Dragon Link Deck #767997 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Stun
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 54 / Extra 16 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link-3500 beaters (Borrelend, Topologic Blaster, Borrelshroud) and Bystial Dis Pater (3500) once a Rokket/Borrel board is established; Red-Eyes Fullmetal (3400) and Red-Eyes Darkness Metal (2800) via Max Metalmorph / Dragon-banish summons
• Turn 1 (going first): Rokket Loader or Quick Launch to reach a Rokket monster, then Absorouter Dragon from hand and Link Summon into Borrel or Rokket Link-3/4/5 extenders
• Turn 2 (going second): Six-card hand with Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Ghost Ogre, Droll & Lock Bird or Infinite Impermanence to stop the opening Link route, then rebuild with Rokket Loader and Quick Launch
• Recovery: Absorouter Dragon and Rokket Recharger recur from GY; Borrel Regenerator and Black Metal Dragon add GY-to-hand/draw value
• After siding: None: the deck runs 0 side cards, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system, not as an average of its card scores. It reliably opens a Rokket starter (Rokket Loader, Quick Launch) about 79% of the time from 5 cards using nominal starter counts, though Black Metal Dragon is a weak starter with only two Red-Eyes targets. Its interaction is the strongest part: 12 hand traps, 14 negation-text cards and 21 removal-text cards give layered answers to the opponent's first line. Its closing power is high, with several 3000–3500 ATK Link and Synchro bosses, but the engine spans Rokket, Borrel, Red-Eyes, Bystial, Tenyi and Metalmorph, which weakens route redundancy and consistency. The deck is Illegal (Ash Blossom at 3 copies against a limit of 2, and 16 Extra Deck cards against a maximum of 15), so it is capped to a theoretical structural read and the high usage of Dragon Link does not raise the score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 58, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-8); Engine conflicts (-4). Final formula: Combo profile with D13 dropped and weights renormalised (/97) = Structural 58; pre-cap 0.80*58 + 0.20*50 = 56; context modifiers -12 gives 44; Illegal legality cap sets final to 35 (theoretical/structural only; Meta provisional, null)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.79 · 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

• Layered hand-trap and negation coverage (12 hand traps, 14 negation-text cards)
• High closing power from several 3000–3500 ATK Link and Synchro bosses
• Multiple independent summon routes from Rokket, Borrel and Red-Eyes cores

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Ash Blossom run at 3 copies against a limit of 2
• Extra Deck of 16 exceeds the OCG maximum of 15
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Engine split across several archetypes with weak shared support

Critical choke points

• Rokket monster on field is needed for most Link and Absorouter routes; Rokket Loader and Quick Launch are the main access
• Black Metal Dragon (3 copies) needs one of only two Red-Eyes monsters to be useful; often dead

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 54 and Extra 16 counts from legality; Ash Blossom 3 copies vs legal 2 (violation); Banlist statuses for restricted cards from export; Card text excerpts for all listed cards; Probability table from export
• Inferred: Starter access 0.79 (nominal, hypergeometric); Interaction density from text roles; Going-first/second estimates; Recursion and grind from card text; Offensive closing from ATK values and card text
• Provisional: Median output (no boards); Matchup and format fit (no meta sample); Tournament reliability (no win-rate telemetry)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied (combos_evidence total_combos 0) — floor, median and ceiling are text-only no tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry for going-first/second, matchup or brick rates Meta Power is provisional (no dated metagame sample) Evidence conflict: usage_statistics marks Borreload Fatalflare, Borrelend, Borrelshroud, Trisborrel, Borrelsword, Breachborrel, Guardragon Pisty and Dillingerous as not in deck, but the cards list includes them in the Extra Deck; cards list treated as source of truth No side deck (0 cards) Banlist statuses taken from the export and not independently verified