Borrel Deck #768225 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 54/100 (±7 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 57 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link-summon a Borrel boss (Borrelend, Borrelshroud, Borrelguard, Borrelsword at 3000 to 3500 ATK) off a Rokket starter chain, then protect it with negation and hand traps.; Fatalflare and Borreload Dragon pressure plus Mulcharmy card draw to grind out the late game.
• Turn 1 (going first): Opening Rokket Loader, Quick Launch or Rokket Tracer to reach Link-2/Link-3 materials, then Link into Borrel bosses with Deck Lockdown and Dark Ruler No More held as backup.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 9 hand traps (Infinite Impermanence, Evenly Matched, Effect Veiler and others) to blank the opponent's first Main Phase, then Link out of the GY-recursion loop with Borrel Regenerator and Rokket Recharger.
• Recovery: Rebuild from the GY with Absorouter Dragon, Rokket Recharger and Borrel Regenerator, and use Double Interlock to return material to the Extra Deck.
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no documented post-side plan; the list cannot adjust to matchups.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Rokket starter in hand about 86 percent of the time (archetype-core group, hypergeometric estimate, Inferred), so the Link engine is usually live by turn 1 or 2. Conversion to pressure is credible on text: the Extra Deck holds several 3000 to 3500 ATK Borrel Link bosses plus negation and destruction effects, and the 9 hand traps give real going-second interaction. Consistency and resilience are held back by self-conflicts. Deck Lockdown and Dimensional Fissure both work against the deck's own Special Summons from the Deck and GY-based recursion, and the Mulcharmy monsters need an empty field. No combo boards, tournament results or side deck were supplied, so the floor and median are text-only estimates and the score is not an average of card scores; popularity of the Borrel archetype did not add points.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 61.2, Going First ≈ 56, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 52. Modifiers: engine_conflicts (-3); no_side_deck (-2); banlist_exposure (0). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional) = 0.80*61.2 + 0.20*52 - 5 = 54.3

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.86 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.14 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Archetype core group is accessible: about 86 percent to open at least one Rokket starter in 5 cards.
• Interaction density is high: 9 hand traps, Dark Ruler No More, and negation text on several Link bosses.
• Extra Deck ceiling is strong: 3000 to 3500 ATK Link bosses with negation and recursion text.

Weaknesses

• Self-conflicts: Deck Lockdown and Dimensional Fissure work against the deck's own Special Summons and GY recursion.
• No side deck, so there is no post-side adaptation.
• Low pilotability: Link chains, GY costs and 'control no cards' conditions create heavy decision load.
• Mulcharmy (6 copies) needs an empty field, which fights the Link board the rest of the deck wants.

Critical choke points

• Rokket starter access on turn 1-2 (Rokket Loader, Quick Launch, Rokket Tracer, Rokket Caliber) gates the whole Link chain.
• A single Link-2 or Link-3 material loss to a board-breaker can strand the Borrel bosses in the Extra Deck.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in OCG: 57 main (40-60), 15 extra (0-15), 0 side (0-15); no violations.; Four Limited singletons (Chaos Space, Foolish Burial, S:P Little Knight, Striker Dragon) each at 1 legal copy.; Card text for Deck Lockdown and Dimensional Fissure confirms the self-conflict.; Copy histogram: 13 three-ofs, 1 two-of, 16 singletons; Extra Deck: 13 Link, 1 Synchro, 1 Fusion.
• Observed: Usage statistics show the Rokket and Borrel core is standard for this archetype (100 percent inclusion for Quick Launch, Rokket Loader and Rokket Tracer).
• Inferred: Archetype core group: 0.86 chance of at least one starter in 5 cards (hypergeometric).; Hand-trap group: 0.66 chance of at least one hand trap in 6 cards going second.; Ceiling and interaction reads come from card text, not recorded boards.
• Provisional: Meta Power is null: no dated metagame sample.; D13 matchup fit is neutral (50) pending a dated meta sample.
• Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent usage_statistics in_this_deck flags contradict the card list: Borrelend, Borrelshroud, Trisborrel, Borreload Fatalflare and Guardragon Pisty are marked not in deck but appear in the Extra Deck card list; card list was used no win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates) exists in YGOVN Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied