Rescue-ACE Deck #771516 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 38/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 57 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Rescue-ACE monsters (Turbulence 3000, Arbitrator link-4 3000, Preventer 2800, Fire Engine 2500) reached through the ALERT!/RESCUE!/EMERGENCY! loop and Hydrant-protected board; Promethean Princess and Worldsea Dragon Zealantis as Extra Deck pressure
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Rescue-ACE starter (Hydrant, Impulse, Quick Attacker or Air Lifter), search with ALERT! or Air Lifter, and Special Summon a second Rescue-ACE through Hydrant-linked chains
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird and Dominus Impulse as interaction, then convert the surviving Rescue-ACE into a Link or Fire Engine board on the next turn
• Recovery: Banish Rescue-ACE cards from the GY to revive Preventer or Fire Attacker, and use EMERGENCY! and RESCUE! to rebuild the field from the GY
• After siding: No side deck is present, so no post-side plan exists in the evidence

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Rescue-ACE board: the 27 core-archetype copies give an estimated 96.6% chance of at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand, and the redundant summon and search lines (Hydrant, Impulse, Quick Attacker, Air Lifter, ALERT!, RESCUE!, EMERGENCY!) keep the engine alive after one disruption. Interaction is layered through Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Dominus Impulse, CONTAIN!, EXTINGUISH! and Preventer, which earns a solid end-board interaction score. Conversion is scored from the card text only, because there are no recorded boards, so the ceiling and median are both Inferred and kept separate. The deck is capped low because three cards exceed their OCG copy limit, so this is a structural read only and not a legal competitive score. Popularity and archetype usage were not used to raise the score, and no card scores were averaged into it.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 60, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-4); no Side Deck (-4). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(59.9) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(55) = 58.9, plus context modifiers (-8) = 50.9, then capped at 38 because the list is Illegal (3 over-limit cards)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.97 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.03 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Redundant Rescue-ACE starters with a 96.6% core-hit proxy in the opener
• Layered interaction: Ash, Droll, Dominus Impulse, CONTAIN!, EXTINGUISH!, Preventer
• Multiple revival routes from the GY after a single interruption
• High-ATK Link and Level 7-9 finishers (Turbulence, Arbitrator, Preventer, Fire Engine)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: three cards exceed the OCG copy limit
• No side deck, so no post-side plan
• Low archetype purity (38.9% exact name) and many off-archetype copies lower coherence
• No recorded boards, so the ceiling and median cannot be verified

Critical choke points

• Single-copy Rescue-ACE Preventer and Turbulence are the main finishers; losing them to a board breaker weakens the closing plan
• Heavy reliance on the Rescue-ACE name for search (ALERT!, RESCUE!, Hydrant) means a Hydrant removal slows the whole engine

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 57 / Extra 15 / Side 0 sizes are within the OCG size rules; Ash Blossom, Dominus Impulse and Super Polymerization each run 3 copies against a legal limit of 2; Exact archetype purity is 38.9% (28 of 72 copies)
• Inferred: P(at least one core Rescue-ACE in opener) ≈ 0.97; Interaction density from card text (negate, destroy, banish, Special Summon restriction); Revival routes give interruption recovery
• Provisional: Meta and matchup fit (no tournament link or dated sample); Side deck adaptability (no side cards)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent no win-rate telemetry in YGOVN: going-first, going-second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied side deck is empty, so no post-side evidence exists