Salamangreat Deck #769490 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link Summon Salamangreat Link monsters (Pyro Phoenix, Raging Phoenix, Sunlight Wolf, Promethean Princess) to reach 2700-2800 ATK boards and push damage through a hand-trap-protected engine; Salamangreat Miragestallio and Decode Talker Heatsoul as additional boards; Pyro Phoenix's board wipe effect as a reset
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on Salamangreat searchers (Foxy, Circle, Cynet Mining, Recureance) to find a Level 3-4 Link starter, Normal Summon into Gazelle/Spinny/Weasel, then Link Summon Balelynx or Sunlight Wolf and pivot to a 2800 ATK Phoenix
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Ghost Belle, Nibiru and Gazelle as hand traps to stop the opponent's first combo, then rebuild the Link board from the GY using Almiraj, Balelynx and Jack Jaguar recursion
• Recovery: Recover from the GY via Salamangreat Gazelle, Almiraj and Jack Jaguar special summon effects, and Recureance's GY-to-hand search, then rebuild a Link Monster from remaining Extra Deck materials
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so no post-side plan can be evaluated; a best-of-3 plan would need a side list first

Why it scores here

The score reflects the deck as a system, not an average of its card scores and not its popularity. The 16-copy Salamangreat core gives about a 94% chance of at least one core card in a 5-card opener (Inferred), and the many searchers (Foxy, Circle, Cynet Mining, Recureance) support Link starter access. Eleven hand traps and a 14-card Link Extra Deck give strong interaction and recursion after disruption, and the going-second hand-trap density (about 88% for at least one in a 6-card hand, Inferred) supports the going-second read. The list is Illegal because it runs 3 Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring against a Semi-Limited limit of 2, so the rubric cap applies and this 35 is a structural-only reading, not a normal Final score. No combo boards, no tournament data, and no side deck were supplied, so the median output, matchup fit and post-side reads are low-confidence.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo primary, Midrange as secondary read; weights are the Combo profile. Structural ≈ 67, Going First ≈ 64, Going Second ≈ 70, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 60. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); engine redundancy (3). Final formula: Theoretical 0.80*67 + 0.20*60 - 5 = 61 (Meta provisional), capped to 35 because the list is Illegal; structural-only reading

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.94 · 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 Salamangreat core (16 copies) gives a high starter hit rate
• Eleven hand traps plus negation and removal text give layered interaction
• Link-based recursion (Almiraj, Balelynx, Gazelle, Jack Jaguar) allows continuation after disruption
• Phoenix Link monsters reach 2700-2800 ATK for closing

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Ash Blossom run 3 copies against a limit of 2
• No side deck registered, so no best-of-3 adaptation
• No recorded combo boards, so median output and consistency are unverified
• Off-archetype and generic copies (25) dilute the engine

Critical choke points

• A single Link Summon of a Phoenix or Sunlight Wolf is the main line; losing the Link-starter in hand or to a hand trap stalls the engine
• Ash Blossom's extra copy is a legality choke point that must be fixed before any normal score applies

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Illegal, Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring 3 copies vs legal 2 (OCG Semi-Limited); Main 40, Extra 15, Side 0 within OCG size rules; Card text and stats for all 40 main and 15 extra cards; Archetype usage: core 8 of 15 present
• Inferred: Opening-hand starter probability 0.935 (hypergeometric); Going-second hand-trap coverage 0.876; Interaction, resilience and recursion reads from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit and tournament reliability
• Data gaps: The usage-statistics in_this_deck flags conflict with the card list: Hiita, Promethean Princess, Salamangreat Pyro Phoenix, Miragestallio and Sunlight Wolf are in the deck but flagged as missing (copies_in_deck 0), so the missing_core list is unreliable No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent No side deck registered No win-rate telemetry; Meta Power is Provisional