Tenpai Dragon Deck #771701 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Tenpai Dragon / Sangen FIRE Dragon board, closed by 3000-ATK Synchro monsters (Sangenpai Transcendent Dragion, Trident Dragion) and Angelechy Shatranga/Seneschal/Bastion column-banish pressure.; Angelechy Continuous Spell chain from the Extra Deck, with Mulcharmy card draw as a grind engine.
• Turn 1 (going first): Search Tenpai Dragon Paidra or Sangen Summoning, Set or add a Sangen monster, and build a Synchro board. Hand traps are mostly dead on the first turn, so the plan relies on starter density, which is low.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 6-card hand to hold Ash Blossom, Nibiru, Skull Meister, Effect Veiler or Ghost Ogre against the opponent's summon or activation, then use Dominus Impulse or Solemn Judgment to protect a Synchro board.
• Recovery: Recover through Tenpai Dragon Genroku, Sangen Kaimen and Fadra, which can re-summon FIRE Dragons from the GY, and Angelechy Destrier/Castellan banishes. Recovery depends on the presence of these cards in the GY.
• After siding: No Side Deck is present (Side Deck size 0), so no post-side plan exists. Best-of-3 play is unsupported by this list.

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system: its Midrange shape comes from many hand traps, a Synchro end-board with 3000-ATK boss monsters, and strong going-second interaction. Its engine is unreliable. Only 27 distinct main-deck cards exist, and exact archetype purity is 10%: 63 of 70 non-generic copies are off-archetype. The Tenpai Dragon, Angelechy, Mulcharmy and Sangen engines compete for the same field and the Extra Deck slots. Going first, the probability of at least one three-copy starter in a 5-card hand is about 0.25, so the floor is low. The list is Illegal: Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse are each run 3 copies against a limit of 2, so the score is capped and labelled structural-only. Popularity and archetype usage did not earn points, and card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary; Stun traits noted in interaction but not blended into weights. Structural ≈ 47.8, Going First ≈ 36, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 30. Modifiers: Illegal copy-limit violation (banlist exposure) (-6); Engine conflicts (-3). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) = 0.80*47.8 + 0.20*30 = 44.2; then modifiers -9 (illegal copy-limit cap and engine conflict) = 35.2, rounded to 35 (Illegal: 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 interaction suite: 16 negation texts, 23 removal texts, and 18 hand traps.
• Synchro end-board with 3000-ATK bosses and multiple column-banish effects.
• Strong going-second hand interaction; a 6-card hand contains a hand trap 92% of the time.

Weaknesses

• The list is Illegal: two cards exceed their Semi-Limited copy limit.
• Starter density is low: three-copy starters have about a 25% chance to appear in the opening 5.
• Engine incoherence: 10% exact archetype purity and four competing sub-archetypes.
• No Side Deck, so best-of-3 adaptation is absent.
• Mulcharmy's no-cards condition conflicts with the rest of the deck's field-presence needs.

Critical choke points

• Tenpai Dragon Paidra and Sangen Summoning as the sole Sangen search route.
• Hand-trap-heavy hands going first, where Ash, Nibiru, Skull Meister and Veiler lack targets.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Illegal, with 2 over-copy-limit violations (Ash Blossom 3 vs 2; Dominus Impulse 3 vs 2).; Main 55 (within 40–60), Extra 15 (within 0–15), Side 0 (within 0–15).; Exact archetype purity 10%; 63 off-archetype copies.; Usage stat: core present 10 of 17 (58.8%); Trident Dragion and Sangenpai Transcendent Dragion are absent.
• Inferred: Going-first starter probability ≈ 0.25 for a three-copy card.; Going-second hand trap probability ≈ 0.92.; Brick and dead-hand rate is high, driven by hand-trap density.; Interaction density is high from negation and removal text.; Engine conflicts among Tenpai, Angelechy, Mulcharmy and Sangen.
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and matchup fit (D13) need a dated metagame sample.; Tournament reliability is an estimate without win-rate telemetry.
• Data gaps: no combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN for going-first/second, matchup, or brick rate Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied title is null; no Side Deck