Battlin' Boxer Deck #767998 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 58/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Stun, Tempo
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link-4 and high-ATK Rescue-ACE beaters: Rescue-ACE Arbitrator (3000), Rescue-ACE Turbulence (3000), Rescue-ACE Preventer (2800), Salamangreat Raging Phoenix (2800), Worldsea Dragon Zealantis (2500); Promethean Princess x2 (2700) recurring FIRE monsters from the GY, with Amblowhale and Hiita as extra Link pressure
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Rescue-ACE monster (about 0.96 chance of at least one in a 5-card hand, Inferred), then use Hydrant, ALERT! or Fire Attacker to build a Link board while holding Infinite Impermanence, Effect Veiler or Ash Blossom for the opponent's turn
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 6-card hand's hand traps (about 0.90 chance of at least one, Inferred) to negate the opponent's starter, then Link Summon through the blank board
• Recovery: GY and banish recursion: Hydrant, RESCUE!, ALERT! and EMERGENCY! return Rescue-ACE monsters, while Preventer and Turbulence convert banished Rescue-ACE cards back into board presence
• After siding: None. The export lists 0 side-deck cards, so there is no post-side plan to evaluate

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a functional plan: its 18 Rescue-ACE main-deck monsters give roughly a 0.96 chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred hypergeometric estimate), and 11 searcher-text cards add to that. It converts that opening into Link-4 and 2800-3000 ATK beaters, with recursion from the GY supplying a second wave. Its interaction is layered across 12 hand-trap-tagged cards, which gives about a 0.90 chance of at least one hand trap in a going-second 6-card hand, so it is strongest when it has to answer a board on the draw. Weaknesses are that no combo boards, no win-rate telemetry and no side deck are present, which leaves the floor and matchup dimensions Inferred or Provisional. The 58 was built from the system's consistency, interaction and closing power; the archetype's popularity earned no points, and no card scores were averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 64, Going First ≈ 66, Going Second ≈ 70, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 52. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-2); no_post_side_plan (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); Structural renormalised without D13 = 64.4; 0.80*64 + 0.20*52 = 61.6, then -4 modifiers = 57.6, rounded to 58

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.96 · 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

• About 0.96 chance of a Rescue-ACE monster in the opening 5 cards (Inferred)
• 12 hand-trap-tagged cards give strong going-second interaction (Inferred)
• Strong Link-4 and 2500-3000 ATK closing options (Verified stats)
• Recursion from the GY and banish zone supports a second wave (Inferred)
• Compact 22-distinct main with a full 15-card Link Extra (Verified composition)

Weaknesses

• No combo boards, so the floor and median output are text-only inference
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Archetype label 'Battlin' Boxer' matches zero cards; the list is a Rescue-ACE build (Verified)
• Heavy banish and GY cost requirements raise the risk of running out of resources
• Six Limited or Semi-Limited in-format cards make the deck exposed to banlist changes

Critical choke points

• Rescue-ACE Hydrant appears in 3 copies and gates most of the Rescue-ACE recursion and searches; losing it hurts the GY-recovery route
• The Link-4 bosses depend on Rescue-ACE Arbitrator (1 copy) for the Rescue-ACE Link route
• Hand-trap-heavy hands can be dead on the opponent's turn if no Rescue-ACE starter is drawn

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status: 40 main, 15 extra, 0 side within size rules [40-60, 0-15, 0-15]; All six restricted cards run within legal copy limits; Archetype spread: Rescue-ACE 27 cards, zero 'Battlin' Boxer' cards; Usage statistics exist but cover only two rows (Infinite Impermanence and Reinforcement of the Army)
• Inferred: Hypergeometric opening-hand estimates for Rescue-ACE starters (0.96), searcher-text (0.82) and hand traps on the draw (0.90); Text-based ceiling and interaction reads for D3, D5, D7 and D8; Resource and recursion read for D6; Going-first and going-second power blends
• Provisional: Meta power (no dated metagame sample); D13 matchup and format fit (no tournament link); Tournament reliability
• 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, game-level, brick/starter/OTK rates) — those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied exported archetype 'Battlin' Boxer' does not match any card; cards are a Rescue-ACE build Side Deck size 0 — no side-deck data to evaluate D12 or a post-side plan