Dragon Ruler Deck #771347 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±12 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox
• 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: Dragon Ruler Extra Deck boss monsters (Chasma, Trident Dragion, Sangenpai Transcendent Dragion, Black-Winged Assault Dragon, Eclipse) converting a Dragon Ruler board into a closing attack; Sangen and Tenpai FIRE Dragon chains into Synchro bosses, plus Mulcharmy draw pressure
• Turn 1 (going first): Search or Special Summon a Dragon Ruler starter (Tempest, Spectral, Blaster, Redox) through Here There Be Dragons or Spectral, then Xyz or Synchro into a boss while protecting with Ash Blossom or Droll and Lock Bird
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Droll and Lock Bird, Forbidden Droplet or Lightning Storm to answer the opponent's board, then rebuild through Dragon Ruler GY and banished recursion
• Recovery: Recur Dragon Rulers from GY and banishment through Spectral, Nebulus, Tidal, Blaster and Redox, which can be re-summoned from the GY or banished zone
• After siding: No side deck is registered (side count 0), so there is no documented post-side plan

Why it scores here

This list reliably reaches the Dragon Ruler starter zone: the searcher group gives about 92% at least one searcher in a 5-card opening hand, and the core archetype group gives about 78% at least one core card (both Inferred hypergeometric estimates from the resolved list). Its closing power comes from a 13-card Extra Deck of 3000-ATK bosses (Chasma, Trident, Transcendent, Black-Winged Assault), which scores on its own card pool. Interaction is broad (Ash Blossom, Droll and Lock Bird, Forbidden Droplet, Lightning Storm, Harpie's Feather Duster, Dimensional Fissure, Mistaken Arrest) and the score reflects it. The score does not come from Dragon Ruler being a popular archetype, and it is not an average of the individual card scores. The deck is illegal (three copies of Ash Blossom against an OCG limit of two) and has no side deck, no combos, no tournament record, and no guides, so the score is capped at 30 and is theoretical and structural only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 59, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-6); no Side Deck (-4). Final formula: Unclamped: 0.80*59 + 0.20*48 = 56.8, minus 10 in modifiers = 46.8. Capped at 30 because the list is Illegal (over copy limit), so this is a theoretical/structural-only score. Meta Power is null (provisional).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.78 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.22 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dragon Ruler core (Tempest, Spectral, Blaster, Redox at 3 copies each) appears in 55-78% of the archetype usage sample (verified)
• Searcher density gives about 92% at least one searcher in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred)
• Strong Extra Deck closing bosses at 2600-3200 ATK (verified stats)
• Broad interaction suite across hand traps, Droll and Lock Bird, Forbidden Droplet and Lightning Storm (verified card text)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Ash Blossom at 3 copies exceeds the OCG limit of 2
• Weak archetype purity: 10% exact-name copies, with 63 off-archetype copies across unrelated sub-archetypes
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptability
• Thin combo and tournament data prevents any floor or median read

Critical choke points

• Dragon Ruler starter access depends on the core group (78% at least one in hand of 5), so a bad opening is a real risk
• Ash Blossom at 3 copies is illegal and would be cut to 2 copies, which weakens the hand-trap count

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Ash Blossom copy count is 3 against an OCG limit of 2 (Illegal); Main 55 and Extra 15 are within the OCG size rules; side is 0; Archetype usage: Tempest 77.8%, Spectral 66.7%, Blaster 55.6%, Reactan 55.6%, Here There Be Dragons 55.6%, Nebulus 55.6%; Extra Deck stats: Black-Winged Assault 3200 ATK, Chasma 3000 ATK, Trident 3000 ATK, Sangenpai Transcendent 3000 ATK
• Inferred: Opening-hand starter access: 78% core-group, 92% searcher-group at least one in hand of 5; Brick proxy 21.5% with no core card in opening 5; Interaction density and going-second answer count read from card text; Structural weights and dimension scores (D1-D14) read from the list structure and card text
• Provisional: Meta Power is null: no dated metagame sample; D13 matchup and format fit is provisional, with no tournament link
• 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 are absent No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN (going-first/second, matchup, brick and starter rates) Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No side deck registered, so post-side is unevaluable No guides attached for the archetype