Dragon Link Deck #771548 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 58/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link-summon Borrel/Dragon Link monsters (Borrelend, Borrelshroud, Borrelsword, Borreload, 3000-3500 ATK) from a Rokket starter chain, then attack through or negate the opposing board.; Rokket Detonator, Magnarokket and Silverrokket interaction layer that protects the Link board and punishes opposing Link and Fusion plays.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on Rokket Loader or Quick Launch to put a Rokket on the field, use Rokket Tracer or Caliber to convert it into a Link-enabling board, then Link Summon a 2- or 3-material Borrel Link.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold a hand trap (Ghost Ogre, Effect Veiler, Infinite Impermanence or Evenly Matched) to strip the opponent's first interaction or first Link, then rebuild through the Rokket and Borrel link pieces.
• Recovery: Recover through Rokket Recharger, Borrel Regenerator and Absorouter Dragon, which add or revive Rokket starters from the Deck or GY, and through Borrel Reboot as a counter to Spell/Trap interaction.
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs no Side Deck, so there is no sideboarding plan in the evidence.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Rokket starter: the 22 archetype-core copies give about 91% chance of at least one in the 5-card opening hand (Inferred, hypergeometric), and several independent starters (Rokket Loader, Quick Launch, Rokket Tracer, Rokket Caliber) keep the first Link route from depending on a single card. Conversion is strong on paper: the Borrel Links reach 3000-3500 ATK, and Borrelend and Borrelsword add multi-attack and negation effects, so the ceiling is high even though no recorded boards exist to confirm it. Survival is supported by 12 hand traps and about 15 negation-text cards, which give a layered interaction package and a good chance of a hand trap by the second player's first turn (about 75%, Inferred). The score is held back by engine conflicts (Mulcharmy's empty-field requirement, Deck Lockdown blocking Rokket searches, and Dimensional Fissure banishing the graveyard costs the Borrel effects use), by a missing post-side plan, and by the absence of any combo, tournament or win-rate evidence. Popularity was not credited, and card scores were not averaged; the score comes from the system as a whole.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: 70% Combo / 30% Midrange. Structural ≈ 64.3, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 66, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: Engine conflicts (-3); Hand-trap redundancy (2); Banlist exposure (-1); Choke point (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional): 0.80*64.3 + 0.20*55 - 4 = 58.4 -> 58

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.23 · 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

• Legal in OCG at 60/15/0 with all four Limited cards at one copy
• Strong starter access: about 91% chance of at least one archetype-core card in the opening hand (Inferred)
• Layered interaction: 12 hand traps plus broad negation text (Inferred)
• High Link ceiling: Borrelend, Borrelshroud and Borrelsword at 3000-3500 ATK with multi-attack and negation effects (text-only)

Weaknesses

• Zero Side Deck, so no post-side plan
• Mulcharmy and graveyard-blocking cards (Dimensional Fissure) conflict with the Rokket and Borrel engine
• Deck Lockdown blocks the Rokket and Borrel searches it needs
• No combo, tournament or win-rate evidence, so median and meta reads are inferred

Critical choke points

• Rokket Loader, Quick Launch and Rokket Tracer as the first Rokket on field
• A Rokket or Borrel Link already on the field before the big Link Summons
• Borrel graveyard costs, which Dimensional Fissure blocks

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in OCG: 60 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side within size rules (40-60, 0-15, 0-15); Four Limited singletons (Chaos Space, Foolish Burial, S:P Little Knight, Striker Dragon), legal at one copy each; Card text for all 60 Main and 15 Extra cards is present in the evidence; Archetype spread: Rokket 20, Borrel 10, Mulcharmy 6, generic 33
• Observed: Usage statistics show 13 core cards as in this deck (Main only)
• Inferred: P(>=1 archetype-core card in opening hand) ≈ 0.91 (hypergeometric); Hand-trap access on the second player's first turn ≈ 0.75; Dimensional Fissure and Deck Lockdown conflict with the engine; Interaction layers and Link ceiling from card text only
• Provisional: Meta and format fit (no dated metagame sample); Going-first and going-second splits (no win-rate data)
• Data gaps: combos_evidence has 0 boards, so best_line, median and board_per_starter are unknown (text-only inference) usage_statistics.in_this_deck is false for Borreload Fatalflare, Borrelend, Borrelshroud, Trisborrel, Borrelsword, Breachborrel, Dillingerous, Guardragon Pisty and S:P Little Knight, although the cards list shows them in the Extra Deck. Only Main-deck cards are flagged true, so the 52% core_present_pct and missing_core list are likely a pipeline bug and were not used for scoring. no tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent no win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates) Meta Power provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied deck title is null