Tenpai Dragon Deck #768284 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 53/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 53 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: FIRE Dragon boards converted into 3000-ATK Synchro and Fusion bosses (Trident Dragion, Sangenpai Transcendent Dragion, The Dragon that Devours the Dogma, Secreterion Dragon); Link and Synchro pressure from Sky Striker Ace monsters and Dragon Synchros, fed by Tenpai Tuners (Genroku, Chundra)
• Turn 1 (going first): Turn 1: Normal Summon Paidra to add a Sangen Spell/Trap, or Summon Genroku as a Tuner. Turn 2: extend into a Synchro or Link using a second FIRE Dragon. Hold Ash Blossom for the opponent's first activation.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, the Solemn traps and Forbidden Droplet to answer the opponent's first board, then rebuild with Paidra and Fadra recursion of Level 4 or lower FIRE Dragons.
• Recovery: Fadra and Sangen Kaimen recover Level 4 or lower FIRE Dragons from the Deck or GY. Radiant Typhoon Vision and Fuwalos refill the hand.
• After siding: Not available: the deck runs no Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan to evaluate.

Why it scores here

This OCG list scores as a midrange FIRE Dragon engine backed by a large interaction suite, not as a combo deck. It reliably opens a live starter (about 0.85 for the 16-copy searcher group in a 5-card opening, Inferred) and converts into 3000-ATK Synchro and Fusion bosses, with roughly ten negation or removal cards to contest the opponent's board. The score is held down by the absence of any Side Deck, a fragmented engine (only 8 of 68 copies are named Tenpai Dragon, and several lines such as Sky Striker Mobilize and Mulcharmy need empty-board states), and zero recorded combos, so floor and median output are inferred from text alone. Archetype popularity and usage statistics confirm the list is real and accessible but earned no points on their own, and no card scores were averaged into the deck score. Meta Power is provisional and excluded from the final formula, which uses a meta-neutral structural score with D13 dropped.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 60, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 52. Modifiers: No Side Deck (-3); Engine conflicts (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional; Structural is meta-neutral): 0.80*60 + 0.20*52 - 5 = 53.4

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.85 · 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

• Legal, fully resolved list: 53 main and 15 extra, every card at or under its banlist cap (Verified)
• Dense interaction suite: two Ash Blossom, four Solemn traps, Forbidden Droplet and two Lightning Storm (Inferred semantic read)
• Several 3000-ATK Synchro and Fusion boss routes in the Extra Deck (Verified card text)
• Consistent searcher core: 16 searcher-text cards, about 0.85 chance of at least one in a 5-card opening (Inferred)

Weaknesses

• No Side Deck: zero post-board adaptability in a best-of-3 format
• Fragmented engine: 60 of 68 copies are not named Tenpai Dragon, including 20 generic copies
• Many conditional cards (Sky Striker Mobilize, Hornet Drones, Widow Anchor, Radiant Typhoon Eldam and Swen, Mulcharmy Fuwalos and Purulia) need empty or opponent-empty board states, which raises brick and conflict risk
• Zero recorded combos and no tournament or win-rate data: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inferences

Critical choke points

• Tenpai Dragon starters (Genroku, Paidra, Fadra, Chundra): each 3-copy or 1-copy starter has about 0.26 odds per 5-card opening
• Sangen Kaimen and Sangen Summoning are Limited (1 copy each), so the Sangen searcher line has no redundancy
• Only two hand traps (Ash Blossom x2): going-second hand-trap odds in 6 cards are about 0.22

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Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal list: 53 main, 15 extra, 0 side within OCG size rules; Limited cards at 1 copy and Semi-Limited cards at 2 copies, all at their legal caps; Card text and ATK values for the 53 main and 15 extra cards in the evidence; Tenpai Dragon usage statistics and exact-name purity (11.8%)
• Inferred: P(at least one searcher-group card in a 5-card opening) about 0.85 (hypergeometric); Brick and conflict rates from conditional board-state text; Interaction density from negation and removal text tags; Structural score components D1 to D14 and the 53 final score
• Provisional: Meta Power and D13 matchup fit: no dated metagame sample; Floor and median combo output: no recorded boards
• 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 No win-rate telemetry (going-first and going-second, matchup, brick and starter rates) No Side Deck: post-side plan cannot be assessed usage_statistics in_this_deck is false for Trident Dragion, Sangenpai Transcendent Dragion and Sangenpai Bident Dragion, although all three are in the Extra Deck list; core presence (9 of 16 reported) is understated, and the card list shows 12 of 16 Meta Power provisional without a dated sample Deck title is null