Snake-Eyes Deck #768589 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link and Extra Deck boss monsters (Snake-Eyes Flamberge Dragon, Snake-Eyes Doomed Dragon, Garunix Eternity) built off Snake-Eye and Fire King starters, with Ash Blossom and Infinite Impermanence protecting the line; Fire King recursion and Fire King Avatar / High Avatar Garunix board-wipe lines
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Snake-Eye starter (Snake-Eye Ash, Snake-Eyes Poplar or Oak) and convert it into a Level 8 Flamberge or Diabellstar, then Link out with the Extra Deck
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Ghost Mourner and Artifact Lancea as hand traps to stop the opponent's first summon, then rebuild through Snake-Eye recursion from the Graveyard
• Recovery: Snake-Eye Graveyard recursion (Snake-Eye Oak, Divine Temple of the Snake-Eye) and Fire King Island or Sanctuary to reload Fire King monsters
• After siding: No side deck is run, so there is no post-side plan. Legality must be fixed before any side plan can be evaluated

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system, not as an average of its cards. Its Snake-Eye and Fire King starters give a reasonable chance of a live T1 engine, with about 0.61 probability of opening at least one core-group card in a 5-card hand (Inferred). Its Extra Deck converts those starters into 2800 to 3000 ATK boss monsters, and its 10 hand traps and 14 negation-text cards give it real interaction on the going-second turn. Against that, 54 Main Deck slots include a large tech and dead-card component (Raigeki, Harpie's Feather Duster, Dark Ruler No More, Heat Wave, Foolish Burial), and the 27 generic cards plus the split between Fire King (20) and Snake-Eye (9) show weak engine coherence. The list is illegal (Ash Blossom over copy limit, Snake-Eye Ash over copy limit), and there is no side deck, so the final score is capped at 30 and labelled theoretical and structural only. Popularity was not credited, since the archetype usage stats only confirm the deck is real and accessible.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 52, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (illegal copy counts) (-6); No side deck (-4); Illegal cap (0). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) = 49.6, then modifiers -10 = 39.6, then Illegal cap at 30

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.61 · 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

• Dense hand-trap suite (Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Ghost Mourner, Artifact Lancea, Droll & Lock Bird) gives strong going-second interaction
• Full Extra Deck with several 2800 to 3000 ATK bosses and two Snake-Eye routes into them
• Snake-Eye Graveyard recursion gives some resource recovery

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: Ash Blossom and Snake-Eye Ash exceed OCG copy limits
• High tech and dead-card count (Raigeki, Feather Duster, Heat Wave, Dark Ruler No More, Foolish Burial) lowers consistency
• Two competing engines (Fire King and Snake-Eye) with 27 generic slots weaken coherence
• No side deck

Critical choke points

• Snake-Eye starter (Ash, Poplar, Oak) access in the opening hand, about 0.18 each
• Legality: the list cannot be played until the Ash and Snake-Eye Ash counts are reduced

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 54 / Extra 15 / Side 0 composition; Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring 3 copies vs OCG limit 2; Snake-Eye Ash 2 copies vs OCG limit 1; Archetype usage: 4 of 9 core cards present (44.4%)
• Inferred: Hypergeometric starter access (≈0.61 core group in hand5); Hand-trap and searcher density estimates; Interaction quality read from card text; Brick risk from tech and dead-card count
• Provisional: Matchup and format fit (D13), no tournament or dated meta data
• 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 for going-first/second, matchup, brick or starter rates Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No side deck, so post-side performance cannot be assessed