Ryu-Ge Deck #768357 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 57 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ryu-Ge Pendulum and Level 10 monster stream (Sosei Ryu-Ge Mistva 3500 ATK, Kairo/Tensei/Genro/Kyoro Ryu-Ge) pressuring through Ryu-Ge Realm continuous spells; Extra Deck Xyz and Link boards (Galaxy-Eyes, Borreload, Worldsea Dragon Zealantis) for pressure when Ryu-Ge lines are interrupted
• Turn 1 (going first): Search a Ryu-Ge monster via Ryu-Ge Rising or The Melody of Awakening Dragon, use Sosei Ryu-Ge Mistva Pendulum effect to add a non-Pendulum Ryu-Ge card, then build toward a Ryu-Ge Realm and a Level 10 Dragon or Wyrm
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Maxx C, Droll and Lock Bird, Evenly Matched, Nibiru, Red Reboot) to slow the opponent, then rebuild a Ryu-Ge board from the GY and banish zone; Varudras cannot be legally played in this list
• Recovery: Recursion from the GY and banishment through Ryu-Ge Rivalry, Kairo Ryu-Ge Emva GY effect and Ryu-Ge End, with Pot of Prosperity for extra card advantage
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so no post-side plan can be evaluated; the list is best-of-1 only as built

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Ryu-Ge line: 26 archetype-core copies give about 96% at least one in a 5-card opening hand, and 21 searcher-text cards give about 91%, so the engine is usually live by turn 2 (Inferred from hypergeometric estimates). Conversion is real but unmeasured, because the export contains no recorded boards, so ceiling and median are text-based reads and the floor is scored conservatively. Interaction density is high (9 hand traps, 14 negation-text cards, Skill Drain, Solemn Judgment, Red Reboot), which supports the endboard and going-second scores. The score comes from the system as a whole (engine consistency, recursion, and interaction layered together), not from averaging the card scores, and not from Ryu-Ge being a popular archetype with 100% core inclusion. The list is Illegal because of three copies of the Forbidden Varudras, so the score is capped low and the evaluation is structural-only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 56, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist exposure (illegal) (-12). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(56) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) = 53.8, then -12 banlist-exposure modifier = 41.8; Illegal status (Forbidden Varudras x3) caps the final score at 30 and the evaluation is structural-only

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

• Archetype core of 26 cards gives about 96% at least one in a 5-card opening hand
• Nine hand traps plus Skill Drain, Solemn Judgment and Red Reboot give layered interaction
• Mistva and Ryu-Ge Realms give a strong Level 10 and Pendulum engine
• Recursion via Kairo, Ryu-Ge Rivalry and Ryu-Ge End

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: 3 copies of the Forbidden Varudras
• No side deck, so no best-of-3 adaptability
• Low exact archetype purity (29%), with 35 generic and 15 tech slots
• No recorded boards, so ceiling and median cannot be measured

Critical choke points

• Mistva and Ryu-Ge Realm starters: a single Ryu-Ge line depends on 1 to 2 key cards
• Hand-trap dependence for going-second interaction
• Realm continuous-spell placement is needed for most lines

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is Illegal: Varudras (Forbidden) run at 3 copies; Main 57 and Extra 15 are within OCG size rules; Archetype core inclusion is 100% for Mistva and the Realms
• Inferred: Engine accessibility P≈0.96 for at least one archetype core card in hand5; Interaction density is high from hand-trap and negation-text counts; Recursion from GY supports grind
• Provisional: Meta and matchup fit (no tournament or meta sample); Side deck adaptability (none registered)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link, so archetype meta-share and pilot match record are absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied no side deck registered, so post-side plan cannot be evaluated