Dragon Link Deck #768227 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 54/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link-5 Borrelshroud Dragon or Borrelend Dragon (3500 ATK) and the Link-4 Borrelsword/Borreload attackers, reached through a Rokket board; Borrelsword Dragon double attack and Borreload Dragon ATK reduction on a single-threat board
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Rokket starter (Rokket Loader, Rokket Tracer, Quick Launch or Rokket Caliber), summon a Level 7 DARK Dragon from the Deck, then Link Summon into Link-3/4 and hold Infinite Impermanence or Evenly Matched for the opponent's response
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 9 hand-trap copies (Infinite Impermanence, Evenly Matched, Effect Veiler) to strip the opponent's first board, then Link Summon Borrelshroud or Borrelend through the cleared field
• Recovery: Recur from the GY with Magnarokket, Silverrokket and Borrelguard special-summon effects, Borrel Regenerator from the GY, and the Loader/Absorouter search text
• After siding: Unavailable: the deck has 0 side cards, so the list cannot adapt between games in best-of-3

Why it scores here

The score comes from the system: the 11 Rokket starter copies (Loader, Tracer, Quick Launch, Caliber) give about a 67% chance of at least one starter in a going-first 5-card hand, and the 22-card core group gives about 92% for at least one core card (Inferred). The Extra Deck's Link-4/5 attackers and negation/no-target effects give the deck its closing power and board-breaking ceiling, while 9 hand traps provide the going-second interaction. The score is held back by a 0-card side deck, two self-hostile floodgates (Deck Lockdown and Dimensional Fissure) and the empty-field requirement of the Mulcharmy copies. No recorded boards exist, so the combo floor and median are text-only inferences. Archetype popularity and usage statistics did not earn points, and card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange (D13 dropped, weights re-normalized over 95). Structural ≈ 59, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 56, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 47. Modifiers: self-hostile floodgates and empty-field conflict (-3). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional, no dated metagame sample; Structural = 5600/95 ≈ 58.9)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.67 · key two-card combo ≈ 0.92 · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.08 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Legal in OCG: 57 main and 15 extra, with all four Limited cards at 1 copy
• Redundant 3-copy Rokket starters (Loader, Tracer, Quick Launch) plus Caliber x2
• Link-5 Borrelshroud and Borrelend (3500 ATK) with negation and no-target effects
• 9-copy hand-trap package for going second

Weaknesses

• 0-card side deck: no post-side plan in best-of-3
• Deck Lockdown x3 and Dimensional Fissure x3 hurt the deck's own searches and GY costs
• Mulcharmy x6 needs an empty field and conflicts with the Rokket board
• Heavy Extra Deck link web and GY-material bookkeeping raise pilot load
• No recorded boards, so combo ceiling and median are text-only

Critical choke points

• Rokket starter access: about 67% in a going-first 5-card hand (11 copies)
• Link-summon sequence needs two DARK Dragons on board plus link materials reachable from hand/field
• A single removal or negation of the first starter before the Link Summon

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in OCG: 57 main, 15 extra, 0 side; size rules satisfied; All four Limited cards run at 1 copy (Chaos Space, Foolish Burial, S:P Little Knight, Striker Dragon); Card text for all 57 main and 15 extra cards from the resolved list; Archetype spread: Rokket 20, Borrel 10, Mulcharmy 6, Forbidden 3, Guardragon 2, Chaos 1, generic 30
• Inferred: P(at least one of 11 Rokket starters in going-first 5) ≈ 0.67; P(core card in going-first 5) ≈ 0.92; Hand-trap P in going-second 6 ≈ 0.66; Link-5 finisher ceiling from text; Self-conflict estimate for Deck Lockdown and Dimensional Fissure
• Provisional: Meta/format fit (D13) and Meta Power are null: no dated metagame sample
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inferences No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry for going-first/second, matchup or brick/starter rates usage_statistics in_this_deck flags omit the Extra Deck: Borrelend, Borrelshroud, Trisborrel, Borreload Fatalflare, Borrelsword, Breachborrel, Guardragon Pisty, S:P Little Knight and Dillingerous are in the cards list at zone extra. The reported core_present 52% (13/25) is understated; the corrected figure is 22/25 (88%), with Bystial Magnamhut, Bystial Druiswurm and Droll & Lock Bird absent Meta Power is Provisional