Scrap Deck #771564 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

• Primary strategy: Toolbox
• Secondary strategies: Stun, Midrange
• 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 and GMX/Evolzar board presence converted through Extra Deck Link, Xyz and Fusion monsters (for example GMX - VELOX, Ultimate Conductor Tyranno, Nibiru) with no measured conversion rate; Hand-trap and negation-based disruption (14 hand traps, 8 negation texts) that trades for the opponent's turn and keeps the board
• Turn 1 (going first): Search a Dinosaur or Scrap engine piece with Fossil Dig, Ground Xeno, Kaitoptera or Returned Dino Daneen, then bridge into a Link or Xyz Extra Deck monster; the line is unverified because no combos were supplied
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold 2 to 3 hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Ghost Ogre, Infinite Impermanence, Evenly Matched) to answer the first summon or the first engine activation, then rebuild from the graveyard with Babycerasaurus, Petiteranodon or Scrap Raptor
• Recovery: Graveyard recursion from Scrap Raptor, Scrap Wyvern, Babycerasaurus and Petiteranodon, and Xyz or Link re-summons; the sequence is inferred from card text and not verified on recorded boards
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so no post-side plan can be scored; the deck runs the same 55-card main on every game

Why it scores here

This list is illegal as submitted: two copies of Droll & Lock Bird against an OCG limit of one, so it is scored as a theoretical, structural-only read and its final score is capped at 40. Structurally it is a Dinosaur/GMX/Evolzar toolbox with 17 searcher texts, which gives an inferred 86% chance of at least one searcher in a 5-card opening hand, and 14 hand traps, which gives an inferred 84% chance of at least one hand trap in a 6-card going-second hand. Interaction density is the strongest signal (negation and removal texts across the Xyz and Link engines), and the Ultimate Conductor Tyranno and Nibiru top-end gives a closing ceiling, but no recorded combos exist so the floor, median and ceiling are all unmeasured. The deck has no side deck and the Scrap archetype purity is only 5.7% exact-name, so the score reflects the system's disruption and breadth rather than any archetype average or popularity, and card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 57, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist exposure: over-limit Limited card (-12). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) = 54.6 raw, then -12 banlist exposure = 42.6, then capped at 40 because the list is Illegal (over copy limit)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ — · 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

• Very high searcher density (17 texts), so the engine is reachable in most openings
• Layered interaction: 14 hand traps, 8 negation texts and Evolzar negation on the Extra Deck
• Multiple recursion routes from the graveyard give redundancy after disruption
• Top-end threats (Ultimate Conductor Tyranno, Nibiru, GMX - VELOX) provide a real closing ceiling

Weaknesses

• Illegal as submitted: two Droll & Lock Bird against a limit of one
• No side deck, so no post-side plan and no answer to a hostile matchup
• Heavy tech and hand-trap count (31 combined) creates situationally dead cards in hand
• Five distinct engine themes (Dinosaur, Scrap, GMX, Evolzar, True Draco) dilute the core, with 5.7% exact Scrap purity

Critical choke points

• Dinosaur-type summon gating: many lines need a Dinosaur monster on field or in hand, so a single disruption removes the route
• Droll & Lock Bird limit: the list cannot be played legally until one copy is removed

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 55 main, 15 extra, 0 side; Droll & Lock Bird 2 copies over the OCG limit of 1; Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring 2 copies, within the Semi-Limited limit of 2; Searcher text count 17, hand trap count 14, removal text count 28, negation text count 8
• Observed: Usage statistics return 12 rows but none of the core cards appear in this deck; no archetype core evidence is usable
• Inferred: P(>=1 searcher in 5-card opening hand) = 0.86 and P(>=1 hand trap in 6-card going-second hand) = 0.84 from hypergeometric estimates; Structural score 57 built from consistency, interaction and closing-power reads without recorded boards
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup fit are null or neutral pending a dated metagame sample
• Data gaps: No combos supplied, so combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link, so archetype meta-share and pilot match record are absent No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN, so brick, starter and matchup rates are Inferred or Unknown Usage statistics core list (Harpie's Feather Duster, Babeldecker, Clockwork Knight, and others) shares no card with this deck and appears to belong to a different archetype, so it gives no usable core evidence No side deck registered, so post-side performance cannot be assessed Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied