Rikka Deck #768837 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 51 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Rikka Plant tribute chain into Rikka Queen Xyz boss monsters (Teardrop, Kanzashi, Hyperyton) and Hellebore as a negating body (Inferred from card text); Mulcharmy draw engines and hand-trap disruption grinding the opponent out (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Rikka Petal or Rikka Glamour to find Rikka monsters, then Plant tributes into Xyz boss (Inferred; no recorded boards)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx "C", Infinite Impermanence) to stop the opponent's starter, then Mulcharmy draws (Inferred)
• Recovery: Rikka Tranquility and Hellebore recover Plant monsters from the GY; Strenna recovers Rikka cards from the GY (Inferred from card text)
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan (Verified: side_count 0)

Why it scores here

The deck opens reliably on Rikka starters: a 3-copy Rikka Petal and Rikka Glamour/Konkon give a searcher group with P(at least one in a 5-card hand) of about 0.59 (Inferred hypergeometric estimate), and the archetype core is almost always present (Inferred). Conversion rests on text-level reads only, because no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling and median are scored at moderate values and labelled Inferred rather than measured. Interaction is the deck's clearest strength: nine hand traps and about 14 negation-text and 17 removal-text cards give dense disruption on the system, which carries the going-second score. The score is capped because the list is Illegal: Albion the Branded Dragon is Forbidden in OCG and one copy is run, so this is a theoretical, structural-only read. Popularity was not rewarded, since the archetype usage stats confirm the list is real but do not raise the score, and card scores were not averaged into the deck result.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 53, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-6). Final formula: No reliable metagame, so Meta is provisional: uncapped 0.80*Structural(53) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) + modifiers(-6) ≈ 45; the Illegal-deck cap then sets the reported score to 30 (theoretical/structural-only).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.59 · 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 and negation coverage (9 hand traps, 14 negation-text cards)
• Multiple Xyz bosses in the 2400–2800 ATK range
• Redundant Rikka searchers and recovery (Petal, Glamour, Konkon, Mudan, Tranquility)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Albion the Branded Dragon is Forbidden and run at 1 copy
• Low exact-name archetype purity (47%) with 35 off-archetype copies
• No side deck registered
• No recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and median are unmeasured

Critical choke points

• Albion's illegal slot makes the list unplayable as built until it is removed
• Rikka Petal and Rikka Glamour as the main searchers (3 copies each, but a single-card dependency for the first turn)
• Plant-tribute requirement on several cards (Princess, Konkon, Sheet, Tranquility) can lock the board if no Plant monster is available

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Albion the Branded Dragon is Forbidden and run at 1 copy (over limit); Main 51 and Extra 15 are within size rules; Side 0; Copy histogram and extra-deck breakdown match the list; Archetype core usage stats are available (23 rows)
• Inferred: Searcher group P(≥1 in 5-card hand) ≈ 0.59; Interaction density from hand traps and negation/removal text; Going-first and going-second plans from card text; Dimension scores D1–D14 for consistency, interaction, and pressure
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and matchup fit (D13); Median output (D4) with no recorded boards
• Data gaps: No combos supplied, so the combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No side deck registered