Armed Dragon Deck #771612 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 63/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Midrange, Synchro, Xyz
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 45 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Xyz/Synchro boss beats (Bystial Dis Pater 3500, Chasma 3000, AA-ZEUS 3000, Swordsoul 3000, Flare Metal 2800) after a Dragon-type chain, backed by Blaster/Tempest/Tidal/Redox main-deck bodies at 2400-2800 ATK.; Recurring Dragon Ruler beaters: Blaster, Tempest, Tidal and Redox return to hand at the opponent's End Phase and re-enter from hand or GY by banishing two matching Dragon-type monsters.
• Turn 1 (going first): Discard Burner, Reactan, Stream or Lightning plus a Dragon-type card to Special Summon the matching Dragon Ruler from Deck (Blaster, Redox, Tidal or Tempest); use Spectral to search Dragon Ruler monsters; then Xyz or Synchro into a 3000+ ATK boss from Extra.
• Turn 2 (going second): Self-summon Blaster, Tempest, Tidal or Redox from hand or GY by banishing two matching Dragon/attribute monsters, use the End Phase return to reset the opponent's board tempo, and Synchro/Xyz from Extra. No hand traps in the Main Deck.
• Recovery: Blaster, Tempest, Tidal and Redox recur each opponent End Phase; GY/banish self-summons and the Spectral search rebuild the hand; Sandwich Day and Sacred Sword of Seven Stars refuel.
• After siding: Not evidenced: the export has no Side Deck (Side Deck size 0), so no post-side plan can be scored beyond the absence itself.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a functional plan: eight discard-to-summon Dragon Ruler launchers give about a 0.64 chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand, and 31 Dragon-type main monsters supply the partner that each launch needs. Its strength is conversion into a large Extra Deck, with five Synchro and ten Xyz (including 3000+ ATK bosses), and it survives one interruption through several independent launch and self-summon routes. Recursion from Blaster, Tempest, Tidal and Redox, plus Spectral and the draw spells, gives it grind. Its weaknesses are a zero-hand-trap Main Deck, a missing Side Deck, and a single floodgate-like Testudo that also blocks the deck's own 1800+ ATK summons. Armed Dragon and Rose popularity earned no points, and no card scores were averaged into the result.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 66, Going First ≈ 68, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 60. Modifiers: Testudo self-conflict (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional; no dated metagame sample)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.64 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.02 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Eight discard-to-summon launchers and 31 Dragon-type main monsters make the opening reliable
• Several independent routes after one removal: launchers, hand/GY self-summons, and Spectral recursion
• Extra Deck has strong bosses (3000+ ATK) and Xyz/Synchro coverage
• Recursion from Blaster, Tempest, Tidal and Redox on the opponent's End Phase

Weaknesses

• No hand traps and no Main-Deck negation for going second
• No Side Deck in the export, so no post-side adaptability
• Testudo erat Numen blocks the deck's own 1800+ ATK summons
• Armed Dragon and Rose cards are mostly single copies, diluting engine density

Critical choke points

• The Dragon Ruler launcher pairs (Burner, Reactan, Stream, Lightning) need a second Dragon-type card in hand; a hand without one stalls the first summon
• Testudo erat Numen, if drawn, blocks the deck's own large Special Summons

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: OCG legality: 45 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side, all copy limits met, no banlist violations; Card stats and text for all 35 distinct listed cards, Unlimited status; Archetype composition and Extra-Deck breakdown (10 Xyz, 5 Synchro); Hypergeometric draw figures for copy counts (3-copy 0.3037 at 5 cards)
• Inferred: Starter consistency (P>=1 launcher ~0.64 at 5 cards); Going-second interaction is weak (no hand traps, no Main-Deck negation); Dragon Ruler content by name (28 copies) versus the Armed Dragon label; Floodgate-like effect of Testudo erat Numen (text read)
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); D13 matchup fit (no tournament context)
• 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 Side Deck supplied (Side Deck size 0): post-side scoring is provisional usage statistics marks Chengying, TY-PHON, AA-ZEUS, Chasma and Red-Eyes Flare Metal as not in this deck (copies 0), although each is in the Extra-Deck card list; the 58.3% core-card presence is an artifact of matching only the Main Deck. All 12 core cards are present. Dragon Ruler Main-Deck monsters (Blaster, Tempest, Tidal, Stream, Burner, Lightning, Redox, Reactan) have archetype null in card data, so archetype_spread understates the Dragon Ruler core. Testudo erat Numen has is_floodgate false, but its text restricts Special Summons of 1800+ ATK monsters. No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates) exists in YGOVN. Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied.