Kaiju Deck #767923 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 53/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 4 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Kaiju monsters (2200-3300 ATK) Special Summoned from hand onto the opponent's field, backed by Thunder King and Jizukiru at 3300 ATK; Eyes Restrict / Relinquished ritual and fusion line that equips opposing monsters and gains their ATK
• Turn 1 (going first): Search with Pre-Preparation of Rites, Preparation of Rites or Kyoutou Waterfront and set up. Kaiju hand Summons need an opponent monster to Tribute or to be present, so T1 is mostly a setup turn rather than a Kaiju turn
• Turn 2 (going second): Answer the opponent's first monster with a hand Kaiju Summon (Tribute or in Attack Position while they control a Kaiju), then use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Effect Veiler, Battle Fader, Maxx C) and on-field negations (Kumongous, Gameciel, Jizukiru) to protect the board
• Recovery: Kaiju recursion through Kyoutou Waterfront counters and Dogoran's GY effect, plus Monster Reborn and Relinquished Fusion's GY banish to revive or equip
• After siding: None. The deck has 0 Side Deck cards, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a live Kaiju engine in most opening hands: about 89% of 5-card hands contain at least one of 21 Kaiju monster copies (Inferred), though the hand Summon needs an opponent monster, so this is mainly a going-second engine. Its conversion comes from seven different Kaiju with 2200 to 3300 ATK, three copies each, which gives redundancy after one is answered, and the Eyes Restrict line adds a second, separate route. Interaction is layered across six single-copy hand traps and three on-field negation Kaiju, which earns the endboard score without counting the deck's 0-card side. The score comes from consistency, median output and interaction on the system; it does not come from Kaiju being a popular archetype (the usage stat only confirms Harpie's Feather Duster) and not from averaging card scores. Combo evidence is absent, so conversion and median scores are text-based inference, and the empty Side Deck and the absence of any meta sample keep the final score moderate.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange, meta-neutral: raw Midrange weights with D13 dropped and the rest divided by 95. Structural ≈ 59, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 68, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: Going-first choke point (-2); Two engines in one 60-card slot (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional); 0.80*58.8 + 0.20*48 - 4 ≈ 52.6 → 53

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.89 · 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

• Seven distinct Kaiju with 3 copies each give redundancy in the core engine
• Six single-copy hand traps and three negation Kaiju give layered interaction
• High-ATK end-board (2800-3300) with on-field negation support

Weaknesses

• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Kaiju hand Summons depend on an opponent monster, weakening going-first starts
• Two engines in one list reduce focus; 18 singleton slots add brick risk

Critical choke points

• Opponent controls no monster on T1 when going first, so no Kaiju Summon is available
• Single-copy hand traps (Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Effect Veiler) are the only answer to opposing hand traps

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in OCG: 60 Main, 4 Extra, 0 Side within size rules; All 6 restricted cards within legal copies; Kaiju exact-name copies 23 of 60 (35.9%); P(≥1 of 3-copy card in 5-card hand) ≈ 0.233
• Inferred: ≈0.89 chance of ≥1 Kaiju monster in opening 5 cards; Going-first T1 is weak because Kaiju Summons need an opponent monster; Interaction layering from hand traps and negation Kaiju; Recursion and recovery from GY effects and counters
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated sample); Format fit and matchup coverage
• 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 and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied usage stats list only Harpie's Feather Duster as core, so the archetype-standard core cannot be checked Dogoran's GY removal text is truncated in the excerpt