Crimson Dragon Deck #771076 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Stun
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 16 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Blue-Eyes boss Synchro/Fusion monsters (Blue-Eyes Ultimate Spirit Dragon, Blue-Eyes Tyrant Dragon, Neo Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, Lightstorm Dragon) backed by Blue-Eyes White Dragon and Mulcharmy/Primite draw and board support (Inferred from card text and Extra Deck makeup; no recorded boards); Attrition through hand traps and removal text (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon Sage or Maiden, bridge to a Tuner for a Synchro boss while holding Ash Blossom / Infinite Impermanence / Effect Veiler up (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold 6-card hand with hand traps (15 hand-trap-tagged cards; P(at least one in 6) about 0.87) to negate the opponent's starter, then rebuild through searchers (Inferred)
• Recovery: Mausoleum of White and Roar of the Blue-Eyed Dragons to re-summon Blue-Eyes from Deck, GY or banishment; Spirit with Eyes of Blue and Mulcharmy draw effects to refill (Inferred)
• After siding: Not evaluable: side deck is empty (Side Deck size 0); no post-side plan exists in the list

Why it scores here

This list is Illegal (Extra Deck of 16 against a maximum of 15, and 3 copies of Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring against a limit of 2), so it receives a capped, structural-only score of 30 and no normal Final Contextual score. The structural read is that the deck opens into a Blue-Eyes/Mulcharmy/Primite engine with about 0.91 probability of at least one archetype-core card in a 5-card opening hand, and it has dense interaction (15 hand-trap tags, 18 negation-text and 25 removal-text cards) that carries it through disruption. Its boss ceiling is high (Blue-Eyes Ultimate Spirit, Neo Blue-Eyes and Blue-Eyes Tyrant), but no recorded boards exist, so floor, median and ceiling are text-only inferences. Structural power is about 53 on a Midrange profile, with the weakest areas being the empty side deck, the heavy tuner count (20 of 55 main cards), and 71 off-archetype copies that dilute the engine. Popularity did not earn points: the Crimson Dragon archetype and core-card usage stats confirm the list is real, not that it is strong, and the dimension scores were not averaged from card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary; Stun is a secondary read from the hand-trap and negation density and is not separately weighted. Structural ≈ 53, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-4); dependence_on_extra_deck_overflow (-3). Final formula: Illegal cap applied: uncapped formula 0.80*Structural(53) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) + modifiers(-7) = about 45; capped to 30 because the list is Illegal. Meta provisional.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.25 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.09 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense interaction: 15 hand-trap-tagged cards plus negation and removal text
• Strong boss ceiling in Blue-Eyes Ultimate Spirit, Neo Blue-Eyes and Blue-Eyes Tyrant
• Archetype-core group opens about 91% of the time in a 5-card hand

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: Extra Deck of 16 and 3 copies of Ash Blossom against a limit of 2
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptability
• Tuner glut (20 of 55 main cards) and 71 off-archetype copies dilute the engine

Critical choke points

• Reliance on Blue-Eyes White Dragon as the Synchro/Fusion material and boss route
• Going first with no hand trap up to protect the starter

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Extra 16 > 15 and Ash Blossom 3 copies > legal 2; Card stats and banlist statuses from the evidence pack; Composition counts (55 main, 16 extra, 0 side; 20 Tuners; 71 off-archetype copies)
• Observed: Crimson Dragon archetype usage stats: 15 rows, 10 of 15 core cards present (66.7%)
• Inferred: Starter access and brick estimates from hypergeometric probabilities; Going-first and going-second plans from card text; Interaction density and resilience from text tags; Structural score on the Midrange profile
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (D13)
• 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 for going-first, going-second, matchup, brick or OTK rates No side deck supplied (Side Deck size 0), so D12 cannot be assessed from data Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample Deck title is null