Red-Eyes Deck #769925 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 25/100 (±6 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 44 / Extra 16 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 5 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion and Ritual Summon Dark Magician-family and Red-Eyes monsters (Red-Eyes Black Dragon Exceed, Master of Chaos, Timaeus) for board pressure and a single large attacker; Egyptian God monsters (Obelisk, Slifer, Winged Dragon of Ra) as high-cost finishers
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Dark Magician Girl or Apprentice Illusion Magician or Magician's Rod to search Dark Magician, then Fusion Summon through Super Polymerization or Secrets of Dark Magic. The Forbidden copies make this line unavailable in OCG as built.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Dark Time Wizard or Soul Exchange and Timaeus-based fusions to answer one board. Interaction is thin: Harpie's Feather Duster and Droll & Lock Bird are the only real disruption.
• Recovery: Recover through Dark Magician the Magician of Black Magic or Dark Magician the Pharaoh's Servant and Dark Magical Curtain, then rebuild with Shining Sarcophagus searches. Recursion depends on Forbidden cards.
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered (0 cards), so there is no post-side plan. Best-of-3 play is not supported by this list.

Why it scores here

This list is Illegal in OCG: three Forbidden cards are run (Magicians' Souls x3, Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon x2, Number 42 x1), the Extra Deck holds 16 cards against a limit of 15, and one passcode does not resolve. The structure is a Dark Magician and Red-Eyes Fusion hybrid whose starters are spread across many roles, and that gives it real engine access in principle, but the Forbidden copies remove core engine pieces. Structural scoring used the Combo profile on the system: starter access and conversion were credited, while bricking, a fragile Egyptian God tribute line, thin interaction, and the absence of a Side Deck were penalised. Archetype popularity earned no points, and card scores were not averaged. The result is shown as theoretical and structural only, capped low under the Illegal rule.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 40, Going First ≈ 36, Going Second ≈ 33, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 25. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) = 37, then banlist modifier -12 = 25; Illegal list, so theoretical/structural-only

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.91 · 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 searcher and starter density through Dark Magician, Dark Magician Girl, and Apprentice Illusion Magician
• Fusion and Link targets (Red-Eyes Black Dragon Exceed, Master of Chaos, Timaeus, Miasma Necromancer) give real closing options
• Light tech package (Harpie's Feather Duster, Droll & Lock Bird, Super Polymerization) that is Limited or Semi-Limited and legal at the run count

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: Forbidden copies and Extra Deck overflow
• No Side Deck, so no post-side plan
• Egyptian God tribute cards add brick risk and a non-recursive commitment
• Thin interaction density for a Combo deck

Critical choke points

• Fusion Summon route depends on Super Polymerization (2 copies) and Secrets of Dark Magic, both single-point enablers
• Dark Magician searchers funnel into the Fusion engine with no independent second route
• Forbidden Souls and Dragoon would be the main recursion and starter pieces, so removing them breaks the line

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 3 Forbidden cards run, Extra Deck 16 > 15, 1 unresolved passcode; Composition: 44 Main, 16 Extra, 0 Side; copy histogram 18x1, 7x2, 4x3; Usage statistics: 3 core cards (S:P Little Knight, I:P Masquerena, Ash Blossom) all absent from this deck
• Inferred: Starter and searcher probabilities (hypergeometric, Main Deck only); Brick risk from tribute and Quick-Play density; Interaction density from card-text negation and removal hints; Pilotability from multi-step Fusion and Ritual chains
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit (no dated metagame sample)
• 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 1 passcode (74677422) could not be resolved to a card and was counted as Main Deck no win-rate telemetry: going-first/second, matchup, brick, starter, and OTK rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied no Side Deck: post-side adaptability cannot be scored from data