Crimson Dragon Deck #772097 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 55/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 14 / Side 0 — status: Legal with warning.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Blue-Eyes beatdown: Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon (4500, up to 3 attacks), Blue-Eyes Chaos MAX Dragon (4000, double piercing) and Blue-Eyes Tyrant Dragon (3400) finish the game once a Blue-Eyes White Dragon line is established.; Synchro and Link beaters (Blue-Eyes Ultimate Spirit Dragon, Stardust Sifr, Lightstorm Dragon) backed by a hand-trap-protected board.
• Turn 1 (going first): Sage with Eyes of Blue or Maiden of White as a Tuner to reach a Blue-Eyes Synchro or Fusion Summon while holding one or two hand traps (Ash, Ghost Ogre, Effect Veiler) for the opponent's first interaction.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the six-card hand to keep one hand trap (Infinite Impermanence, Ghost Belle, Ash, Droll and Lock Bird) for the opponent's first search or summon, then rebuild a Blue-Eyes board from the Deck or Graveyard.
• Recovery: Searchers (Wishes for Eyes of Blue, Deep-Eyes White Dragon, Dominusteer Rosepamela) and Graveyard recursion (Kaibaman, Ghost Belle, Blue-Eyes Spirit Dragon) rebuild the engine after a board wipe or a Solemn-style negation.
• After siding: Not available: the deck has no Side Deck (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan and best-of-three adaptation is absent.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably reaches a Blue-Eyes starter on a typical opening hand (about 0.87 chance of at least one archetype-core card in a 5-card hand, Inferred), though the namesake Blue-Eyes White Dragon is only about 0.25 likely to be in hand, so the engine depends on Sage, Maiden and the searchers. Its interaction is the strongest part of the system: three Solemn Judgment, three Infinite Impermanence, three Dominus Purge, three Dragon's Mind and about 16 hand traps give roughly 0.88 odds of a hand trap by the sixth card when going second. Conversion is credible on paper, since Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, Chaos MAX and Tyrant threaten lethal, but there are no recorded boards, so the ceiling and median are text-only inferences. The score comes from consistency, interaction density and closing power acting together on the system; the archetype's popularity and the usage-stat core did not earn points, and card scores were not averaged. The missing Side Deck and the loose mix of sub-archetypes (Dominus, Solemn, Cyclone, Harpie, Stardust) cost points.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 63, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 64, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-2); no side deck (-2); engine conflicts (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); 0.80*62.8 + 0.20*55 = 61.2, then modifiers -6 = 55

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.87 · 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

• Layered negation package: three Solemn Judgment, three Infinite Impermanence, Dominus Purge, Dragon's Mind and multiple hand traps.
• High closing power from Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, Chaos MAX and Tyrant backed by Majesty and Magia.
• Strong searcher and recursion density (14 searcher-text cards) to rebuild after interaction.

Weaknesses

• No Side Deck: no post-side plan and no adaptation across a best-of-three.
• Mixed sub-archetypes spread the list thin; the namesake Blue-Eyes White Dragon is only about 0.25 likely in a 5-card hand.
• No recorded combos or tournament data, so the ceiling and median are inferred from text only.

Critical choke points

• The first Blue-Eyes starter (Sage, Maiden, Kaibaman) is about 0.25 likely per 3-copy card in a 5-card hand, so the opening can stall without a searcher.
• Going-first hands can be dead against a board of hand traps, because many hand traps need the opponent to act first.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 56 Main, 14 Extra, 0 Side, all sizes within OCG limits; restricted cards run within their copy limits (Limited x1, Ash Semi-Limited x2).; Composition: 20 Tuners, 16 hand traps, 14 searchers, 0 Side Deck cards.; Usage stats available: core inclusion rates for 18 archetype cards.
• Observed: No observed combo boards; combos_evidence total_combos is 0.
• Inferred: Opening-hand consistency (P ≈ 0.87 for archetype core; 0.25 for each 3-copy starter).; Going-second hand-trap density (P ≈ 0.88).; Closing power from Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, Chaos MAX and Tyrant (text and stat read).; Core-card usage flags look wrong: Crimson Dragon, Spirit with Eyes of Blue, Blue-Eyes Ultimate Spirit and Tyrant are in the Extra Deck but flagged missing.
• Provisional: Meta power and format fit (no dated metagame sample; tournament_context unavailable).; Combo median (no recorded boards).
• 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 are absent. One passcode (23995346) in CardIDList is unresolved and counted as Main; likely Chaos Form. Usage-stat core flags conflict with the deck list for several Extra Deck cards (missing_core lists cards that are present). No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN, so going-first and going-second power are inferred. Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied.