Dragon Ruler Deck #768659 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 24/100 (±6 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Toolbox
• Secondary strategies: Midrange, Blind-Second
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck boss monsters (Chasma, Eclipse, Voloferniges, Odd-Eyes Overlord, Bystial Dis Pater) after a Dragon Ruler or Armed Dragon opening; Kashtira board-breaking and Kashtira Shangri-Ira recurrence, which is illegal in this list
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Dragon or Armed Dragon starter (Pile Armed Dragon, Armed Dragon Thunder) or a searcher (Tempest) and extend into an Extra Deck boss; hand traps are held for the opponent's first answer
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 6-card hand to present hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Infinite Impermanence, Artifact Lancea) against the opponent's engine, then extend through a Dragon Ruler or Armed Dragon line
• Recovery: Tempest and Ghost Belle recursion, plus Armed Dragon LV-line recursion, rebuild the board after a single answer, as far as the text suggests
• After siding: Not evaluable: side deck is empty (0 cards), so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system: a searcher-dense Dragon Ruler and Armed Dragon core (15 searcher-text cards, P(at least one searcher in an opening 5) ≈ 0.81) gives it reasonable access to a live starter, and its 12 hand traps give it real going-second interaction (P(at least one hand trap in a 6-card hand) ≈ 0.79). Its ceiling is credible from the Extra Deck bosses, but no recorded boards exist, so median output and combo conversion rest on text reading only. Its consistency is held back by 12 hand traps plus 15 tech cards, which raise brick risk in hands with no board, and by a fragmented archetype spread (only 2 exact-name Dragon Ruler copies; 68 off-archetype copies). The score is capped low because the list is illegal in OCG: Kashtira Fenrir is Forbidden and two others exceed their limits, so this is a theoretical, structural-only read. No popularity or meta share was used, and card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox 100% (Midrange not blended, as the Extra Deck boss plan is not separately evidenced). Structural ≈ 52, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12). Final formula: 0.80*Structural(52) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(48) = 51.2; minus 12 banlist exposure = 39.2; Illegal legality cap applied, final 24 (theoretical/structural-only). Meta provisional (null).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.81 · 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 searcher and recursion text gives a live starter and rebuild path
• 12 hand traps give real going-second interaction
• Extra Deck bosses offer a 3000-ATK closing threat

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: a Forbidden card and two over-limit cards
• Spread across roughly 19 sub-archetype names; few exact Dragon Ruler copies
• High hand-trap and tech count raises brick risk with no board
• Empty side deck: no post-side plan

Critical choke points

• Kashtira Fenrir, Forbidden, must be removed before the list is legal
• Single-copy Extra Deck bosses (Bystial Dis Pater, S:P Little Knight) are single points of failure

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality violations: Kashtira Fenrir (Forbidden, 2 run), Kashtira Unicorn (3 run vs 1), Ash Blossom (3 vs 2); Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0 counts; Composition: 12 hand traps, 15 tech, 15 searchers, 28 removal text; Usage: core present 2 of 9
• Inferred: P(searcher in opening 5) ≈ 0.81 and P(hand trap in 6, second) ≈ 0.79; Ceiling from Extra Deck bosses (text-only); Brick-risk and interaction-density reads
• Provisional: Median output and floor (no combos); Matchup fit and meta share (no tournament link); Post-side plan (no side deck)
• 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 for going-first, going-second, matchup or brick rates Side deck is empty, so post-side adaptability is unscoreable Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied