Rikka Deck #767988 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 56/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Plant Xyz and Link beatsticks (Number 87 Queen of the Night 3200 ATK, Teardrop, Talaya 2800, Hellebore 2600) reached through the Rikka Plant searcher chain; Generic off-theme interaction (hand traps, Pot draws, Harpie and Dimensional Barrier) grinding the opponent out
• Turn 1 (going first): T1 Rikka Glamour or Rikka Petal searches a Rikka monster, Konkon or Princess sets up Plant bodies, then a Plant Xyz or Link is built and interaction is held up with Solemn Judgment or Infinite Impermanence
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the six-card hand for hand traps (Ash Blossom, Droll and Lock Bird, Maxx C, Red Reboot, Dominus Impulse) to break the opponent's opening, then convert through Hellebore or Sheet into a Plant board
• Recovery: Rikka Tranquility and Hellebore recur Plant monsters and Rikka cards from the GY, and Petal retrieves from the GY, so the engine can rebuild after one interruption
• After siding: No side deck is registered (side_count 0), so no post-side plan can be assessed

Why it scores here

The deck opens a functional Plant engine reliably: the Rikka core (Petal, Glamour, Konkon, Princess, Mudan, Snowdrop) is about 31 of 55 main-deck copies, giving roughly 0.99 odds of at least one core card in a 5-card opener (Inferred from the hypergeometric table). Its strongest attribute is interaction on the system level: about 8 hand traps and 14 removal-text cards let it answer openings and keep its Plant board alive across disruption, which earns the high D5 and D7 scores. Conversion from that board is only partly demonstrated, because no recorded boards exist, so D3 and D4 rest on a text-only read and stay modest. Score is penalized for the 0-card Side deck, the 25.7% exact-archetype purity (Mulcharmy, Elemental HERO, Greed, Sky Striker and Cyclone cards dilute the engine), and the 55-card main deck, which lowers consistency. Popularity did not earn points: the archetype usage data confirms the list is real but was not counted as strength, and card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: 80/20 Midrange/Toolbox. Structural ≈ 63, Going First ≈ 66, Going Second ≈ 68, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: No side deck (-3); Engine conflicts and archetype dilution (-2); Banlist exposure (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers(-6) = 0.80*63.1 + 0.20*58 - 6 = 56

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.99 · 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

• Dense Plant searchers and recursion give a consistent opener and a rebuildable engine
• High hand-trap and negation density (8 hand traps, 18 negation-text cards) makes the deck hard to combo through
• Extra Deck covers Plant Xyz and Link routes to 2600-3200 ATK boards

Weaknesses

• No side deck (side_count 0), so best-of-3 adaptation is absent
• Only 25.7% exact-archetype purity; generic and off-theme cards dilute the engine
• 55-card main deck is bloated relative to a 40-card minimum, reducing consistency

Critical choke points

• Single Plant-monster board: if Plant monsters are removed or negated, the Tribute and Special Summon chain stalls
• Limited-status cards (Solemn Judgment, Maxx C, Droll, Red Reboot) run 1 copy each, so one lost copy removes key interaction

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status: 55 main, 15 extra, 0 side; all Limited cards at 1 copy and Semi-Limited at 2; Exact-archetype purity 25.7% (18 of 70 copies); Probabilities computed from the resolved main-deck list
• Inferred: Engine consistency ~0.99 for at least one core card in the opener; Interaction density and hand-trap value; Going-first and going-second plan read; Floor/ceiling read from card text only
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (D13 neutral)
• 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 absent No win-rate telemetry; going-first/second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No side deck registered (side_count 0), so post-side stability cannot be measured usage_statistics in_this_deck flags disagree with the card list for Extra Deck cards (Strenna, Teardrop, Kanzashi, Jasmine, Hyperyton) which are present in the cards array; core coverage counts are unreliable