Salamangreat Deck #768571 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 49 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link-chain into Salamangreat Raging Phoenix or Salamangreat Pyro Phoenix for 2800 ATK pressure or a board-clearing effect (Inferred from card text); Salamangreat Miragestallio and Promethean Princess as follow-up boards (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Salamangreat Gazelle, Salamangreat Circle or Speedroid Terrortop, search a Salamangreat monster, then Link Summon toward a Phoenix (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence and Nibiru as hand traps against the opponent's first board, then rebuild through GY summons such as Salamangreat Spinny or Jack Jaguar (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recover from the GY with Salamangreat Weasel, Salamangreat Foxy and Jack Jaguar, and rebuild through the Link Monsters (Inferred)
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has zero Side Deck cards, so no post-side plan exists

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Salamangreat starter: the archetype core has about a 94 percent chance of at least one card in a 5-card opening hand, and 15 searchers add redundancy (Inferred). Its interaction density is high, with 8 hand traps and about 11 negation or removal texts across Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Nibiru, Dominus Spiral and Salamangreat Roar, so it can answer a turn-1 board. Its conversion depends on Link Summons into 2800-ATK Phoenixes, which is plausible from card text but unverified because no combos were recorded. The score is not from popularity: archetype usage stats confirm the list is real, but the list breaks the Semi-Limited copy limit on two cards and has no Side Deck, so its normal Final Contextual score is capped low. The score was built on the deck as a system, not by averaging card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo primary, no secondary weighting applied. Structural ≈ 60, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: Illegal copy-limit cap (-22); Banlist exposure (-3); No side deck (-3). Final formula: Uncapped: 0.80*Structural(60) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(50) + modifiers(-6) = 52. Illegal list, so the normal score is replaced by a low cap of 30 (theoretical / structural-only).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.94 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.06 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Archetype core about 94 percent to appear in a 5-card opening hand
• Layered interaction: 8 hand traps and about 11 negation or removal texts
• Strong Link finishers at 2800 ATK and 2700 ATK
• Extra Deck coverage across Link, Synchro and Xyz

Weaknesses

• Illegal: Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse exceed the Semi-Limited copy limit
• No Side Deck, so no post-side plan
• Low archetype purity (40.6 percent exact-name), so engine coherence is diluted
• No recorded combos, so the conversion ceiling is unverified

Critical choke points

• Successful Link Summon of a Phoenix depends on a Salamangreat Link Monster staying in play
• Going-first hand needs a starter, and conditional starters need GY prerequisites

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Copy-limit violations for Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse; Main 49, Extra 15, Side 0 are within size rules; Banlist status of the Limited cards (1 copy each); Card stats and text for the core Salamangreat cards
• Observed: Archetype usage stats: the core cards appear in about 50 to 80 percent of lists
• Inferred: Opening-hand consistency (about 0.94 for at least one core card); Hand-trap interaction density and going-second value; Link route plausibility from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit
• Data gaps: No combos supplied, so the floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record are absent No win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchups, brick or OTK rates Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample Side Deck is empty, so post-side behaviour cannot be scored