Crimson Dragon Deck #770003 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 53/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Stun
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 14 / Side 0 — status: Legal with warning.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Blue-Eyes White Dragon boards extended by Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon (via Ultimate Fusion or Majesty-assisted Ritual) and Blue-Eyes Chaos MAX; the Synchro/Link Extra Deck supplies a second threat type.; Synchro/Link Extra Deck boards (Blue-Eyes Spirit, Blue-Eyes Ultimate Spirit, Stardust Sifr, Lightstorm) that use the 20 main-deck Tuners.
• Turn 1 (going first): Opening starter (Blue-Eyes White Dragon or Sage/Maiden/Ghost Ogre tuner line into a Synchro), keeping Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler and Infinite Impermanence up for the opponent's first activation.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (16 in main) answer the opponent's starter in hand or on field; Ghost Belle, Ash and Droll & Lock Bird slow the opponent's search, then a Blue-Eyes board is built from the remaining hand.
• Recovery: Recur Tuners and Blue-Eyes monsters from the GY via Kaibaman, Maiden of White and Deep-Eyes; Spirit with Eyes of Blue and Mausoleum of White supply extra Normal Summons.
• After siding: No side deck is listed, so there is no post-side plan. Any best-of-3 adaptation is currently impossible.

Why it scores here

The deck opens a functional plan reasonably often: the archetype-core proxy gives about 0.89 for at least one core card in a 5-card hand, and 20 Tuners in the main deck support 7 Synchro and 4 Link Extra Deck options. Its main strength is interaction on the system level: 16 hand traps, 22 negation-text cards and 30 removal-text cards give it layered answers, which is most valuable when going second (about 0.88 for at least one hand trap in 6 cards). Conversion is credible but unproven, because no recorded boards exist and the ceiling rests on text reads (Majesty, Ultimate Fusion, Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon). The score is held down by a zero-card side deck, a split engine (Blue-Eyes, Dominus, Solemn and Crimson Dragon support), and a 1-copy dependency on Ultimate Fusion and Blue-Eyes Chaos MAX. Popularity did not earn points: the Crimson Dragon archetype's usage stats were used only as a sanity check. The score was built from the seven system-level measures, not from averaging card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 59.1, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 64, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 52. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-2); engine conflicts (-2); single_copy_dependency (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers = 0.80*59.1 + 0.20*52 - 5 = 52.7 → 53

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.89 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.11 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Layered hand-trap and negation coverage (16 hand traps, 22 negation-text cards)
• Tuner density (20) gives broad Synchro access into several Extra Deck finishers
• Going-second plan is well-supported by hand traps (about 0.88 for at least one in 6 cards)
• Redundant Blue-Eyes starters (3 copies of White Dragon) and recursion from the GY

Weaknesses

• No side deck, so best-of-3 adaptation is impossible
• Split engine: Blue-Eyes, Dominus, Solemn and Crimson Dragon compete for slots
• Thin non-Tuner pool for Synchro summons (many hand traps are Tuners or non-starters)
• Ceiling depends on single-copy Ultimate Fusion and Chaos MAX
• Label mismatch: archetype is Crimson Dragon but the engine is Blue-Eyes

Critical choke points

• Blue-Eyes White Dragon as the starter (3 copies, low single-card hand odds)
• Ultimate Fusion (1 copy) for Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon access
• Majesty of the White Dragons (1 copy) for Chaos MAX Ritual access

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: main 56 (40-60), extra 14 (0-15), side 0 (0-15); no violations; Limited and Semi-Limited copies within limit; Copy histogram 1:16, 2:5, 3:10; Extra breakdown Link 4, Synchro 7, Fusion 3; Side deck is empty
• Inferred: Starter access ≈ 0.89 (archetype-core proxy, 5-card hand); Brick proxy ≈ 0.11; Going-second hand-trap value ≈ 0.88; Ceiling and interaction read from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (D13)
• 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 1 passcode (23995346) could not be resolved; counted as main with unknown type, so it is not evaluated usage statistics core presence appears to check the Main Deck only: Crimson Dragon, Blue-Eyes Ultimate Spirit Dragon, Hieratic Seal, Spirit with Eyes of Blue and Stardust Sifr are listed as 'not in this deck' but appear in the Extra Deck list — core-card presence is therefore understated no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN — going-first/second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied 'Legal with warning' status has no reason in the export; the empty side deck is the only visible candidate