Synchron Deck #771697 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Union-equip and Machine/LIGHT boss monsters (ABC-Dragon Buster, XYZ-Hyper Dragon Cannon, Union Controller, Barbaros, Psychic End Punisher) built from searched Union and Machine pieces; Fusion/Link/Synchro/Xyz boss monsters that recur through Union Hangar, Union Activation and Mulcharmy draws
• Turn 1 (going first): Search a Union monster with Union Hangar, Union Activation or Therion Discolosseum, then equip or Special Summon Union monsters from the Deck to build a board; Droll & Lock Bird and Lightning Storm protect the line
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Evenly Matched, Droll & Lock Bird, Simul Archfiends and Harpie's Feather Duster for the opponent's turn; use Barbaros or Lightning Storm to break the board, then extend into an Extra Deck boss
• Recovery: Mulcharmy Fuwalos discard draw, Pot of Sloth, Union Pilot and Unauthorized Reactivation recursion, and Dragon Ravine / Therion searchers to rebuild a starter
• After siding: No side deck is registered (0 cards), so there is no post-side plan; the deck cannot adjust between games of a best-of-3

Why it scores here

The deck opens a functional plan reasonably often: 16 searcher-text cards give about 83% odds of at least one searcher in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred), but any single starter has only about 25% odds of appearing in the opener, so the engine depends on search chains rather than a single card. Its interaction suite is the strongest part of the system: Lightning Storm, Harpie's Feather Duster, Evenly Matched, Droll & Lock Bird, Simul Archfiends and Barbaros give it several ways to break a board, and it has large boss monsters in the Extra Deck to close. Consistency and efficiency are weak: 56 Main Deck cards include 23 Spells, 8 Traps and nine tech cards with no shared engine, the copy histogram is spread across many distinct cards, and the 70 off-archetype copies mean the Synchron name contributes almost nothing to the list. No combo boards are recorded, so the score rests on text reads and probability estimates, not on measured output. The score comes from consistency, interaction and closing power on the system, not from Synchron's popularity or from averaging individual card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 54, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 56, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 42. Modifiers: weak_post_side_plan (-3). Final formula: 0.80*Structural(D13 dropped, renormalised over 95) + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers(-3) (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.25 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.68 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Eight-plus interaction cards across Spells, Traps and monsters give layered board answers
• Large Extra Deck bosses (3000–3500 ATK) give a real closing threat
• 16 searchers give a high chance of finding a searcher in the opener

Weaknesses

• Declared Synchron archetype with 0% exact-name purity; the list is a loose mix of Union, ABC, Machina and tech cards
• Nine tech cards and 23 Spells dilute the engine and raise brick risk
• Zero Side Deck cards, so no adaptation for best-of-3
• No recorded combo boards, so the floor and median are unmeasured

Critical choke points

• Most Union lines need a Machine/LIGHT target on the field, so an early board wipe or a clean Lightning Storm stalls the engine
• The Extra Deck boss lines depend on Union Controller and Dragon Buster, which need specific banished or GY materials

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal with warning: size 56/14/0 within OCG limits; 5 Limited cards each at 1 copy (compliant); Card text and stats for all resolved cards; One passcode (10443957) could not be resolved and is counted as Main
• Observed: Mulcharmy Fuwalos (60.6%) and Droll & Lock Bird (56.3%) are core cards of the archetype usage sample
• Inferred: P(>=1 searcher in opener) ≈ 0.83; P(>=1 specific 3-copy starter) ≈ 0.25 (hypergeometric); Interaction breadth from removal and negation text; Brick proxy ≈ 0.68 for the archetype core
• Provisional: Meta Power is null; D13 is excluded from the structural score; Tournament Reliability is an estimate
• 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 1 passcode(s) in CardIDList could not be resolved to a card (counted as main) no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN — going-first/second, matchup, brick and starter rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Side Deck is empty (0 cards)