Salamangreat Deck #772038 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 20/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link Summon Salamangreat Raging Phoenix or Salamangreat Pyro Phoenix (2800 ATK) off a Cyberse/FIRE engine built on Salamangreat Gazelle, Circle and Spinny; Salamangreat Sunlight Wolf and Balelynx recursion chains into repeated Link pressure; Miragestallio and Promethean Princess are absent from this list
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Salamangreat starter (Circle, Gazelle, Spinny, Foxy, Balelynx chain) and Link Summon toward a 2800 ATK Phoenix; hold Ash Blossom and Infinite Impermanence for the opponent's first answer
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx "C" and Nibiru to break the opponent's first Main Phase, then rebuild the Link engine through the Graveyard
• Recovery: Graveyard effects of Spinny, Jack Jaguar and Weasel re-enter Salamangreat monsters and restart the Link line
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered, so no post-side plan is evaluated; this list cannot be tested as a best-of-3 build

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system: a Salamangreat core (Gazelle, Circle, Spinny, Foxy) has a 97% hypergeometric chance of at least one archetype card in a 5-card opening hand, so the engine usually comes online early. Output rests on the Link Summon chain into Raging Phoenix and Pyro Phoenix at 2800 ATK, with Balelynx and Sunlight Wolf as recursion-capable link fodder. Interaction is layered across two hand traps for going second (Ash Blossom, Impermanence), Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx "C" and Nibiru, plus face-up removal (Roar, Rage, Dominus Impulse). The score is held low because the list is illegal: Triple Tactics Talent is Forbidden in OCG and is run once, so this is a structural read only. Popularity of the archetype did not earn points, and no card scores were averaged. No combos, tournament results, or Side Deck exist in the evidence, so floor, median and matchups stay inferred or provisional.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 60, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability = 58, then Illegal cap (Forbidden card, copy limit) sets the Final to 20; reported as theoretical/structural-only

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.97 · 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

• 97% archetype-core access in a 5-card opening hand
• Layered hand-trap package (Ash, Impermanence, Droll, Maxx C, Nibiru)
• Two 2800 ATK Phoenix finishers and 15-card Extra Deck with full Link coverage
• Graveyard recursion gives a grind route after interruption

Weaknesses

• Triple Tactics Talent is Forbidden and run once, so the list is illegal
• Only 10 of 15 usage-core cards present; Hiita, Promethean Princess and Miragestallio absent
• No Side Deck; no post-side plan
• Exact-name purity is 52.7%, with generic and sub-archetype dilution

Critical choke points

• Triple Tactics Talent is an illegal card in this format and must be removed before the list is playable
• A single Salamangreat starter line (Gazelle or Circle) is the sole route to the Phoenix finishers if it is answered

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 40, Extra 15, Side 0 within OCG size rules; Triple Tactics Talent is Forbidden and run at 1 copy (over limit); Droll & Lock Bird (Limited, 1), Maxx "C" (Limited, 1), Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse (Semi-Limited, 2) are within their limits; Extra Deck composition: 13 Link, 1 Synchro, 1 Xyz
• Observed: Usage-core presence: 10 of 15 core cards (66.7%)
• Inferred: P(≥1 archetype card in hand5) ≈ 0.97; Hand-trap coverage P(≥1 hand6 going second) ≈ 0.81; Interaction and grind quality read from card text; Going-first and going-second splits estimated from hand-trap and starter counts
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit and side-deck adaptability (no matchup data, no Side Deck)
• Data gaps: Illegal list: Triple Tactics Talent is Forbidden in OCG 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, going-second and matchup results unknown No Side Deck; post-side plan not evaluated Meta Power provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied