Drytron Deck #770536 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Midrange
• Format: tcg

Legality

Main 46 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Ritual Summon Drytron Meteonis DA Draconids or Meteonis Quadrantids (4000-5000 ATK) and close through Drytron Ritual/Link/Xyz board pressure; Drytron Mu Beta Fafnir / Worldsea Dragon Zealantis / Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS board pressure after interaction
• Turn 1 (going first): Drytron Nova or Meteonis Drytron to Ritual or Special Summon a Drytron engine, then Drytron Nu II / Alpha Thuban / Zeta Aldhibah to search and extend into a Ritual Monster
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit, Effect Veiler) and Dark Ruler No More to break the opponent's board, then rebuild through Drytron searchers
• Recovery: Drytron Fafnir and Drytron Nu II search the Deck; Meteonis Drytron in the GY loses ATK to recover Drytron monsters; Drytron Meteor Shower negates summons
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no Side Deck, so no post-side plan exists

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens an archetype card: 25 exact-name Drytron copies give an archetype-core opening-hand probability of about 0.98 (Inferred), and seven distinct Drytron starters and searchers give several independent entry points. Its interaction package (9 hand traps and 16 negation-text cards) is the main source of score, since it can stop a going-second opponent's engine and keep the Drytron line alive. Median output and ceiling are scored separately: no recorded boards exist, so the combo ceiling rests on text-only ritual and Link/Xyz reads, and the floor is an inferred estimate. The deck is Illegal (three copies of Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring against a limit of two), so the score is capped at 30 and labelled structural-only. Popularity and archetype usage did not earn points, and card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 59, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 52. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-12); no_side_deck (0). Final formula: Raw: 0.80*Structural(59) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(52) = 57.6; modifiers -12 gives 45.6; Illegal-deck cap applied, final = 30 (Meta provisional, null)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.3 · 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

• Archetype core is almost always present (≈0.98 in opening 5)
• Nine hand traps and 16 negation-text cards give layered interaction
• Seven distinct starter types give route redundancy
• Ritual and Extra Deck threats reach 4000-5000 ATK

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring at 3 copies vs limit 2
• No Side Deck, so no best-of-3 adaptation
• Only 41% exact-name archetype purity with 36 off-archetype copies
• No recorded combos, so ceiling and median are text-only

Critical choke points

• Meteonis Drytron (2 copies) is a single ritual route into the top threats
• Ritual Monster must be on the field for Drytron Meteor Shower and tribute lines
• Illegal copy count of Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring blocks any normal tournament use

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring 3 copies vs legal 2; Main 46, Extra 15, Side 0; composition counts; Archetype core P≈0.98 in hand 5 (hypergeometric); Archetype purity 41%, 36 off-archetype copies
• Inferred: Consistency and brick estimates (D1, D2); Hand-trap going-second estimate ≈0.75; Ceiling and interaction reads from card text (D3, D7); Going-first and going-second power components
• Provisional: Median output (D4) with no recorded boards; Matchup and format fit (D13); Meta power (null)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied, so combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent No win-rate telemetry in YGOVN; going-first/second and matchup rates are unknown Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample Deck title is null No side deck