Tri-Brigade Deck #771783 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 64/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon Lunalight boss monsters (Liger Dancer 3800 ATK, Leo Dancer 3500 ATK, Guardian Chimera 3300 ATK) through Polymerization-type spells and Lunalight searchers; Xyz/Link follow-up from Tri-Brigade Fire Fist Tiger King and S:P Little Knight, with negation and hand-trap interaction to protect the Fusion line
• Turn 1 (going first): Search a Lunalight Gold Leo or Masquerade with Tenki or Black Sheep, then use Lunalight Fusion or Polymerization to reach a Dancer, with Effect Veiler or Ash Blossom held up for the opponent's response
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the six-card hand's hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Effect Veiler, Infinite Impermanence) to disrupt the opponent's board, then rebuild through Lunalight searchers and a Fusion Summon
• Recovery: Lunalight Silver Hound and Gold Leo recursion from the GY, Lunalight Emerald Bird revival, and Lunalight Yellow Marten recovery of Lunalight monsters
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan; the deck cannot adapt between games in a best-of-3

Why it scores here

The deck's score comes from the system: a dense Lunalight searcher suite (17 searcher-text cards, P(at least one searcher in an opening 5) about 0.95) keeps a Fusion starter reachable most games, and ten hand traps give it interaction on both turns. Its closing power comes from several 3000-3800 ATK Lunalight Dancer Fusion monsters with second-attack text, and its recursion (Silver Hound, Gold Leo, Emerald Bird, Yellow Marten) gives it routes after a disruption. The score is held back by the lack of any side deck, no recorded boards to measure combo output, and a deck label (Tri-Brigade) that does not match the list (only one Tri-Brigade card; 30 Lunalight-named copies). Archetype popularity earned no points, the OCG guide's mention of Tri-Bri gave no weight, and card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 64.3, Going First ≈ 65, Going Second ≈ 67, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-1); engine compactness (2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional) = 0.80*64.3 + 0.20*58 + 1 = 64.0

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.95 · 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

• Searcher density (17) makes a Fusion starter reachable in most games
• Ten hand traps and five other negation or removal effects give layered interaction on both turns
• Several 3000+ ATK Fusion boss monsters with second-attack text
• Compact 40-card main with a single dominant engine

Weaknesses

• No side deck: no post-side plan in a best-of-3
• No recorded boards, so ceiling and median are unmeasured
• Deck label Tri-Brigade does not match the list; four of five usage-stat core cards are missing
• Fusion chains and hand-trap timing are demanding to pilot

Critical choke points

• Polymerization-type Fusion spells (Polymerization, Heavy Polymerization, Lunalight Fusion) are single-copy, so losing them to a hand trap or Droll & Lock Bird limits Fusion access
• Lunalight Fusion-enabling monsters such as Kaleido Chick and Lunalight Wolf are one-of or two-of

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main deck 40, Extra deck 15, Side deck 0; legal size under OCG rules; Restricted-card copy counts within Limited and Semi-Limited limits; Card text and stats of every listed card; Copy histogram 3x3, 2x9, 1x13
• Observed: Usage-stat inclusion data for Tri-Brigade core cards (four of five absent from the deck)
• Inferred: Starter and brick probabilities (hypergeometric); Going-first and going-second power components; Interaction density and resilience from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (D13)
• 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, and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied archetype label Tri-Brigade does not match the Lunalight-based list; usage-stat core is Tri-Brigade-specific and does not describe this build side deck is empty, so no post-side data or matchup-specific adaptation can be assessed