Monarch Deck #771360 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 57/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 0 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Tribute Summon a 2400-2800 ATK Monarch boss (Eidos, Erebus, Ehther, Zaborg the Mega Monarch) and sustain pressure with recursive Monarch spells and traps.; Floodgates (Vanity's Fiend, Majesty's Fiend) and hand traps (Evenly Matched, Droll & Lock Bird) that stall the opponent while the Monarch board is built.
• Turn 1 (going first): Search a Monarch spell or trap (Tenacity, Pantheism, Masterplan) with a searcher, use Eidos Underworld Squire or Edea to open a Tribute Summon, then Tribute Summon a 2400 or 2800 ATK Monarch that destroys or banishes the opponent's best card.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Evenly Matched, Droll & Lock Bird, Solemn Scolding, or a floodgate, and Tribute Summon a boss through the opponent's first play; the Monarch summon is the answer to their board.
• Recovery: Return Monarch spells and traps from the Graveyard with The Prime Monarch, Pantheism of the Monarchs, and Erebus; the Monarch spells banished from the Graveyard are the main recursion resource.
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan. Best-of-3 play would repeat the same 60-card list.

Why it scores here

The deck opens reliably: 21 searcher-text cards give an 89% chance of at least one searcher in a 5-card opening hand (hypergeometric, Inferred), and the Tribute enablers (Eidos Underworld Squire, Tessera, Edea, The Monarchs Stormforth, Spell Card Soul Exchange) give it several independent routes into a boss. Its ceiling is high: a Tribute Summoned 2400 or 2800 ATK Monarch removes the opponent's best card, and the recursion package (The Prime Monarch, Pantheism, Erebus) keeps the engine running after the first exchange. Interaction is broad (two Solemn Scolding, two Evenly Matched, Droll & Lock Bird, Monarchic Perfection, and two floodgates), so the deck can stall an opponent who goes first. The score comes from consistency, recursion and interaction measured on the whole 60-card system, not from averaging card scores; the popularity of the Monarch archetype earned no points. Without combos, usage statistics or a side deck, the score carries Low confidence and the post-side and matchup dimensions are inferred or provisional.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 62.8, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-1); weak post-side plan (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers = 0.80*62.8 + 0.20*50 - 3 = 57.2

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 searcher and Tribute-enabler package: 21 searcher-text cards give an 89% chance of a searcher in the opening hand
• Strong recursion through The Prime Monarch, Pantheism and Erebus, which regenerates resources after exchanges
• Broad interaction across hand traps, Solemn Scolding, floodgates and Tribute-summon removal bosses
• Fully legal under OCG size and copy limits, with no violations

Weaknesses

• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation
• No Extra Deck, so no Extra Deck coverage or flexibility
• Many Monarch spells and traps are dead without a Tribute Summoned monster on the field
• Sphere Mode needs 3 Tributes and cannot attack, which makes it a costly and low-impact card

Critical choke points

• A Tribute Summon enabler (Eidos Underworld Squire, Tessera, Stormforth or Soul Exchange) is needed to reach the bosses; drawing none of the 5-6 enablers stalls the turn
• Floodgate and hand trap dependence: the deck needs its hand traps in the opening hand to answer a going-second board

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal under OCG main-deck size (60 of 40-60) and copy limits (3 Limited cards at 1 copy each); Card text for the Tribute Summon enablers, floodgates and hand traps; Hypergeometric draw probabilities (0.23 per 3-copy card in hand; 0.89 for searchers)
• Inferred: Consistency and brick estimates from the copy histogram and the Monarch spell and trap dependence; Ceiling and floor from card text, with no recorded boards; Interaction breadth from card text
• Provisional: Matchup and format fit (no dated metagame sample)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no archetype usage statistics, so the core versus meta-standard comparison is unavailable no tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot match records are absent no win-rate telemetry, so going-first, going-second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown no side deck, so post-side plans cannot be evaluated Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied