Crimson Dragon Deck #771023 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 31/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 51 / Extra 16 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro Summon high-ATK closers (Road Warrior, Shooting Star Dragon, Shooting Quasar Dragon, Cosmic Blazar Dragon). Inferred from card text; no recorded boards.; Direct attacks and battle-damage effects from Drill Warrior and Stardust-linked monsters (Inferred).
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Tuner plus a non-Tuner, Synchro Summon into a closer; Tuning and Duelist Genesis supply the Tuner or Synchro spell. Inferred, not verified by recorded boards.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Effect Veiler (hand trap, 3 copies) and Swift Scarecrow for the opponent's first attack or effect, then Synchro Summon through the board. Inferred.
• Recovery: Graveyard recursion through Junk Synchron, Descending Lost Star and Quillbolt Hedgehog, plus Synchro Fellowship from the GY. Inferred from card text.
• After siding: None. The side deck is empty, so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The evaluation scores the deck as one system, not as an average of its cards. Consistency is the main limit: about 68 percent of opening 5-card hands contain at least one of the 10 Tuner monsters, but the Synchro engine needs a Tuner and a non-Tuner in the same hand, and no starter has more than 3 copies. About 61 percent of the 51 Main Deck cards are Spells or Traps, many of which need a Synchro Monster already on the field, so bricks are likely. Interaction and closers are the strongest parts (12 negation-text and 14 removal-text cards, plus 4000-ATK Synchro closers), but no recorded boards exist, so ceiling and floor are text-based and Low confidence. The deck has no side deck and its Extra Deck is one card over the OCG limit, which caps the final score; popularity or archetype usage did not earn points, and the usage-stat core check conflicts with the Crimson Dragon card in the Extra Deck, so it was not used.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 42, Going First ≈ 38, Going Second ≈ 40, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 30. Modifiers: Engine conflicts (-3); Illegal size cap (-6). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional), then modifiers, then illegal-deck cap (0.80*41.6 + 0.20*30 = 39.6; -3 engine conflicts; -6 illegal cap = 31)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.68 · 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

• Strong Synchro closers at 3300 to 4000 ATK (Verified stats)
• Broad negation and removal text across Main and Extra (Inferred from text)
• Effect Veiler hand trap, 3 copies

Weaknesses

• Extra Deck is one card over the OCG limit (Verified)
• No side deck (Verified)
• High Spell/Trap share with conditional activations, so bricks are likely (Inferred)
• Sub-archetype mix (Junk, Stardust, Synchron, Crimson Dragon) with no single engine (Verified composition, Inferred)

Critical choke points

• Any single Tuner in hand is a choke point: 10 Tuners in 51 cards, and a Synchro needs both a Tuner and a non-Tuner (Inferred)
• Crimson Dragon is a single copy and no Crimson-mentioning search is shown, so the archetype engine may not be reachable (Inferred)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality status Illegal; Extra Deck 16 > 15 (size_warnings); Monster Reborn and Synchro Overtake each run 1 copy under Limited status (legal copies 1); Side deck count is 0; Card stats and text read from the evidence cards list
• Inferred: Opening-hand starter probability ~0.68 (Tuner-based); Ceiling, plans and interaction density from card text; Engine conflict and brick risk from composition
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit (no dated meta sample, 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 are absent No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN; going-first and going-second splits are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Data inconsistency: the usage-stat row for Crimson Dragon (ref 63436931) reports in this deck false, but the card is listed in the Extra Deck with 1 copy; core-card presence 0 was therefore not used Legality status is Illegal while violations is empty; the size warning is the only recorded reason No side deck exported, so post-side is unverified