Tenpai Dragon Deck #768827 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: FIRE Dragon board built from Tenpai Dragon Paidra, Sangen Summoning and Sangen Kaimen searches, then Synchro/Link beats (Sangenpai Transcendent Dragion, Trident Dragion, Enigmaster Packbit, Angelechy Shatranga); Mulcharmy draw engine plus Pot of Sloth / Pot of Prosperity card advantage
• Turn 1 (going first): Turn 1 Paidra or Genroku search/summon, Sangen Summoning for FIRE Dragon search, Synchro into a 3000-ATK boss
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand and field interaction (Droll & Lock Bird, Solemn Judgment, Gravity Collapse, Typhoon, Forbidden Crown) to stall, then Synchro through the board
• Recovery: Sangen Kaimen and Tenpai Dragon Fadra recursion of Level 4 or lower FIRE Dragons from the GY, with Pot of Sloth to refill
• After siding: None: the list has no Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck is illegal as built: three copies of Dominus Impulse exceed its OCG limit of two, so it receives no normal Final Contextual score and is capped at 25 as a theoretical, structural-only read. Structurally the list reliably reaches a FIRE Dragon engine (three Paidra, Sangen Summoning and Sangen Kaimen searchers give about 0.83 odds of at least one archetype-core card in a 5-card opening, Inferred) and has dense spell/trap removal and negation, which carries the interaction and going-second scores. Its ceiling is limited by 33 of 55 main-deck cards being non-monsters, Heat Wave and the Mulcharmy draw package working against its own Effect Monster engine, a single hand trap, and no Side Deck, which holds reliability and post-side adaptability down. No recorded boards, meta share or win rates exist, so median output and matchup fit rest on text and probability inference. Popularity earned no points, and the 14 dimensions were scored on the system, not by averaging card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 49, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-3); Engine conflict (-2); Thin hand-trap layer (-2). Final formula: Nominal 0.80*49 + 0.20*40 + modifiers(-7) = about 41, capped at 25 because the list is Illegal (theoretical/structural-only); Meta Provisional

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.83 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.17 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Three FIRE Dragon searchers (Paidra x3, Sangen Summoning, Sangen Kaimen) give a repeatable engine start
• Dense spell/trap removal and negation: Gravity Collapse, Typhoon, Dominus Impulse, Harpie's Feather Duster, Raigeki, Lightning Storm, Forbidden Crown
• Strong Extra Deck with 3000-ATK Synchros and 2700+ ATK Links and Fusions
• Several recursion routes (Kaimen, Fadra, Genroku) for Level 4 or lower FIRE Dragons

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: Dominus Impulse copies exceed the OCG limit
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptability
• Only 22 main-deck monsters against 33 non-monsters, which slows the engine
• Heat Wave and Mulcharmy work against the deck's own Effect Monster and Summon engine
• Only one hand trap; Ash Blossom absent despite high archetype inclusion

Critical choke points

• Paidra and Sangen Summoning as the sole FIRE Dragon searcher package
• Tenpai Dragon Chundra as the Synchro Tuner for the 3000-ATK bosses
• Gravity Collapse needs a face-up Synchro in the GY, so it is unreliable early

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Dominus Impulse run 3 vs legal 2 (Illegal); Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0 within size rules; Banlist statuses of listed restricted cards; Archetype usage statistics (core inclusion percentages)
• Inferred: Hypergeometric opening-hand odds (0.83 core, 0.25 Paidra); Brick and non-monster ratio read (33 of 55); Interaction density and going-second read from card text; Engine conflict between Heat Wave and Effect Monsters; Structural dimension scores D1 to D14
• Provisional: Meta Power (null); Matchup fit (D13); Tournament reliability inputs without dated meta
• 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/second, matchup, brick and starter rates) Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample No Side Deck supplied, so post-side plan cannot be evaluated