Therions Deck #769448 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 53/100 (±7 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: P.U.N.K. boss pressure: Ukiyoe-P.U.N.K. Amazing Dragon, P.U.N.K. JAM Dragon Drive, P.U.N.K. JAM FEVER! and the Horus/Therion Level 8 monsters convert a hand-trap-protected board into a 2800-3500 ATK end board.; Interaction-driven stall into Xyz/Synchro bosses (Number 90, Number 38, Psychic End Punisher, Juraishin) once the opponent's board is negated.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a P.U.N.K. starter (Noh-P.U.N.K. Foxy Tune, Rising Scale or Ogre Dance) with a 600 LP ability, then build toward a Synchro or Xyz boss while holding hand traps (Infinite Impermanence, Ash Blossom) for the opponent's first response.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold 6 cards with 2+ hand traps and a P.U.N.K. starter; use Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre or Droll & Lock Bird to answer the opponent's first starter, then rebuild through Ze Amin or Foxy Tune recursion.
• Recovery: Recover through graveyard-based summons (Foxy Tune and Rising Scale from GY, Ze Amin to the GY for an ATK boost, Hapi/Imsety with King's Sarcophagus) and recursion effects from Therion Discolosseum and Endless Engine Argyro System.
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan; the list cannot adapt between games in a best-of-3.

Why it scores here

The deck's consistency rests on the P.U.N.K. hand-summon starters (Foxy Tune, Rising Scale, Ogre Dance, Ze Amin: 11 cards in 40, giving roughly 0.82 for at least one in an opening hand of five, Inferred), which lift D1. Interaction is a real strength: Infinite Impermanence, Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Droll & Lock Bird, Forbidden Droplet, Joruri-P.U.N.K. Dangerous Gabu and the Regulus negation give a dense answer suite (D7). Closing power comes from several 2800-3500 ATK Xyz and Synchro bosses, but the Horus and Therion lines are dependent on only two King's Sarcophagus and two Therion recursion pieces, which lowers D2, D3 and D10. The score comes from consistency, interaction and boss output on the system, not from the Therions name or any average of card scores; no combos, tournament data, guides or side deck were supplied, so Meta Power is provisional and the median and side-deck dimensions are low-confidence.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox primary; Midrange secondary, disclosed as a profile choice, not a numeric blend. Structural ≈ 60, Going First ≈ 66, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: Engine conflict across sub-archetypes (-3); No side deck (-2); Banlist exposure (0). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional) = 0.80*60.4 + 0.20*50 - 5 = 53.3

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.82 · 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 hand-trap and negation suite (6 hand traps plus Forbidden Droplet, Gabu, Regulus and Number negates)
• Triple-copy hand starters (Foxy Tune, Rising Scale, Ogre Dance) give high opening-hand access to the P.U.N.K. engine
• Strong 2800-3500 ATK boss suite across Synchro and Xyz with flexible Extra Deck coverage
• Recursion from GY (Ze Amin, Foxy Tune, Argyro, Discolosseum) regenerates resources

Weaknesses

• Four sub-archetypes compete for one 40-card main; purity is 0% exact-name
• Horus branch depends on just 2 King's Sarcophagus; Imsety and Hapi are GY-dependent
• No side deck: no best-of-3 adaptation
• Many single-copy cards (15 of 25 distinct) reduce redundancy for specific lines
• No recorded combos or win data; the core-stats list in usage_statistics is mostly Cyber Dragon / Chimeratech cards and does not match this list (core present 2/21), so it is a poor reference here

Critical choke points

• Noh-P.U.N.K. Foxy Tune / Rising Scale / Ogre Dance access on T1: 11 P.U.N.K. hand starters in 40 cards is the main consistency lever
• King's Sarcophagus (2 copies) for the Horus revival branch
• Hand traps (6) held for the opponent's first turn; using them early leaves the boss line exposed

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main deck 40, Extra 15, Side 0; legal under OCG BanList (Droll & Lock Bird Limited 1 copy; Ash Blossom Semi-Limited 2 copies); Card text and stats for all listed cards; Archetype purity counts: P.U.N.K. 22, generic 18, Therion 5, Horus 4, others 11
• Inferred: P(at least one P.U.N.K. hand starter in 5) ~0.82; Interaction density of 8+ negation and removal-text cards; Brick risk from off-archetype Horus, Therion and Xyz cards; Recursion and alternate-line estimates
• Provisional: Meta Power (null); Matchup and format fit (D13 = 50); Post-side value (D12 = 20 with no side)
• 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 side deck: post-side adaptation cannot be measured No win-rate telemetry for this deck usage_statistics core list is mostly off-archetype (Cyber Dragon, Chimeratech); it does not reflect the Therion/P.U.N.K. build and was not used for scoring Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample