Red-Eyes Deck #771397 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 28/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 58 / Extra 13 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Red-Eyes boss monsters (Red-Eyes Black Fullmetal Dragon, Red-Eyes Black Dragon Exceed, Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon, Red-Eyes Flare Metal Dragon) and First of the Dragonlords, reached through Dark Time Wizard and Metalmorph engine lines that the list only partly supports.; Link and Fusion pressure from Underworld Goddess of the Closed World, Proxy F Magician and Primite Dragon Nether Berzelius, which is not connected to a clear engine.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on a Dark Time Wizard or Metalmorph searcher and hope to reach a Red-Eyes boss. The list has no reliable T1 starter, so the first turn often becomes a card-search turn.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Evenly Matched) and Dark Ruler No More to disrupt the opponent's board, then rebuild with searchers. This is the more realistic plan, with about a 56% chance of holding at least one hand trap in a 6-card hand.
• Recovery: Recover through searchers and graveyard recursion (Black Metal Dragon, Dark Time Wizard, Foolish Graverobber, Incoming Machine!). Most recovery lines depend on the archetype-specific pieces that are thinly represented.
• After siding: None. The deck has no Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan. This is a major gap for best-of-3 play.

Why it scores here

The score is set by the deck as a system, not by averaging its cards. The deck reliably reaches interaction: 7 hand traps, 11 negation-text cards and 23 removal-text cards give dense disruption, and the going-second hand-trap probability is about 0.56. Its engine is weak. Only 10 of 58 main cards carry the exact Red-Eyes name (14.1% purity), and the rest is spread across Dark Time Wizard, Metalmorph, Harpie, Primite, Cyber and Hieratic. Starter access is low: each 3-copy starter has about a 0.24 chance of appearing in a 5-card opening hand, and only the searcher group reaches about 0.81. The combo evidence is empty, so ceiling and median are text-only inferences. The main deck is also illegal: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring is run 3 copies against a 2-copy OCG limit, and the deck has no Side Deck. Because the list is illegal, it is capped low and scored as structural-only. Popularity and the Red-Eyes name earned no points.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 42, Going First ≈ 36, Going Second ≈ 46, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 30. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-5); no_side_deck (-3); engine_conflicts (-4). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); Illegal cap applied, so the score is structural-only. 0.80*42 + 0.20*30 = 39.6, then context modifiers total -12, giving 27.6 → 28.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.24 · 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: 7 hand traps, 11 negation-text cards and 23 removal-text cards
• Strong Red-Eyes boss ceiling in the Extra Deck, including Fullmetal, Darkness Metal and Exceed
• Good searcher access (about 0.81 for at least one searcher in an opening hand)
• Going-second hand-trap coverage (about 0.56) supports disruption

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring is over its Semi-Limited copy limit
• Low exact-archetype purity (14.1%), so the engine is diluted across several archetypes
• Low starter access for any single 3-copy engine card (about 0.24 in a 5-card hand)
• No Side Deck, so no post-side plan
• No recorded combos, so the ceiling and median cannot be measured

Critical choke points

• Each Red-Eyes boss depends on Metalmorph or Dark Time Wizard pieces that are thinly represented
• An opponent's single negation or hand trap can break the one-engine route, with few independent lines as backup

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring is 3 copies against a Semi-Limited limit of 2 (OCG); Main 58 and Extra 13 are within the OCG size rules (40–60 and 0–15); Side deck is empty (0 cards); Archetype purity is 14.1% and off-archetype copies are 61; Hand-trap group count is 7 and searcher group count is 16
• Inferred: Starter access: P(≥1 of a 3-copy starter in 5 cards) ≈ 0.24; Interaction density is high based on card text; Going-second hand-trap coverage ≈ 0.56; Ceiling and recovery are inferred from card text, with no recorded combos; Interaction quality (D7) and the going-second board-breaking estimate (D8)
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and matchup fit (D13), because no dated metagame sample was supplied
• Data gaps: No combos supplied, so floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link, so archetype meta-share and pilot record are absent One passcode (74677422) in CardIDList could not be resolved to a card and is counted as main No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN, so brick, starter and matchup rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No Side Deck, so post-side adaptability cannot be assessed