Fire King Deck #769264 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±10 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 13 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fire King Garunix / Garunix Eternity boards (2700-3000 ATK) built from Fire King on-field and GY recursion; Jurrac Meteor / Jurrac Astero synchro boards with Super Starslayer TY-PHON as a late-game threat
• Turn 1 (going first): Opening starter from Fire King Courtier Ulcanix, Legendary Fire King Ponix, Fire King High Avatar Kirin or Garunix (Ponix/Kirin searches and Fire King Island/Sanctuary as the backrow engine), then Garunix or Garunix Eternity for pressure
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Droll & Lock Bird, Dominus Impulse) to stop the opponent's first Special Summon or search, then a Fire King monster from hand to rebuild
• Recovery: Fire King monsters self-recur from the GY (Kirin, Garunix, Arvata) and Fire King Island/Sanctuary keep the Field Zone alive, so one broken board can be rebuilt in later turns
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan; the deck cannot adapt between games in a best-of-3

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Fire King starter: the archetype core group has a 99.3% chance of at least one copy in a 5-card opening hand, so the engine is almost always live on turn 1-2 (Inferred). Its ceiling comes from Fire King boards that destroy and re-summon through Garunix, Garunix Eternity and Island/Sanctuary, and its median output is held back by three off-archetype lines (Jurrac, Charmer, Salamangreat) that dilute the Extra Deck. Interaction is layered: six hand traps and about nine negation-text cards plus Fire King removal give it a strong going-second posture (Inferred). Popularity did not earn points: the Fire King core's 90.9% inclusion rate confirms the list is real and accessible, but it was not used as a power signal, and no card scores were averaged into the deck score. The deck is capped low because it is illegal: Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse each run 3 copies against a limit of 2.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary; D13 dropped and weights renormalized over 95 (meta-neutral structural). Structural ≈ 62, Going First ≈ 63, Going Second ≈ 64, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 60. Modifiers: Illegal copy-limit cap (-26). Final formula: Illegal cap: 0.80*Structural(62) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(60) = 61.6 before cap; capped to 35 because the list is over the copy limit (theoretical/structural only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.99 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.01 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Archetype core is almost always in opening hand (99.3%)
• Six hand traps and negation text give strong going-second interaction
• Fire King self-recursion and Island/Sanctuary provide recovery

Weaknesses

• Illegal: two cards over the OCG copy limit
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Off-archetype Extra Deck lines (Jurrac, Charmer, Salamangreat, Kuriboh) dilute coherence

Critical choke points

• Fire King Island / Sanctuary as the backrow engine: losing them to a single answer removes the Field Zone plan
• Ponix/Kirin search chain: one missed starter forces a slow turn

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main Deck 40, Extra Deck 13, Side Deck 0 (legal size); Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and Dominus Impulse each run 3 copies against a limit of 2 (illegal); Banlist: Droll & Lock Bird, Linkuriboh, Miscellaneousaurus and S:P Little Knight are Limited with 1 copy each (legal); Archetype core inclusion 61.1% present; 90.9% for High Avatar Kirin (usage stats)
• Inferred: Opening-hand starter probabilities from hypergeometric estimates; Ceiling and interaction reads from card text; Going-first and going-second power estimates
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (D13 excluded)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied; floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent no win-rate telemetry; going-first/second and matchup signals are Inferred no Side Deck; post-side plan cannot be evaluated Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied