Salamangreat Deck #768588 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 38/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 54 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fire King and Snake-Eye FIRE boards converting into 3000-ATK Extra Deck monsters (Garunix Eternity, Snake-Eyes Doomed Dragon, Promethean Princess); Link-monster beatdown from Promethean Princess, Zealantis and Underworld Goddess
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Fire King or Snake-Eye starter, search a Level 1 FIRE or Fire King Spell/Trap, then Link or Xyz into a 3000-ATK boss; hand traps are held for the opponent's first board
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence and Ghost Mourner to stop the opponent's starter, then rebuild through Fire King searchers
• Recovery: Snake-Eye and Fire King monsters recur from the GY and banish zones, Ponix and Mourner re-add searchers, Fire King Island and Sanctuary recover the Field Zone
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs no side deck (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

This list is labelled Salamangreat, but it contains none of the Salamangreat main-deck engine (Circle, Gazelle, Roar, Rage, Sunlight Wolf are absent; only 2 of 68 copies carry the exact archetype name). It is really a FIRE-synergy build of Fire King and Snake-Eye with a heavy hand-trap and tech suite, so the score rests on that system and not on the Salamangreat name. Its strengths are the 10 hand traps (72.7% chance of at least one going second), 14 negation and 24 removal text hits, and a 3000-ATK Extra Deck tier (Garunix Eternity, Snake-Eyes Doomed Dragon, The Zombie Vampire). The deck has no recorded boards, no tournament link and no side deck, so the combo floor, median and matchup reads are text-only inference. The list is illegal: 3 copies of Ash Blossom (limit 2) and 2 copies of Snake-Eye Ash (limit 1), so it is scored as a theoretical, structural-only read, and popularity or meta-share earned no points. No card scores were averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary; Stun ratio not separately weighted. Structural ≈ 52, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-12). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); then modifiers; illegal list = theoretical only

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ — · 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

• 10 hand traps with 72.7% going-second coverage
• Searcher density of 12 cards gives 73.1% at least one in the opening 5
• 3000-ATK Link/Xyz/Fusion bosses from one Extra Deck
• Broad removal and negation text (24 removal, 14 negation)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Ash Blossom 3 copies (limit 2) and Snake-Eye Ash 2 copies (limit 1)
• Archetype label is Salamangreat but no Salamangreat main-deck engine is present (exact-name purity 2.9%)
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptability
• Heavy off-archetype spread (67 copies) and many one-copy tech cards raise brick risk

Critical choke points

• The Ash Blossom and Snake-Eye Ash copy counts must be fixed before the deck is playable in OCG
• Going first depends on a single Level 1 FIRE searcher chain; no alternative starter route is evidenced

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality status Illegal with 2 copy-limit violations (Ash Blossom 3/2, Snake-Eye Ash 2/1); Main 54, Extra 15, Side 0 within OCG size rules; Card stats and banlist status per card; Salamangreat main-deck core absent (2 exact-name copies)
• Inferred: Consistency and brick estimates from hypergeometric figures; Interaction density from negation and removal text; Going-second hand-trap coverage (72.7%)
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (D13)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry: going-first and going-second splits, matchup and brick rates are Inferred Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied no side deck: post-side plan cannot be assessed archetype label Salamangreat does not match the card list