Rescue-ACE Deck #771826 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±10 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Rescue-ACE boss monsters (Rescue-ACE Turbulence 3000 ATK, Rescue-ACE Arbitrator 3000 ATK Link, Rescue-ACE Preventer 2800 ATK) reached through the Rescue-ACE search and summon engine; Fusion and Link end boards (Promethean Princess, Knightmare Phoenix, Laevateinn-style Link lines) built from the Extra Deck
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on a Rescue-ACE starter (Impulse, Quick Attacker, Air Lifter) and use ALERT! or Air Lifter to search Hydrant or HQ, then extend to Arbitrator or Turbulence
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Ghost Ogre, Droll & Lock Bird, Nibiru) to interrupt the opponent's first engine, then rebuild the Rescue-ACE board with EMERGENCY! and RESCUE!
• Recovery: Banish Rescue-ACE cards from the GY to summon Turbulence or Preventer, and recover from the GY with RESCUE! and ALERT!
• After siding: No Side Deck is present (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan in the evidence; a best-of-3 list would have to add one

Why it scores here

The deck's 25 Rescue-ACE core copies give a high chance (about 0.96 in a 5-card opening hand) of at least one core card, which supports the engine's accessibility. Thirteen hand traps and about 24 tech and interaction cards make the interaction layer broad and layered, so the deck can keep a board going through one interruption. The ceiling comes from three 2800 to 3000 ATK boss monsters and a Link-based end board, and the median is not measured because no recorded boards exist. The score is capped because three cards exceed their Semi-Limited copy limit, which makes the list Illegal, and the deck has no Side Deck, so no post-side plan can be scored. Popularity (the archetype core stats) was not credited, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 60.5, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 64, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: Illegal copy-limit violations (3 cards over Semi-Limited limit) (-12). Final formula: Structural 60.5 = Midrange weights over the 14 dimensions; no dated metagame, so Meta is null. Unclamped 0.80*60.5 + 0.20*50 = 58.4, then the Illegal legality cap (modifier -12, then capped to 35) applies. Theoretical/structural-only.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.96 · 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

• Core Rescue-ACE engine is highly accessible in a 5-card opening hand (about 0.96)
• Layered interaction: 13 hand traps plus Solemn Judgment, Lightning Storm and Droll & Lock Bird
• Multiple high-ATK closers (Turbulence, Arbitrator, Preventer) with GY recursion

Weaknesses

• Illegal: three cards exceed their Semi-Limited copy limit
• No Side Deck, so no post-side plan
• Low archetype purity (34.3% exact-name) and many off-archetype copies, which hurts engine coherence
• No combo, tournament or win-rate data to confirm the floor or median

Critical choke points

• Rescue-ACE starter access on going first: a hand with no Rescue-ACE monster and no search has few live lines
• Hand-trap-heavy hands with no Rescue-ACE starter may do nothing on the opponent's turn

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main Deck 55 and Extra Deck 15 are within the format size rules; Three copy-limit violations: Ash Blossom, Super Polymerization and Solemn Warning run 3 of 2 legal copies; Card text for the deck's notable cards; Archetype core group of 25 copies and 34.3% exact-name purity
• Inferred: Starter access (about 0.96) and brick-risk estimates from hypergeometric draw odds; Interaction density and resilience read from card text; Going-first and going-second estimates
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and matchup fit (D13) with no dated metagame sample or tournament link
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record are absent No win-rate telemetry: going-first, going-second, matchup and brick rates are unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No Side Deck in the export, so post-side performance is unknown