Armed Dragon Deck #769119 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 57 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Armed Dragon Thunder LV3/LV5/LV7 chain into Thunder LV10 and Fist/Pile/Drill Armed Dragon board pressure, with Dragon Ruler Extra Deck bosses (Chasma, Eclipse) as secondary closers; Dragon Ruler Extra Deck bosses (Chasma, Eclipse, Blaze) and Mulcharmy card-draw pressure
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Armed Dragon starters (Thunder LV3/LV5/LV7 and Drill/Pile) and chain Thunder LV-chain Special Summons to reach a Level 10 Thunder or Dragon Ruler Extra Deck boss; Solemn Judgment and Skill Drain are the only single-copy interaction on T1
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the six-card hand's hand traps (Ash Blossom x3, Ghost Ogre x2, Ghost Belle x2, Droll & Lock Bird) to stop the opponent's first Summon or search, then rebuild the Armed Dragon chain from the hand
• Recovery: Dragon Ruler float/recursion through Stream, Tidal, Lightning, Reactan and Spectral (GY/banish revival) and Armed Dragon Flash to rebuild a Level 3 Armed Dragon from the Deck
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs no side deck, so there is no post-side plan in the export

Why it scores here

The deck is Illegal in OCG (Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring runs 3 copies against a Semi-Limited limit of 2), so it is scored as a theoretical, structural-only read and capped at 30 rather than given a normal final score. Its engine reliably opens: the archetype core group (15 copies) has about an 80% chance of at least one card in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred), and Armed Dragon Thunder LV3/LV5/LV7 chain into Level 10 bosses. Interaction is dense (8 hand traps, 10 negation-text cards, 23 removal-text cards), which supports conversion and going-second play, but the list has no side deck and only 22% exact-name Armed Dragon purity, with 16 distinct off-archetype cards diluting the engine. No combo boards, tournament link, or guides exist, so the Combo ceiling and median are text-only estimates. Popularity and archetype usage did not earn points, and no card scores were averaged into the deck result.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 50, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: Copy-limit violation (banlist exposure) (-12). Final formula: Illegal deck: 0.80*Structural(50) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(40) + Modifiers(-12) = 36 raw; capped to 30 as theoretical/structural-only (no normal Final Contextual score). Meta provisional.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.8 · 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

• Engine reliably opens from the archetype core (about 80% for at least one core card in hand)
• Layered interaction: 8 hand traps plus negation and removal text
• Multiple Level 7+ boss routes (Thunder LV10, Chasma, Eclipse, Blaze)

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring is over its copy limit
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptability
• Low exact archetype purity (22%) with 16 off-archetype copies
• No combo data, so ceiling and median are unmeasured

Critical choke points

• Single-copy Dragon Ruler and Armed Dragon starters: loss of Thunder LV3/LV5 cuts the level chain
• Reliance on hand traps for going-second interaction (Ash x3 is over the limit)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Illegal, Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring 3 copies vs OCG Semi-Limited limit 2; Main 57 (in 40–60), Extra 15 (in 0–15), Side 0; Copy histogram 16/10/7 sums to 57 main cards; Exact archetype purity 22.2% (16 of 72 archetype-name copies)
• Inferred: P(at least one archetype-core card in a 5-card hand) ≈ 0.80; P(at least one hand trap in a 6-card going-second hand) ≈ 0.61; Structural dimension scores from card text and composition
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit (D13) with no tournament data
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry in YGOVN for going-first/second, matchups or brick rates No side deck in the export, so post-side plan is unevaluated Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample