Power Patron Deck #769863 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link-based board pressure from Elfnote and Orcust Link monsters, with high-ATK Extra Deck closers (Elfnote June Pride, Borrelsword Dragon, Enlilgirsu, Dingirsu).; Ars Magna and Mulcharmy recursion and draw engine converting resources into repeated Link Summons.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a starter (Elfnote Regina, Orcust Harp Horror, Ghost Ogre, or Mulcharmy) and reach a Link 2 or Link 4 through Galatea or Enlilgirsu lines, backed by Mistaken Arrest and the Ars Magna searchers.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Maxx C, Droll & Lock Bird, Ghost Ogre, Ghost Belle) to disrupt the opponent's first board, then pivot into a Link Summon with Mulcharmy draw support.
• Recovery: Recover Orcust and Elfnote monsters from the GY via Orcust Cymbal Skeleton, Orcust Knightmare, and Elfnote Power Patron, and search Orcustrated Babel or Ars Magna cards to rebuild.
• After siding: No side deck is registered (0 side cards), so no post-side plan can be evaluated; the best-of-3 plan is unevaluable from the evidence.

Why it scores here

The list is structurally capable of a Link-based engine: 10 Link and Synchro/Xyz Extra Deck monsters are backed by searchers (14 searcher-text cards) and a 10-card hand-trap package, which gives a reasonable going-second disruption plan. Consistency is moderate rather than strong: archetype purity is 0% (70 off-archetype copies spread across Orcust, Elfnote, Mulcharmy, Ars Magna, and Mekk-Knight), so the starter core is split across several engines, and the archetype core group has only about a 65% chance of at least one copy in a 5-card opening hand. No combos were supplied, so the combo floor, median, and ceiling are text-only inference and carry low weight. The score is not earned from Power Patron's popularity; usage stats confirm a real archetype core, but only 5 of 14 core cards are present. The deck is Illegal because it runs one copy of the Forbidden Saryuja Skull Dread, so the score is capped at 30 and labelled theoretical/structural only. The structural read was computed from the system (consistency, interaction, resilience, and Extra Deck coverage) and was not averaged from card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Balanced (default; primary strategy Toolbox was not clearly separable from Midrange/Combo on text-only evidence). Structural ≈ 50, Going First ≈ 45, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-8); illegal_cap (-10). Final formula: Structural 50 (Balanced); no dated meta so Final = 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 0.80*50 + 0.20*40 - 8 = 40 before cap. Illegal legality cap applied: Final capped at 30 and the evaluation is theoretical/structural only.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.65 · 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

• Ten hand traps and fourteen negation-text cards give going-second disruption and layered interaction.
• Extra Deck coverage has high-ATK closers (Elfnote June Pride 3100, Borrelsword Dragon 3000) across Link, Synchro, and Xyz.
• Recursion and search (Ars Magna, Orcustrated Babel, Orcust Cymbal Skeleton) rebuild resources after disruption.

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: Saryuja Skull Dread is Forbidden and run at 1 copy.
• Zero archetype purity: 70 off-archetype copies split starters across Orcust, Elfnote, Mulcharmy, and Ars Magna engines.
• No side deck (0 side cards), so no best-of-3 adaptability.
• Only 5 of 14 usage-stat core cards are present (missing Prohibited Power Patron Portal, Purification Power Patron, Mediclius, and others).

Critical choke points

• Saryuja Skull Dread: Forbidden in OCG, so any Link-4 plan that relies on it is unplayable until removed.
• Limited cards (Maxx C, Droll & Lock Bird, Foolish Burial, Pot of Prosperity, Elfnote Lucina, Elfnote Tinia, S:P Little Knight) reduce redundancy to one copy each.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0 are within the OCG size rules.; Saryuja Skull Dread is Forbidden and run 1 copy (legal copies 0), making the deck Illegal.; Archetype purity is 0% (70 off-archetype copies); the usage-stat core has 5 of 14 cards present.
• Observed: Usage statistics show Mulcharmy Fuwalos at 82.8% inclusion and Ash Blossom at 62.5% inclusion among archetype decks.
• Inferred: Starter consistency: archetype-core P(≥1 in 5-card hand) ≈ 0.65.; Interaction density and going-second disruption read from card text and role tags.; Closing power from Extra Deck ATK values and text, not from recorded games.
• Provisional: Meta Power is null; matchup and format fit (D13) are provisional with no dated metagame sample.
• 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, brick/starter rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied no side deck registered (0 side cards)