Transcendosaurus Deck #771565 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Tempo
• 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 boss monsters (Ultimate Conductor Tyranno, Dogoran, Nibiru, GMX - ALLOS / GMX - VELOX) built from the generic Dinosaur searcher and Fusion engine; Fusion and Xyz pressure through Polymerization, Kaitoptera and Evolzar Dolkka / Laggia (no Xyz or Fusion starter is consistently guaranteed)
• Turn 1 (going first): Opening Fossil Dig or Ground Xeno for a Dinosaur, then Souleating Oviraptor or Animadorned Archosaur to add or summon the next Dinosaur, with hand traps held for the opponent's first activation
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle and Ghost Ogre (hand traps) to answer the first search or summon, then rebuild through the GY-recursion monsters (Babycerasaurus, Petiteranodon)
• Recovery: Recover from interruption by summoning Dinosaur Tuners and GY-recursion monsters from the GY (Xeno Meteorus, Linkuriboh, Miscellaneousaurus), since the deck has no single bottleneck starter
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no side deck (Side Deck size 0), so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck's score comes from its system properties, not from its card list or from averaging card power. Its generic Dinosaur searchers (17 searcher-text cards, P(at least one in a 5-card hand) ≈ 0.86) and the archetype-core group (P ≈ 0.95) give it a reliable opening, and recursion effects let it recover after a single interruption. It has strong interaction density (14 hand traps, 8 negation texts, 28 removal texts), with the going-second hand-trap estimate at about 0.84. Its closing power comes from Dinosaur boss monsters, but the combo ceiling and median are unmeasured because there are no recorded boards. The score is capped because the list breaks the OCG copy limit on Droll & Lock Bird (2 copies, limit 1), so this is a structural-only read. Popularity did not earn points: archetype usage stats confirm the list is real, but the exact-name Transcendosaurus purity is 0%.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 54, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Illegal copy-limit violation (Droll & Lock Bird) (-12). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) = 52.2 before modifiers; -12 illegal copy-limit modifier gives 40; illegal-deck cap lowers the final to 35 (theoretical/structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.95 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.05 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Reliable starter access through 17 searcher-text cards and the archetype-core group
• Layered interaction: 14 hand traps, 8 negation texts, 28 removal texts
• Recursion from the GY gives a second route after interruption
• High closing power from Dinosaur boss monsters

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: Droll & Lock Bird run at 2 copies against a limit of 1
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Exact-name archetype purity is 0%, so the engine relies on generic Dinosaur cards
• No recorded combos, so the median and ceiling are unmeasured

Critical choke points

• Dinosaur-only starters: many lines need a Dinosaur monster in hand or GY
• Illegal list must be corrected before any production score is trusted

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0 are inside size rules; Droll & Lock Bird is over the copy limit (2 vs 1); Card text and copy counts from evidence.json; Archetype usage: 13 of 25 core cards present
• Observed: Usage statistics confirm the list is real and accessible
• Inferred: Starter consistency (P ≈ 0.86–0.95) from hypergeometric estimates; Hand-trap coverage (P ≈ 0.84 going second) from hypergeometric estimate; Dimension scores D1–D14 from card text and composition
• Provisional: Meta Power (null); D13 format fit
• Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN, so brick, starter and matchup rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied no side deck (Side Deck size 0): no post-side evidence