Salamangreat Deck #768765 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 5 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link Summon Salamangreat Pyro Phoenix / Raging Phoenix (2800 ATK) and Promethean Princess (2700 ATK) off a Salamangreat Link base; Salamangreat Miragestallio and Brotherhood of the Fire Fist - Horse Prince as Extra Deck follow-ups
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Salamangreat of Fire / Gazelle / Circle searchers, search a Link enabler, Link Summon a FIRE Link and protect it with Ash, Imp and Infinite Impermanence
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the six-card hand to hold Ash, Droll, Solemn Strike, Evenly Matched and Dominus Impulse for the opponent's first Summon, then rebuild a Link board from the GY
• Recovery: Recycle Salamangreat monsters from the GY through Gazelle, Spinny, Falco and Jack Jaguar, with Circle and Cynet Mining as searchers
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no Side Deck, so no post-side plan can be scored

Why it scores here

This OCG list reliably opens a Salamangreat engine: the 21 core copies give about a 0.92 chance of at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand, and the 11 searcher-text cards give about 0.69 for at least one searcher (Inferred). Its interaction package is dense, with 11 hand traps, 17 negation-text cards and 26 removal-text cards, so it is strongest at answering the opponent's first Summon and keeping a Link board alive. The ceiling comes from the Link-based Salamangreat Phoenixes and Promethean Princess, but there are no recorded boards, so the median output is an estimate. The score is capped because the list is Illegal: it runs a Forbidden card, a Forbidden card that is also in the Main Deck, and three Limited or Semi-Limited cards over their copy limits. Popularity and archetype usage did not earn points, and the score was not an average of card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange weights used as-is; Stun secondary noted but not blended, since the interaction dimensions are scored directly. Structural ≈ 57, Going First ≈ 56, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-12); illegal_cap (-8). Final formula: Illegal cap: theoretical/structural-only. Unrounded 0.80*Structural(57.04) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(48) = 55.2, then banlist exposure modifier -12 = 43.2, capped to 35 for legality failure

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.92 · 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 interaction package: 11 hand traps, 17 negation-text cards and 26 removal-text cards (Verified composition)
• Strong Link ceiling with 2800 ATK Phoenixes and 2700 ATK Promethean Princess (Verified stats)
• Core engine is highly accessible: 21 core copies with ~0.92 chance of at least one in hand of 5 (Inferred)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Forbidden and over-limit cards mean it cannot be played as built (Verified)
• Low archetype purity (44.3%) with 39 off-archetype copies, weakening engine coherence (Verified)
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptability (Verified)
• No combo or tournament evidence, so the median and reliability are unknown (Verified gap)

Critical choke points

• Link Summon of a Salamangreat Link monster, which many lines require
• Dependence on the Link enablers (Balelynx, Sunlight Wolf) in the Extra Deck

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Forbidden cards Called by the Grave and Triple Tactics Talent are run, and Ash, Imp and Droll exceed legal copies; Main 55 and Extra 15 are within the OCG size rules; Side 0; Card stats and text as listed in evidence; Archetype purity 44.3%, 39 off-archetype copies; Extra Deck: 13 Link, 1 Synchro, 1 XYZ
• Inferred: Core and searcher opening probabilities (hypergeometric); Interaction density read from card text; Engine accessibility and brick estimates; Going-first and going-second plans
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit (no tournament or meta share); Tournament reliability
• Data gaps: No recorded combos: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and pilot match record absent No win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchups, brick or OTK rates No Side Deck: post-side plan cannot be scored Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied