Junk Deck #770213 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 18/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 51 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 6 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro beatsticks and card advantage from Junk Synchron, Quickdraw Synchron and Formula Synchron into Junk Berserker, Junk Destroyer, Junk Warrior and Shooting Quasar Dragon (structural read only; no recorded boards); Single-card pressure from Gorz the Emissary of Darkness and Dark Armed Dragon when the GY allows it
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon Junk Synchron or Quickdraw Synchron, then Synchro Summon into a Junk boss; fallback is Upstart Goblin or Tuning for consistency. The plan depends on Forbidden or over-limit cards that cannot be played as built.
• Turn 2 (going second): Effect Veiler or D.D. Crow as hand traps, then a Synchro Summon on the following turn. Hand-trap density is 5 cards. Restricted-card removal (Dark Hole, Mystical Space Typhoon) is a secondary answer.
• Recovery: Junk Synchron and Level Eater style GY recursion are the intended recovery, but Level Eater is Forbidden here, so the recovery route is incomplete.
• After siding: No side deck is supplied (side count 0), so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

This list is Illegal for OCG: it runs four Forbidden cards (Level Eater x3, Dandylion, Giant Trunade, Trap Dustshoot, Trishula) and two copies of a Limited card, so it cannot be scored as a normal contextual deck and is capped at a theoretical, structural-only score of 18. The structural read is a Junk Synchron midrange shell: Junk Synchron and Quickdraw Synchron give a moderate T1 starter chance (about 0.27 for at least one in a 5-card opening, Inferred), and the 15-card Synchro Extra Deck covers a reasonable spread of boss options. Consistency is held back by the high number of 0-cost spells and tuners that do not advance the board on their own, and by the recovery route losing its Level Eater engine piece. Only 1 of 8 archetype core cards is present, with exact-name purity of 9.1%, so the list is a loose Junk/Synchron build and not the archetype standard. The score was not derived from the popularity of Junk or Synchron and was not produced by averaging the individual card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 40, Going First ≈ 42, Going Second ≈ 36, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: illegal_list_cap (-21); no_side_deck (0). Final formula: Illegal cap applied: 0.80*Structural(40) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(35) = 39, then illegal-deck cap of -21 gives 18 (Meta provisional, theoretical only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.27 · 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

• Compact three-copy Synchron core for T1 starter access
• 15-card Synchro Extra Deck gives broad boss coverage
• Layered hand-trap and negation text (Effect Veiler, D.D. Crow, Dark Hole)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: four Forbidden cards and two over-limit Limited copies
• Low archetype purity (9.1%) and only 1 of 8 core cards present
• Recovery route depends on the Forbidden Level Eater
• No side deck supplied

Critical choke points

• Junk Synchron and Quickdraw Synchron as the only T1 starters
• Level Eater as the only GY recovery engine (Forbidden here)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal under the OCG ban list: 4 Forbidden cards and 2 over-limit Limited copies; Main 51 and Extra 15 are within the OCG size rules; Side 0; Junk archetype purity 9.1%; 1 of 8 core cards present
• Inferred: Starter probability about 0.27 for at least one of 3 Junk Synchron or Quickdraw Synchron in 5 cards; Brick risk is high from 0-cost spells and tuners; Structural dimensions D1 to D11 are estimated from text and composition
• Provisional: Meta power and format fit (D13) need a dated meta sample
• Data gaps: No combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent No side deck supplied; post-side adaptability cannot be measured No win-rate telemetry in YGOVN; going-first and going-second splits are inferred Meta power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied