Salamangreat Deck #770905 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link-chain into a FIRE Link 4 (Salamangreat Raging Phoenix 2800 ATK or Salamangreat Pyro Phoenix 2800 ATK, whose Link effect can destroy all opponent cards) from the Salamangreat starter and extender chain (Gazelle, Circle, Foxy, Spinny, Jack Jaguar, Weasel, Balelynx, Sunlight Wolf).; Hand-trap and Spell/Trap negation (Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Dominus Impulse, Droll & Lock Bird, Solemn Accusation, Salamangreat Rage/Roar) to protect the board and win attrition.
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon Salamangreat of Fire or Gazelle to search a Level 4 or lower Salamangreat, extend into a 2-card Link, then Link Summon Raging Phoenix or Pyro Phoenix while holding Ash Blossom or Infinite Impermanence for the opponent's response.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Dominus Impulse, and Droll & Lock Bird for the opponent's first Special Summon or search; then use a surviving starter to rebuild a Link board.
• Recovery: Use Gazelle and Weasel from the GY (Special Summon conditions require 2+ Salamangreat in GY) and Spinny/Jack Jaguar GY revivals to rebuild the Link chain after one hand trap is spent.
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs no side deck, so there is no post-side plan. Structurally it has no answer to a matchup-specific threat beyond the main deck.

Why it scores here

This list is illegal in OCG (Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse are each run 3 copies against a 2-copy Semi-Limited limit), so it receives a capped structural-only score of 30 rather than a normal Final Contextual score. Structurally, the deck reliably opens a Salamangreat starter (the archetype core group gives about 0.89 probability of at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand, Inferred) and converts into FIRE Link 4 Phoenixes with 2800 ATK and board-destruction text, which earns the closing and starter-access dimensions. Its interaction density (about 15 negation and 16 removal text cards, plus 9 hand traps) earns the endboard and resilience dimensions, but that interaction is partly spread across off-archetype cards (Mulcharmy, Roid, Dominus, Forbidden, Solemn), so the main-deck coherence score is low: exact-archetype purity is only 40%. No combo recordings, tournament context, guides, or side deck exist, so the floor and median, meta fit, and post-side scores are Provisional or Inferred. Popularity of the archetype (79.5% inclusion for Droll & Lock Bird and 77% for Mulcharmy Fuwalos in the archetype usage stats) was not counted as power, and the score does not average the individual card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 59.7, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 42. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12). Final formula: Illegal cap applied: no-meta formula 0.80*Structural(59.7) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(42) + Modifiers(-12) = 44.4, capped at 30 for illegal copy-limit violations (structural-only evaluation, Meta Provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.89 · 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

• Dense Salamangreat engine with 19 core copies, giving about 0.89 probability of a core card in the opening 5 cards (Inferred)
• High-impact closers: Raging Phoenix and Pyro Phoenix at 2800 ATK (Verified stats)
• Layered interaction: 9 hand traps, 15 negation-text cards and 16 removal-text cards (Verified text flags, Inferred coverage)
• Extra Deck is full with 13 Link monsters that chain into one another (Verified counts)

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse exceed the Semi-Limited copy limit (Verified)
• Low exact-archetype purity (40%): 22 of 55 main cards are off-archetype or generic (Verified)
• No side deck (0 cards), so no post-side plan and no matchup adaptation (Verified)
• Hand-trap-heavy main deck with 9 dead-when-no-opponent-action cards, raising brick risk (Inferred)

Critical choke points

• Dependence on the exact Salamangreat starter set (Gazelle, Circle, Foxy and Of Fire) to open the Link chain
• Over-limit Semi-Limited hand traps (Ash Blossom, Dominus Impulse) have to be cut to 2 copies to make the list legal, which weakens the interaction count

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse at 3 copies versus a 2-copy OCG Semi-Limited limit; Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 counts; Card stats for Raging Phoenix and Pyro Phoenix (2800 ATK, Link 4); Archetype purity 40% (28 exact of 70); Archetype usage stats: 18 rows; 9 of 14 core cards present
• Observed: Archetype usage-stat inclusion rates (for example 79.5% for Droll & Lock Bird and 77.3% for Mulcharmy Fuwalos); presence only, not power
• Inferred: Core starter access 0.89 at hand 5 (hypergeometric); Hand-trap going-second probability 0.68 at hand 6; Interaction coverage from text flags (16 removal, 15 negation); Structural dimension scores D1-D14 and their weighting; Brick and recovery estimates from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (null); no dated metagame sample; D13 matchup and format fit (50); Tournament Reliability (42)
• 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: post-side scores cannot be measured no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN; going-first/second and matchup rates are Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied deck title is null, so the deck is identified only by id and archetype