Evol Deck #771563 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Dinosaur/Evol boards that end in high-ATK boss monsters (Ultimate Conductor Tyranno 3500, Nibiru 3000, GMX - ALLOS 3000, Dogoran 3000) and Xyz/Link pressure; Hand-trap and negation-driven disruption (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Ghost Belle, Infinite Impermanence, Evenly Matched) that protects the board and hinders the opponent's turn
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a searcher or starter (Fossil Dig, Ground Xeno, Kaitoptera, Animadorned Archosaur, Babycerasaurus line) to reach a Dinosaur board and pivot to a boss monster; the card text supports this line, but no recorded boards confirm it
• Turn 2 (going second): Use a six-card hand with hand traps (84% chance of at least one in the hand) to answer the opponent's first board, then convert through Evolzar negations or Xyz/Link follow-up; this plan is text-derived, not observed
• Recovery: Recursion through Petiteranodon, Babycerasaurus and Miscellaneousaurus-style graveyard effects, plus Xeno/Evol Dinosaur searches, to rebuild a Dinosaur board after interaction; Inferred from text only
• After siding: Not assessable: the deck runs no side deck (Side Deck size 0), so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck's structure is a Dinosaur-based toolbox: many searchers and recursion effects, a 12-copy archetype core with a 72% chance of at least one core card in the opening hand, and a dense layer of hand traps and negations that give it a plausible going-second plan. Its closing power comes from high-ATK boss monsters in the Extra Deck, and the Extra Deck's Xyz, Link and Fusion breakdown offers reasonable flexibility. The score is held down by the absence of any side deck, a low main-deck efficiency (55 cards spread across 32 distinct names, with exact archetype purity of 1.4%), a high-complexity multi-engine pilot requirement, and an Illegal status from Droll & Lock Bird run at 2 copies against an OCG limit of 1. No recorded boards, tournament data or guides exist, so median and matchup dimensions rest on text and probability alone. The score comes from consistency, interaction and closing power on the system, not from averaging card scores and not from the archetype's popularity; no meta-share is available.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 53, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Illegal copy-limit violation (Droll & Lock Bird 2 vs limit 1) (-8); No side deck (0). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(53) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) = 51.4; context modifiers -8 → 43.4; Illegal cap (copy-limit violation, theoretical/structural only) → 35

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.86 · 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

• Large searcher and recursion density gives a reliable opening engine on paper
• 14 hand traps and 8 negation-text cards give strong going-second interaction
• Boss monsters at 2500-3500 ATK provide closing power
• Extra Deck covers Xyz, Link and Fusion with flexible access

Weaknesses

• Illegal: Droll & Lock Bird is run at 2 copies against an OCG limit of 1
• No side deck, so no best-of-3 adaptation
• Low archetype purity (1.4% exact name) and 53 generic cards dilute the engine
• High pilot complexity across several sub-archetypes

Critical choke points

• Droll & Lock Bird over the copy limit makes the list unplayable as built until one copy is removed
• Dinosaur-Type monster count is the shared requirement for most engines; interaction that destroys Dinosaurs (Dinowrestler Pankratops, Animadorned Archosaur) can strand lines
• Extra Deck access for boss monsters depends on a few single-copy Xyz and Link cards

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 against OCG size rules 40-60 / 0-15; Droll & Lock Bird run at 2 copies vs legal copies 1 (Limited); Card texts for hand traps, searchers and boss monsters; Archetype core 12 copies; exact archetype purity 1.4%; Probability figures: core P(>=1 in hand5) 0.72; searcher P(>=1 in hand5) 0.86; hand-trap P(>=1 in going-second 6) 0.84
• Inferred: Consistency and brick rate from hypergeometric estimates and card text; Going-first and going-second plan quality; Interaction layering quality (D7); Pilotability and error tolerance (D14)
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); Matchup coverage and format fit (D13); Tournament reliability
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no guides for the archetype no win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter/OTK rates) — those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Deck title is null; deck name not available