Power Patron Deck #770011 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link Summon Power Patron Link Monsters (Mediclius, Purification) and Synchro pressure, then convert the board with Power Patron/Ars Magna ATK and battle-multiplier effects.; Elfnote Tinia / Lucina / Fortuna beatdown backed by Elfnote recursion and Ars Magna searches.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on a Normal Summon of Elfnote Power Patron or Ars Magna / Mulcharmy material, search an Ars Magna or Elfnote monster, and aim to Synchro or Link into a Power Patron boss; hand traps are held for the opponent's first activation.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Effect Veiler, Infinite Impermanence and Droll & Lock Bird against the opponent's first starter, then rebuild from the Graveyard through Medius, Theorealize Past Lull and Elfnote recursion.
• Recovery: Recover from the Graveyard with Theorealized Medius, Elfnote Welcome Home / Rhapsodia recursion and Ars Magna banish-to-search effects; Extra Deck Link Summons restore the board.
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered, so no post-side plan can be scored; this is a structural gap, not a deck property.

Why it scores here

The deck's structural read comes from its system, not from averaging its 46 distinct card scores: the archetype core (14 copies) opens at least one piece in a 5-card hand about 78% of the time, and 21 searcher-text cards give a reasonable chance of a functional engine by turn 2 (Inferred). Interaction is dense: 15 hand traps and 17 negation-text cards cover the opponent's first activation or summon, which earns the end-board and resilience scores. However, the deck does not record any real boards, so the ceiling and median can only be read from text, and they are kept near the middle. Popularity (archetype core inclusion 78%-90% for several cards) confirms the list is real and accessible but was not counted as power. Because three Forbidden cards are run in OCG, the list is illegal and the final score is capped low, so the result is theoretical and structural only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo primary, Midrange secondary (approximately 80/20 blend of the two profiles; primary used for scoring). Structural ≈ 52, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 45, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12). Final formula: Raw: 0.80*Structural(51.9) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(40) + banlist modifier(-12) = 37.6; capped to 30 because the list is Illegal (theoretical/structural only). Meta Power is provisional (null).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.78 · 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 hand-trap and negation suite (15 hand traps, 17 negation-text cards)
• Strong archetype core opening odds (about 78% for at least one core piece)
• Multiple recursion and search routes for resilience

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: three Forbidden cards run
• Off-archetype spread (66 of 80 archetype-related copies not the exact name)
• No Side Deck
• Many Level-0 and tech cards reduce compactness

Critical choke points

• Power Patron Link Monsters depend on the Extra Deck and on Ars Magna/Elfnote lines
• Forbidden Extra Deck cards (Crystal Wing, Baronne, Dawn Dragster) must be removed before the list can be played

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: three Forbidden cards, 1 copy each; Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0 (within OCG size rules, except no Side Deck); Archetype exact-name purity 5.7%; Core archetype inclusion and copy counts from usage statistics
• Inferred: Engine opening odds from hypergeometric estimates; Hand-trap and negation coverage from card text; Going-first and going-second estimates
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated sample); Matchup coverage and format fit
• Data gaps: no combos supplied - combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link - archetype meta-share and pilot record absent no win-rate telemetry - going-first/second and matchup rates unknown no Side Deck registered Meta Power provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied