GMX Deck #771777 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 44 / Extra 14 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Dinosaur/GMX Fusion and Link boards (GMX - ALLOS, GMX - COMPREX, GMX - VELOX, Evolved Daneen) reached through GMX Applied Experiment #55 and Fusion Summon routes; Evolzar Xyz boards that negate and destroy via detach, backed by Evolsaur/Evoltile recursion
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon GMX Researcher Selande or Chairman Kimridge, search a GMX card or Fossil Dig a Dinosaur, then convert into Applied Experiment #55 or a Fusion (Polymerization or Report) for a Fusion boss
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle and Droll & Lock Bird to stop the opponent's first search or summon, then rebuild the Fusion engine from GY and deck Dinosaurs
• Recovery: Recursion from GY and banish through Returned Dino Daneen, Kaitoptera, GMX Associate Noma and Evolsaur Lios, then re-run Experiment #55 with the rest of the GMX pool
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no side deck (Side Deck size 0), so no post-side plan exists

Why it scores here

The score is built on the deck as a system, not on the individual cards and not on the archetype's popularity. The GMX core is dense (20 archetype copies, a 96% proxy for at least one archetype card in a 5-card opening), so the engine usually goes live on turns 1-2 through Researcher Selande, Kimridge, Applied Experiment #55 and Fossil Dig. Seven hand traps and ten negation-text cards give the deck real end-board interaction (70), and the Evolzar Xyz pieces add more. Conversion is the weak point: there are no recorded boards, so the ceiling and median are text-only inferences, and the Fusion bosses depend on a few lines. The deck is Illegal because it runs three copies of Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring against a limit of two, so it receives no normal final score and is capped at 30 as a theoretical, structural-only read. Popularity contributed nothing, since the archetype stats are flagged as inconsistent with the card list.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 59, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 56, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); legality cap (0). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability = 0.80*59 + 0.20*50 = 57; context modifiers -8 gives 49; Illegal status caps the final score at 30 (theoretical, structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.31 · 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 GMX core with high opening access (archetype core P(>=1 in hand5) = 0.96)
• Seven hand traps and ten negation-text cards for layered interaction
• Multiple Fusion, Link and Xyz routes through 14 Extra Deck cards
• Compact 44-card main deck inside the 40-60 size rule

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring runs 3 copies against a limit of 2
• No recorded combo boards, so the ceiling and median are unmeasured
• Low archetype purity (37.9%) with 36 off-archetype copies, including 7 tech cards
• No side deck, so post-side adaptability cannot be assessed

Critical choke points

• GMX Applied Experiment #55 is the main engine; without it the Fusion bosses are hard to reach
• Fusion bosses depend on a few Dinosaur materials; losing Selande or Kimridge removes the starter
• Ash Blossom over-limit: an illegal list must be fixed before any competitive read applies

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring 3 copies vs legal 2 (Semi-Limited); Main 44 and Extra 14 are within size rules; side 0 is legal; Extra Deck breakdown: 6 Fusion, 5 Link, 3 Xyz; Archetype purity 37.9% and copy histogram 12/4/8
• Observed: Archetype usage stats show GMX 'core' cards from the usage list (e.g., Fossil Dig, Selande)
• Inferred: Opening-hand starter access from hypergeometric estimates (0.31 per triple, 0.96 archetype core); Interaction density from hand-trap and negation text; Going-second and recovery reads from card text; Ceiling and median from text only (no combos)
• Provisional: Meta power (null, no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit (no tournament data); Post-side plan (no side deck)
• Data gaps: No recorded combos; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent No win-rate or going-first/second telemetry usage statistics in this deck flags disagree with the cards list (e.g., GMX - COMPREX, GMX - VELOX and Evolved Daneen are in the card list but marked in this deck false); the usage flags were not used for scoring Deck title is null