Dragon Link Deck #770181 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 40/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Combo, 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 Summon into Borrelend Dragon or Borrelshroud Dragon (3500 ATK) off the Rokket/Borrel DARK Dragon link chain; Fusion and Synchro bosses (Borreload Furious Dragon, Bystial Dis Pater) once the chain has enough DARK Dragon material
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Rokket Loader or Quick Launch, search or Special Summon a Rokket, then Link Summon a Link-2 (Quadborrel, Breachborrel or Dillingerous) to reach a Link-3 or higher boss. Keep Ash Blossom or Infinite Impermanence up for the opponent's response.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence or Dominus Impulse for the opponent's first Special Summon, then use Absorouter Dragon or Rokket Tracer to rebuild the Link chain.
• Recovery: Rokket Recharger, Absorouter Dragon's GY effect and Borrel Regenerator recur Rokket monsters from the GY. Silverrokket and Magnarokket Dragon can also return from the GY when destroyed on the field.
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan. Pilots must rebuild a legal 15-card Side Deck before any best-of-3 play.

Why it scores here

The deck is Illegal: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and Dominus Impulse are each run three times against a Semi-Limited limit of two, so the result is structural and theoretical only and is capped. Structurally it reliably gets a Rokket starter or Quick Launch into the opening hand (about 0.99 for the archetype-core group in a 5-card hand, Inferred from the hypergeometric estimates) and has a sound Link-chain route to 3500-ATK bosses, which earns the engine and extra-deck scores. Six hand traps and several recursion effects support resilience and grind. The deck earns no points from its popularity or meta-share, since no tournament data exists. Scores come from the system as a whole and were not averaged from the card scores. Its low floor comes from the zero-card Side Deck and the lack of recorded boards, which leave the median and matchup dimensions provisional.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 57, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Illegal copy-limit violation (cap) (-15). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); structural 57.2 + 0.20*45 = 54.8, then illegal-copy cap modifier -15, rounded to 40

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 1 · 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

• Consistent Rokket starter density (0.99 archetype-core P(≥1) in a 5-card hand)
• Link-chain route to several 3500-ATK bosses from DARK Dragon materials
• Layered negation: Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Dominus Impulse, Noctovision Dragon, Borrelend Dragon
• Strong recursion: Absorouter Dragon, Rokket Recharger, Borrel Regenerator, Magnarokket Dragon, Silverrokket Dragon

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: two cards over their Semi-Limited copy limit
• No Side Deck (side_count 0), so no post-side plan
• No recorded boards or guides, so the combo ceiling and median are unmeasured
• Multi-step Link-chain pilotage with heavy dependence on DARK Dragon material

Critical choke points

• Rokket monsters are the key link material; running out of Rokkets stalls every Link route
• Quick Launch and Rokket Loader are single-card starters with about 0.34 P(≥1) per copy in 5 cards
• Limited/Semi-Limited staples (Foolish Burial, Striker Dragon, S:P Little Knight, Bystial Magnamhut, Bystial Druiswurm) must stay at legal counts

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 40 main, 15 extra, 0 side; Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse each run 3 copies against a limit of 2 (Semi-Limited); Limited cards (Druiswurm, Magnamhut, Foolish Burial, S:P Little Knight, Striker Dragon) each run 1 copy, which is legal; Card text and composition counts from evidence.json
• Inferred: Starter probabilities from the hypergeometric estimates; Hand-trap interaction density and brick risk from text; Link-chain route and boss ceiling from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated sample); Matchup fit and tournament reliability (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; going-first and going-second splits are Inferred Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied usage_statistics flags Extra Deck cards (Borrelend, Borrelshroud, Trisborrel, Borreload Fatalflare, Borreload Furious, Breachborrel, S:P Little Knight, Guardragon Pisty) as in_this_deck=false and lists them in missing_core, but the cards array includes them in the Extra Deck (15 cards total). Those flags are treated as unreliable and were not used. Deck title is null, so the deck can only be identified by its archetype and id