Red-Eyes Deck #768980 — 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 58 / Extra 13 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Red-Eyes Extra Deck boss monsters (Red-Eyes Black Fullmetal Dragon, Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon, Red-Eyes Flare Metal Dragon, Red-Eyes Black Dragon Exceed) after a Metalmorph/Red-Eyes board is established; Link and Fusion boss monsters (Underworld Goddess, First of the Dragonlords) as board-breaking or resilient closers
• Turn 1 (going first): Search or Special Summon a Red-Eyes/Dark Time Wizard starter, then use Dark Time Wizard and Graverobber-style search to reach a Max Metalmorph or Red-Eyes Black Metal Dragon boss; the brick risk is high because the list runs 61 off-archetype copies
• Turn 2 (going second): Open with hand traps (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Evenly Matched) to slow the opponent, then convert into a Red-Eyes boss through Max Metalmorph or Lord of the Red
• Recovery: Metalmorph Traps, Time Engine and Mulcharmy/Dark Time Wizard searches recycle resources, but only if the core Red-Eyes monsters survive
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so no post-side plan can be evaluated

Why it scores here

The list is structurally a Midrange shell with Red-Eyes and Dark Time Wizard bosses, Metalmorph enablers, and a large interaction package of eight hand traps and about 11 negation effects. Starter access is moderate: each three-copy card has about 0.24 probability of appearing in a going-first opening hand, and 15 searcher-text cards lift the chance of at least one search to about 0.79. Conversion is hard to verify because no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling and median are text-only inferences. Only 10 of 58 main-deck copies carry the exact Red-Eyes name (14.1% purity), so the list is a loose toolbox rather than a coherent engine, and that dilutes both consistency and brick resistance. The score rests on the system's interaction and multi-route structure, not on Red-Eyes popularity or an average of card scores. It is capped low because the deck is illegal at the copy limit (Ash Blossom x3 and Droll & Lock Bird x2), which the rubric treats as structural-only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 46, Going First ≈ 42, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-8); illegal_cap (-6). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(46) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(35) = 43.8; modifiers -8 (banlist exposure) and -6 (illegal cap per rubric Step 2) = 29.8, rounded to 30 (structural-only, not a normal Final score)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.79 · 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: eight hand traps, 11 negation-text cards and several floodgate-style removals
• Four Red-Eyes boss monsters at ATK 2800 to 3400, with Max Metalmorph as a recognized route
• Multiple searchers (15 searcher-text cards) lift the chance of finding a starter

Weaknesses

• Illegal under the OCG copy limit for Ash Blossom and Droll & Lock Bird
• Low exact-archetype purity (14.1%); 61 off-archetype copies dilute the engine
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptability
• No recorded combos or tournament data; the consistency read is inferred

Critical choke points

• Max Metalmorph / Red-Eyes Black Fullmetal Dragon route: one Max Metalmorph or its Extra boss is needed to convert
• Only 10 exact Red-Eyes cards, so the engine can stall without the core monsters

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Ash Blossom x3 (legal 2) and Droll & Lock Bird x2 (legal 1); Main 58 / Extra 13 / Side 0 inside OCG size rules; Hypergeometric draw odds from the Main Deck; Exact-name purity 14.1% from archetype_spread
• Observed: Usage stats show Ash Blossom at 50% inclusion; S:P Little Knight and I:P Masquerena are absent from this list despite high inclusion
• Inferred: Starter consistency (d1) and brick risk (d2) from draw odds and composition; Interaction density and going-second value from card text; Closing power from boss ATK and text
• Provisional: Meta Power (null); Matchup and format fit (d13); Side deck adaptability (d12)
• 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 One passcode (74677422) in CardIDList could not be resolved and was counted as main No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates) Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No side deck registered, so post-side plans cannot be assessed Deck title is null