Crimson Dragon Deck #771631 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · 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. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon Dragon boss monsters (Blue-Eyes Tyrant Dragon, Dracotail Arthalion, Albion, Gulamel) through Dracotail and Albaz fusion routes; Kaiju and Primite board pressure, with Mulcharmy card advantage
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Dracotail or Primite starter (Faimena, Lordly Lode, Ether Beryl), search a Dracotail, and fuse toward a 3000-ATK boss; hold Ash Blossom and Effect Veiler up
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler, Droll & Lock Bird, Nibiru) to stop the opponent's engine, then fuse through the open board
• Recovery: Dracotail and Primite GY-recursion effects and Triple Tactics Thrust / Lordly Lode searches rebuild the hand over two turns (Inferred)
• After siding: Not evaluable: no side deck is supplied, so no post-side plan exists in this list

Why it scores here

The list reaches a functional fusion plan: three Dracotail Faimena, three Primite Lordly Lode and Ether Beryl, and three Mulcharmy give a starter in roughly a quarter of 5-card openings, with searchers in about 76% of openings (Inferred from hypergeometric estimates). Interaction is dense, with 11 hand traps and 15 negation-text cards, so it can disrupt the opponent going second. Closing power is good because the Extra Deck carries several 2800–3400 ATK bosses. Scores are held down by the 0-card side deck, the conditional engines (Mulcharmy and Lightning Storm need an empty board), and the lack of any combo records. Crimson Dragon, the archetype's namesake, is absent from the list (core present 16.7%), so the popularity of the archetype did not earn points. The deck is illegal (Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization each run 3 copies against a limit of 2), so it is capped at 30. No card scores were averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 49, Going First ≈ 46, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: illegal_copy_limit_cap (-17); empty_side_deck (-2); archetype_core_missing (-2). Final formula: Illegal cap: 0.80*Structural(49) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(40) = 47, capped to 30 because the list violates OCG copy limits (theoretical/structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.25 · 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

• Dense hand-trap and negation suite (11 hand traps, 15 negation-text cards)
• Strong fusion bosses in the Extra Deck (Blue-Eyes Tyrant, Dracotail Arthalion, Albion, Gulamel)
• Multiple searcher routes (13 searcher-text cards)

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy counts for Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization
• No side deck
• Crimson Dragon, the archetype core, is absent
• Several conditional engines (Mulcharmy, Lightning Storm) need an empty or specific board

Critical choke points

• Dracotail fusion starters: Faimena, Lukias and Ketu/Rahu depend on Limited cards
• Going-first hand relies on a single starter family with about 25% per-card odds in 5 cards

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Illegal (Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization each over the OCG copy limit); Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0 (size rules pass except the empty side deck); Card text and banlist status of each card; Usage: Crimson Dragon core present 16.7%
• Inferred: P(starter in 5-card hand) ≈ 0.25 per card; Searcher-group P ≈ 0.76; Hand-trap group P(≥1 in 6) ≈ 0.76; Dimension scores D1–D11 and D14 from text and composition
• Provisional: Meta power (no dated metagame sample); D13 matchup and format fit
• 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 win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN — going-first/second, matchup, game-level and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No side deck supplied