Salamangreat Deck #769691 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 57 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 5 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link and Synchro pressure from Yummy and Sky Striker Ace monsters, with Yummy Field Spell and Link-1 fodder driving the board.; Sky Striker Ace - Zero, Camellia and Azalea as Link pressure once the Extra Deck is accessible.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Yummy or Sky Striker starter, use Link-1 fodder to access a Link-2 or Synchro, and hold Ash Blossom or Droll for the first interaction.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Ghost Mourner and Droll to stop the opponent's first summon or search, then rebuild with Sky Striker Mecha or Yummy summons.
• Recovery: Recover through the GY-based Sky Striker and Yummy effects (Lemnisgate, Linkage, Assist Yummy) and Synchro re-summons of Link-1 fodder.
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no Side Deck, so no post-side plan exists.

Why it scores here

The list cannot open a stable engine: the 'Salamangreat' label is not supported by the cards (only 1 exact Salamangreat copy, 2 of 15 core cards present), so the real plan is two competing engines, Yummy and Sky Striker, with a toolbox of Ash Blossom, Droll, Solemn and Harpie's Feather Duster. Starter access is modest, about 0.24 for any single 3-copy starter in a 5-card opening (hypergeometric, Inferred), and the 29 distinct main cards plus 30 Spells produce a high brick risk. Interaction density is the deck's relative strength, with 7 hand traps and 16 negation-text cards, but the Side Deck is empty so post-side adaptation scores low. The deck is illegal in OCG (two Forbidden cards and three over-limit cards), which caps the Final Contextual score at 30; no combo boards were recorded, so ceiling and median are text-only inference. Popularity and archetype usage stats were not credited, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 47, Going First ≈ 44, Going Second ≈ 40, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 38. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); engine conflicts (-4); illegal cap (0). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(47) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(38) = 45, plus modifiers (-12) = 33, then capped at 30 because the list is Illegal (Forbidden cards and copy-limit violations)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.24 · 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

• Strong interaction suite: Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Ghost Mourner, Droll and Solemn Judgment cover hand-trap and summon-negation needs
• Link-heavy Extra Deck with a range of Link-1 and Link-2 options gives flexible summon routes
• Yummy and Sky Striker recursion gives some resource recovery from the GY

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: two Forbidden cards and three copy-limit violations must be fixed before the list can be used
• No Side Deck (0 cards), so no adaptation across best-of-3 games
• Two competing engines (Yummy and Sky Striker) with weak overlap in Link-1 fodder
• Salamangreat label does not match the list; only 2 of 15 core Salamangreat cards are present

Critical choke points

• Link-1 fodder: Yummy and Sky Striker summons both need a Link-1 or Level 2 Synchro on the field
• Forbidden cards: Obedience Schooled and Cupsy★Yummy Way cannot be played in OCG at all

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Obedience Schooled and Cupsy★Yummy Way are Forbidden in OCG; Copy-limit violations: Marshmao☆Yummy (3 vs 1), Ash Blossom (3 vs 2), Sky Striker Mobilize - Engage! (3 vs 2); Main 57 and Extra 15 are within the OCG size rules; Side Deck is empty; Only 1 exact-name Salamangreat copy; 2 of 15 core Salamangreat cards present
• Observed: No recorded combo boards exist for this deck
• Inferred: Starter access ≈ 0.24 per 3-copy card in a 5-card opening (hypergeometric); Brick risk is high from 30 Spells and 16 negation-text cards competing for hand slots; Interaction density is relatively strong (7 hand traps, 16 negation-text cards); Structural 47 and Final 30 with Illegal cap
• Provisional: Meta Power (null): no dated metagame sample supplied; Format fit (D13): no tournament link or meta-share data
• Data gaps: 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 — post-side plan cannot be evaluated no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN — going-first, going-second and matchup figures are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied