Cyber Dragon Deck #771429 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 40/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 14 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion, Link and Xyz boss summons (Cyber Eternity Dragon, Chimeratech Rampage Dragon, Cyber Dragon Sieger, Cyber Dragon Nova) that overwhelm the board with 2100 to 2800 ATK bodies; Cyberdark and Cyber Dragon recursion grind through Cyber Dragon Nachster, Cyber Dragon Herz and Cyberdark Chimera
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon Cyber Dragon Core to search a Cyber Spell/Trap, then Cyber Emergency or Cyberdark Realm to add a payoff monster and extend into a Link or Fusion boss
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Ghost Belle, Infinite Impermanence, Nibiru) against the opponent's starter, then rebuild through Cyber Dragon Nachster or Herz and a Fusion or Link boss
• Recovery: Recycle Cyber Dragon monsters from the GY with Cyber Dragon Nova and Cyberdark Wurm, and re-search Cyber Spell/Trap cards with Cyberdark Claw and Cybernetic Overflow
• After siding: Not evaluable: the export contains no Side Deck, so no post-side plan can be read from the evidence

Why it scores here

The deck is scored on its system, not on the average of its cards. Its engine is reliable on paper: P(at least one archetype core card in a 5-card opening hand) is about 0.92, but the three Cyber Dragon Core copies alone give only about 0.25 odds of a live starter on the play, so the going-first start is thin. Its strongest value is interaction: 12 hand traps and 16 negation-text cards give about 0.78 odds of at least one hand trap in a 6-card hand when going second, which is what carries the score. Ceiling and median output cannot be measured because no recorded boards exist for this deck, so both D3 and D4 rest on text-only inference and are capped near the midpoint. The score is pulled down by the illegal copy count (three Ash Blossom against a limit of two), the absence of any side deck, and the lack of tournament or meta data; popularity and archetype usage were not credited as power, and the Cyber Dragon usage stats only confirm that the list is a recognisable, accessible build.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, Combo secondary (secondary weights not separately blended; Midrange profile used as-is). Structural ≈ 53, Going First ≈ 48, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-8); No side deck (-4). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) = 51.5, then context modifiers -8 and -4 = 39.5, rounded to 40; Illegal status caps the score low and it is theoretical/structural-only

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

• Hand-trap density gives strong going-second interaction (about 0.78 odds of a hand trap in a 6-card hand)
• Archetype core is present and accessible (usage data shows Cyber Dragon Core, Cyber Emergency and Ash Blossom are the standard core)
• Multiple boss routes (Fusion, Link, Xyz) give several ways to close the game

Weaknesses

• Illegal as submitted: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring is run 3 copies against a limit of 2
• No side deck, so no best-of-3 adaptation
• Low going-first starter odds for the three-copy Cyber Dragon Core (about 0.25)
• No recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and median cannot be verified
• Mixed sub-archetypes (Cyberdark, Mulcharmy, Forbidden, Greed, Chronomaly) dilute engine coherence, with exact archetype purity at 20%

Critical choke points

• Cyber Dragon Core and the Cyber Spell/Trap searches it enables on the play
• Extra Deck material access, since fusion, link and xyz bosses each need specific monsters on the field or in the GY
• Ash Blossom and the other hand traps being the only interaction on the going-second turn

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main deck 56 cards, Extra deck 14 cards, Side 0 (legality counts); Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring: 3 copies run, legal limit 2 (copy-limit violation); Hypergeometric hand probabilities from the resolved list; Usage stats: 27 rows, 12 of 21 core cards present (57.1%)
• Inferred: Going-first and going-second starter odds derived from the hypergeometric draw table; Hand-trap density and interaction quality read from card text; Fusion, Link and Xyz boss conversion read from card text; Recursion and searcher engine read from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (null; no dated metagame sample); Format fit and matchup coverage (D13; no tournament data); Post-side plan (no side deck)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied, so combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record are absent One passcode in CardIDList (10443957) could not be resolved to a card and was counted as main No side deck in the export, so post-side performance cannot be assessed No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN, so going-first, going-second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied