Volcanic Deck #767715 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±8 · 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. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Volcanic and Mulcharmy card advantage and Volcanic Emperor / Nibiru / Snake-Eyes Flamberge Dragon board presence (Inferred from text; no combo evidence); Link and Fusion Extra Deck threats, mostly Link-3/4 boards (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Volcanic or Mulcharmy starter, search with Volcanic Shell / Trooper / Emission, and protect with Solemn and Ash Blossom (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the six-card hand's hand traps (Ash Blossom, Dominus Impulse, Maxx C, Droll, Red Reboot, Ghost Ogre) to break the opponent's first summon, then rebuild through Mulcharmy draws (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recycle Volcanic and Snake-Eye monsters from the GY through Volcanic Rimfire, Snake-Eye Oak and Awakening of the Possessed (Inferred)
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan (verified from composition: Side Deck size 0)

Why it scores here

This list is illegal in OCG: two Forbidden cards (Triple Tactics Talent and Original Sinful Spoils - Snake-Eye) are run at one copy each, so the score is capped and reported as structural-only. The structure is a multi-engine toolbox: Volcanic and Mulcharmy starters (about 93% to open at least one core card proxy in a 5-card hand, Inferred), plus a dense hand-trap and negate suite (8 hand traps, 10 negation texts) that gives it strong interaction on the system (D7 72, Inferred). Going second is its best case, since hand traps reach a 6-card hand about 63% of the time (Inferred). Its main weaknesses are a brittle choke point on multiple overlapping engines, an unevidenced combo floor and median (no parseable boards), no side deck, and 56 off-archetype copies that dilute the engine (exact-name purity 20%). The score comes from consistency, interaction and going-second structure considered together, not from the average of card strengths, and not from Volcanic's popularity, which earned no points.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: banlist_exposure_forbidden (-10); hard_garnet_burden (-2). Final formula: Illegal cap: 0.80*55 + 0.20*48 = 53.6; minus 10 banlist exposure = 43.6; capped at 35 for an Illegal list (Meta provisional, null)

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

• Multiple independent starters (Volcanic Shell, Trooper, Mulcharmy Fuwalos and Purulia) give opening-hand redundancy (Inferred)
• Dense hand-trap and negate suite gives going-second interaction (Inferred)
• Strong closers in Volcanic Emperor, Snake-Eyes Flamberge Dragon and Nibiru (verified stats)

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: two Forbidden cards (verified)
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation (verified)
• Only 20% exact-name Volcanic purity; engine is split across Mulcharmy, Snake-Eye and Blaze Accelerator (verified)
• No combo evidence, so the floor and median are unmeasured (verified gap)

Critical choke points

• Volcanic Emperor summon condition depends on banishing 3 Pyro or Blaze Accelerator; interrupted by a single hand trap (Inferred)
• Snake-Eye and Volcanic lines both need Fire monsters on the field, so one removal spell can cut two engines (Inferred)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 2 Forbidden copies and 0 legal copies for both (verified); Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0 counts (verified); Card stats and text for every listed card (verified); Archetype core usage proxy: 13 of 25 core cards present (verified)
• Inferred: P(>=1 starter) ≈ 0.93 and full-brick ≈ 0.07 from the core-group proxy (Inferred); Going-second hand trap reach ≈ 0.63 (Inferred); Interaction density reads from text roles (Inferred); Volcanic Emperor and Blaze Accelerator line descriptions (Inferred)
• Provisional: Meta Power is null; matchup and format fit (D13) are provisional with no dated meta
• Data gaps: No combos supplied, so floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No side deck registered, so post-side performance is unknown