Crimson Dragon Deck #770140 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 60/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro Summon T.G. Glaive Blaster (4000 ATK) or Shooting Star Dragon T.G. EX (3300 ATK) off T.G. Gear Zombie / T.G. Screw Serpent / Ash-Ghost Belle tuner bridges, backed by a 2-3 card hand-trap wall; Satellite Warrior and Black Rose Dragon as generic synchro closers, with Raigeki and Harpie's Feather Duster as non-engine board breakers
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with a T.G. starter (Gear Zombie, Limiter Removal or Rocket Salamander) to put a T.G. monster on the field, search or summon a tuner, and Synchro into T.G. Over Dragonar or Mighty Striker; hold Ash Blossom or Ghost Belle for the opponent's first answer
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Effect Veiler, Infinite Impermanence or D.D. Crow against the opponent's first activation (about 90% chance of at least one hand trap in a 6-card hand), then rebuild through T.G. recursion and Synchro into Glaive Blaster or Shooting Star
• Recovery: Recover through T.G. Booster Raptor and Mighty Striker recursion from the GY, Limiter Removal and Jack-In-The-Hand for card advantage, and Hyper Librarian / Wonder Magician for draws
• After siding: Not evaluable: the export lists no side deck (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan to score

Why it scores here

The deck's power comes from the system: 12 hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Effect Veiler, Infinite Impermanence, D.D. Crow, Droll and similar) make the going-second hand very hard to shut off, and those same cards are tuners that feed a 13-Synchro Extra Deck. The T.G. engine has real redundancy (Gear Zombie, Limiter Removal and Rocket Salamander as starters, with T.G. recursion from the GY), and the searchers (7 copies, incl. Limiter Removal and Jack-In-The-Hand) convert hand into card advantage. Interaction density is high across Raigeki, Feather Duster, Forbidden Droplet and T.G. Close, which scores well on end-board quality. The points are capped by the lack of recorded boards (no combo ceiling or median data), no side deck to adapt after the first game, and a Snake-Eye Doomed Dragon Extra slot with no support in the Main Deck. Archetype popularity and the 'Crimson Dragon' label did not earn points: Crimson Dragon itself is not in the list, and no card scores were averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 63, Going First ≈ 66, Going Second ≈ 72, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-1); dead Extra Deck slot (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional); 0.80*63.0 + 0.20*58 = 62.0, minus 2 from modifiers = 60

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.34 · 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

• 12 hand traps give strong going-second interaction and a high hand-trap density
• Synchro-based T.G. engine with recursion (Booster Raptor, Mighty Striker) gives independent lines after disruption
• Searchers (Limiter Removal, Jack-In-The-Hand, Bonfire) and draw synchros (Hyper Librarian, Wonder Magician) give strong card economy
• High end-board interaction (Raigeki, Feather Duster, Droplet, T.G. Close) plus 4000/3300 ATK synchro closers

Weaknesses

• No side deck (side_count 0), so no post-side adaptation
• Archetype label 'Crimson Dragon' does not match the T.G. engine and the Crimson Dragon itself is not in the deck
• Snake-Eye Doomed Dragon has no Main Deck support and is likely a dead Extra slot
• Five single-copy Limited cards and 16 tech cards raise consistency cost and banlist exposure

Critical choke points

• The T.G. self-summon starters (Gear Zombie, Limiter Removal, Rocket Salamander) are the only starts; each is 3 copies, so no start is 2+ copies deep
• Several T.G. effects require a T.G. monster already on the field, so an empty board leaves Drill Fish and Booster Raptor dead

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0, legal under OCG (Legal status); Five Limited single-copy cards and two Semi-Limited Ash Blossom copies, all within legal copy limits; Card text for 12 hand traps, 13 Synchro/Tuners, and searchers; Glaive Blaster 4000, Shooting Star EX 3300, Satellite Warrior 2500 ATK
• Inferred: Engine starter access about 0.34 to 0.64 from hypergeometric probability; Brick rate low-to-moderate due to hand traps and tuner density; Going-second hand quality high (≈0.90 hand-trap P); Interaction density high from card-text reads
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); D13 matchup and format fit (no tournament data); D4 median output (no combo boards)
• 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 side deck in the export; post-side score cannot be measured no win-rate telemetry; going-first and going-second splits are Inferred Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied