Cyber Dragon Deck #769067 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 51/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 14 / Side 0 — status: Legal with warning.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: LIGHT Machine Union board pressure: ABC-Dragon Buster (3000 ATK) and XYZ-Hyper Dragon Cannon (3000 ATK) from the Extra Deck, backed by Union Controller and the Union effect monsters.; Late-game 3000+ ATK extra-deck finishers: Juraishin (3100), Psychic End Punisher (3500), Underworld Goddess (3000 Link 5), Barbaros (3000 tribute-summon wipe).
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a LIGHT Machine Level 4 starter (X-Cross Cannon, Y-Yare Head, A-Assault Core, B-Buster Drake or C-Crush Wyvern), search Union Hangar or Union Activation, and build toward an ABC-Dragon Buster or Union Controller summon.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Evenly Matched, Lightning Storm or Harpie's Feather Duster to break the opponent's board, then rebuild through the same Union engine or go to Underworld Goddess / Barbaros.
• Recovery: Recycle Union monsters from the GY through Union Pilot and Union Driver equip effects, plus Pot of Sloth for card flow; Union Hangar and Union Activation re-search the engine.
• After siding: None. The deck runs 0 side cards, so there is no post-side plan (D12 scored low for this reason).

Why it scores here

The deck's real identity is a LIGHT Machine Union / ABC / A-to-Z engine, not the Cyber Dragon archetype it is labelled with: only 2 of the 18 archetype-core cards in the usage statistics are present, and exact-name purity is 1.4%. It earns its score from the system: about 13 LIGHT Level 4 Machine starters, a searcher density of roughly 83% in a five-card opening hand (Inferred), and a fair interaction suite (Evenly Matched, Lightning Storm, Harpie's Feather Duster, Underworld Goddess, Therion King Regulus). Its closing power comes from several 3000+ ATK extra-deck monsters. It is held back by heavy off-archetype dilution, Synchro and Megafleet pieces with too few Tuners and Cyber Dragons, no recorded combos to confirm the median output, and a complete absence of side-deck plans. Popularity and archetype meta-share earned no points, and the card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary; Toolbox secondary contributes flexibility through D11/D14 only. Structural ≈ 56, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Engine conflicts / extra-deck dependency gaps (-3). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (no dated metagame, Meta provisional; Structural is meta-neutral with D13 dropped)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.83 · 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 LIGHT Machine Level 4 starter base, with about 13 copies across X-Cross Cannon, Y-Yare Head, A-Assault Core, B-Buster Drake and C-Crush Wyvern
• Strong 3000+ ATK extra-deck finishers (ABC-Dragon Buster, XYZ-Hyper Dragon Cannon, Juraishin, Psychic End Punisher, Underworld Goddess)
• Layered interaction: Evenly Matched and Lightning Storm at 3 copies each, plus Duster, Regulus and Underworld Goddess negates

Weaknesses

• Archetype label mismatch: only 2 of 18 Cyber Dragon core cards are present, and exact-name purity is 1.4%
• Zero side deck: no post-side plan for best-of-3
• Filler: Mid-Breaker, Set Rotation and Terraforming are single-copy support cards that do little for the core engine
• Synchro and Megafleet pieces are underpowered: 2 Tuners for 3 Synchros and a Cyber Dragon requirement the main barely supports

Critical choke points

• Starter access depends on a Level 4 LIGHT Machine being live in the Monster Zone before the Union chain can start
• ABC-Dragon Buster needs all three of A, B and C in the GY or field, so a single missing piece stalls the summon

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 56 and Extra 14 within OCG size rules (40-60 / 0-15); All 5 Limited cards run at 1 copy, which is legal; Only 2 of 18 archetype-core cards are present (usage statistics); Exact-name archetype purity 1.4%; 0 side cards
• Inferred: P(>=1 starter) and P(>=1 searcher in hand) from hypergeometric draws; Engine coherence on the LIGHT Machine Union / ABC / A-to-Z axis; Interaction density and going-second answers from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (null); D13 format fit; Matchup coverage
• Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link: meta-share and per-pilot records absent 1 passcode in CardIDList (10443957) could not be resolved and is counted as main no win-rate telemetry: going-first/second split, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Deck title is null and no guides are attached