Drytron Deck #767895 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 52 / Extra 14 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ritual Summon Drytron / Meteonis 4000-ATK ritual monsters via Meteonis Drytron and Machine tributes, then close with direct or piercing attacks; Xyz/Link extra-deck boards (Mu Beta Fafnir, Utopia, Lyrilusc, Knightmare Phoenix) once the ritual board is up
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Drytron searchers (Alpha Thuban, Zeta Aldhibah) and Meteonis Drytron, tribute into a Drytron Level 1 special summon, then ritual or Xyz into a 2000+ ATK line
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence and Evenly Matched to interrupt the opponent's first summons, then rebuild through Drytron GY recursion (Nu II, Meteoroa)
• Recovery: Drytron Nova and Meteoroa Drytron return banished or GY Drytron monsters to hand; Drytron Fafnir and Meteonis searchers refill the ritual line
• After siding: Not evaluable: side deck is empty (0 cards), so there is no post-side plan in the list

Why it scores here

The deck's Drytron engine is the one thing it reliably opens: the archetype core is 16 copies with about an 85% chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand, and 20 searcher-text cards push that to about 92% for some search. Conversion is plausible but unmeasured, since there are no recorded boards, so the ceiling (4000-ATK Meteonis ritual monsters) is scored as a text read only. Eight hand traps and 16 negation-text cards give it real going-second interaction (about 65% chance of at least one hand trap in a 6-card hand), but 58% of its copies sit outside the Drytron name and the ritual lines lean on several off-plan ritual and Extra Deck fillers. The score comes from consistency, interaction and resilience on the system as a whole, not from averaging card scores and not from Drytron's popularity. The deck is Illegal (Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring runs 3 copies against a Semi-Limited limit of 2), so the Final score is capped low and the evaluation is theoretical and structural only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 50, Going First ≈ 46, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: Copy-limit violation (Illegal cap) (-4); Off-plan ritual and Extra Deck fillers (-3); Empty side deck (-3). Final formula: Structural 50 (Midrange profile); TR 40 (no tournament data); unconstrained Final ≈ 0.80*50 + 0.20*40 + modifiers(−10) = 38; Illegal cap applied → 30, theoretical/structural-only

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.85 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.15 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Drytron searchers (Alpha Thuban, Zeta Aldhibah, Ultimate Ursatron) give high opening-hand access to the engine
• 16 negation/hand-trap-text cards plus Ash, Infinite Impermanence and Evenly Matched give layered going-second interaction
• Drytron GY recursion (Nova, Meteoroa, Nu II) gives multiple recovery routes after a disruption

Weaknesses

• Illegal in the OCG format: Ash Blossom runs 3 copies against a Limit of 2
• 58% of copies are off-archetype, and 16 singleton main-deck slots raise brick risk
• Empty side deck, so no post-side plan

Critical choke points

• Meteonis Drytron (2 copies) is the ritual gateway for the Drytron ritual line
• Mu Beta Fafnir (Extra Deck) is the Xyz engine piece and the only copy path listed for Drytron Xyz boards

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 52 / Extra 14 / Side 0 counts from the export; Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring copies 3 vs legal 2 (Semi-Limited); Archetype purity 42.4% exact-name; 20 generic cards
• Observed: Usage stats show Drytron Nu II and Mulcharmy Fuwalos as core cards in this deck
• Inferred: P(≥1 archetype core in 5-card hand) ≈ 0.85 (hypergeometric); Hand-trap coverage about 65% going second; Ritual and Xyz line conversion, from text only
• Provisional: Meta power (no dated sample); Matchup fit (no tournament link)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link: archetype meta-share and pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry: going-first/second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred Meta power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample Usage-stat inconsistency: Drytron Mu Beta Fafnir (ref 1174075) is marked in_this_deck:false with copies_in_deck:0, but the card list runs it 3 times in the Extra Deck; the join is unreliable for that card No side deck: post-side plan cannot be evaluated