Tri-Brigade Deck #771830 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 56/100 (±7 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 42 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck Link/Fusion boss summons (Tri-Brigade Shuraig, Gladiator Beast Claudius, Domitianus, Heraklinos) fed by Beast-type hand starters; Gladiator Beast Battle Phase pressure via Gistel, Vespasius and Claudius's double Battle Phase
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a hand-starter (Kerass, Fraktall, Fuwalos) or searcher (Proving Ground, Flavian, Fire Formation - Tenki), summon a Beast Link, and reach a boss; hand-trap backup is thin when going first
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 6-card hand's hand traps (Ash, Ghost Ogre, Ghost Belle, Droll, Nibiru) to stop the opponent's setup, then go to the Extra Deck boss
• Recovery: Recycle Beasts from the GY through Comeback, Equeste and Dragases, and re-summon Link monsters from the Extra Deck
• After siding: Not evaluable: the list runs a 0-card Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a functional plan: the hypergeometric estimate for at least one searcher in the opening 5 is about 0.86, and there are several Beast-type hand starters with 3 copies each. Its real strength is interaction on the system level: eight hand traps and a negate-heavy Extra Deck (Heraklinos, Domitianus) give it roughly 74% odds of at least one hand trap in a going-second 6-card hand, and that is what lifts going-second power. Converting plans into pressure relies on Extra Deck Link and Fusion bosses (Claudius at 3700 ATK, Domitianus at 3500), so the score depends on access to the Extra Deck, and the 0.51 proxy for having no core Gladiator/Tri-Brigade enabler in hand is the main brick risk. The deck has no side deck, which caps adaptability and tournament reliability. Popularity and meta-share earned no points: no tournament or meta sample exists, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo primary; Midrange secondary disclosed as context only — Structural computed on the Combo profile. Structural ≈ 61, Going First ≈ 57, Going Second ≈ 63, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: No side deck (-2); Two-archetype engine split (-2); Hand-trap density (2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers = 0.80*61 + 0.20*48 - 2 ≈ 56

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.86 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.51 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Eight hand traps with high going-second coverage (≈0.74 in a 6-card hand)
• Dense searcher text (13 copies) gives high access to the engine
• Extra Deck boss suite (Claudius, Domitianus, Heraklinos, Shuraig) with negation and double Battle Phase text
• Legal at the copy limits: Droll, Foolish Burial, Little Knight, Snatchy and Ash are all run at legal copies

Weaknesses

• No Side Deck, so no post-side plan
• Low exact archetype purity (24.6%) splits the engine across Tri-Brigade and Gladiator Beast
• Core-group brick risk (≈0.51 with no core enabler in the opening hand)
• 15 singletons and several off-plan tech cards raise pilot decision load

Critical choke points

• Extra Deck access: most of the boss suite depends on Beast-type Link and Fusion summons
• Beast-type hand starters (Kerass, Fraktall, Fuwalos) are required to start several lines
• Limited/Semi-Limited staples (Droll, Foolish Burial, Ash) are single or double copies, so losing one removes a key interaction

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 42 / Extra 15 / Side 0 with Legal status; restricted copies within legal limits; Card text and stats for all cards (evidence.json cards); Core inclusion data: 3 of 5 core cards present (usage statistics)
• Inferred: P(≥1 searcher in opening 5) ≈ 0.86; core none-in-hand ≈ 0.51; hand-trap going-second ≈ 0.74; Structural and final scores derived from text-based dimension estimates; Negation, interaction and boss-power reads from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); D13 matchup and format fit; D12 side adaptability (no side deck)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied — combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry — going-first/second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power provisional without a dated metagame sample Side Deck is empty, so post-side performance cannot be assessed