Dragonmaid Deck #772011 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 54 / Extra 16 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon 3000+ ATK Dragons (Dragonmaid Sheou, Light and Darkness Dragonlord, Dracotail Arthalion, House Dragonmaid) from a Dragonmaid/Dracotail board built through searchers and Dragonmaid recursion; Hand-trap disruption (Effect Veiler, Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Ghost Belle, Maxx C, Nibiru) forcing the opponent to stall while the Fusion board is assembled
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Chamber Dragonmaid or a searcher (Kitchen Dragonmaid, Dracotail Lukias, Ketu Dracotail), set up a Fusion Summon with Dragonmaid/Dracotail monsters, and keep one hand trap for the opponent's first Special Summon
• Turn 2 (going second): Use one hand trap on the opponent's first engine or summon (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Maxx C), then rebuild the board through Dracotail and Dragonmaid Fusion Summons while keeping Dragonmaid Tidying or Changeover for recovery
• Recovery: Recover from GY through Dragonmaid Changeover, Dragonmaid Hospitality, Chamber Dragonmaid, and Dracotail Phryxul, which return or re-summon engine monsters from the Graveyard
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so no post-side plan exists in the evidence; a best-of-3 event would need the Main Deck itself to be re-tuned

Why it scores here

The deck's Dragonmaid core (17 copies, P at least one in a 5-card opening hand about 0.86) and its searchers (12 copies, about 0.73 to find one in hand) give it a reasonable chance of a live starter on turns 1 and 2, which is what earns the consistency score. Its disruption package (11 hand traps, 14 negation-text cards and 13 removal-text cards) gives it real interaction, especially going second, where at least one hand trap is in hand about 0.76 of the time. The 3000-plus-ATK Fusion monsters give it closing power once a board exists. Points are held down by the weak system: only 31 percent of copies are the exact Dragonmaid name, 29 of 38 distinct main-deck cards are singletons, and the list has no side deck, so the deck would struggle to recover from a brick or adapt after a loss. The score was not produced by averaging card scores and was not raised by Dragonmaid's popularity, since no tournament or win-rate data exists. The deck is Illegal (Chamber Dragonmaid at 4 copies, Extra Deck at 16 against a 15 maximum), so the final score is capped and this evaluation is structural-only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 64, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-3); Engine conflicts (-3); Archetype dilution (-2); No side deck (-2). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 0.80*55 + 0.20*48 - 10 = 43.6, then capped at 30 because the deck is Illegal (theoretical/structural-only); Meta provisional

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.86 · 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

• Dragonmaid core (17 copies) and 12 searchers give a good chance of a live opening hand
• 11 hand traps and 14 negation-text cards give layered interaction, especially going second
• Fusion Monsters at 3000-plus ATK provide closing power
• Recursion from the GY through Changeover, Hospitality and Phryxul

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Chamber Dragonmaid at 4 copies (limit 3) and 16 Extra Deck cards (maximum 15)
• Low exact archetype purity (31.4 percent) with many off-archetype staples and singletons
• No side deck registered
• Possible self-conflict between Rivalry of Warlords / Dimensional Barrier and the deck's own Dragon and Fusion board

Critical choke points

• Chamber Dragonmaid as the main starter (only 3 legal copies after correction)
• Searcher density: a hand without a searcher or a Dragonmaid starter is largely dead

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Illegal (Chamber Dragonmaid 4 copies vs limit 3; Extra Deck 16 vs OCG maximum 15); Composition counts, copy histogram, archetype purity 31.4 percent, side_count 0; Banlist statuses: 11 Limited, 3 Semi-Limited in-format
• Observed: Usage statistics: Dragonmaid core cards (Parlor Dragonmaid, Tinkhec, Lorpar) at 87.5 percent inclusion in the archetype sample
• Inferred: Opening-hand starter probabilities (hypergeometric, Main Deck only); Brick, interaction and recovery reads from card text; Midrange as primary strategy from composition (fusion, searchers, hand traps) with no combo data
• Provisional: Meta Power and D13 matchup/format fit (no tournament link or dated metagame sample)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter/OTK rates) No side deck registered, so post-side performance cannot be assessed Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied