Tri-Brigade Deck #769376 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link Summon Tri-Brigade Shuraig the Ominous Omen (Link-4, 3000 ATK) and Tri-Brigade Arms Bucephalus II (Link-5, 3500 ATK) from the Beast/Winged Beast material pool in the GY and field, then close with the large Link attacker.; Tri-Brigade Rugal the Silver Sheller and Cyber Slash Harpie Lady as additional Link/Synchro boards; Guardian Chimera as a Fusion closer if Chimera Fusion is available.
• Turn 1 (going first): Opening-hand starter from Radiant Typhoon / Primite / Harpie searchers (Vision, Lordly Lode, Eldam, Swen, Beryl) into a Normal Summon or Special Summon that feeds Beast/Winged Beast material for a first Link.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C and Mist Valley Apex Avian to stop the opponent's first search or summon, then Link Summon from the GY through Tri-Brigade Hammer or Tri-Brigade Revolt.
• Recovery: Tri-Brigade GY banish-to-Link effects (Nervall, Kitt, Kerass, Fraktall) and Tri-Brigade Hammer / Tri-Brigade Oath rebuild a board from the GY after an interruption.
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs an empty Side Deck (0 cards), so no post-side plan exists in the list.

Why it scores here

This is a theoretical, structural-only read: the list is Illegal in OCG (Simorgh, Bird of Sovereignty is Forbidden and Radiant Typhoon Chant is run over its Limited copy count), so the final score is capped low and does not reflect a playable deck. The structural read rests on the engine being broadly accessible: about 95% of opening hands contain at least one of the 26 searcher-text cards, and the 12 Link monsters in the Extra Deck give the deck real closing power (Shuraig 3000 ATK, Bucephalus II 3500 ATK). Interaction is dense (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C, Mist Valley Apex Avian, Tempest, Mystical Space Typhoon, and several negate spells), which is the main reason the structural score is not lower. Consistency is held back by the list's composition: only 20 of 75 cards share the exact Tri-Brigade name (27% exact purity), with 18 archetype names across the deck, and the archetype core has only about a 30% chance of appearing in an opening five-card hand. The score does not come from Tri-Brigade being a popular or usage-heavy archetype, and it is not an average of the individual card scores; combo evidence is absent, so combo ceiling and median are text-based inference only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary (approx. 80%), Control secondary (approx. 20%) for the interaction emphasis. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 57, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: Banlist and copy-limit violation (-12); Illegal-list cap (-12). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability = 0.80*55 + 0.20*50 = 54; modifiers total -12 → 42; capped at 30 because the list is Illegal (theoretical/structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.23 · 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

• Broad searcher density: 26 searcher-text cards give a ≈95% chance of at least one searcher in the opening five cards (Inferred)
• Dense interaction suite of negates and hand traps (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C, Mist Valley Apex Avian, Tempest) (Inferred)
• Strong Link Extra Deck closers (Bucephalus II 3500 ATK, Shuraig 3000 ATK) (verified card text)

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: Simorgh (Forbidden) and an extra copy of Radiant Typhoon Chant (Limited) (verified)
• Low exact-archetype purity (26.7%) spreads the engine across 18 sub-archetypes (verified composition)
• Empty Side Deck leaves no post-side plan (verified)
• Archetype core has about a 30% chance of appearing in an opening five (Inferred)

Critical choke points

• Ash Blossom and Droll & Lock Bird as the only hand-trap-level interruption on the going-second turn (Inferred)
• Tri-Brigade GY banish-to-Link chain requires enough Beast/Winged Beast monsters in the GY (Inferred)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0; Main and Extra sizes are within the OCG range (verified); Simorgh, Bird of Sovereignty is Forbidden and run 1 copy (verified); Radiant Typhoon Chant is Limited, run 2 copies, legal 1 (verified); Exact-archetype purity 26.7%; 18 sub-archetype names (verified); Usage stats: 3 of 5 core cards present; Arms Mouser and Ferrijit missing (verified)
• Inferred: Searcher-text opening-hand probability ≈ 0.95 and archetype-core probability ≈ 0.30; Interaction density is high from negation and removal text; Ceiling from Link-4/Link-5 text and Tri-Brigade GY chains; Going-second hand-trap advantage; Brick risk from off-archetype staples
• Provisional: Meta Power null: no dated metagame sample; Matchup fit (D13) at neutral midpoint
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN (going-first/second, matchup, game-level, brick/starter/OTK rates) — those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied deck title is null; the deck is identified by its archetype and id only Side Deck is empty, so post-side performance cannot be assessed