P.U.N.K. Deck #769447 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 60/100 (±7 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro, Xyz and Fusion P.U.N.K. boss monsters (Ukiyoe-P.U.N.K. Amazing Dragon, P.U.N.K. JAM FEVER!, P.U.N.K. JAM Dragon Drive) summoned through the P.U.N.K. tuner and Psychic engine; Off-archetype high-ATK bosses from the Extra Deck (Juraishin, Psychic End Punisher, Number 38, Zombie Vampire) when the P.U.N.K. line is stopped
• Turn 1 (going first): Turn 1 Special Summon Noh-P.U.N.K. Foxy Tune or Noh-P.U.N.K. Deer Note, or a Level 3 Psychic tuner such as Noh-P.U.N.K. Ze Amin, Ukiyoe-P.U.N.K. Sharakusai or Gagaku-P.U.N.K. Wa Gon; use their search effects (paying 600 LP) to find the next P.U.N.K. piece, then Synchro or Xyz into a 2800 to 3000 ATK boss
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom and Joyous Spring, Droll and Lock Bird, Ghost Ogre and Snow Rabbit and Infinite Impermanence for the opponent's turn to strip their starter, then rebuild the board with P.U.N.K. summons and a Synchro or Xyz boss; Joruri-P.U.N.K. Dangerous Gabu and Forbidden Droplet cover the boss-level answer
• Recovery: Recover through graveyard effects: Ze Amin and Deer Note special-summon from the GY, P.U.N.K. JAM Extreme Session banishes a P.U.N.K. from the GY for a Special Summon, and Therion Discolosseum protects a monster from battle destruction; LP payments are the main limit on repeating this
• After siding: None: the deck has an empty Side Deck (0 of 15 allowed slots), so there is no post-side plan and no way to adjust against a bad matchup

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a P.U.N.K. engine: 21 core copies give about a 98 percent chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred), and 8 Tuner copies give roughly a 69 percent chance of a Tuner going first (Inferred estimate from the hypergeometric draw, not a recorded rate). Its interaction package (2 Ash Blossom, 2 Infinite Impermanence, Droll and Lock Bird, Ghost Ogre, Forbidden Droplet, Joruri-P.U.N.K. Dangerous Gabu) is dense and gives the strongest reason for the score, especially going second where a hand trap is present about 65 percent of the time. Conversion and median output could not be measured because no combo boards were supplied, so the ceiling and floor are text-only inferences. The score is not earned from the archetype's popularity or meta share, and no card scores were averaged; the score comes from the system's engine reliability, interaction density and Extra Deck coverage. The Therion and Horus splash (9 cards needing their own graveyard or King's Sarcophagus conditions), the 33 off-archetype copies, and the empty Side Deck hold it down.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange (meta-neutral: D13 dropped, weights renormalized over 95). Structural ≈ 63, Going First ≈ 64, Going Second ≈ 66, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: engine conflict (-2). Final formula: No reliable metagame: Final = 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 0.80*63 + 0.20*58 - 2 = 60 (Meta provisional, D13 dropped from Structural)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.98 · 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

• Core P.U.N.K. engine is almost always reachable in the opening hand (0.98)
• Dense hand-trap and negation package (6 hand traps, Joruri-P.U.N.K. Dangerous Gabu, Forbidden Droplet)
• Multiple graveyard recursion paths (Ze Amin, Deer Note, JAM Extreme Session, Discolosseum)
• Extra Deck covers Synchro, Xyz, Fusion and Link with 2800 to 3100 ATK bosses

Weaknesses

• Empty Side Deck means no post-side adaptation
• Off-archetype splash (33 copies outside exact name, 9 main-deck splash) dilutes the engine
• Hand brick risk from conditional splash cards without their enablers
• LP costs on most engine effects cap repeated use

Critical choke points

• Tuner availability: 8 Tuner copies drive Synchro lines, and Ash Blossom is also a Tuner
• Boss survival: one negation or removal on the Synchro or Xyz boss ends most lines (no recorded board data to measure how often)
• LP total: repeated 600 LP payments can exhaust the life points needed for the engine

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal OCG list: 40 main, 15 extra, 0 side; Droll and Lock Bird at 1 copy (Limited), Ash Blossom at 2 copies (Semi-Limited); Archetype purity: 22 exact P.U.N.K. copies, 33 off-archetype; Extra Deck breakdown: 6 Synchro, 7 Xyz, 1 Fusion, 1 Link (14 distinct, 15 total); Core usage: 12 of 17 core cards present (70.6 percent)
• Observed: No recorded combo boards, so no observed frequency is available
• Inferred: Opening-hand probabilities: 0.98 core access, 0.34 for 3-copy starters, 0.65 hand trap going second; Engine consistency and brick rate estimated from composition and card text; Interaction density and layering read from card text
• Provisional: Meta fit (D13) and Meta Power are null without a dated metagame sample
• Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link: archetype meta share and pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry: going-first, going-second and matchup results are Unknown no Side Deck: post-side performance cannot be assessed Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample