Cyber Dragon Deck #771696 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 49/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 14 / Side 0 — status: Legal with warning.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Union-monster board presence (Union Effect Monsters equipped and Special Summoned) backed by Extra Deck boss monsters (ABC-Dragon Buster, XYZ-Hyper Dragon Cannon, Psychic End Punisher, Juraishin, Underworld Goddess); Field-spell and Union searcher density (Union Hangar, Dragon Ravine, Terraforming, Therion Discolosseum) feeding repeated Union summons
• Turn 1 (going first): Search a Union monster or Union Activation, Special Summon a Union monster via its once-per-turn effect, and extend into an Extra Deck boss; the list has no recorded combo lines, so this is text-derived (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the four hand traps (Droll & Lock Bird, Evenly Matched, Ash-style negation via Therion King Regulus, Angel Statue - Azurune) and Lightning Storm / Harpie's Feather Duster to clear the opponent's board, then convert with Beast King Barbaros or a Synchro/Fusion boss
• Recovery: Searchers (16 text-tagged) and Pot of Sloth refill the hand; Union monsters return to hand from the field, and Cyber Dragon Nova is absent, so GY recursion is limited
• After siding: Not evaluable: side_count is 0, so there is no recorded post-side plan

Why it scores here

This is a Union-based midrange list that only loosely shares the Cyber Dragon archetype: exact-name purity is 1.4%, only 3 of 21 usage-stat core cards are present, and Cyber Dragon Nova is missing. Its consistency comes from 16 text-tagged searchers and a 0.83 chance of at least one searcher in a 5-card opening hand, while a 0.25 chance of opening a given Union Hangar keeps the single-engine line fragile (Inferred). Its interaction density (four hand traps, Lightning Storm, Harpie's Feather Duster, Droll & Lock Bird, Metalhold) and a wide Extra Deck of bosses drive most of the score, particularly closing power. The score comes from consistency, interaction and boss coverage evaluated on the system, not from averaging individual card powers and not from the archetype's popularity, since the recorded usage stats show this build deviates from the standard core. No combos or win-rate data exist, so conversion and median output are text-only inferences, and meta power is provisional.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, Toolbox secondary (approx. 80/20). Structural ≈ 51, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); Structural 51.2, TR 45, modifiers -1 => 49

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

• 16 searchers give high hand-start consistency (0.83 for at least one in 5 cards)
• Four hand traps plus Lightning Storm and Harpie's Feather Duster give layered interaction
• Wide Extra Deck with several 3000+ ATK bosses across Fusion, Synchro, Link and Xyz

Weaknesses

• Exact archetype purity is 1.4%; the deck does not run the standard Cyber Dragon core (Nova, Core, Chimeratech Megafleet absent)
• No side deck, so there is no post-side adaptation
• Five Limited cards each at a single copy create dependence on those specific cards

Critical choke points

• Single-copy Limited searchers and interaction (Droll & Lock Bird, Harpie's Feather Duster)
• Union Hangar/Activation line requires specific Union pieces; 0.25 chance per copy in opening hand

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 56 / Extra 14 / Side 0 are within size rules (40-60, 0-15, 0-15); Five Limited cards run at 1 copy each, which is legal; Exact archetype purity 1.4%; 3 of 21 usage-stat core cards present
• Inferred: Searcher-based opening consistency (P>=1 searcher in hand 5 = 0.83); Union engine starter access (P>=1 Union Hangar = 0.25); Going-first and going-second plans from card text
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit (no dated metagame sample)
• Data gaps: 1 passcode (10443957) unresolved to a card; counted as Main and excluded from text analysis No combos supplied; combo ceiling and median are text-only No tournament link; archetype meta-share and pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry; going-first/second, brick and matchup signals are Inferred Meta power provisional; no side deck to score post-side plan