Train Deck #771258 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link Summon Machine/R.B./Sky Striker boards and attack through hand-trap and removal protection; no recorded win line in evidence; Train and R.B. recursion (Exceptional Schedule, Night Train Blue Traveler, R.B. Last Stand) to re-establish Link boards
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on Train/R.B. searchers (Exceptional Schedule, Funk Dock, Night Train) and Link toward R.B. Link monsters while holding hand traps for the opponent's first interaction; exact line not supported by combo data
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit, Droll & Lock Bird, Nibiru) on the opponent's first summon or search, then rebuild through R.B. Last Stand / Next Phase style recovery
• Recovery: Recover through Train/R.B. graveyard effects (Night Train from GY, R.B. Operation Test, Lambda Cannon search) and Link re-summons; depends on card text, not recorded boards
• After siding: Not evaluable: side deck is empty (0 cards), so no post-side plan exists in the list

Why it scores here

This list is Illegal (three copies of Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring against a limit of two), so it receives a capped, structural-only score and does not earn a normal Final Contextual score. The system reads as a Toolbox shell that opens reliably enough through searchers and core R.B./Train pieces, with about 69% of hands holding at least one of the 11 archetype-core copies. Its interaction is dense (13 hand traps, 25 removal-text cards, 10 negation-text cards), which supports the going-second and resilience reads, but the main deck spreads across roughly eight sub-archetypes with an exact-name purity of only 7.1%, which weakens engine coherence. No combo boards were supplied, so floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference and are scored low-confidence. Popularity did not earn points: the archetype usage stats show only 5 of 15 core cards present, and the 0-side-card build gives no post-side plan. Dimension scores were assigned per dimension on the system; card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox primary; Stun traits noted descriptively, not weighted. Structural ≈ 49.2, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 42. Modifiers: Illegal copy limit (-12); No side deck (-3); Engine conflicts across sub-archetypes (-3). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) = 47.8, then illegal-list modifiers (-18) capped to 30

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.69 · 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 interaction: 13 hand traps, 10 negation-text cards and 25 removal-text cards
• Core searchers (Exceptional Schedule, Funk Dock, Night Train) give about 56% searcher access in 5 cards
• Link-heavy Extra Deck of 15 with several routes into 1500-ATK boards

Weaknesses

• Illegal: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring is run 3 times against a limit of 2
• Low exact-archetype purity (7.1%) across roughly eight sub-archetypes
• No side deck, so no post-side plan
• 22 of 33 distinct main-deck cards are single-copy or 0-level tech, raising brick risk

Critical choke points

• Single-copy Link enablers and R.B. monsters required for Link routes
• Dependence on hand traps timed against the opponent's first summon or search
• No combo evidence to show an unrecoverable line, so this is unverified

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is Illegal: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring 3 copies vs legal 2; Main 55 and Extra 15 are within OCG size rules; Side 0; Five other restricted cards run within their limits; Archetype usage: 5 of 15 core cards present
• Inferred: Hypergeometric opening-hand access (~0.69 core, ~0.56 searcher); Dimension scores D1-D14 from card text and composition; Going-first and going-second plan reads from card text; Recovery route from Train/R.B. graveyard text
• Provisional: Meta and matchup fit (D13) with no dated metagame sample; Tournament reliability
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: meta-share and per-pilot match record absent No win-rate telemetry: going-first, going-second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No side deck: post-side behaviour cannot be evaluated