Crimson Dragon Deck #769954 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 40/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 50 / Extra 20 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro Summon Red Dragon Archfiend-named monsters (Red Dragon Archfiend, Tyrant, Hot Red Dragon Archfiend Abyss, Red Nova Dragon) for 3000-4500 ATK boards; Bystial and Earthbound boss monsters as alternate bodies, with Red Supernova Dragon and Red Hypernova Dragon as large Synchro threats
• Turn 1 (going first): Search through Resonator and Archfiend searchers (Resonator Call, Crimson Gaia, Vision Resonator) into a Tuner plus non-Tuner Synchro Summon for a 3000+ ATK boss (Inferred from card text)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom and the Chains/Champion's Pulse-style interaction for the opponent's first engine, then Synchro through the board (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recycle Resonators from the GY via Synkron Resonator, Obsessive Uvualoop and Red Mirror, and re-Synchro from the Extra Deck (Inferred from card text)
• After siding: Not evaluable: side_count is 0, so there is no post-side plan in this list

Why it scores here

This 50-card main deck is built around a dense searcher layer: 23 searcher-text cards give a 0.96 chance of at least one searcher in an opening hand of 5, so the engine is very likely to be reachable on turn 1 (Inferred from the hypergeometric estimate). The Synchro conversion to 3000-4500 ATK bosses is clear from card text, but no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling (D3) and median (D4) are text-only inference. Interaction is moderate: two hand traps, seven negation-text cards, and 18 removal-text cards, but only two of the hand traps are present and the deck has no side deck. The score is not earned from the archetype's popularity, which is low here (1 of 19 core cards present, 0 exact-name Crimson Dragon copies), and it was not produced by averaging card scores. The Extra Deck runs 20 cards against a 15-card OCG cap, so the deck is illegal and the score is capped low and labelled structural-only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 57, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Illegal Extra Deck size (-8); No side deck (-4). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(57) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) = 54.6; modifiers -12 gives 42.6; Illegal-deck cap applied, final 40 (structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.96 · 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

• Searcher density (23 cards, 0.96 for at least one in opening 5) makes the engine very likely to be reachable
• Synchro bosses reach 3000-4500 ATK from card text
• Recursion through Resonator GY effects supports recovery

Weaknesses

• Extra Deck of 20 exceeds the 15-card OCG cap, so the list is illegal
• No side deck
• Only two hand traps and no floodgates
• No recorded combos, so the ceiling and median are inferred

Critical choke points

• Red Dragon Archfiend-family Synchro summon (requires the Resonator/Archfiend tuner route)
• The 2 Ash Blossom copies as the only hand-trap answer on the opponent's turn

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Extra Deck of 20 exceeds the OCG cap of 15 (legality); Banlist: Bystial Magnamhut and The Bystial Lubellion are Limited at 1 copy each; Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring is Semi-Limited at 2 copies (all within limit); Composition: 50 main, 20 extra, 0 side; 35 distinct main; 23 searcher-text cards; 2 hand traps; Usage: 1 of 19 archetype core cards present (5.3%)
• Inferred: P(at least one searcher in opening 5) = 0.96; Engine accessibility and brick estimates from searcher density and copy histogram; Interaction density from card-text hints only; Ceiling and going-first/second split estimated from text, not from recorded boards
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated sample); Matchup fit (no tournament link)
• 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 win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN for going-first/second, matchup or brick rates Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied no side deck: post-side plan cannot be evaluated