Volcanic Deck #767711 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 40/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Volcanic Emperor (3100 ATK) and the Level 8 / Level 11 boss monsters (Dogoran, Nibiru) once a Volcanic or Blaze Accelerator line is live; Extra Deck Link and Fusion monsters that connect to the Pyro/FIRE board (Promethean Princess, Amblowhale, Raging Phoenix) when the Volcanic line is disrupted
• Turn 1 (going first): Volcanic Trooper or Volcanic Shell searches a Volcanic card, Volcanic Rocket searches Blaze Accelerator, then Blaze Accelerator enables Volcanic Emperor, with Solemn or Ash backing the first activation (inferred from card text; no recorded boards)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Ash Blossom, Maxx C, Droll and Lock Bird, Red Reboot, Nibiru) break the opponent's first summon, then Volcanic Emperor or Dogoran closes the board (inferred from card text)
• Recovery: Volcanic Shell and Volcanic Rimfire recur from the GY and Mulcharmy monsters draw cards while the field is empty (inferred from card text)
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no side deck (Side Deck size 0)

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Volcanic or Blaze Accelerator starter: P(at least one archetype-core card in a 5-card opening hand) is about 0.93 and the 22 core copies include several searchers, which makes the engine accessible (Inferred). Its real strength is interaction breadth: Solemn Accusation, Solemn Judgment, Ash Blossom, Dominus Impulse, Red Reboot, Maxx C, Droll and Lock Bird and Lightning Storm give it layered answers that keep the line alive (Inferred from card text). Conversion and closing are plausible from Volcanic Emperor and the 3000-ATK boss monsters, but no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling and median are text-only estimates and are not averaged from card scores. The score is capped at 40 because the list is illegal: Triple Tactics Talent is Forbidden and has no side deck, and the 28.6 percent exact archetype purity shows the engine is split across Mulcharmy, Charmer, Salamangreat and Code Talker cards. Popularity and archetype share did not earn points; this score comes from consistency, interaction and going-second strength on the system.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 64, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); engine conflicts (-2); no Side Deck (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural(55) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(48) + modifiers(-12) = 41.6, capped at 40 because the list is Illegal; theoretical/structural-only (Meta Provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.93 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.07 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Layered interaction: Solemn, Ash, Dominus, Red Reboot, Maxx C, Droll and Lock Bird
• Accessible starters: about 0.93 chance of an archetype-core card in a 5-card hand
• Strong going-second answers and 3000-plus ATK closers

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Triple Tactics Talent is Forbidden and run at 1 copy
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Low exact archetype purity (28.6 percent) and 50 off-archetype copies

Critical choke points

• Volcanic Blaze Accelerator and Volcanic Emperor summon enablers
• The Forbidden Triple Tactics Talent in the main deck makes the list illegal until removed

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status and the Triple Tactics Talent violation (Forbidden, 1 copy run); Copy counts and size rules (55 main, 15 extra, 0 side); Card text and stats of every listed card; Archetype purity 28.6 percent and role-tag counts
• Inferred: Opening-hand consistency estimates (0.93 starter, 0.07 brick proxy); Interaction density and going-second strength from card text; Floor, median and ceiling read from text, not from recorded boards
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and matchup fit (D13)
• 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 exists in YGOVN (going-first, going-second, matchup, brick, starter and OTK rates) Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No side deck: post-side performance cannot be assessed Deck title is null