or Monarch boss, use Mystical Space Typhoon or Dust Tornado on a backrow threat, and hold Solemn Judgment for the opponent's first summon or spell.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Mirror Force, Torrential Tribute, Heavy Storm or Solemn Judgment to clear the opponent's board, then rebuild with Tribute Summons of Monarch bosses.
• Recovery: Recursion is limited to Premature Burial and Bazoo's GY banish. Recovery relies on draw cards (Jar of Greed, and forbidden Pot of Greed and Graceful Charity that cannot be run legally).
• After siding: Not evaluable. The deck has no Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system, not as an average of its cards. It is a goodstuff Toolbox list of generic staples and removal with only 4 exact-name Monarch copies (7.3% exact-name purity), so there is no coherent engine to make the starters reliable. Its interaction suite (Mirror Force, Torrential Tribute, Heavy Storm, Solemn Judgment, Royal Decree, Dust Tornado, Smashing Ground, Mind Control) gives it breadth, but the Monarch bosses are Tribute-gated and the deck has no combo data to show how often the line converts. The score is capped low because the list is Illegal: it runs 5 Forbidden cards (Pot of Greed, Graceful Charity, Dimension Fusion, Delinquent Duo, Amazoness Archer) and 2 extra copies of Limited cards, and it has no Extra Deck or Side Deck. Popularity and archetype identity earned no points. The Structural figure of 37 is theoretical only and is not a legal deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 37, Going First ≈ 36, Going Second ≈ 40, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-12). Final formula: No reliable metagame, so Meta is provisional: 0.80*Structural(37) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(35) + ContextModifiers(-12) = 24.6, then the Illegal cap applies and the final score is 20 (theoretical/structural only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ — · 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 suite covering spells, traps and monsters (Mirror Force, Torrential Tribute, Heavy Storm, Solemn Judgment, Royal Decree, Dust Tornado, Smashing Ground, Mind Control)
• Generic beaters with high ATK (Gigantes, King Tiger Wanghu, Goblin Attack Force, Monarch bosses at 2400 ATK) that need no archetype core
• Compact main deck within the OCG 40-60 size rule

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: five Forbidden cards and two Limited cards over the copy limit
• No coherent engine: 7.3% exact-name Monarch purity and no archetype core
• No Extra Deck and no Side Deck, so there is no finisher beyond the main deck and no post-side plan
• Monarch bosses need a Tribute, and the Tribute fodder comes from generic monsters, so the boss line is fragile

Critical choke points

• Tribute-gated Monarch bosses depend on having a monster on board to Tribute
• Forbidden draw cards (Pot of Greed, Graceful Charity) were the deck's card-advantage engine and cannot be run legally

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Illegal. Forbidden cards: Pot of Greed, Graceful Charity, Dimension Fusion, Delinquent Duo, Amazoness Archer. Limited cards over the copy limit: Solemn Judgment, Reinforcement of the Army.; Main deck 55 cards, Extra 0, Side 0. Monarch exact-name purity 7.3%.; Card text and stats for every distinct card from the resolved list.
• Inferred: Opening-hand consistency from hypergeometric estimates (P(at least one 3-copy card in opening 5) = 0.25).; Brick risk from the mix of generic staples and no coherent engine.; Interaction quality from the removal and negation text density.
• Provisional: Meta Power is null: no dated metagame sample.; Matchup and format-fit scores (D13) rely only on archetype context.
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference. No archetype usage statistics, so the core and meta-standard comparison is unavailable. No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent. No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN, so going-first, going-second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown. Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied. The deck has no Extra Deck or Side Deck, so D11 and D12 score on the empty slots alone.