Borrel Deck #770179 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link and Fusion pressure from the Borrel/Rokket DARK Dragon engine into 3500-ATK link boss monsters (Borrelend Dragon, Borrelshroud Dragon) and Borreload Fatalflare/Furious Dragon.; Negate-and-reset interaction (Ash Blossom, Dominus Impulse, Infinite Impermanence, Noctovision Dragon, Rokket Detonator) that buys time for the engine to reach a board.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Rokket searcher (Rokket Loader, Absorouter Dragon, Rokket Tracer) or Quick Launch, search Rokket and Dragon pieces, and Link Summon into a DARK Dragon Link. Heavy hand traps are held for the opponent's first activation.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use six-card hands with 6 hand traps (about 65% to hold at least one) to negate the opponent's starter and then rebuild through Absorouter Dragon, Mulcharmy Fuwalos and Borrel Regenerator recursion.
• Recovery: Recover from the Graveyard: Absorouter Dragon and Rokket Tracer re-search Rokket monsters, Borrel Regenerator and Rokket Detonator return Rokket monsters, and Dragon Ravine and Boot Sector Launch add board presence.
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered (side_count 0), so there is no evidenced post-side plan. Under the OCG best-of-3 format the deck has no adjustment for the matchup.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens its engine: the Rokket/Borrel core (21 copies) has about a 98% chance of at least one piece in the opening five, and the searcher text group (8 copies) about 69%. It converts that engine through multiple Link Summon routes into 3500-ATK link bosses, which is the source of the ceiling and closing scores. Its survival comes from a dense layer of negation and hand traps (about 65% to hold one going second), with graveyard recursion behind it. The score is not earned from Borrel being a popular archetype: the archetype's usage share and tournament presence were not used, and no card scores were averaged. The deck is Illegal (Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse each run 3 copies against an OCG limit of 2), so the Final score is capped at 30 and the evaluation is theoretical and structural only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 61, Going First ≈ 65, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 52. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-6); no_side_deck (-3); no_combo_evidence (-2). Final formula: Illegal deck: theoretical and structural-only. Uncapped 0.80*Structural(61) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(52) + modifiers(-11) = 48, then capped at 30 per the Illegal rule. Meta provisional.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.98 · 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

• Engine access: Rokket core about 98% at 5 cards
• Multiple link and fusion routes to 3500-ATK bosses
• Layered negates with graveyard recursion

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy limits on Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse
• No side deck
• Extra Deck carries several off-archetype link monsters

Critical choke points

• Rokket monster needed for most Link Summons
• Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse are copy-limited, so they cannot be run as 3 copies in OCG

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse at 3 copies vs OCG limit 2; Main 40 and Extra 15 are legal size; Archetype exact-name purity 14.5%; Rokket spread 20 copies; Archetype core group 21 copies
• Inferred: P(>=1 archetype core in 5) ~0.98; P(>=1 searcher in 5) ~0.69; P(>=1 hand trap in 6 going second) ~0.65; Negation and removal density implies interaction quality; Link-5 boss ceiling is reachable via text
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup coverage (no tournament link)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN Usage statistics list Borrelend Dragon, Borrelshroud Dragon, Trisborrel Dragon, Borreload Fatalflare Dragon and Striker Dragon as not in this deck (copies_in_deck 0), but the cards array lists them in the Extra Deck; the usage check appears to count Main Deck only, so the usage deltas for Extra Deck cards are unreliable Archetype label is Borrel, but the main deck is Rokket-dominated (20 Rokket copies vs 8 Borrel); the label may be misleading Deck title is null No side deck present